Abstract:
A damper device (104) includes a first flap (105); a second flap (106); and a driving section (107) for driving the first flap (105) and the second flap (106). The first flap (105) and the second flap (106) are provided so as to interpose the driving section (107) therebetween along a direction of a driving shaft (108a) of the driving section (107). A pivoting shaft (105a) of the first flap (105) and a pivoting shaft (106a) of the second flap (106) are parallel to each other and arranged in a direction other than parallel to the direction of the driving shaft (108a) of the driving section (107), and the first flap (105) and the second flap (106) are driven by the driving shaft (108a). The first flap (105) pivots between a first state and a second state, and the second flap (106) pivots between a first state and a second state.
Abstract:
An ice making apparatus adapted in a refrigerator includes a water supply tank (7) and a frame portion (8), where the water supply tank (7) is comprised of a tank main body (15) and a lid body (16), and the lid body (16) is provided with a sealing member (20) securely fixed onto an outer peripheral face (19a) of a side wall (19), and where a side wall of said tank main body (15) has an inclined face (17) at its inner peripheral top portion thereof. The frame portion (8) includes a tank attachment portion (22) and a pump placing portion (23), where the tank attachment portion (22) has a substrate plate (34) and a joint tubular member (35) which is engaged with a discharge tube (27) of the water supply tank (7). Thus, the side wall (19) of the lid body (16) is easily guided to the fitted condition and engaged with the tank main body (15) without using any locking member, with reduction of the spaces and number of manufacturing processes and number of parts, increasing a volume of a water supply tank without restricting a food storage capacity in the refrigerator.
Abstract:
Grooves (20-27) in equal number are formed on the end surfaces (19a and 19b) of a roller (19), respectively, communicating portions (20a-27a) for establishing communication between the above-mentioned grooves and the inner periphery of the roller (19) are provided and sealing portions (20b, 20c, 20d, 20e and 20f-27b, 27c, 27d, 27e and 27f) each being decreased in a sectional area are formed. With this arrangement, the sectional areas are decreased relative to a direction of contamination of lubricant oil, so that a plurality of oil pressures can be obtained, thereby securing a constant clearance of the roller (19).
Abstract:
A brushless DC motor which is used as a drive source of a refrigerant compressor for a refrigerating apparatus or of a blower. A position detecting means (28), which generates a control signal by detecting terminal voltages at the input/output terminals through which the electric currents flow into three-phase coils (23a, 23b, 23c), comprises filters (111, 121, 131) for converting terminal voltages into smoothed signals, synthesizing means (118, 128, 138) for producing three kinds of synthetic signals from the smoothed signals, and comparing means (119, 129, 139) which produce control signals to switch the current path to the three-phase coils based upon signals formed by comparing the synthetic signals with the smoothed signals. The current path to the coils (23a, 23b, 23c) is switched in turn by a switch drive unit (29) in response to control signals generated by said position detecting means (28). According to the above structure, it is possible to provide a brushless DC motor which is capable of switching the current path to the coils without using any particular position detecting element.
Abstract:
The present invention is intended to lessen the noises made in the motor-driven hermetic compressor adapted to be installed in an electric refrigerator. The refrigerating machine oil held on the upper surface of the cylinder block by an effect of the drip-preventing wall flows out of the oil discharge portion regularly. Thereby, it is possible to control the returning route of the refrigerating machine oil to the bottom portion of the hermetic enclosure. The dripping of the oil droplets from the edge portion of the cylinder block is prevented to avoid the generation of the collision sound generated by the colliding of the droplets against the splashes of the oil splashed by the revolving of the oil feed pipe.
Abstract:
A liquid suction port (34) between a heat dissipating heat exchanger (10) and a heat exchanging portion (26a) of a manifold is connected to a liquid tank (51), and a self-suction type pump (52) is connected to a suction port or a discharge port of a circulating pump (14a) in series. The liquid is then sucked up from the liquid tank (51) by operating the self-suction type pump (52). The operation of the self-suction type pump (52) is stopped after the liquid has reached the discharge port thereof, and the liquid suction port (34) is closed. Lastly, the self-suction type pump (52) is removed, and the port at which this pump (52) and a circulating passage are connected together is closed.
Abstract:
The refrigerator has such effects as excellent cooling accumulation capacity, prevention of dropping of rack and other risk, excellent controllability of rack, and prevention of sudden rise of temperature in the freezing compartment in the event of power failure. The refrigerator comprises a freezing compartment (13) and a refrigerating compartment (14), and a hollow rack (17) filled with cooling accumulation (18) is placed so as to be slidable along the rail unit (16) installed at the side of the freezing compartment (13). The rail unit (16) has a recess (20) in its center, and the rack (17) has a protrusion (19) in the position corresponding to the recess (20), and the recess (20) and protrusion (19) are engaged with each other so that the rack (17) is fixed in the rail unit (16). Moreover, a vegetable compartment (22) is placed in the freezing compartment (13), and a second rail unit (36) of same shape as the rail unit (16) is formed on the side wall on the vegetable compartment (22). In case of power failure, the rack (17) filled with cooling accumulation (18) placed in the freezing compartment (13), can be moved and placed in the rail unit (36) formed on the vegetable compartment (22).
Abstract:
A sealed compressor for use in a refrigerator includes a sealed housing having an interior communicated to the outside of the sealed housing through a discharge tube, a compressor element accommodated within the sealed housing, an electric element accommodated within the sealed housing for driving the compressor element, and a coupling tube fluid-connecting the compressor element and the discharge tube within the sealed housing. To avoid a resonant motion of the coupling tube which would otherwise generate obnoxious noise, an inverter controller is employed to allow the electric element to be operated at one of a plurality of frequencies other than the resonance frequency of the coupling tube.
Abstract:
A heat-insulating foam which is excellent in heat insulation performances and does not suffer from deterioration of the performances even after the lapse of time. The production process comprises expanding a starting mixture containing an epoxide mixture composed of an epoxide compound having a high reactivity with carbon dioxide and another epoxide compound having a low reactivity with carbon dioxide, a catalyst for immobilizing carbon dioxide, a polyisocyanate, a reactive blowing agent which generates carbon dioxide upon reaction with the polyisocyanate, and a polyol composition to thereby form an expanded urethane resin composition having closed cells containing at least carbon dioxide, and then immobilizing the carbon dioxide contained in the cells as a carbonate compound by the reaction thereof with the epoxide mixture in the presence of the immobilization catalyst.
Abstract:
When a lock detecting means (17) detects a locked state of a DC motor (4) in a starting stage, a torque increasing means (18, 27, 29 or 31) immediately selects a starting sequence pattern of an output torque that is greater by one step, and outputs the same to a starting sequence control means (13), so that a compressor (5) can be restarted speedily without repeating starting failures. A compressor (41), driven by a DC motor (43), has a shell of an internal pressure approximately equal to the pressure of an inhalation gas. An inverter (53) is provided to make the speed of the DC motor (43) variable. A rotational frequency setting circuit (56) sets the rotational frequency of the DC motor (43) to a frequency that is not greater than the frequency of a commercial power source when the internal temperature of a refrigerator is stabilized.