Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Kenichi Hata

Hiroshi Sata

Abastari

Tomotaka Ishikawa

Yusuke Arii

Satoru Ue

Yasuhiro Kito

An accumulator that is used in a refrigeration apparatus including a plurality of compressors and is provided for the plurality of compressors, the accumulator including an inlet pipe that penetrates a cylindrical container perpendicularly to a central axis of the cylindrical container and conveys gas-liquid mixed refrigerant into the container and a plurality of outlet pipes connected to respective suction sides of the plurality of compressors, wherein the plurality of outlet pipes each have one end located in the container and forming outlet port for conveying gas refrigerant in the container toward the plurality of compressors, and wherein the outlet port of each of the plurality of outlet pipes is concentrated in a central part of the container.

Accumulator and refrigeration apparatus including the same

A refrigeration apparatus includes a compressor receiving refrigerant through an injection pipe and of discharging the refrigerant, a condenser, an electronic expansion valve connected by piping to another end of the injection pipe, a subcooling coil, a solenoid valve configured to control inflowing of the refrigerant through the injection pipe into the compressor, an injection bypass pipe connecting the injection pipe and a pipe on a suction side of the compressor, a solenoid valve configured to control passage of the refrigerant flowing through the injection bypass pipe, a high-low pressure bypass pipe connecting a pipe on a discharge side of the compressor and the pipe on the suction side of the compressor, a solenoid valve configured to control passage of the refrigerant through the high-low pressure bypass pipe, and a controller configured to control a frequency of the compressor and opening and closing of each of the solenoid valves.

Refrigeration apparatus and refrigeration cycle apparatus

Refrigerating machine

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Tokyo, Japan

Kenichi Hata