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Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Kabushiki Kaisha Saginomiya Seisakusho

Hisayoshi Sakakibara

Michiyuki Saikawa

Kazutoshi Kusakari

Tomoaki Kobayakawa

Shin Nishida

Kenichi Fujiwara

Keiichi Kitamura

Shin Honda

Jyouji Kuroki

Masahiko Ito

Yukikatsu Ozaki

Yasushi Yamanaka

Tomohisa Yoshimi

Yuichi Sakajo

Yasutaka Kuroda

Satoshi Nomura

Shinya Noro

Yoshiaki Takano

Hirotsugu Takeuchi

Kunio Iritani

Sadahisa Onimaru

Kazuhide Uchida

Masahiro Shimoya

Hiroshi Ishikawa

Yoshitaka Tomatsu

Yoshiyuki Yamauchi

Teruyuki Hotta

Makoto Ikegami

Toshio Ohara

Keiichi Yoshii

Tetsuji Nobuta

Etuo Hasegawa

Tomoo Okada

Eiji Takahashi

Tadaaki Ikeda

Kazuhisa Makida

Masashi Honda

Yoshitaka Kume

Yosiharu Kajikawa

Shigeji Ohishi

Yoshinori Murata

A charging control device for an electricity storage system includes a unit to detect an electricity remaining amount of a battery, a unit to calculate a necessary charge amount, a unit to calculate a necessary charge period, and a unit to start a charging from a charger to the battery at a start timing of nighttime. The start timing is defined to go back by the necessary charge period from a target timing, when the charging is defined to be finished at the target timing. The necessary charge amount is necessary for a following daytime, and is discharged for a load in the daytime.

Charging control device and electricity storage device including a battery

In a heat-pump water heater with a super-critical refrigerant cycle, a valve open degree of a decompression valve is controlled to control a pressure of high-pressure side refrigerant so that a temperature difference between refrigerant flowing out from the water-refrigerant heat exchanger and water flowing into a water-refrigerant heat exchanger is set in a predetermined temperature range. Thus, the pressure of high-pressure side refrigerant in the super-critical refrigerant cycle can be controlled, thereby suitably adjusting heat-exchange performance of an internal heat exchanger, and restricting the temperature of refrigerant discharged from the refrigerant compressor from being uselessly increased.

Super-critical refrigerant cycle system and water heater using the same

When heating up the water in the lower inner part of a hot water tank by a heat pump unit, a control unit stops the heat-up operation while leaving the hot water in an amount corresponding to the residual water capacity in the hot water tank detected by water level thermistors. In the heat-up operation in the hot water tank, the residual hot water capacity in the tank is first detected, then the heat-up operation is stopped when the residual hot water reaches an amount corresponding to the detected residual hot water capacity. At this point, the hot water is stored so that the hot water newly heated up by the heat pump unit is laid above the residual hot water for the preceding day. Consequently, the reduction in the operating efficiency of the heat pump cycle is prevented without supplying the medium-temperature residual hot water to a condenser.

Heat pump hot water supply system of hot water storage type

In a control unit of a hot-water supply system, a boiling time period is estimated based on a hot-water amount stored in a tank at a time of 23:00, a boiling start time is adjusted so that boiling operation is finished at a time immediately before 7:00. For example, when the hot water amount stored in the tank is smaller at the time of 23:00, the boiling time period is made longer and the boiling start time is made earlier. On the other hand, when the hot water amount stored in the tank is larger at the time of 23:00, the boiling time period is made shorter and the boiling start time is made later.

Hot-water supply system

In a hot water supply system with a heat pump cycle, an oil separator for separating refrigerant and oil flowing from a compressor from each other is provided, and oil separated from refrigerant in the oil separator returns to the compressor through an oil returning passage after passing through an oil passage of a water heat exchanger. The water heat exchanger includes a first heat exchanging portion in which refrigerant from the oil separator and water from a tank are heat-exchanged, and a second heat exchanging portion in which oil from the oil separator and water from the tank are heat-exchanged. In the heat exchanger, a flow direction of water is set opposite to that of refrigerant and oil.

Hot water supply system with heat pump cycle

A hot water supply system wherein a flow of a refrigerant on a high-pressure side of a supercritical heat pump cycle and a flow of hot water are oppositely directed, and wherein water heated by the refrigerant on the high-pressure side is stored in heat insulating tanks of a vacuous and double structure. Water is heated with heat absorbed from the atmosphere and by the supercritical heat pump cycle having a high heat exchange efficiency &eegr;, to reduce the power required to heat the water. Therefore, hot water can be generated even in the daytime during peak power rates. Accordingly, because it is unnecessary to store hot water for daytime use in insulated tanks, system space requirements are reduced.

Hot water supply system

In an ejector cycle system using carbon dioxide as refrigerant, an ejector decompresses and expands refrigerant from a radiator to suck gas refrigerant evaporated in an evaporator, and converts an expansion energy to a pressure energy to increase a refrigerant pressure to be sucked into a compressor. Because refrigerant is decompressed and expanded in a super-critical area, a pressure difference during the decompression operation becomes larger, and a specific enthalpy difference becomes larger. Accordingly, energy converting efficiency in the ejector becomes higher, and efficiency of the ejector cycle system is improved.

