Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Atomis Inc.

Kazuhiro Furusho

Masanori Masuda

Yoshitaka Shibamoto

Takashi Shimizu

Eiji Kumakura

Ikuhiro Iwata

Takazo Sotojima

Hiromune Matsuoka

Tetsuya Okamoto

Hiroyuki Yamaji

Takahiro Yamaguchi

Atsushi Yoshimi

Hirokazu Fujino

Satoshi Yamamoto

Mitsushi Itano

Daisuke Karube

Masahiro Yamada

Shun Ohkubo

Takuro Yamada

Shun Yoshioka

Tatsumi Tsuchiya

Tatsuya Takakuwa

Yasufu Yamada

Masaru Tanaka

Yuuki Yotsumoto

Mikio Kajiwara

Yasuhiro Murakami

Hitomi Kuroki

Dai Kataoka

Akio Yamagiwa

Junya Minami

Akinari Sugiyama

Takazou Sotojima

Kazutaka Hori

Ryusuke Fujiyoshi

Katsumi Kato

Hiroshi Yoh

Masahide Higuchi

Takashi Hirouchi

Kenichi Sata

Shuji Furui

Yukihiro Inada

Guozhong Yang

Atsushi Suhara

Takashi Uekawa

Akihito Mizuno

Yoshiki Yasuda

Satoshi Ishikawa

Shuji Fujimoto

Tomoatsu Minamida

Michio Moriwaki

Hiroshi Kitaura

Hirofumi Higashi

Kenji Gobou

Tomoyuki Gotou

Mikio Kagawa

Tetsuo Nakata

Tetsushi Tsuda

Keiji Komori

Michiru Kagawa

Mitsuhiko Kishikawa

Mie Arai

Kousuke Nishimura

Ryuhei Kaji

Chihiro Endou

Takayuki Takahashi

Toshihiro Susa

Toshiaki Yoshii

Toru Inazuka

Takayuki Kawano

Takeyoshi Ohkawa

Hidehiko Kataoka

Takahiro Ohno

Mitsuharu Uchida

Daisuke Asari

Kenji Sumida

Tooru Inazuka

Ryuuhei Kaji

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.

Refrigerant cycle system

At a refrigeration cycle device, an injection pipe and an economizer heat exchanger are provided at a main refrigerant circuit. In addition, the refrigeration cycle device includes a sub-refrigerant circuit having a sub-usage-side heat exchanger. At the refrigeration cycle device, the sub-usage-side heat exchanger functions as an evaporator of a sub-refrigerant and cools a main refrigerant that has been cooled at the economizer heat exchanger, or functions as a radiator of the sub-refrigerant and heats the main refrigerant that has been cooled at the economizer heat exchanger.

Refrigeration cycle device

Even if, in decompressing a refrigerant by an expansion mechanism, the temperature of the refrigerant cannot be sufficiently reduced, in order to increase the evaporation capacity of a use-side heat exchanger, a main expansion mechanism including an expansion element of a rotary or scroll type that causes power to be produced by decompressing a main refrigerant is provided at a main refrigerant circuit in which the main refrigerant circulates. Further, a sub-refrigerant circuit that differs from the main refrigerant circuit and in which a sub-refrigerant circulates is provided. A sub-use-side heat exchanger that is provided at the sub-refrigerant circuit and that functions as an evaporator of the sub-refrigerant is caused to function as a heat exchanger that cools the main refrigerant that flows between the main expansion mechanism and a main use-side heat exchanger.

A refrigeration cycle device that includes a main refrigerant circuit and a sub-refrigerant circuit cools or heats a main refrigerant that flows between a main heat-source-side heat exchanger and a main usage-side heat exchanger by causing a sub-usage-side heat exchanger to function as an evaporator or a radiator of a sub-refrigerant. A first main expansion mechanism and a second main expansion mechanism that decompress the main refrigerant are provided on an upstream side and a downstream side of the sub-usage-side heat exchanger of the main refrigerant circuit.

In a compressor compressing a refrigerant including hydrocarbon fluoride prone to disproportionate, provided, on a contact portion of the drive shaft and the bearing portion, is an elastic bearing portion as a heat generation suppression portion suppressing excessive heat generation due to line contact of an end edge portion of the bearing portion with the drive shaft during rotation of the drive shaft.

Drive shaft of compressor having oil groove portion and oil sump

A suction injection pipe and a subcooling heat exchanger are provided at a main refrigerant circuit in which a main refrigerant circulates. Further, a sub-refrigerant circuit that differs from the main refrigerant circuit and in which a sub-refrigerant circulates is provided. A controller performs control for switching between a cooling action of the subcooling heat-exchanger that cools the main refrigerant that is sent to a main use-side heat exchanger by using the suction injection pipe and the subcooling heat exchanger, and a cooling action of the sub-refrigerant-circuit that cools the main refrigerant that is sent to the main use-side heat exchanger by using the sub-refrigerant circuit.

No studies have been made regarding what kinds of refrigerants should be used in a refrigeration cycle device for a vehicle. An air conditioner () for a vehicle includes a refrigerant circuit () and a refrigerant that is sealed in the refrigerant circuit (). The refrigerant circuit () includes a compressor (), a first heat exchanger (), which serves as a heat dissipater in a dehumidifying heating mode, an outside-air heat exchanger (), a cooling control valve (), and a second heat exchanger (), which serves as an evaporator in the dehumidifying heating mode. The refrigerant is a refrigerant having a low GWP.

