Nec Corporation

Nec Platforms, Ltd.

Micro Gijutsu Kenkyujyo Co., Ltd.

Micro Technology Co., Ltd.

Minoru Yoshikawa

Masaki Chiba

Arihiro Matsunaga

Hitoshi Sakamoto

Kenichi Inaba

Akira Shoujiguchi

Yoshinori Miyamoto

Koichi Todoroki

Masanori Sato

Hisato Sakuma

Takeya Hashiguchi

Mahiro Hachiya

Nirmal Singh Rajput

Takafumi Natsumeda

Shinji Watanabe

Kenji Kobayashi

Kunihiko Ishihara

Junichi Miyamoto

Tadao Hosaka

Shunsuke Fujii

Tomohiro Yachida

Mizuki Wada

Manussanun Buranachokphaisan

A system () for controlling an air conditioner () includes a plurality of pressure sensors () and a controller (). Each of the pressure sensors () is positioned at an air inlet () of each of the racks (). The controller () is configured to receive pressure values from the pressure sensors () and control an airflow rate of the cooling air supplied from the air conditioner () based on the pressure values. The controller () is configured to set a target pressure value for each pressure sensor () (S), acquire a current pressure value for each pressure sensor (S), calculate a pressure drop value for each pressure sensor () between the current pressure value and the target pressure value (S), and adjust the airflow rate based on a maximum value among the plurality of the pressure drop values (Sto S).

System, method, and program for controlling air conditioner output for rack pressure regulation

A cooling apparatus includes a heat receiver that evaporates a low pressure heat transfer medium. The apparatus includes a compressor that compresses the evaporated heat transfer medium in a gas phase state, and a condenser that condenses the compressed heat transfer medium. The apparatus includes a receiver tank that receives and stores at least one of the heat transfer medium from any place in a flow path of the medium in the gas phase state that returns the medium to the heat receiver and the condensed medium in a liquid phase state. The apparatus includes an air storage tank that air separated from the heat transfer medium. The apparatus includes a liquid level controller that controls a liquid level in the receiver tank such that the heat transfer medium is stored in the receiver tank at a predetermined liquid level height.

Cooling apparatus and cooling method

A cooling system includes: a local cooler that is positioned near a heat source and evaporates a liquid-phase refrigerant by receiving heat from the heat source; a turbo compressor that compresses a gas-phase refrigerant that absorbed the heat in the local cooler; an outdoor unit that condenses the gas-phase refrigerant supplied from the turbo compressor by heat dissipation; and an expansion valve that depressurizes the refrigerant supplied from the outdoor unit and sends the refrigerant to the local cooler. The refrigerant is a low-pressure refrigerant having a condensing pressure lower than a predetermined value.

Cooling system

An air conditioner includes: a turbo compressor that compresses a heat medium; a heat exchanger that exchanges heat of the heat medium supplied from the turbo compressor with an atmosphere; and a supply flow path and a discharge flow path that connect the turbo compressor and the heat exchanger. At least one of the supply flow path and the discharge flow path includes piping, and the piping includes a gas barrier layer that covers a surface of a synthetic resin.

Air conditioner and method of manufacturing piping

A cooling device includes: a duct that guides air that has absorbed heat generated inside a cooling target and has been discharged, to the cooling target; a cooler that is provided in the duct and cools the air flowing inside the duct; and an adjusting mechanism that is located on a downstream side of the cooler, adjusts an amount of the air discharged from the duct into a room where the cooling target is installed.

Cooling device, cooling system, and cooling method

This electronic apparatuscomprises a heating element, and a case. The casehas an opening hole. In order that a refrigerant COO will be sealed between the caseand the heating element, the outer periphery part of a first heating element external surface, which is the external surface of the heating element, is attached to the outer periphery part of the opening hole. Also, the refrigerant COO is a refrigerant that is capable of phase change from a liquid refrigerant LP-COO to a gas phase refrigerant GP-COO. As a result, it is possible to more efficiently cool the heat of the heating element

Electronic apparatus

A heat exchanger has a structure in which a heat exchanger main body through which coolant flows is obliquely installed in a box-shaped enclosure, the heat exchanger main body is constituted by a header pipe and a plurality of heat transfer pipes connected to the header pipe and disposed at predetermined intervals along a surface of a part of the header pipe, the header pipe has an area adjacent to an inner surface of the enclosure, and a seal section is provided between the inner surface of the enclosure and the area of the header pipe adjacent to the enclosure.

Heat exchanger

In a phase-change cooling apparatus including an indoor unit and an outdoor unit, a configuration to prevent dew condensation in the indoor unit causes the cooling performance to decrease; therefore, a refrigerant circulating apparatus according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes refrigerant-liquid thermal equilibrium means for mixing a first refrigerant liquid with a second refrigerant liquid and sending a reflux refrigerant liquid composed of the first refrigerant liquid and the second refrigerant liquid, the first refrigerant liquid being a liquid-phase refrigerant included in a gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant flowing in from heat receiving means, the second refrigerant liquid arising due to the gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant cooled by heat radiating means; a refrigerant passage configured for the gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant and the reflux refrigerant liquid to circulate between the heat receiving means and the refrigerant-liquid thermal equilibrium means; refrigerant-liquid reflux means for refluxing the reflux refrigerant liquid to the heat receiving means through the refrigerant passage; and refrigerant-liquid flow control means for controlling a flow rate of the reflux refrigerant liquid.

