Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Akihiro Eguchi

Gakuto Sakai

Tomohiro Yabu

Shigeki Kamitani

Hiromune Matsuoka

Seiji Sato

Keita Kitagawa

Tsunehisa Sanagi

Takayoshi Yamamoto

Yoshito Matsuda

Tarou Yasumatsu

Seisuke Itou

Daiki Kurita

A drainage mechanism is connected to a drain pump that sucks water from a drain pan. The drainage mechanism includes a connecting part that connects to the drain pump, a first flow path, a folded part, and a second flow path. The first flow path extends upward from the connecting part. The folded part has a first end connected to an upper end of the first flow path and a second end on a side opposite to the first end. The folded part changes a direction of the water flowing therein from upward to downward. The second flow path extends from the second end. The second flow path is a pipe that has an inner diameter of 13 mm or less. The flow path area of the folded part is larger than the flow path area of the second flow path.

Drainage mechanism and air conditioning system including the same

A humidity control and ventilation device includes: a determiner determining that another ventilation device has turned on, if at least one of an increasing variation in the rotation speed of the air supply fan and an increasing variation in the rotation speed of the exhaust fan exceeds a corresponding one of predetermined values while the air supply fan and the exhaust fan are under the constant airflow rate control; and an air-flow-rate controller decreasing one of the rotation speed of the air supply fan or the rotation speed of the exhaust fan if the determiner determines that the ventilation device is on, such that a total air supply rate and a total air exhaust rate in the ventilation target space are balanced with each other.

Humidity control and ventilation device

A refrigerant channel switching unit is disposed between a heat source unit and a utilization unit to switch flow of refrigerant in the refrigerant circuit. The refrigerant channel switching unit includes a first refrigerant pipe connected to a suction gas communicating pipe, a second refrigerant pipe connected to a high-low pressure gas communicating pipe, third and fourth refrigerant pipes, and first and second electric valves mounted to the first and second refrigerant pipes, respectively. The third refrigerant pipe is connected to the first and second refrigerant pipes and a gas pipe. The fourth refrigerant pipe is connected at ends to a liquid communicating pipe and a liquid pipe. A minute channel is formed in the first or second electric valve. The minute channel enables the refrigerant to flow through the minute channel even when an opening degree of the valve is set to be the lowest degree.

Refrigerant channel switching unit and refrigeration apparatus including same

A refrigerant channel switching unit is disposed between a heat source unit and a utilization unit to switch flow of refrigerant in the refrigerant circuit. The refrigerant channel switching unit includes a first refrigerant pipe connected to a suction gas communicating pipe extending from the heat source unit, a second refrigerant pipe connected to a high-low pressure gas communicating pipe extending from the heat source unit, a third refrigerant pipe connected to a gas pipe extending to the utilization unit, a coupling portion, a first switch valve mounted to the first refrigerant pipe, and a second switch valve mounted to the second refrigerant pipe. The coupling portion is connected to the first, second and third refrigerant pipes. The First second and third are coupled through the coupling portion.

Refrigerant channel switching unit

An aggregated channel switching unit is disposed between a heat source unit and a plurality of utilization units to switch flow of refrigerant in the refrigerant circuit. The aggregated channel switching unit including a plurality of first refrigerant pipes having switch valves, a plurality of second refrigerant pipes, and a casing accommodating the first and second pipes. The first and second pipes are aggregated as an assembly. The first pipes are connected to a high-low pressure gas communicating pipe and a suction gas communicating pipe extending from the heat source unit. The second refrigerant pipes are connected to a liquid communicating pipe extending from the heat source unit and a liquid pipe extending to the utilization units. Adjacent pairs of the first and second pipes extend approximately in parallel to each other at predetermined intervals in the assembly. The first and second pipes are alternately disposed in the assembly.

Aggregated channel switching unit and method of manufacturing same

A humidity control apparatus performs a humidification operation in which outdoor air is supplied to the inside of a room through a moisture-desorption adsorption heat exchanger serving as a condenser and room air is discharged to the outside through a moisture-absorption adsorption heat exchanger serving as an evaporator. The humidity control apparatus includes a preheat heat exchanger which, in the humidification operation, is positioned upstream of the moisture-desorption adsorption heat exchanger in the flow of outdoor air in an air passage and serves as a condenser to heat outdoor air in a refrigerant circuit, and a heat-recovery heat exchanger which, in the humidification operation, is positioned downstream of the moisture-absorption adsorption heat exchanger in the flow of room air in the air passage and serves as an evaporator to recover heat from room air in the refrigerant circuit.

Humidity control apparatus

An on-off valve and a bypass pipe which bypasses the on-off valve are connected to an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe of a humidity control circuit. A pressure-reducing valve is connected to the bypass pipe. Before switching a four-way valve, a degree of opening of the pressure-reducing valve is reduced to reduce a pressure difference between high and low pressure in the humidity control circuit. After that, the on-off valve is closed for pressure equalization between the high and low pressure in the humidity control circuit.

Humidity controller

There is provided a humidification device capable of performing humidification in as short a time as possible when an indoor humidity is low. A humidification device includes operation control means for selecting either a humidification priority mode or a normal operation mode based on a predetermined condition to operate the humidification device, and fans that can adjust airflow rates, and generates airflow passing through a condenser and an evaporator, wherein operation in the humidification priority mode is operation in which the airflow rates of the fans are decreased, as compared with operation in the normal operation mode, by which desorption of moisture from an adsorbent of the condenser and collection of moisture by an adsorbent of the evaporator are promoted, as compared with operation in the normal operation mode, so that humidification is given priority over ventilation.

Humidification device

The present invention is directed to a humidity controlling ventilator which takes in air through the use of an air blowing fan, and controls the humidity of the taken air via an adsorption heat exchanger prior to supplying it to the room. In the invention, the air blowing fan is controlled so as to make an air volume flow rate approach a predetermined target volume flow rate. To do this, the invention calculates the fan's air volume flow rate based on a specific volume of air downstream of the adsorption heat exchanger and an air mass flow rate of the fan. The calculated value is fed to an air blow controller that is configured to control the fan such that the calculated air volume flow rate approaches the predetermined target air volume flow rate.

Humidity controlling ventilator

A ventilation system includes a connection determinator configured to determine that N-th, second, and sixth humidity controlling ventilation devices are connected to an identical second duct bank in a situation where when fans of the second and sixth humidity controlling ventilation devices are driven, and the rotational speed of a fan of the N-th humidity controlling ventilation device is changed, a power detector detects fluctuations in the power consumed by the fan of each of the second and sixth humidity controlling ventilation devices.

Ventilation system

An air blower apparatus is provided including a hub which is a center of rotation, and a plurality of blades disposed along an outer peripheral surface of the hub and having leading and trailing edges and where both an outer peripheral end of the leading edge and an outer peripheral end of the trailing edge lie ahead relative to the rotative direction. An outer peripheral part of the blade may be bent toward the suction side in such a way as to form a starting point at which an airflow starts leaking, and the radial-direction width, W, of the bent part gradually increases from the vicinity of the leading edge to the vicinity of the trailing edge. A blade tip vortex (&#x3b2;) generated from a blade positioned ahead relative to the rotational direction F and a separation vortex from a pressure surface of a blade positioned behind relative to the rotational direction F offset each other, so that discharge vortexes are suppressed.

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Osaka, Japan

Akihiro Eguchi