Abstract:
An air conditioner including an outdoor unit containing a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger therein, at least one indoor unit having both of an indoor heat exchanger and an electric expansion valve, and a pressure reducing member which is linked to the electric expansion valve in parallel in a refrigerant circuit and serves as resistance to refrigerant flowing therethrough. The valve opening degree of the electric expansion valve of the indoor unit when a room heating operation is stopped is set to be smaller than the valve opening degree of the electric expansion valve of the indoor unit when the room heating operation is conducted, and the resistance value of the pressure reducing member is set to be smaller than the resistance value to be provided to the refrigerant in accordance with the valve opening degree of the electric expansion valve when the room heating operation is stopped.
Abstract:
A device for reading and transmitting control parameter selections to a control system for an HVAC system is disclosed. The device is activated by the control system which receives the encoded control parameter selections. The activation is preferably accomplished by switching a power supply on and off that is associated with the reading and transmitting device.
Abstract:
An air conditioner includes a fan for forcing air through an air path. An endless belt filter travels through a water tank and across the air path to exchange heat with air passing through the belt filter. A heater is provided for selectively heating the water. A moisture collecting filter disposed in the air path downstream of the belt filter removes moisture from the air. Sensors detect the volume and temperature of the water in the tank for actuating either or both of the heater and a warning buzzer. A speaker is mounted in the air conditioner housing and is connectible to a radio. A switching circuit causes radio sound from the speaker to be muted and instead causes the speaker to emit the warning buzzer when the latter is activated by a sensor.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for emulating a perimeter induction unit, in which the perimeter induction unit is replaced by an emulation unit carried in a plenum above the space to be heated or cooled. A temperature sensor is mounted within the space, and a computer provides programmed control, either centrally or locally. The emulation unit is connected to the primary air ducts and secondary liquid source formerly used for the perimeter induction unit. It includes a primary air inlet for accepting and regulating a flow of ventilated, preconditioned primary air from the primary air ducts, and a secondary air inlet for accepting a flow of return air from the space as well as filtering the return air and passing it over a heat exchanger carrying secondary cooling liquid at a preselected temperature. Primary and secondary air is mixed within a mixing chamber and delivered to the space by a blower at a preselected combined air volumetric flow rate. A computerized controller implements a control method that allows the system to maintain the space at a selected temperature during summer or intermediate/winter load patterns.
Abstract:
A heating and cooling system integrated with a domestic water heating system wherein the heating and cooling system utilize recaptured heat and direct that heat back into the system for domestic water heating. Various paths for exchanging heat from refrigerant to water are utilized to provide space heating or space cooling with simultaneous water heating, and water heating alone when there are no space cooling or space heating demands.
Abstract:
A temperature control device cools the air in a space bounded by a thermally conductive structure such as a floor structure having embedded coolant pipes. Liquid coolant is provided at a temperature lower than a temperature of the air space, for example using a heat pump to lower the temperature of a coolant in a circulating path or by circulating the coolant through a ground based heat exchanger. Proportionately controllable valves or variably coupled heat exchangers allow regulation of the temperature of the liquid coolant passed through the embedded coolant pipes. A controller such as a microprocessor has outputs coupled to the valves or variable heat exchangers for regulating temperature, and inputs coupled to sensors providing sufficient data to establish the dew point of the air in the room. The controller repetitively establishes the dew point by sensing, for example, air temperature, pressure and relative humidity. The controller adjusts the temperature of the liquid coolant for maintaining the temperature of the thermally conductive structure below the temperature in the room, but at least slightly above the dew point, thereby cooling the room or at least supplementing the output of a forced air cooling system. In this manner the interior air is cooled via heat extraction from the floor without condensation.
Abstract:
A temperature control method for controlling a temperature in a chamber comprises the steps of: providing heating means which can select large and small heating powers for heating the chamber and refrigerating means for cooling the chamber; detecting a process temperature in the chamber; operating the heating means with a small heating power for attaining an intended set value when a detected temperature is equal to or higher than a lower tolerable deviation value, and operating the heating means with a large heating power when the detected temperature is lower than the lower tolerable deviation value; and operating the refrigerating means when the detected temperature is higher than an upper tolerable deviation value.
Abstract:
A system for cooling the interior of a building which monitors the temperature differential between indoor and outdoor air, and provides outside ventilation and cooling when there is a demand for cooling and the indoor air temperature exceeds the outdoor air temperature by a predetermined degree. The system includes an air conditioner for supplementing the cooling effect provided by the outdoor air in a controlled manner.
Abstract:
An air conditioner is disclosed which includes a unit for setting a defrost mode, as required, when the heating operation mode is determined, a unit for enabling the refrigerant which is delivered from the compressor to flow through one or more indoor units calling for the heating operation mode, when the defrost mode is set, and to be returned back to the compressor through one or more indoor units calling for the cooling operation mode, and a unit for enabling a stream of the refrigerant which is delivered from the compressor to pass through the outdoor heat exchanger, when the defrost mode is set, and to enter the stream of the refrigerant flowing into one or more indoor units calling for the cooling operation mode.
Abstract:
A refrigeration and heat pump system of the refrigerant gas compression type having selectively operable first and second heat exchangers, respectively, in heat exchange relationship with a heat sink or source and a heating or cooling load, and with a an internal combustion engine driving a plurality of refrigerant gas compressors with more than one of the compressors selectively engagable when the system is operated in the heat pumping mode and the heat source is at low ambient temperature. The system includes at least one speed increaser connected between the plurality or compressors, so that the compressors operate at difference speeds although driven by the same engine.