Denso Corporation

Denso Corpora Tion

Satoshi Izawa

Yoshiaki Takano

Hajime Ito

Shun Kurata

Yasushi Yamanaka

Motohiro Yamaguchi

Yoshinori Ichishi

Takeshi Wakisaka

Yasushi Kondo

Toshitaka Shimizu

Yoshimitsu Inoue

Hikaru Sugi

Hiroshi Kishita

Satoshi Itoh

Takahisa Suzuki

Yoshitaka Tomatsu

Ryo Kobayashi

Yoshinori Yanagimachi

Mikiharu Kuwahara

Keisuke Nagai

Takayuki Kamada

An air-conditioner conducts an air-conditioning for a passenger compartment of a vehicle, and has an eco-mode to save energy. The air-conditioner includes a seat temperature control system and a controller. The seat temperature control system is configured to operate to heat or cool a seat in the passenger compartment. The controller automatically activates the seat temperature control system when the eco-mode is set.

Air-conditioner for vehicle

A cooling system of a battery which efficiently cools a high voltage battery which is mounted in an electric vehicle or a hybrid vehicle so as to maintain battery performance by using a refrigeration cycle of an air-conditioning system, which is provided with an electric compressor, outside heat exchanger, inside heat exchanger, and a control device. A refrigerant path of the air-conditioning system for running refrigerant is provided with a branch path having a heat exchanger which bypasses the inside heat exchanger, a medium path connected to the heat exchanger runs another refrigerant for cooling the battery, control valves are provided which adjust the amounts of the refrigerant which flows to the refrigerant path and the branch path, and, when the control valves run the refrigerant to both the refrigerant path and the branch path, the control device increases the speed of the electric compressor.

Cooling system of battery

A refrigeration cycle system is disclosed. Upon generation of a start signal for a hot gas heater cycle, the cooling mode is first started thereby to start the dormant refrigerant recovery mode (S) and, upon an increase in the compressor discharge pressure Pd to a predetermined setting P, the cooling mode is ended and the compressor is switched to the off mode (S, S). Upon the lapse of a predetermined time ta in the off mode, the off mode is ended (S) and the heating mode with the hot gas heater cycle is started.

Refrigeration cycle system

A vehicle air conditioner selectively switches one of a cooling mode in which an interior heat exchanger of a refrigerant cycle is operated as an evaporator for cooling air, and a hot-gas heating mode in which the interior heat exchanger is operated as a radiator for heating air. The cooling mode is selected by turning on an air-conditioning switch, and the hot-gas heating mode is selected by turning on a hot gas switch. When both the switches are turned on at the same time, a control unit determines a priority mode having a higher necessity among the hot-gas heating mode and the cooling mode. Specifically, the hot-gas heating mode is automatically set by the control unit when the outside air temperature is lower than a predetermined temperature, and the cooling mode is automatically set by the control unit when the outside air temperature is higher than the predetermined temperature.

Vehicle air conditioner with hot-gas heater cycle

In the air conditioner of the present invention, both the normal cooling mode operation, in which refrigerant discharged from the compressoris made to flow in the condenser, and the heating mode operation conducted by the hot gas bypass, in which refrigerant is made to bypass the condenser and directly flow in the evaporatorvia the throttle, can be conducted. Before this heating mode operation, after the compressor is turned on for a predetermined period of time in the cooling mode, the compressor is turned off for a predetermined period of time, so that refrigerant residing in the condenser can be recovered into the hot gas cycle, and then a hot gas operation, which is the heating mode, is conducted.

Air conditioner

In the air conditioner of the present invention, both the normal cooling mode operation, in which refrigerant discharged from the compressor is made to flow in the condenser , and the heating mode operation conducted by the hot gas bypass, in which refrigerant is made to bypass the condenser and directly flow in the evaporator via the throttle , can be conducted. Before this heating mode operation, after the compressor is turned on for a predetermined period of time in the cooling mode, the compressor is turned off for a predetermined period of time, so that refrigerant residing in the condenser can be recovered into the hot gas cycle, and then a hot gas operation, which is the heating mode, is conducted.

The air heating capability of an indoor heat exchanger is limited to set the temperature of the indoor heat exchanger to a first predetermined temperature Tel or lower during heating. Thereby, fogging is prevented through re-evaporation of the condensed water in the indoor heat exchanger during heating within an air-conditioning apparatus with a hot water heater core using hot water as the heat source and the heating circuit.

Air-conditioning apparatus for vehicle

In a vehicle air conditioner, a refrigerant cycle system is constructed to switch a cooling refrigerant cycle where an interior heat exchanger is used as an evaporator, and a hot gas heater cycle where the interior heat exchanger is used as a radiator. Further, it is determined whether the interior heat exchanger has a quantity of retained water in a heating mode due to the hot gas heater cycle. When it is determined that the quantity of retained water is in the interior heat exchanger in the heating mode, operation of a compressor of the refrigerant cycle system is intermittently controlled so that temperature of air blown from the interior heat exchanger becomes lower than temperature of a vehicle windshield.

