Inventors:
Harry Donald Henkel - Dayton OH
Assignee:
General Motors Corporation - Detroit MI
International Classification:
H01M 472
F25B 4104
Abstract:
A thermally responsive freeze type actuator for operating an air conditioning throttle valve. The actuator includes a rigid walled tubular portion which contains water and is attached to an axially extendable and contractible bellows portion. The bellows portion contains an immiscible fluid such as oil which floats on the water. The pressure forces created by the formation of ice in the tubular portion is transmitted to the oil by compression of one end of a hollow bladder member made of flexible material such as rubber which extends axially through the tubular portion and the bellows portion.