Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Junji Tamari

Yasuo Sato

Hitoshi Iijima

Kiyoshi Sakuma

Akio Fukushima

Yoshiaki Tanimura

Fumio Matsuoka

Yasuo Nakashima

Mitsuo Umehara

A multiroom air conditioner has a plurality of indoor heat exchangers connected to a single outdoor heat exchanger. A reversible expansion valve is installed on a liquid-side branch pipe for each of the indoor heat exchangers, and a solenoid valve is installed on a gas-side branch pipe for each indoor heat exchanger. Temperature sensors are provided on the liquid-side branch pipes, on the gas-side branch pipes, and on the outlet side during cooling of the outdoor heat exchanger. A pressure sensor or a temperature sensor detects the saturation temperature on the high-pressure side of the compressor. Based on the saturation temperature on the high-pressure side of the compressor, the temperature on the outlet side during cooling of the outdoor heat exchanger, and the temperatures in the liquidside branch pipes, a controller controls the expansion valves so as to obtain a target degree of subcooling during cooling and heating. The controller can also control the expansion valves so that the temperatures in each of the branch pipes are approximately equal to one another.

Multiroom air conditioner

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Shizuoka, Japan

Junji Tamari