Vehicle air conditioner having refrigerant cycle with heating function

In a freezing cycle apparatus that switches between a cooling mode and a heating mode, wherein a low-pressure refrigerant is evaporated in an evaporator for cooling the air during a cooling mode and a hot gas refrigerant is introduced from the discharge side of a compressor directly into the evaporator A variable displacement type compressor capable of varying the displacement is used as the compressor The displacement of the compressor is controlled such that the refrigerant flow rate in the cooling or heating cycle is a predetermined target flow rate during the cooling and the heating mode.

Freezing cycle apparatus

In a refrigerant cycle system, a low-pressure side gas-liquid separator is disposed between a refrigerant outlet side of an evaporator and a refrigerant suction side of a compressor so that gas refrigerant is sucked into the compressor, and a throttle passage through which liquid refrigerant is introduced into the compressor is disposed in the low-pressure side gas-liquid separator. Further, in a condenser for condensing gas refrigerant discharged from the compressor in a cooling mode, both first and second heat-exchanging units are provided in this order in a refrigerant flow direction, and a high-pressure side gas-liquid separator is disposed between the first and second heat-exchanging units.

Refrigerant cycle system with hot-gas bypass structure

A refrigeration cycle is switched from a refrigeration cycle circuit to a hot gas heater circuit to make the hot gas discharged from a compressor flow into an evaporator and heat the vehicle passenger compartment, at which time, when a suction pressure (Ps) of the compressor becomes a low pressure below a first predetermined pressure, the discharge volume (Vc) of the compressor is made larger to ensure a sufficient auxiliary heating performance. Further, when the hot gas is made to flow into the evaporator to heat the vehicle passenger compartment, if the suction pressure (Ps). of the compressor becomes a higher pressure over a second predetermined pressure, the discharge volume (Vc) of the compressor is made smaller to protect the refrigeration cycle parts and lighten the ON, OFF shock.

Refrigeration cycle apparatus

A refrigerating cycle apparatus is used in an air-conditioning system of an automotive vehicle, which is capable of operating in a hot gas bypass heating mode. Here, the discharge side of a compressor is directly connected through a hot gas bypass conduit to the inlet side of an evaporator. The evaporator acts as a radiator, heated by gas refrigerant. The compressor is stopped during operation of the apparatus in this heating mode when a physical quantity representing the high-side pressure at the compressor discharge side rises above a set value. The compressor is restarted when a physical quantity representing a heating capacity (for example the high-side pressure) falls below a set value which indicates that there is no heating capacity in the stopped state of the compressor. As a result, the heating capacity obtained through hot gas bypass can be controlled well without frequent stopping and restarting of the compressor.

Refrigerating cycle apparatus

In a vehicle air conditioner, during a cooling mode of a refrigerant cycle, refrigerant discharged from a compressor passes through a condenser and flows into a heat exchanger used as an evaporator after being press-reduced in a first press-reducing unit. On the other hand, during a heating mode of the refrigerant cycle, refrigerant discharged from the compressor is directly introduced into the heat exchanger used as a radiator after being press-reduced in a second press-reducing unit, while bypassing the condenser and the first press-reducing unit. During the heating mode or during the cooling mode when outside air temperature is low, a double layer flow mode is set so that outside air flows toward a defroster opening through a first air passage and inside air flows toward a foot opening through a second air passage partitioned from the first air passage. Thus, it can prevent a windshield from being fogged due to vaporization of condensed water on the heater exchanger during the heating mode.

Vehicle air conditioner

A refrigeration cycle is switched from a refrigeration cycle circuit to a hot gas heater circuit to make the hot gas discharged from a compressor flow into an evaporator and heat the vehicle passenger compartment, at which time, when a suction pressure (Ps) of the compressor becomes a low pressure below a first predetermined pressure, the discharge volume (Vc) of the compressor is made larger to ensure a sufficient auxiliary heating performance. Further, when the hot gas is made to flow into the evaporator to heat the vehicle passenger compartment, if the suction pressure (Ps) of the compressor becomes a higher pressure over a second predetermined pressure, the discharge volume (Vc) of the compressor is made smaller to protect the refrigeration cycle parts and lighten the ON, OFF shock.

A vehicle air conditioner that inhibits re-evaporation of condensed water on the surface of an evaporator that might fog the inner surface of the vehicle windshield during operation of a hot gas heating cycle heating mode. It is possible to switch operation of a cooling mode by an ordinary refrigerating cycle by opening the inlet side of a condenser and closing the inlet side of a hot gas bypass passage. It is also possible to switch the operation of the heating mode by closing the inlet side of the condenser and opening the inlet side of the hot gas bypass passage. When it is determined during operation of the heating mode that the windshield will fog, operation of the air conditioning compressor is interrupted by the air conditioning control unit so that the temperature of an evaporator reaches no more than a predetermined value.

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Anjo, Japan

Satoshi Izawa