Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Tooru Fujimoto

Yoshitaka Matsugi

Akira Komatsu

Gakuto Sakai

Shuuichi Tanaka

Akiyoshi Yamamoto

Kousuke Hirai

Kazuhiro Shioyama

Ryou Fujimoto

Zhiming Zheng

Kenichi Maegaito

Takashi Takahashi

Yasuhiro Oda

Takayuki Sunayama

A problem to be solved by the present disclosure is to enhance the reliability of determination of occurrence or non-occurrence of surging. Whether or not surging occurs depends on front-rear differential pressure. Therefore, by determining occurrence or non-occurrence of surging on the basis of the front-rear differential pressure, a second unit can detect and avoid surging with higher accuracy than when determining by using the pressure on an outlet side of a second fan.

Fan unit and air treatment system including the same

A fan unit reduces the number of man-hours for a preliminary test and eliminates the need for a trial run at the time of duct connection are realized. A second controller acquires: a rotation speed of a fan motor of a second fan; a volume of air, a wind speed, or front-rear differential pressure of the second fan; and an air volume target value or a wind speed target value for the second fan, and calculates a rotation speed target value Ny for the fan motorby using a first function: Ny=(Qy/Qx)×ΔPx×{m×(Qy/Qx)×Vx+p}+n×(Qy/Qx)×Vx+q. Furthermore, when the front-rear differential pressure fluctuates and the wind speed is decreased from Vt to V, the second controller calculates a rotation speed change amount to the rotation speed target value by using a second function: ΔN=a×(Vt−V).

Fan unit

A problem to be solved by the present disclosure is to realize a fan unit capable of determining occurrence or non-occurrence of a backflow during operation. In a second unit, a second controller calculates front-rear differential pressure by substituting a rotation speed and a volume of air or a wind speed that can be acquired in real time into a relational expression. The relational expression derives, from two values of the rotation speed, the volume of air or the wind speed, and the front-rear differential pressure, the remaining one value. Then, the second controller determines that a backflow occurs if the calculated front-rear differential pressure is within a range that cannot occur under a normal condition. Therefore, the occurrence of a backflow can be detected without using an expensive pressure sensor or a directional wind speed sensor.

An air conditioning and ventilating system including: an air conditioning device including a heat exchanger configured to generate conditioned air by heat exchange with a refrigerant; a ventilation device communicatively connected to the air conditioning device and including a supply air fan and/or an exhaust fan; an airflow volume detection unit configured to detect an airflow volume equivalent value of the ventilation device; and a control unit. On determination that the airflow volume equivalent value acquired from the airflow volume detection unit is equal to or less than a first predetermined value, the control unit sets an operation of the air conditioning device to a stop state.

Air conditioning and ventilating system

A system includes an air conditioning device with a heat exchanger that sends conditioned air to an air conditioned space, a ventilation device that ventilates the air conditioned space, a refrigerant sensor that detects a concentration of a refrigerant in the air conditioned space, and a control unit that controls operations of the air conditioning device and ventilation device. On determination that the refrigerant concentration acquired from the refrigerant sensor exceeds a first predetermined value, the control unit sets an operation of a compressor of the air conditioning device to a stop state and sets the ventilation device to an operating state. On determination that the refrigerant concentration that has exceeded the first predetermined value becomes equal to or less than the first predetermined value, the control unit continues the stop state of the compressor and operating state of the ventilation device until a predetermined timing.

Air conditioning and ventilating system that enhance ventilation in response to a refrigerant leakage

A fan unit includes a centrifugal fan, an air flow volume detector, and a main body casing housing the centrifugal fan and the air flow volume detector. The centrifugal fan includes a fan casing and a rotor. The air flow volume detector includes main body, and a probe that detects an air flow volume equivalent quantity equivalent to an air flow volume provided by the centrifugal fan. The fan casing includes a bell mouth defining an air inlet and having a convex surface. A distance from the probe to the surface of the bell mouth is larger than 0 and smaller than one third of a radius of the air inlet. A thermal air velocity sensor detects, as the air flow volume equivalent quantity, an air velocity of air flowing through the air inlet not connected to a duct by measuring an amount of heat dissipated from the probe.

A ventilation system includes a first ventilation device, a second ventilation device, a sensor, and an electronic controller. The first ventilation device includes a first fan. The second ventilation device includes a second fan. The sensor is attached to the first ventilation device. The sensor is configured to detect a state of air and to transmit a detection signal indicative of the detected state of air. The electronic controller is configured to receive the detection signal of the sensor and to control the first ventilation device and the second ventilation device based on the detection signal.

Ventilation system

An air conditioning system includes: an air conditioner that generates conditioned air by heat exchange with a refrigerant and supplies the conditioned air to an air conditioning target space; a refrigerant sensor that detects refrigerant leakage; a ventilator that ventilates the air conditioning target space; and a controller. The ventilator includes: a total heat exchanger; a first air supply path and a first air exhaust path that connect the air conditioning target space and an outside of the air conditioning target space via the total heat exchanger; a second air supply path that connect the air conditioning target space and the outside of the air conditioning target space without passing through the total heat exchanger; an air supply fan that supplies air from the outside of the air conditioning target space into the air conditioning target space via the first air supply path and the second air supply path.

Air conditioning system

A ventilation system includes a plurality of ventilation devices, a sensor, a setting unit, and a transmitter-receiver. The sensor is attached to a predetermined ventilation device of the plurality of ventilation devices. The sensor detects a state of air. The setting unit sets, from the plurality of ventilation devices, a first ventilation device to which the sensor is to be attached, and a second ventilation device with which a detection signal of the sensor is to be shared. The transmitter-receiver receives the detection signal of the sensor and transmits the detection signal to control devices of the first and second ventilation devices. The first and second ventilation devices are set in the setting unit. Each of the control devices of the first and second ventilation devices controls an associated one of the ventilation devices based on the detection signal transmitted from the transmitter-receiver.

A total heat exchanger exchanges heat between air flowing through an air supply passage and air flowing through an air exhaust passage. An air supply fan transfers air from the outside of a room into the room through the air supply passage. If the temperature of outdoor air (OA) is below a lower temperature threshold (Tth), a controller intermittently stops the air supply fan in response to an index of the moisture content in room air (RA) such that as the stage of the index of the moisture content depending on the moisture content in the room air (RA) shifts toward higher stages, the period of time during which the air supply fan is at rest in an intermittent operating cycle increases.

Ventilation device

When a humidity adjustment device starts up, an outside air temperature To and an room air temperature Tr are compared to determine which air temperature is higher. By mutually changing the flow of the outside air and the flow of the room air by means of an air circulation switching device, the air having the higher temperature of the outside air and the room air is circulated to a heat exchanger that operates as an evaporator.

Humidity adjustment device

An air purifier includes a housing, a centrifugal fan and an air purifying filter. The fan is substantially centered in the housing. The fan has a rotary shaft extending in a depth direction of the air purifier and a fan inlet port facing frontward. Air suctioned by the fan is blown out in a direction perpendicular to the rotary shaft. The filter is aligned with the fan along the direction perpendicular to the rotary shaft. An air inlet port is disposed in front of the fan so as to communicate with the fan inlet port. When the fan rotates, air is suctioned into the air purifier via the air inlet port. An air outlet port is arranged relative to the filter such that air purified by the filter is blown out of the air purifier through the air outlet port.

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Osaka, Japan

Tooru Fujimoto