Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Naoki Nakatani

Yuusuke Fujimoto

Noritaka Kamei

Hisaaki Takaoka

Norio Iga

Kouji Uchida

Shuuhei Yamaguchi

A carbon dioxide sensor () measures the carbon dioxide concentration of inside air. An inside air control system () controls the carbon dioxide concentration of the inside air based on a measured value obtained by the carbon dioxide sensor (). If the measured value obtained by the carbon dioxide sensor () returns to a predetermined normal range after falling outside the normal range, the controller () of the inside air control system () performs a determination operation. The determination operation is an operation for supplying outdoor air to the carbon dioxide sensor () to determine whether or not the carbon dioxide sensor () is normal.

Inside air control system

A failure determiner is provided to perform a failure diagnosis to successively evaluate functions of the refrigerant circuit and components forming the refrigerant circuit for a plurality of evaluation items. If the failure diagnosis is interrupted, the failure determiner has a restarting function to restart the failure diagnosis from an intermediate point of the failure diagnosis.

Refrigeration apparatus for container

In this container refrigerator, the permissible equivalent negative-phase-sequence current of a generator to be connected is calculated in Step Sbased on its capacitance. Next, in Step S, the power consumption of an inverter device to generate the equivalent negative-phase-sequence current is calculated. Then, in Step S, the equivalent negative-phase-sequence current generated by the container refrigerator is calculated based on the power consumption of this inverter device. Thereafter, in Step S, Iis compared to I. If I&#x3e;Iis satisfied, Iis restricted until I&#x2266;Iis met by lowering the output frequency of the inverter device repeatedly in multiple stages. Consequently, even if the generator connected has small capacitance, the operation may be continued at a number of rotations appropriate for that small capacitance without causing the generator to overheat or be burned out.

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Osaka, Japan

Naoki Nakatani