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Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering

Author(s): Zhixiang Liao, Bin Peng*, Pengcheng Zhang, Jian Sun and Bingguo Zhu

DOI: 10.2174/0122127976302116240419110802

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A Digital Image Method for Calculating the Working Chamber Volume of a Combined Profile Scroll Compressor

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Abstract

Background: The efficient and accurate calculation of working chamber volume can greatly contribute to the optimized design efficiency of the combined profile scroll compressor, but current papers and patents lack research on the method of calculating the working chamber volume of a combined profile scroll compressor.

Objective: A method of using digital image processing is proposed to efficiently calculate the working chamber volume of a combined scroll compressor.

Methods: This method discretizes and reconstructs the scroll profile that forms the working chamber into a coordinate sequence with equal involute angle intervals. By calculating the relationship between the coordinate sequence and the rotation angle, a general coordinate sequence that forms the working chamber profile is obtained. The real-time changes in the projection image of the working chamber during all the suction, compression and discharge processes can be accurately depicted. The digital image is processed to obtain the actual projection area of the working chamber, and thus, the volume of the working chamber is accurately calculated.

Results: The digital image method can accurately calculate the volume change of the working chamber of the combined profile scroll compressor by selecting the appropriate involute angle interval and digital image size, with a mean relative error of less than 1%. At the beginning of suction and the end of discharge, the calculated volume has been found to have poor accuracy, with a maximum relative error higher than 10%.

Conclusion: The digital image method has been found to have high accuracy, greatly reduce the difficulty of the analysis of the working chamber volume, and promote the design optimization of the combined profile scroll compressor, thus broadening the idea for the calculation method of the working chamber volume of the scroll compressor.

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