Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Atsushi Yoshimi

Eiji Kumakura

Takuro Yamada

Ikuhiro Iwata

Shun Ohkubo

Takeru Miyazaki

Shuji Fujimoto

Kazuhiro Takahashi

Mitsushi Itano

Daisuke Karube

Yuzo Komatsu

Hiromune Matsuoka

Tatsuya Takakuwa

Yuuki Yotsumoto

Manabu Yoshimi

Tomoatsu Minamida

Kazuhide Mizutani

Takahiro Yamaguchi

Kazuhiro Furusho

Yoshio Ueno

Toshiyuki Kurihara

Hiroki Ueda

Shuuji Fujimoto

Yoshinari Asano

Shun Yoshioka

Shinichi Kasahara

Masakazu Okamoto

Ryuhei Kaji

Masaki Tanaka

Tetsuya Shirasaki

Masaki Nakayama

Keiji Aota

Junya Minami

Michio Moriwaki

Mikio Kagawa

Tetsushi Tsuda

Ryusuke Fujiyoshi

Takeo Abe

Teruo Kido

Yumi Toda

Toru Inazuka

Yuuichi Yanagi

Keisuke Ohtsuka

Yoshikazu Nakao

Hidehiko Kataoka

Mitsuharu Uchida

Tooru Inazuka

An air conditioner includes an ejector that raises a pressure of refrigerant by using energy for refrigerant decompression and expansion. A switching mechanism switches between a refrigerant flow in a first operation and a refrigerant flow in a second operation. The air conditioner is configured such that in the first operation, refrigerant compressed by a compression mechanism radiates heat in a use-side heat exchanger and is decompressed and expanded by the ejector while refrigerant evaporated in a heat-source-side heat exchanger is raised in pressure by the ejector. The air conditioner is configured such that in the second operation, refrigerant compressed by the compression mechanism radiates heat in the heat-source-side heat exchanger and is decompressed and expanded by a first expansion valve before being evaporated in the use-side heat exchanger while refrigerant does not flow through the ejector.

Air conditioner

Refrigerant is caused to be in a superheating state without impairing the performance of a cascade heat exchanger. A refrigerant cycle system includes a first refrigerant circuit, a second refrigerant circuit, and a first cascade heat exchanger. The first cascade heat exchanger exchanges heat between a first refrigerant that flows in the first refrigerant circuit and a second refrigerant that flows in the second refrigerant circuit. The refrigerant cycle system includes a switching mechanism. The switching mechanism switches a flow path of a refrigerant of at least either one of the first refrigerant circuit and the second refrigerant circuit. The first cascade heat exchanger includes a first main heat exchanging unit acid a first sub heat exchanging unit. The first sub heat exchanging unit is configured to cause the first refrigerant that has passed through the first main heat exchanging unit to be in a superheating state.

Refrigerant cycle system

A heat transfer method uses a heat transfer system including: a heat source unit in which heat is exchanged between a heat transfer medium and a heat source; a utilization unit in which heat is exchanged between the heat transfer medium and a temperature adjustment target; and a first flow path and a second flow path that connect the heat source unit and the utilization unit. The heat transfer medium flows through the first flow path from the heat source unit to the utilization unit, and flows through the second flow path from the utilization unit to the heat source unit. In the heat transfer method, inorganic hydrate slurry, in which an inorganic hydrate that absorbs heat when dissolved in water is mixed with water, is used as the heat transfer medium.

Heat transfer method

An air conditioner includes: a heat-source-side unit including a compressor and a heat-source-side heat exchanger; use-side units each including a use-side heat exchanger; an intermediate unit that causes the use-side heat exchanger of each of the use-side units to individually function as an evaporator or a radiator of a refrigerant; and two connection pipes that each connect the heat-source-side unit and the intermediate unit. The intermediate unit includes: an ejector that is configured to pressurize the refrigerant evaporated in the use-side heat exchanger that functions as the evaporator by using a driving flow; and a gas-liquid separator into which the refrigerant flowing out from the ejector flows.

An air conditioner includes: a heat-source-side unit including a compressor and a heat-source-side heat exchanger; use-side units each including a use-side heat exchanger; an intermediate unit that causes the use-side heat exchanger of each of the use-side units to individually function as an evaporator or a radiator of a refrigerant; and three or more connection pipes that connect the heat-source-side unit to the intermediate unit. The intermediate unit includes: an ejector that pressurizes the refrigerant; and a gas-liquid separator into which the refrigerant flowing out from the ejector flows. The refrigerant that has released heat in any of the use-side units that perform a heating operation is not pressurized by the ejector.

An air conditioner includes: use-side units that are each switchable between a cooling operation and a heating operation; and a heat-source-side unit including a compressor, a discharge pipe through which a refrigerant discharged from the compressor flows, a first main heat-source-side flow path and a second main heat-source-side flow path that branch off from the discharge pipe, a first heat-source-side heat exchanger, a second heat-source-side heat exchanger, a first economizer heat exchanger, and a second economizer heat exchanger. The first heat-source-side heat exchanger is connected to the first economizer heat exchanger in series in the first main heat-source-side flow path. The second heat-source-side heat exchanger is connected to the second economizer heat exchanger in series in the second main heat-source-side flow path.

Efficiency in refrigerant charging work is addressed when a refrigerant recovered from the first heat source unit is to be charged to a second heat source unit. In a refrigerant charging method in which a first heat source unit of an already installed refrigeration cycle apparatus in which a refrigeration cycle is to be performed by a refrigerant that circulates is replaced with a second heat source unit, transferring the refrigerant from the first heat source unit to the second heat source unit is included. In addition, the method includes measuring the weight of the refrigerant that is transferred from the first heat source unit to the second heat source unit.

