Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Air conditioner
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Application No.: US15758419Application Date: 2015-09-11
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Publication No.: US10527322B2Publication Date: 2020-01-07
- Inventor: Koji Naito , Kazumoto Urata , Kazuhiko Tani , Masayoshi Murofushi , Gen Yasuda
- Applicant: Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/075868 WO 20150911
- International Announcement: WO2017/042967 WO 20170316
- Main IPC: F25B13/00
- IPC: F25B13/00 ; F25B41/06 ; F25B49/02

Abstract:
Provided is a air conditioner including high-and-low-pressure gas pipe expansion valves each of which is provided to a corresponding one of the cooling-heating switching units and adjusts feeding of high-temperature and high-pressure gas refrigerant to the corresponding indoor unit; and a refrigeration cycle controller which adjusts a valve opening degree of the high-and-low-pressure gas pipe expansion valve of the cooling-heating switching unit connected to one of the indoor units which is not in heating operation, in accordance with a determination result on excess or deficiency of refrigerant in a refrigeration cycle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180252443A1 AIR CONDITIONER Public/Granted day:2018-09-06
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