The design of the warmth pump compressor
Picture: Toshiba Service, screenshot
Toshiba Service Corp. based mostly in Japan, owned by US-based heating specialist Service, has gained Japan’s 2023 Nationwide Invention Awards for its warmth pump compressor design.
The know-how is utilized in multi-cylinder rotary piston compressors in warmth pumps. By optimizing the construction of the “exhaust port” that releases the compressed refrigerant exterior the cylinders, it addresses the problem of overheating, thus permitting extra heating capability, Toshiba-Service defined in a press release.
The design minimizes points generally present in high-capacity gadgets, together with lack of discharge quantity, pulse discharge, and rotating axis distortion. The compressor additionally options decrease degree noises and better effectivity.
“The invention is instrumental in excessive vitality effectivity and low sound ranges whereas saving supplies utilized in a small variety of compressors and simplified pipe design,” stated Tsutomu Masamoto, chief government of the know-how. of Toshiba Service.
Japan’s Nationwide Invention Awards had been established in 1919 to advertise scientific and technological improvements in Japan. It acknowledges excellent innovations, gadgets, and designs which have created or are anticipated to create important breakthroughs.
Extra info on the know-how is accessible right here, in Japanese.
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