Hitachi, Ltd.

Tomomi Umeda

Takatoshi Yamamoto

Kensaku Oguni

Toshihiko Fukushima

Susumu Nakayama

Akira Nishiguchi

Seigo Miyamoto

Hiroaki Matsushima

Kenichi Nakamura

Sunao Funakoshi

Hiromu Yasuda

Daisuke Hisajima

Kazuya Matsuo

Hiroo Nakamura

Katsuhiko Hashimoto

Masanori Musoh

Yasutaka Yoshida

To obtain an electricity storage type air conditioning apparatus which is capable of coping with the improvement in performance of the air conditioner or the needs for increase in cooling load and additional equipment to be installed afterward, by which it becomes possible to easily reduce the power consumption in the daytime even for an existing apparatus in which peak power cut is not considered, and which is suitable to reduce the noise and decrease the size. An electricity storage type air conditioning apparatus comprises a refrigeration cycle system including a compressor, a thermal-source-side heat exchanger, a decompression device and a service-side heat exchanger which are annularly connected by means of pipes to allow a refrigerant to circulate therethrough, a storage battery in which electric power is stored, and a cooling/heating source device by which the refrigerant is cooled and heated between the thermal-source-side heat exchanger and the service-side heat exchanger, the cooling/heating source device being driven with the storage battery.

Electricity storage type air conditioning apparatus and cooling/heating

The present invention relates to air conditioning systems and more particularly to an air conditioning system which provides air conditioning in each of a plurality of spaces. The air conditioning system according to the present invention divides a space with partitions into a plurality of air conditioning spaces and controls the temperature by cooling and heating mediums supplied from an external heat source using a three-way valve and an expansion valve. The air conditioning system includes an ID card for identifying a person which uses the air conditioning system. If a person is present to use the air conditioning system, the set or measured values of the environmental conditions for that person is stored. When that person again uses the air conditioning system, the system calculates the environmental conditions stored by the person in accordance with his stored set or measured environmental condition values. Each of the individuals' preferred comfortable environments is automatically realized by calculating the set values for that person in accordance with his current or past set conditions independent of the space. Changes to his preference to the environmental conditions are easily made.

Air conditioning system

The present invention provides an air conditioning apparatus for automobiles equipped with a heat exchanger and a control method for the apparatus, by which the heat transfer area of the heat exchanger can be properly controlled to permit a stable cycle operation, even when the capacity of a condenser is relatively overly enhanced under a condition of the low atmospheric temperature. The apparatus and the control method are achieved with such an arrangement that either one or both of headers of a heat exchanger is provided with at least one refrigerant flow rate control valve capable of opening and closing refrigerant passages in each header, the heat exchanger has a refrigerant inlet provided in one header and a refrigerant outlet provided in the other header, and the control valve is opened and closed to change the number of the passages allowing the refrigerant to pass therethrough, for thereby changing the effective heat transfer area for heat exchange dependent on the atmospheric temperature.

Air conditioning apparatus, heat exchanger for use in the apparatus and

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Ibaraki, Japan

Tomomi Umeda