Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Refrigeration cycle device
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Application No.: US14433439Application Date: 2013-09-05
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Publication No.: US09726403B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: Etsuhisa Yamada , Yoshiaki Takano , Haruyuki Nishijima , Hiroshi Oshitani
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kariya, Aichi-pref.
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kariya, Aichi-pref.
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2012-223750 20121008
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/005277 WO 20130905
- International Announcement: WO2014/057607 WO 20140417
- Main IPC: F24B13/00
- IPC: F24B13/00 ; F25B30/02 ; F25B5/04 ; F25B6/04 ; B60H1/00 ; B60H1/32

Abstract:
In an air cooling mode of cooling air as a fluid to be heat-exchanged, a refrigeration cycle device is provided to perform switching to a refrigerant circuit in which a high-pressure refrigerant exchanging heat with outside air in an exterior heat exchanger and dissipating heat therefrom flows into an accumulator serving as a gas-liquid separator. In an air heating mode of heating the air, the refrigeration cycle device also performs switching to another refrigerant circuit that allows a low-pressure refrigerant decompressed by a first expansion valve to flow into the accumulator. Thus, even in any operation mode, a difference between a refrigerant temperature in the accumulator and the outside air temperature is reduced to thereby suppress the degradation of performance of the refrigeration cycle device due to the unnecessary transfer of heat between the refrigerant in the accumulator and the outside air.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150253045A1 REFRIGERATION CYCLE DEVICE Public/Granted day:2015-09-10
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