Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Air conditioner for vehicle
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Application No.: US17974682Application Date: 2022-10-27
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Publication No.: US12202318B2Publication Date: 2025-01-21
- Inventor: Kouji Miura , Yoshiki Katoh , Masamichi Makihara , Atsushi Yamada , Kenta Kayano , Hiroaki Kawano , Tooru Okamura , Naoya Makimoto
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Aichi-pref.
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Aichi-pref.
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2020-080913 20200501
- Main IPC: B60H1/32
- IPC: B60H1/32 ; B60H1/00 ; F25B5/02

Abstract:
An air conditioner for a vehicle includes a refrigeration cycle, a heating unit and a control unit. The refrigeration cycle includes an air-conditioning evaporator, a chilling evaporator, an air-conditioning side flow path, a detour flow path and an air-conditioning flow rate adjustment unit. The control unit includes a determination unit that determines whether a condensation condition is satisfied when a refrigerant is flowing through the chilling evaporator via the detour flow path in a state where an inflow of a refrigerant into the air-conditioning evaporator is prohibited. When the determination unit determines that the condensation condition is satisfied, the control unit controls the air-conditioning flow rate adjustment unit to allow an inflow of a refrigerant into the air-conditioning evaporator as a condensation suppression operation for suppressing condensation of a refrigerant in the air-conditioning evaporator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230052705A1 AIR CONDITIONER FOR VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2023-02-16
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