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.
Abstract:
An insulated structure is produced by mixing a starting material of a foamed thermal insulating material comprising a polyol, a foam stabilizer, a blowing agent containing at least a hydrocarbon as one component, and an organic polyisocyanate with a halogen-free hydroxylated organophosphorus compound having a molecular weight of at least 150 as an additive, foaming the resultant mixture into a foamed thermal insulating material (4), and cast molding the material (4) in the space between a plastic facing (2) and an iron plate (3) provided with a copper pipe (5). The use of the above-specified organophosphorus compound serves to achieve a burning velocity equivalent to that attained by the use of the conventional blowing agent CFC11, to exclude the possibility of the corrosion of the pipe (5) in the structure caused by the dissociation of the phosphorus compound, to prevent the phosphorus from migrating into the facing (2), and to get rid of the fear of food staining.
Abstract:
An elongated recess (32) is formed in a valve plate (20) on the side opposite to a piston (11), and, in this recess, there are provided an exhaust hole (29), an exhaust lead (34), a spring lead (40) for pressing the exhaust lead (34) on the side opposite to the exhaust hole and a stopper (42) fixed to the valve plate for fixing this spring lead, thus enabling the identification of the operation of the exhaust lead by use of a single body and improving the compression efficiency by decreasing the stagnation of a refrigerant gas in the exhaust hole. Furthermore, two exhaust holes are provided and exhaust leads are provided to the exhaust holes, respectively, thus preventing excessive compression loss.
Abstract:
This invention relates to an expanded heat-insulating material containing a reduced amount of a fluorocarbon blowing agent for use in a freezer, refrigerator or the like. It is produced by stirring a mixture of a carbon dioxide adsorbent having a hydrophobic surface, a premix component containing water, and an isocyanate component. According to the expanded heat-insulating material thus produced, the amount of the fluorocarbon blowing agent to be used can be reduced since water is used as the blowing agent, while carbon dioxide generated by the reaction of the isocyanate with the water can be removed after foaming by adsorption with the carbon dioxide adsorbent, and the gas present in the bubbles becomes enriched with the fluorocarbon gas.
Abstract:
A foamed insulating material (4) comprising a foamed polyurethane resin composition having closed cells filled with a volatile foaming agent, wherein a carbonate (7) of an alkali metal or a carbonate (7) of an alkaline earth metal produced by reacting a hydroxide of an alkali metal or a hydroxide of an alkaline earth metal with carbon dioxide and a water adsorbent (10) comprising a water-containing water-adsorbent material (8) coated with a resin (9) are dispersed within the foamed insulating material (4).