Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Air conditioner
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Application No.: US16371181Application Date: 2019-04-01
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Publication No.: US11231185B2Publication Date: 2022-01-25
- Inventor: Mikihito Tokudi , Gen Yasuda , Takanori Isogawa , Kazuhiro Tsuchihashi , Hiroyuki Ogisu
- 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
- Main IPC: F24F1/24
- IPC: F24F1/24 ; F25B49/02 ; F25B1/00 ; F25B41/00 ; F25B41/30 ; F25B41/31 ; F25B41/40

Abstract:
An air conditioner provided which has: a main refrigerant circuit including a compressor, a heat source side heat exchanger, a first expansion valve, and a utilization side heat exchanger and configured such that refrigerant flows in the main refrigerant circuit; a sub refrigerant circuit including a cooling member configured such that refrigerant branched from the main refrigerant circuit flows in the cooling member and configured such that refrigerant branched from the main refrigerant circuit flows in the sub refrigerant circuit; and a heat generator to be cooled by the cooling member, wherein a pipe in which part of refrigerant discharged from the compressor flows is connected to the cooling member of the sub refrigerant circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US11204181B2 Air conditioner Public/Granted day:2021-12-21
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