Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Masato Watanabe

Takashi Sunaga

Yasuki Takahashi

Yutaka Hirano

Masazo Okajima

Kiyoshi Tanaka

Yoshinobu Obokata

Kazuhisa Ishikawa

Kenji Ando

Seiki Jikuhara

Kiyoshi Akazawa

Takeo Komatubara

Hiroshi Kanai

Tsuyoshi Rakuma

Toshitake Nagai

Koji Sato

Norio Sawada

Manabu Ishihara

Takahide Kakinuma

Yonezo Ikumi

Takashi Fudo

Refrigerator using a polyvinyl ether refrigerator oil

A refrigerant compressor is configured such that a compressor unit is installed in a hermetically sealed container, an HFC type refrigerant or a mixture thereof and a refrigerator oil having compatibility with the refrigerant are charged into the hermetically sealed container, and the refrigerator oil essentially comprises a polyvinyl ether type compound having structural units represented by the following general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein n is an integral number in the range of 1 or more, R1 to R3 are each a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms and may be the same or different, R4 is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and units in which R4 is an alkyl group having 1 to 2 carbon atoms are 40 to 100% and units in which R4 is an alkyl group having 3 to 4 carbon atoms are 0 to 60%. As a result, the generation of a carboxylic acid caused by thermal cracking or hydrolysis due to frictional heat generated by sliding members is prevented and the generation of sludge is thereby suppressed.

Refrigerant compressor and cooling apparatus comprising the same

A refrigerating unit having at least one refrigerating machine oil using polyol ester system oil as its base oil in at least one refrigeration cycle using at least one hydrofluorocarbon system refrigerant as a refrigerant, the present invention sets the purity of hydrofluorocarbon system refrigerant to the level higher than 99.95 wt % and the mixing of chlorine system refrigerant to the level lower than 80 ppm. In addition, the performance and reliability of refrigerating unit using the hydrofluorocarbon system refrigerant such as R134a can be enhanced by making the said polyol ester system oil to be the chemical compound of particular physical properties, by suppressing the equilibrium water content of refrigeration cycle and by limiting the residual chlorine volume.

Refrigerating unit

An object of the invention is to settle an unbalanced refrigerant flow in a heat exchanger thereby to improve a heat exchanging efficiency. In a heat exchanger having a refrigerant conduit provided through a plurality of fins, the refrigerant conduit is divided into a plurality of sets, each consisting of a plurality of parallel conduits, and parallel conduits of a set are put in communication with each other at ends thereof and in communication, through a single passage, with ends of parallel conduits of another set.

Heat exchanger and cooling apparatus mounted with the same

An air conditioner for reduction of energy consumption without impairing the comfortable feeling, which comprises a room temperature detector for detecting the room temperature of an air-conditioned room, temperature setting apparatus for setting a target temperature, air conditioning device for performing an air conditioning operation to bring the room temperature detected by the room temperature detector toward the target temperature, and target temperature charger, which corrects the target temperature to rise and fall periodically in accordance with a predetermined rule after the room temperature has substantially reached the target temperature through use of the air conditioning devices. The charger shifts the average value of the target temperature after the start of the correction in such a direction that the air conditioning load of the air conditioning device is reduced from that for attaining the target temperature before the correction.

Air conditioner

A lubricant for a refrigerating unit uses a hydrofluorocarbon system refrigerant with a polyol ester system oil as its base oil. The purity of hydrofluorocarbon system refrigerant is set to a level higher than 99.95 wt % and the mixing of chlorine impurity in the system refrigerant is set at a level lower than 80 ppm. The performance and reliability of a refrigerating unit using the hydrofluorocarbon system refrigerant, such as R134a, can be enhanced by making the polyol ester system oil of a chemical compound having particular physical properties, by suppressing the equilibrium water content of refrigeration cycle and by limiting the residual volume.

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Gunma-ken, Japan

Masato Watanabe