F25B41/04

CHILLER SYSTEM
20170227265 · 2017-08-10 ·

A chiller system includes a compressor that compress refrigerant, a condenser that exchanges heat between the refrigerant and a cooling water discharged from the compressor, and a flow adjusting device that is provided to a refrigerant outlet side of the condenser and adjusts refrigerant amount in the inside of the condenser, the flow adjusting device includes, a main body portion that is communicated with a tubing of the outlet side of the condenser, a refrigerant supply tube that extends to the main body portion from the condenser and supplies the refrigerant in the inside of the condenser to the inside of the main body portion, and a flow hole that is formed on the main body portion and is selectively opened and closed according to refrigerant pressure which is input through the refrigerant supply tube.

Expansion valve

There is provided an expansion valve which, by moving the sub-valve in a valve housing, controls the flow rate of a refrigerant in a first flow direction and releases the refrigerant to flow in a second flow direction, wherein the sub-valve is reduced in weight and a valve port is provided with high accuracy. The sub-valve includes a guide member formed by press work and a valve seat member formed by cutting. The sub-valve is seated on a sub-valve seat of a valve seat ring when the pressure in a main valve chamber is high, and is moved away from the sub-valve seat when the pressure in the main valve chamber is low. The sub-valve is reduced in weight by forming the guide member by press work, and the valve port is formed with improved accuracy by forming the valve seat member by cutting.

Hot gas reheat modulation

A stepped approach to cooling capacity control and the HGRH status logic to achieve the requisite control of humidity and temperature provided to an interior area or building space receiving conditioned air. The system includes at least two independent circuits, each circuit having at least one compressor. At least one of the independent circuits includes hot gas reheat hardware thereby providing HGRH capability. The logic provides an efficient method for maintaining both humidity and temperature in the interior area comfortable for occupants within limits as determined by psychrometrics. The system and method match the sensible capacity and latent capacity of the system match to the sensible and latent loads of the conditioned space.

AIR CONDITIONER
20170219264 · 2017-08-03 ·

An air conditioner including a hot gas line for receiving a portion of refrigerant compressed in a compressor, an indoor heat exchanger, an outdoor expansion device for expanding the refrigerant having exchanged heat in the indoor heat exchanger, an outdoor heat exchanger functioning as a condenser in a cooling mode while functioning as an evaporator in a heating mode, and a 4-way valve for receiving a remaining portion of the compressed refrigerant, to guide the refrigerant emerging from the compressor to the outdoor heat exchanger in the cooling mode and to the indoor heat exchanger in the heating mode. The outdoor heat exchanger includes a main heat exchanger section functioning as a condenser in the cooling mode while functioning as an evaporator in the heating mode, and an auxiliary heat exchanger for receiving the refrigerant from the hot gas line in a frosting prevention mode.

Air conditioner for vehicle with defroster control

An air conditioner for a vehicle includes a cycle switching device. The cycle switching device switches a refrigerant cycle between a heating circuit, in which refrigerant flows through a heating heat exchanger, and a cooling circuit, in which refrigerant flows through a cooling heat exchanger. The air conditioner further includes an air conditioning controller, which controls the cycle switching device and includes a defroster control portion. The defroster control portion increases a temperature of air blown into the vehicle compartment through a defroster air outlet by a predetermined degree while keeping the refrigerant cycle at a state of the heating circuit for a predetermined time, when a defrosting operation is commanded to be performed during the heating circuit.

Air-conditioning apparatus with simultaneous heating and cooling operation

In a heating main operation mode in which a load to be processed by the heating operation is dominant during cooling and heating mixed operation, an air-conditioning apparatus closes an opening and closing valve, and adjust the opening degree of an expansion device in accordance with the evaporating temperature of a load-side unit requesting cooling.

Refrigeration device for container

A container refrigeration device aims to prevent low temperature damage to freight in a container. The container refrigeration device includes: a temperature controlling section (101) configured to perform, in a switchable manner, first temperature control under which a temperature inside the container (C) is controlled based on a blown air temperature (Tss) and second temperature control under which the temperature inside the container (C) is controlled based on a suction air temperature (Trs) during dehumidification operation; and a control switching section (103) configured to switch the first temperature control to the second temperature control when the blown air temperature (Tss) is higher than the suction air temperature (Trs) during the dehumidification operation in which part of a refrigerant discharged from a compressor (30) is allowed to flow into a reheat heat exchanger (83).

REFRIGERATION APPARATUS
20170276416 · 2017-09-28 ·

Provided is a refrigeration apparatus which can reduce outlet pressure of a refrigerator even in overload conditions and which can improve refrigeration capacity by liquefying a refrigerant in an intermediate cooler. When outlet pressure of a refrigerator 2 is higher than critical pressure, a control apparatus 60 performs control to reduce the opening degree of a decompression electric valve 31 at the upstream side of an intermediate cooler 30. Thereby, the refrigerant is liquefied by gas-liquid separation in the intermediate cooler 30, so that the refrigerator outlet pressure is made less than the critical pressure, and the liquid refrigerant can be sent to a showcase 3. As a result, the specific enthalpy of the refrigerant at the inlet side of main diaphragm means 41 of the showcase 3 can be reduced, and thereby, the cooling effect can be increased.

TRIPLE EFFECT ABSORPTION CHILLER
20170328605 · 2017-11-16 ·

The present invention relates to a triple-effect absorption chilling apparatus adopting a structure of an anti-parallel cycle in which an absorber and a first regenerator are connected in series, a second regenerator and a third regenerator are connected in parallel with the first regenerator, and the solution through the second regenerator and the third regenerator is returned to the absorber. Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to improve efficiency by acquiring a higher coefficient of performance than conventional absorption refrigerators, and to reduce energy consumption.

Refrigerator and method for controlling the same
09816749 · 2017-11-14 · ·

The present invention relates to a refrigerator and a method for controlling a refrigerator, and more particularly to a refrigerator and a method for controlling a refrigerator in which unnecessary operation of a compressor is prevented for saving power consumption of the refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a compressor, a refrigerating chamber evaporator and a freezing chamber evaporator connected to the compressor, a refrigerant valve for guiding refrigerant to the refrigerating chamber evaporator or the freezing chamber evaporator, and a control unit for controlling the refrigerant valve such that the refrigerant valve blocks or introduces the refrigerant to cause an inside pressure of the freezing chamber evaporator to be elevated higher than an inside pressure of the refrigerating chamber evaporator during evaporation at the refrigerating chamber evaporator for the compressor to draw in the refrigerant remained in the freezing chamber evaporator which did not evaporate.