Refrigeration cycle device for vehicle

A refrigeration cycle apparatus uses a sensor that measures temperature of a plurality of refrigerant pipes in a contactless manner. A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a heat-source-side heat exchanger, an expansion mechanism, and a use-side heat exchanger are connected in sequence. The refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a temperature detector that detects temperatures at a plurality of points in a contactless manner, and a heat-source-side controller. At least one heat-source-side heat exchanger and the use-side heat exchanger includes a plurality of refrigerant pipes through which refrigerant to be heat-exchanged flows, and a flow rate adjuster. The flow rate adjuster adjusts flow rate of the refrigerant flowing through each of the plurality of refrigerant pipes. The temperature detector detects respective temperatures of the plurality of refrigerant pipes. The heat-source-side controller controls the flow rate adjustment unit based on the temperatures detected by the temperature detector.

Refrigeration cycle apparatus

A refrigeration apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit including: a compressor, a radiator, an expansion mechanism, and an evaporator. The refrigerant circuit encloses a refrigerant that contains a fluorinated hydrocarbon that causes a disproportionation reaction. The refrigerant circuit further includes: a discharged refrigerant recovery receiver that is connected to a path between a discharge side of the compressor and a gas side of the radiator through a discharged refrigerant branch pipe; and a discharged refrigerant relief mechanism that is disposed in the discharged refrigerant branch pipe and that connects the discharge side of the compressor with the discharged refrigerant recovery receiver when the refrigerant on the discharge side of the compressor satisfies a predetermined condition. The predetermined condition includes at least one of a first condition under which the refrigerant does not yet cause the disproportionation reaction and a second condition under which the refrigerant causes the disproportionation reaction.

Refrigeration apparatus

As a refrigerant, a refrigerant containing a fluorocarbon having a property of causing a disproportionation reaction is used. A refrigeration apparatus includes: a refrigerant temperature detector configured to detect a discharged refrigerant temperature which is a temperature of the refrigerant that is being discharged from the compression mechanism or immediately after the discharge; and a controller configured to control the discharged refrigerant temperature detected by the refrigerant temperature detector such that the discharged refrigerant temperature is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature Ts.

Refrigeration device controlling a temperature of compressor-discharged refrigerant

An oscillating piston compressor includes two oscillating compression units, and an introduction section configured to introduce an intermediate-pressure refrigerant into a compression chamber of each of the compression units. Each compression unit has a cylinder forming a cylinder chamber, a piston housed in the cylinder chamber, and a blade integrally formed with the piston. The piston rotates in the cylinder chamber while the blade oscillates. The two compression units are configured such that phases of the pistons are opposite to each other. The piston has a non-circular outer peripheral surface, and the cylinder chamber has an inner peripheral surface with a shape determined based on an envelope of the outer peripheral surface of the piston in rotation.

Oscillating piston-type compressor

A compressor includes a compression mechanism having a ring-shaped first cylinder, a first piston eccentrically rotatable in an interior of the first cylinder, a first cylinder head member disposed adjacent to one axial end of the first cylinder, a second cylinder head member disposed adjacent to an other axial end of the first cylinder, and a fastening bolt. The fastening bolt fastens the first cylinder head member, the first cylinder, and the second cylinder head member together. An end face of the first cylinder head member contacts the first cylinder, and the end face is provided with a protecting groove. The protecting groove is formed closer to a center of the first cylinder than the fastening bolt, and has a groove width smaller than a groove depth of the protecting groove.

Compression mechanism for a compressor

A compressor includes a cylinder including a cylinder chamber, a piston movably arranged relative to the cylinder in the cylinder chamber, and a sliding member slideable against the cylinder and the piston in the cylinder chamber. The cylinder and the piston are constructed from an Al&#x2014;Si alloy having a Si content exceeding 12.6 wt %, which is a eutectic point. The sliding member is constructed from steel and has a surface layer including a sliding surface slideable against the cylinder and the piston. The surface layer is treated so as to have greater hardness than hardness of proeutectic Si contained in the Al&#x2014;Si alloy, and the surface layer has hardness of at least Hv 1000 in the sliding surface.

Sliding member for a compressor

An air conditioning system includes a refrigerant circuit including a compressor, an indoor heat exchanger, a first expansion valve, a gas-liquid separator, a second expansion valve, and an outdoor heat exchanger which are sequentially connected together to perform a two-stage expansion refrigeration cycle. The refrigerant circuit further includes: a gas injection pipe through which intermediate-pressure gas refrigerant in the gas-liquid separator flows into an intermediate port of the compressor, and a liquid-gas heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between low-pressure gas refrigerant obtained by evaporating refrigerant in the outdoor heat exchanger and travelling toward the compressor and intermediate-pressure liquid refrigerant travelling from the gas-liquid separator toward the second expansion valve.

Refrigeration apparatus which injects an intermediate-gas liquid refrigerant from multi-stage expansion cycle into the compressor

In an air conditioner which is a refrigerating apparatus, a superheat degree controller is provided, which is configured to control, in an evaporation mode of an outdoor heat exchanger, the opening degree of an expansion valve such that the superheat degree of refrigerant whose flows are joined together after passing through a main heat exchange part and an auxiliary heat exchange part reaches a predetermined superheat degree. Moreover, in the air conditioner, a flow volume adjustment valve configured to adjust, in the evaporation mode of the outdoor heat exchanger, a flow ratio of refrigerant in the heat exchange parts and a flow ratio controller configured to control the flow volume adjustment valve such that refrigerant temperatures after passage through the heat exchange parts are substantially equal to each other are provided.

Refrigerating apparatus

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Kazuhiro Furusho