When performing dehumidification heating of a space to be air-conditioned, a refrigeration cycle device is switched to a refrigerant circuit in which a flow of a refrigerant flowing out of an interior radiator is branched, and one of the branched refrigerants is decompressed by an interior expansion valve to evaporate in an interior evaporator, while the other of the branched refrigerants flows into a high-pressure side refrigerant passage of an internal heat exchanger and is then decompressed by an exterior expansion valve to evaporate in an exterior heat exchanger. Further, in the refrigerant circuit, a flow of the refrigerant flowing out of the interior evaporator and a flow of the refrigerant flowing out of the exterior heat exchanger are merged into a low-pressure side refrigerant passage of the internal heat exchanger. Thus, the refrigerant flowing into the interior evaporator is prevented from becoming a liquid-phase refrigerant having an unnecessarily high degree of supercooling, thereby achieving appropriate dehumidification heating.

A heat pump system for a vehicle includes a dehumidification line for supplying some refrigerant circulating in a refrigerant circulation line to an evaporator before the refrigerant is introduced into an exterior heat exchanger after passing a first expansion means so as to dehumidify the interior of the vehicle in a heat pump mode, thereby allowing the refrigerant to smoothly flow to the evaporator at a low pressure through the dehumidification line before the refrigerant is introduced into the exterior heat exchanger which has a higher pressure than the evaporator when the interior of the vehicle is dehumidified, and smoothly dehumidifying the inside of the vehicle.

A vehicle climate control system has a control strategy which controls temperature of an evaporator in a refrigeration circuit to achieve a target temperature/relative humidity within a comfort zone which is defined by upper and lower temperature boundaries and upper and lower relative humidity boundaries. Several system embodiments are disclosed, including an all-electric system. All systems operate with improved efficiency.

A vehicle air conditioning apparatus is provided that can prevent temperature variations of the air after the heat exchange in a radiator to reliably control the temperature of the air supplied to the vehicle interior. During the heating operation and the heating and dehumidifying operation, target degree of supercooling SCt when target air-blowing temperature TAO is a predetermined temperature or higher is set to SCt1 that is greater than SCt2 when the target air-blowing temperature TAO is lower than the predetermined temperature. When amount of air Ga supplied from indoor fan 12 is lower than a predetermined value, the target degree of supercooling SCt is corrected, which is set such that the degree of supercooling is lower than target degree of supercooling corrected when the amount of air Ga supplied from the indoor fan 12 is a predetermined value or higher.

A dehumidification mode control method and apparatus, a device, a medium and a program product, implemented by means of: obtaining a dehumidification load of a heat pump system and an external ambient temperature when it is detected that a passenger compartment has a dehumidification demand; determining whether to enter a first dehumidification mode according to the dehumidification load, the external ambient temperature and a load threshold; if yes, then determining a control instruction of the first dehumidification mode according to an air temperature at multiple first preset positions in an air transmission heat exchange box and a subcooling degree of a heat exchange medium at at least one second preset position in a transmission pipeline; and then outputting the control instruction so that a first target temperature and a second target temperature simultaneously meet a preset requirement of a dehumidification function.

A method for controlling a system for air conditioning and/or heating, the system including a loop for the circulation of a refrigerant, with a first heat exchanger between the refrigerant and the inside air stream, a second heat exchanger between the refrigerant and the inside air stream or a heat transfer fluid, the method including selecting a mode for dehumidifying the inside air stream from a plurality of dehumidification modes, the selecting being implemented on the basis of maps, produced in advance, of at least humidity control parameters, selected from an actual temperature of the inside air stream upstream of the first heat exchanger, a temperature setpoint downstream of the second heat exchanger, a temperature setpoint downstream of the first exchanger, a flow rate of the inside air stream through the first exchanger, an ambient temperature of the air and/or a humidity of the air.

A vehicle air conditioner includes a cooling heat exchanger arranged in a casing, a compressor control portion which controls a compressor such that a cooling temperature at the cooling heat exchanger approaches a target cooling temperature, and a dryness determination portion which determines whether an outer surface of the cooing heat exchanger is dry or not based on a humidity in the casing. A target temperature determination portion determines the target cooling temperature to be any one of target temperatures including a first target temperature that is lower than a dew-point temperature in the casing, when the dryness determination portion determines that the cooling heat exchanger is not dry. The target temperature determination portion determines the target cooling temperature to be any one of the target temperatures other than the first target temperature, when the dryness determination portion determines that the cooling heat exchanger is dry.

A heat exchange system includes a core of cross flow passages having a reheater, and a condenser that is downstream of and directly interfaces the reheater. A first water extractor is downstream of the condenser, wherein the first water extractor turns a first fluid from the first pass of the condenser back towards the condenser and produces a second fluid that flows into the second pass of the condenser. A second water extractor is downstream the condenser, wherein the second water extractor turns a third fluid from the second pass of the condenser towards the reheater; and produces a fourth fluid that flows into the reheater.

A humidification device is used in a vehicle air conditioner having a cooler disposed in an air conditioning case. The air conditioning case has a ventilation path leading air into a vehicle compartment. The humidification device has an adsorber that absorbs and desorbs moisture, a blower, a door that opens or closes an air flow path, and a controller. The controller switches the air flow path by controlling the door to set (i) a dehumidification mode in which air cooled by the cooler is led to the adsorber, and moisture in the air is adsorbed by the adsorber or (ii) a humidification mode in which air is led to the adsorber, the moisture is moved from the adsorber to the air to humidify the air, and the humidified air is blown toward an occupant.

A vehicle air conditioning apparatus is provided that can prevent temperature variations of the air after the heat exchange in a radiator to reliably control the temperature of the air supplied to the vehicle interior. During the heating operation and the heating and dehumidifying operation, target degree of supercooling SCt when target air-blowing temperature TAO is a predetermined temperature or higher is set to SCt1 that is greater than SCt2 when the target air-blowing temperature TAO is lower than the predetermined temperature. When amount of air Ga supplied from indoor fan 12 is lower than a predetermined value, the target degree of supercooling SCt is corrected, which is set such that the degree of supercooling is lower than target degree of supercooling corrected when the amount of air Ga supplied from the indoor fan 12 is a predetermined value or higher.