Ejector cycle system with critical refrigerant pressure

In a heat-pump water heater, a control unit has a heat-radiation determining means for determining a heat radiation from refrigerant to outside air in an air heat exchanger based on a water temperature flowing into a water heat exchanger, and the control unit selectively performs a general cycle operation and a bypass operation in accordance with a determination result of the heat-radiation determining means. That is, when the water temperature flowing into the water heat exchanger is lower than 60&deg; C., the general cycle operation is performed. On the other hand, when the water temperature is equal to or higher than 60&deg; C., the bypass operation is performed.

Heat-pump water heater

In a hot-water supply system with a heat pump cycle, a control unit controls operation of an expansion valve based on a temperature difference between a refrigerant temperature at an outlet side of a refrigerant passage in a water heat exchanger and a water temperature at an inlet side of a water passage in the water heat exchanger. When the expansion valve is controlled in a direction increasing a valve opening degree, the control unit sets an upper limit opening degree of the expansion valve, for obtaining a refrigerant pressure corresponding to a target hot-water temperature, and controls the expansion valve in an opening degree range smaller than the upper limit opening degree.

Hot-water supply system with heat pump cycle

In a heat-pump water heater, an ECU sets a target temperature difference between water flowing into a water heat exchanger and refrigerant flowing out from the water heat exchanger, and controls a valve opening degree of an expansion valve so that the target temperature difference is obtained. When a refrigerant temperature discharged from a compressor is higher than a predetermined value, the target temperature difference is increased until the refrigerant temperature discharged from the compressor becomes lower than the predetermined value. Further, when water-heating capacity is decreased due to the increase of the target temperature difference, a rotation speed of the compressor is increased.

A heat pump type hot-water supply system performs an ordinary operation for heating liquid stored in a reservoir by circulating the liquid in a heat exchanger for supplying hot water. When an outlet temperature of an exterior heat exchanger is lowered to about &minus;5&deg; C., the ordinary operation is switched to a defrosting operation, and an opening degree of an expansion valve is decreases as compared to that at the ordinary operation. Accordingly, hot gas discharged from a compressor radiates a decreased amount of thermal energy in the heat exchanger for supplying the hot gas. Hot gas discharged from the compressor can reach the exterior heat exchanger without lowering its temperature largely to perform defrosting of the exterior heat exchanger.

Heat pump type hot-water supply system capable of performing defrosting operation

A refrigerating system, using CO.sub.2 as a refrigerant, for an air conditioner for an automobile. A pressure at the outlet of the heat emitter 2 is controlled to a target value in accordance with the temperature of the refrigerant at the outlet of the heat emitter for obtaining an operation of the refrigerating system along the optimum control line .eta..sub.max. A pressure reducer 4 and a cooler 5 are provided on a branched passageway 28 branched from a refrigerant recirculating passageway 27 for injection. The cooler 5 is for obtaining a heat exchange between a flow of the refrigerant on the branched passageway 28 after being cooled by the pressure reducer and a flow of the refrigerant on the main passageway 27, thereby cooling the refrigerant directed to the evaporator. In a second aspect of the invention, a means is provided for increasing a target value of the pressure at the pressure reducer when a thermal load of the refrigerating system is high. In a third aspect, a series of pressure reducers are arranged on the main recirculating passageway. The second stage pressure reducer is controlled so as to obtain a desired value of degree of super heating at the inlet of the compressor.

Vapor compression type refrigerating system

A pressure control valve controlling the temperature and pressure at the outlet side of a heat emitter so as to enable efficient operation by a CO.sub.2 system operating at the super critical region, wherein CO.sub.2 is sealed in a closed space at one side of a diaphragm moving the valve element at a density of approximately 600 kg/m.sup.3, a through member made of a material with a high heat conductivity is provided extending between the inside and outside of the closed space, and step differences are eliminated at the contact surfaces to improve the durability of the diaphragm.

Pressure control valve for refrigerating system

In a CO.sub.2 refrigerant cycle, a lubricating oil for a compressor has a compatibility relative to CO.sub.2 refrigerant, and the compatibility of the lubricating oil relative to the CO.sub.2 refrigerant at a pressure lower than a critical pressure of the CO.sub.2 refrigerant is lower than that at a pressure higher than the critical pressure of the CO.sub.2 refrigerant. Thus, in a low-pressure side such as an accumulator of the CO.sub.2 refrigerant cycle, because a liquid lubricating oil is separated with a liquid CO.sub.2 refrigerant, only the lubricating oil can be readily introduced into a suction side of the compressor, and it can prevent the liquid CO.sub.2 refrigerant from being sucked into the compressor. As a result, it can prevent a damage to the compressor while preventing deterioration of coefficient of performance of the CO.sub.2 refrigerant cycle.

Refrigerant cycle

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