Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Refrigerant flow path switch and air conditioner
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Application No.: US16200889Application Date: 2018-11-27
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Publication No.: US10907871B2Publication Date: 2021-02-02
- Inventor: Hiroki Kinoshita , Kazuhiro Tsuchihashi , Naoyuki Fushimi , Toshiki Mochizuki , Shuntaro Inoue , Masayoshi Murofushi , Yoshinori Iwashina , Kazuhiko Tani
- 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
- Priority: JP2017-087900 20170427,JP2017-087903 20170427
- Main IPC: F25B47/00
- IPC: F25B47/00 ; F25B41/04 ; F25B13/00 ; F25B41/00 ; F25B49/02

Abstract:
A refrigerant flow path switch arranged between an outdoor device and each of multiple indoor devices controls a refrigerant flow and is provided with a housing; a refrigerant flow path switching circuit having multiple refrigerant flow path switching circuits, wherein each refrigerant flow path switching circuit includes a high/low pressure gas pipe, a low pressure gas pipe, a high/low pressure electric valve provided at the high/low pressure gas pipe, and a low pressure electric valve provided at the low pressure gas pipe. A liquid pipe assembly is arranged in the housing and has multiple liquid pipes connected to the multiple indoor devices. A first divider plate is provided between adjacent ones of the refrigerant flow path switching circuits and divides an internal space of the housing such that a space divided by the first divider plate is in a substantially cubic shape, which is filled with a foaming agent.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190093931A1 REFRIGERANT FLOW PATH SWITCH AND AIR CONDITIONER Public/Granted day:2019-03-28
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