Refrigerant circulating apparatus and method of circulating refrigerant

A cooling device includes a first evaporation unit, a second evaporation unit, a first condensation unit, a second condensation unit, common piping, a compressor, an expansion valve, a first valve, and a second valve. The common piping combines liquid-phase refrigerant flowing from the first condensation unit and liquid-phase refrigerant flowing from the second condensation unit. The first valve adjusts the liquid-phase refrigerant amount flowing into the first evaporation unit. The second valve adjusts the liquid-phase refrigerant amount flowing into the second evaporation unit. In addition, the pressure inside the common pipe is greater than the respective pressures inside the first evaporation unit and the second evaporation unit.

Cooling device, control method, and storage medium related to a plurality of evaporators and a plurality of evaporator condensers

When an enclosed space is formed, by at least one of surfaces forming an exterior shape of a shielding member and an intake or exhaust surface among surfaces forming an exterior shape of heat-generating housings, in such a way that a taken-in airflow and an exhausted airflow of the heat-generating housings installed in at least two rows can be separated or substantially separated, a cooling system includes: a duct formed to be able to separate or substantially separate a first airflow and a second airflow being intake/exhaust of a specific heat-generating housing among the heat-generating housings, and heat-generating housings other than the specific heat-generating housing, respectively; and a cooling enhancement unit enhancing cooling for the specific heat-generating housing by acting on the first airflow, thereby avoiding occurrence of a hot spot due to a high-heat-generating housing, in a system building an air-conditioning environment such as aisle capping.

Cooling system and cooling method

A cooling system including a vaporizer configured to absorb heat due to a liquid-phase refrigerant being vaporized, a condenser configured to discharge heat due to a refrigerant in a gaseous phase state being liquefied, a resistance body provided in a middle of a pipe passage ranging from the vaporizer to the condenser and applying a resistance to the refrigerant, state detection sensors provided in the pipe passage on an upstream and downstream sides of the resistance body and detecting a state of the refrigerant flowing through each side inside the pipe passage, and a flow rate controller configured to detect droplets in the refrigerant flowing through the pipe passage on the basis of a difference between detection values of the state detection sensors which are detected on the upstream and downstream sides of the resistance body, and controls a flow rate of the refrigerant on the basis of detection results.

Cooling system and refrigerant control method for cooling system

A management device includes: storage unit which stores a known intake air temperature of a heating element, and a heat transfer characteristic of a cooling device; heat extraction amount calculation unit which calculates a heat extraction amount of the cooling device, by use of the refrigerant information input by the input means, and a cooling capacity of the refrigerant; and air volume calculation unit which calculates an air volume of air supplied to the cooling device, by applying the heat extraction amount to air volume dependence of the heat extraction amount, being derived by use of air volume dependence of a difference temperature between a temperature of the refrigerant and a temperature of exhaust air from the heating element, and the heat transfer characteristic, the air volume dependence of the difference temperature being derived by use of the intake air temperature, the power consumption, and the refrigerant information.

Management device, management method, and non-transitory program recording medium

A valve control device includes a receiving unit, an opening degree control unit, and a fixing control unit. The receiving unit receives information concerning the measured temperature of a fluid to be cooled that is cooled by a vaporizer in a refrigerant circulation path that is equipped with the vaporizer and a condenser. The opening degree control unit variably controls the opening degree of a valve that controls the flow rate of the refrigerant that circulates through the circulation path in accordance with the difference between the measured temperature and a target temperature provided in advance. The fixing control unit fixes the opening degree of the valve with priority over variable control performed by the opening degree control unit in the case where a fixing condition based on the difference between the measured temperature and the target temperature and a valve opening degree variation condition is satisfied.

Valve control device, cooling device, and valve control method

The present invention provides a heat exchanger including a lower header into which a liquid-phase refrigerant flows, a plurality of heat exchange pipes which branch off from the lower header and extend upwards, and an upper header which is configured to collect refrigerant received by the heat exchange pipes, in which a refrigerant inlet of the lower header is provided with a flow passage resistance adjusting hole having a cross-section smaller than a flow passage cross-section of a pipe passage for supplying the refrigerant.

Heat exchanger, heat exchange system, and heat exchange method

An evaporator includes: a first surface which conducts heat; a heat medium in the evaporator, which vaporizes as a result of the heat absorbed; a condenser which liquefies the heat medium in a vaporized state; a vapour pipe which guides the heat medium in the vaporized state from the evaporator to the condenser; and a liquid pipe which guides the heat medium in a liquefied state from the condenser to the evaporator. A first opening of the vapour pipe and a second opening of the liquid pipe are disposed in different positions from each other in a first direction, and are disposed so as to open into a heat medium accommodation space inside the evaporator at different positions from each other in a second direction, and which is different to the first direction, and also at different positions from each other in a third direction which intersects the first surface.

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Tokyo, Japan

Minoru Yoshikawa