DISPLACER VALVE FOR CRYOGENIC REFRIGERATOR

• US 20120011858A1
• Filed: 12/02/2010
• Published: 01/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Park, Song Oun, Jung, Won Hyun
• Application Number:
  US13/258,609
• Publication Number:
  US 20120011858A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 62/6
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 3/26 with fluid passages in the valve member
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/041 for rotating valves F16K31/055 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F25B 2309/001 with a linear configuration or a linear motor
• CPC Class Codes: F25B 9/14 characterised by the cycle used, e.g. Stirling cycle

Abstract

The present invention discloses a displacer valve for a cryogenic refrigerator, which is mounted on one circular surface of a displacer cover by a bolt to open and close a hole formed in the surface of the displacer cover. The displacer valve includes a rotation preventing guide fastened to an eccentric portion of the displacer cover by the bolt to prevent the displacer valve from rotating around the bolt. Therefore, the displacer valve does not rotate around the bolt but is fixed in a proper position, so that its operational reliability can be ensured.

Claims

1. A displacer valve for a cryogenic refrigerator, which is mounted on one circular surface of a displacer cover by a bolt to open and close a hole formed in the surface of the displacer cover,

the displacer valve comprising a rotation preventing guide fastened to an eccentric portion of the displacer cover by the bolt to prevent the displacer valve from rotating around the bolt.

2. The displacer valve of claim 1, wherein the displacer valve comprises:

a fixed portion with a bolt hole which is fixed by the bolt;

an opening/closing portion spaced apart from the fixed portion to open and close the hole of the displacer cover;

a connection portion smoothly connecting the fixed portion to the opening/closing portion; and

the rotation preventing guide extended from the fixed portion and supported on a lateral surface perpendicular to the surface of the displacer cover.

3. The displacer valve of claim 2, wherein the rotation preventing guide is more extended in the circumferential direction toward the center of the circular surface than toward the center of the bolt hole.

4. The displacer valve of claim 2, wherein the rotation preventing guide is formed in a curved-line shape along the lateral surface of the displacer cover.

5. The displacer valve of claim 4, wherein the displacer valve further comprises a cutaway portion formed by cutting away a part of the fixed portion in a curved-line shape to maintain an interval between the connection portion and the rotation preventing guide and facilitate a movement of the connection portion.

6. A cryogenic refrigerator, comprising:

a hermetic shell;

a piston linearly reciprocated in the axial direction in a cylinder provided in the hermetic shell;

a displacer linearly reciprocated in the opposite direction to the piston;

a regenerator coupled to the displacer and linearly reciprocated with the displacer, in which regenerator refrigerants flowing in opposite directions to each other exchange heat with each other;

a compression space defined and varied between the cylinder, the piston, and the displacer; and

an expansion space defined between the hermetic shell and the regenerator and varied in the opposite manner to the compression space,

wherein the displacer comprises a displacer rod inserted into the piston to perform a motion, a displacer body extended from the piston and coupled to the regenerator, and a displacer cover mounted in the displacer body, a displacer space is defined between the displacer body and the displacer cover, the displacer cover comprises a hole through which the refrigerant flows from the regenerator to the displacer space and a displacer valve fastened to the displacer cover by a bolt to open and close the hole, and the displacer valve comprises a rotation preventing guide preventing the displacer valve from rotating around the bolt.

7. The cryogenic refrigerator of claim 6, wherein the cryogenic refrigerator further comprises:

a fixed portion with a bolt hole which is fixed by the bolt;

an opening/closing portion spaced apart from the fixed portion to open and close the hole of the displacer cover;

a connection portion smoothly connecting the fixed portion to the opening/closing portion; and

the rotation preventing guide extended from the fixed portion and supported on a lateral surface perpendicular to one surface of the displacer cover.

8. The cryogenic refrigerator of claim 7, wherein the rotation preventing guide is more extended in the circumferential direction toward the center of the circular surface than toward the center of the bolt hole.

9. The cryogenic refrigerator of claim 7, wherein the rotation preventing guide is formed in a curved-line shape along the lateral surface of the displacer cover.

10. The cryogenic refrigerator of claim 9, wherein the cryogenic refrigerator further comprises a cutaway portion formed by cutting away a part of the fixed portion in a curved-line shape to maintain an interval between the connection portion and the rotation preventing guide and facilitate a movement of the connection portion.