Positive displacement expander and refrigeration cycle apparatus including positive displacement expander

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PATENT NO 9121278
APP PUB NO 20120321497A1
SERIAL NO

13518042

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Disclosed is a positive displacement expander equipped with an expansion mechanism in which power is generated using fluid energy produced while a high-pressure fluid, supplied to a plurality of expansion chambers partitioned by an orbiting scroll or a rolling piston, is being expanded and decompressed. The expander includes a communicating pipe that allows each of the expansion chambers to communicate with an expander discharge side and an opening and closing device disposed on the communicating pipe. When supply of the high-pressure fluid is stopped, the opening and closing device is opened by the time when high and low pressures between each of the expansion chambers and the expander discharge side are equalized, thus stopping the orbiting scroll or the rolling piston at a predetermined position so that an expander obtains sufficient driving force when resuming.

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MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONTOKYO 100-8310

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hatomura, Takeshi Tokyo, JP 69 568
Kakuda, Masayuki Tokyo, JP 42 371
Nagata, Hideaki Tokyo, JP 17 532
Shimazu, Yusuke Tokyo, JP 51 418
Takayama, Keisuke Tokyo, JP 49 366

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