Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideaki Tagashira

Masami Imanishi

Takeshi Yoshida

Osamu Morimoto

Hiroshi Nakata

Hiroaki Hama

Moriya Miyamoto

Keiji Nonami

Yasufumi Hatamura

Hitoshi Kido

Katsumi Kasano

Shunsuke Ohara

Yoshimichi Nakagawa

A heat storage type air conditioner which is free from a difficulty that, when a general cooling and heating circuit and a cold radiating and heat radiating circuit are operated separately or simultaneously, the quantities of refrigerant in those circuits become smaller or larger than required, so that its compressor is damaged or the cooling or heating capacity is lowered. When, in a heat storage type air conditioner, first and second bypass circuits 22 and 23 are closed, a general cooling and heating circuit 18 driven by a compressor 1 and a cold radiating and heat radiating circuit 21 driven by a refrigerant gas pump 13 are made independent of each other, so that a cooling operation or a heating operation is carried out with the aid of a first use-side heat exchanger 4a and a second use-side heat exchanger 4b. Therefore, in the air conditioner, the refrigerant or refrigerating machine oil will never concentrate in any one of the two circuits. In a cold storing operation or a heat storing operation for a heat storage tank 8, the two bypass circuits 22 and 23 are opened, so that the general cooling and heating circuit 18 is communicated with the cold radiating and heat radiating circuit 21. As a result, the refrigerant is led from the general cooling and heating circuit into the heat storage tank 8 to store cold or heat in the heat storing medium 7 therein.

Heat storage type air conditioner, and defrosting method

A heat storage type air conditioning system capable of performing refrigerant receiving and discharging control and oil quantity control, which, in operating the general cooling circuit and the cold radiating circuit simultaneously or separately, is free from difficulties that the compressor is damaged or the cooling capacity is lowered when the quantities of refrigerant in those circuits are excessively increased or decreased, and is able to continue the operations with the quantity of refrigerant and the quantity of ice machine oil adjusted to suitable values. In the heat storage type air conditioning system, evaporators are provided in a general cooling circuit driven by a compressor and in a cold radiating circuit driven by a refrigerant gas pump, respectively, so that those circuits operate independently of each other. Furthermore, bypass circuits are provided to allow refrigerant to flow between liquid pipes and between gas pipes in those circuits. In a cold storing operation, the bypass circuits are closed, so that a cold storing circuit is formed by the compressor, a condenser, a first pressure reducing mechanism, and a cold storing heat exchanger.

Heat storage type air conditioning apparatus

An air conditioning system including a refrigerant circuit having a compressor, a three port switching valve, a four port reversing valve, an outdoor heat exchanger, a first throttle device including a first decompression device, a second throttle device including a first decompression device, an indoor heat exchanger and an accumulator connected in series by use of refrigerant pipes; a first bypass circuit which is constructed to carry out heat exchange with the intake pipe connecting between the accumulator and the compressor, and which is connected as a bypass to the pipe connecting between the first and second throttle devices; a second bypass circuit having a check valve to bypass the first decompression device; a third bypass circuit having a check valve to bypass the second decompression device; a fourth bypass circuit which is connected as a bypass to the pipe between the first and second throttle devices, and which is smaller than the discharge pipe in inside diameter; and a fifth bypass circuit which is connected as a bypass to the pipe between the first and second throttle devices through a pressure regulating valve; wherein the three port switching valve is switched to open the fourth bypass circuit, thereby carrying out defrosting.

Heating and cooling air conditioning system with improved defrosting

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Wakayama, Japan

Hideaki Tagashira