Refrigerant charging method

A heat-source-side heat exchanger is divided so that a heat-source-side heat exchanger that functions as an evaporator also functions as an intermediate cooler. Since, when an air conditioner includes a bypass pipe, a heat-source-side heat exchanger that functions as an evaporator and as an intermediate cooler also further functions as a radiator, operation efficiency is increased.

In a refrigeration cycle apparatus, a switching mechanism includes a first channel and performs switching among a first, second and third connection states. In the first connection state, the refrigeration cycle apparatus repeatedly performs a first cycle in which refrigerant flows through a compressor, a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, and the compressor in that order. In the second connection state, the refrigeration cycle apparatus repeatedly performs a second cycle in which refrigerant flows through the compressor, the second heat exchanger, the first heat exchanger, and the compressor in that order. In the third connection state, a passage between the compressor and the first heat exchanger and a passage between the compressor and the second heat exchanger are closed, and the first channel in the refrigeration cycle apparatus provides interconnection between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger.

Refrigeration cycle apparatus and four-way valve

A refrigerant cycle system includes: a primary-side cycle of a vapor compression type that circulates a first refrigerant; a secondary-side cycle of a vapor compression type that circulates a second refrigerant; and a cascade heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the first refrigerant and the second refrigerant. The secondary-side cycle includes a secondary-side heat exchanger that uses cold or heat obtained by the second refrigerant from the cascade heat exchanger. The secondary-side heat exchanger includes a flat multi-hole pipe.

A refrigerant cycle system includes: a first refrigerant circuit that includes a first heat exchanger, a first compressor, and a first cascade heat exchanger and that is configured as a first vapor compression refrigeration cycle; a second refrigerant circuit that includes the first cascade heat exchanger, a second compressor, and a second heat exchanger and that is configured as a second vapor compression refrigeration cycle; a first unit that accommodates the first heat exchanger and the first compressor; a second unit that accommodates the first cascade heat exchanger and the second compressor; and a third unit that accommodates the second heat exchanger. The first unit, the second unit, and the third unit are disposed apart from each other. The first cascade heat exchanger performs heat exchange between a first refrigerant that flows through the first refrigerant circuit and a second refrigerant that flows through the second refrigerant circuit.

In an air conditioner, during an operation, a gas-liquid two-phase non-azeotropic mixture refrigerant enters a receiver and accumulates in the receiver in a state where a gas phase and a liquid phase are separated. For example, when the non-azeotropic mixture refrigerant includes two components, i.e., a high-boiling refrigerant and a low-boiling refrigerant, the controller may estimate the ratio (composition ratio) between the low-boiling refrigerant and the high-boiling refrigerant in each of the gas phase and the liquid phase based on the temperature and the pressure of the non-azeotropic mixture refrigerant in the receiver. Thus, the controller may estimate the composition ratio of the liquid-phase non-azeotropic mixture refrigerant flowing out of the receiver as the composition ratio of the non-azeotropic mixture refrigerant circulating in the refrigerant circuit.

Heat pump device using a non-azeotropic mixture refrigerant

There is provided a refrigerant charging method in which a foreign material and moisture are avoided from entering a heat source unit until a refrigeration cycle apparatus is configured. The refrigerant charging method is a method of charging a refrigerant to a refrigerant circuit in which a refrigeration cycle is to be performed by a circulating refrigerant, the refrigerant circuit being configured by connecting a second heat source unit and a utilization unit to each other. The refrigerant charging method includes charging a first refrigerant to the second heat source unit before connecting the second heat source unit to the utilization unit to configure the refrigerant circuit, and connecting the second heat source unit to the utilization unit and charging a second refrigerant that differs from the first refrigerant to the refrigerant circuit to obtain the circulating refrigerant that includes the second refrigerant and the first refrigerant that is charged in the second heat source unit.

Refrigerant charging method, heat source unit, and renewed refrigeration cycle apparatus

Efficiency in refrigerant charging work is addressed when a recovered refrigerant recovered from a first heat source unit is to be charged to a second heat source unit. A refrigerant charging method is a charging method used when a first heat source unit of an already installed refrigeration cycle apparatus in which a refrigeration cycle is to be performed by a refrigerant that circulates is to be replaced with a second heat source unit. The refrigerant charging method includes recovering a first refrigerant from an already installed refrigeration cycle apparatus and obtaining a recovered refrigerant and charging the recovered refrigerant and charging a second refrigerant whose composition differs from the composition of the recovered refrigerant to the refrigeration cycle apparatus after renewal that includes the second heat source unit.

A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigeration cycle, an adsorption section, and a first bypass flow path. The refrigeration cycle includes a compressor, a radiator, an expansion mechanism, and an evaporator, and uses a non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture including a first refrigerant and a second refrigerant. The adsorption section includes an adsorbent and stores the first refrigerant adsorbed by the adsorbent. The adsorbent adsorbs the first refrigerant, and does not adsorb the second refrigerant or the adsorption performance thereof for the second refrigerant is lower than the adsorption performance thereof for the first refrigerant. The first bypass flow path connects a first end which is a high-pressure part of the refrigeration cycle and a second end which is a low-pressure part of the refrigeration cycle. The adsorption section and a valve are disposed in the first bypass flow path.

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Atsushi Yoshimi