Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

The Coca-Cola Company

Kazuaki Mizukami

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Hiroyuki Hashimoto

Takashi Nishiyama

Yoshihisa Tachibana

Kazuhide Saito

Yoshio Ozawa

Masashi Yasuda

Takeshi Ishii

Masahiro Furukawa

Atsushi Ogawa

Toshiyuki Ebara

Satoshi Imai

Hiroshi Mukaiyama

Ichiro Kamimura

Hidetoshi Arima

Tetsuya Masuda

Akira Sugawara

Takashi Inoue

Setsu Hasegawa

Hirokazu Izaki

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Hiroyuki Itsuki

Etsushi Nagae

Mikio Hojo

Yasuharu Kurogi

Hiroaki Arakawa

Toshihiko Matsuhashi

Hirofumi Yanagi

Yasushi Kamada

To provide a beverage dispenser capable of appropriately and smoothly supplying a supercooled beverage. According to the present invention, there is disclosed a beverage dispenser including a beverage supply circuitwhich supplies a carbonated beverage to the outside a primary cooling device, a secondary cooling device, and a heat exchangerfor supercooling which allows these components to cool the carbonated beverage flowing through the beverage supply circuitinto a supercooled state at a temperature of a solidifying point or less. The heat exchangersupplies the carbonated beverage in the supercooled state to release the supercooled state in the outside, and the carbonated beverage on standby for serving in a portion of the beverage supply circuitcooled by at least the heat exchangerfor supercooling is maintained in an unsaturated state.

Beverage dispenser

To provide a beverage dispenser capable of appropriately and smoothly supplying a carbonated beverage as a supercooled beverage. According to the present invention, there is disclosed a beverage dispenser including a carbonatorfor manufacturing carbonated water; a beverage supply circuitfor supplying a carbonated beverage manufactured by the carbonatorto the outside; a heat exchangerfor supercooling; and a primary cooling device, the carbonatormixes a carbonic acid gas supplied from a gas regulatorwhich supplies a pressurized carbonic acid gas, syrup and diluting water to manufacture the carbonated beverage, and the heat exchangerfor supercooling cools the carbonated beverage flowing through the beverage supply circuitinto a supercooled state at a temperature of a solidifying point or less to release the supercooled state in the outside.

To provide a beverage dispenser capable of appropriately and smoothly supplying a supercooled beverage. [Solving Means] The present invention provides a beverage dispenserwhich supplies a beverage brought into a supercooled state at a solidifying point or less and which releases the supercooled state in the outside, and the beverage dispenser includes a primary cooling devicewhich cools the beverage to an ice point or so, a beverage supply circuitwhich supplies the beverage cooled by the primary cooling deviceto the outside, a brine circuitthrough which an antifreezing liquid cooled to the solidifying point or less of the beverage is circulated, and a heat exchangerfor supercooling the beverage, which performs heat exchange between the beverage flowing through the beverage supply circuitand the antifreezing liquid flowing through the brine circuit

A beverage dispenser capable of supplying a supercooled beverage without being influenced by a type of raw water. In various embodiments, the beverage dispenser includes a raw water treatment device that deaerates or filters raw water, a primary cooling device that cools the raw water to an ice point or so, and a secondary cooling device that cools the raw water into a supercooled state. In certain embodiments, the beverage dispenser further includes an anti-freezing liquid tank, a refrigerant circuit that cools the anti-freezing liquid to a supercooling temperature, and a brine circuit that circulates the anti-freezing liquid. According to certain aspects of the embodiments, a supercooled beverage can be quickly and reliably phase-changed to a different state when discharged to the outside.

Disclosed is a refrigeration apparatus capable of minimizing the pressure loss of a refrigerant circulated through an internal heat exchanger and capable of improving a cooling capability. A refrigeration apparatus in which a compressor, a radiator, an electronic expansion valve and an evaporator are successively annularly connected to one another to constitute a refrigerant circuit includes a refrigerator unit provided with the compressor and the radiator, and a cooling unit provided with the electronic expansion valve and the evaporator, the refrigerator unit is connected to one or a plurality of cooling units via a communication pipe to constitute the refrigerant cycle, an internal heat exchanger which performs heat exchange between a refrigerant discharged from the radiator and a refrigerant discharged from the evaporator is constituted of a double tube, and the internal heat exchanger is provided in the cooling unit.

Refrigeration apparatus with internal heat exchanger for heat exchange

A refrigerating machine comprising a compressor, a radiator, a pressure-reducing device, a gas-liquid separator, plural heat absorbers functioning selectively in different temperature zones, a unit for allowing introduction of gas refrigerant separated in the gas-liquid separator into an intermediate pressure portion of the compressor, and a low pressure side circuit in which liquid refrigerant separated in the gas-liquid separator is circulated, wherein the low pressure side circuit is provided with at least a heat absorber functioning in a low temperature zone.

Refrigerating machine

An on-vehicle air-conditioner for air-conditioning has a refrigeration circuit provided with a refrigerant car exterior heat exchanger installed for exchanging heat with the car exterior air that can be used for cooling and for heating, and at least one opening and closing duct for air inflow rate regulation installed in front of and/or behind the refrigerant car exterior heat exchanger. By controlling the opening/closing of the duct according to the situation, the arrangement can solve problems of the prior art, and can efficiently and sufficiently perform cooling, heating, defrosting or the like. The arrangement is useful even when using, for example, COas a refrigerant, in vehicles such as hybrid cars using electricity and gasoline as their energy source, idle stop coping cars or the like.

On-vehicle air-conditioner for air-conditioning

An ultrasonic sensor detects the time of rise of the first of transmitted waves and also detects peak points Po appearing in the waveform of received waves to detect a waveform reference point where the time-base coordinate of a phantom envelope connecting these peak points Po is a minimum. The time T2 of rise of the first of the received waves is calculated by adding a predetermined period of offset time To to the time t2 of the waveform reference point of the received waves to calculate the elapsed time .DELTA.T from the time of rise of the first transmitted wave to the time of rise of the first received wave. The distance L to an object of measurement is calculated based on the result of calculation. The distance L to the object can be calculated alternatively based on the elapsed time .DELTA.T' from a waveform reference point of the transmitted waves to the waveform reference point of the received waves. The sensor thus realized gives measurements with high accuracy even with use of ultrasonic waves of relatively low frequency.

Ultrasonic sensor and pipetting apparatus using same

A failure diagnosing system for an absorption chiller including an evaporator, absorber, etc. comprises a plurality of sensors for measuring at least one representative temperatures of each of two fluids participating in heat exchange in a specified heat exchange unit, and an arithmetic unit for receiving measurement data from the sensors. The arithmetic unit comprises a circuit for calculating an actual temperature difference using a simple calculation equation defined by a linear expression, a circuit for calculating the amount of heat exchange by the absorber, and a circuit for calculating the degree of abnormality of the absorber by comparing the actual temperature difference with an ideal temperature difference for the same amount of heat exchange as the calculated amount.

Failure diagnosing system for absorption chillers

A control system for absorption chillers which comprises a device for measuring operating state data concerning components of the main assembly of the chiller and including the liquid level of a high temperature generator and the degree of opening of a gas valve, and a fuzzy control circuit for calculating the deviation of the liquid level from a target value based on the measured operating state data, predicting a variation in the liquid level from the deviation and another item of the operating state data and calculating a control input as to the inverter frequency of an absorbent pump based on the result of prediction, whereby even when a great disturbance occurs, the liquid level of the generator can be controlled with high responsiveness to minimize the variation of the liquid level.

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Osaka, Japan

Kazuaki Mizukami