Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Mitsubishi Denki K.k.

Yoshihiro Sumida

Takashi Okazaki

Tomohiko Kasai

Osamu Morimoto

Susumu Kawaguchi

Hiroshige Konishi

Hitoshi Maruyama

Akihiro Matsushita

Hitoshi Iijima

Satoru Toyama

Hidekazu Tani

Noboru Masuda

Moriya Miyamoto

Shinobu Ogasawara

Yoshio Ueno

Tatsuaki Shimizu

Koji Yamashita

Hiroyuki Morimoto

Hirokazu Taniguchi

Yusuke Shimazu

Hiroaki Makino

Tetsuya Yamashita

Akihiro Nishida

Yoshihiro Tanabe

Masato Yosomiya

Youichi Hisamori

Sou Suzuki

Masao Kohashi

Fujio Hitomi

Kazuhiko Shiraishi

Tutomu Noma

Masaaki Taniguchi

Mitunori Kurachi

Satoshi Hirakuni

Atushi Mochiduki

Takashi Ikeda

Naoki Tanaka

Takashi Nakamura

Koji Azuma

Hirofumi Koge

Keisuke Hokazono

Akio Fukushima

Takuho Hirahara

Kunihiro Morishita

Yasushi Akahori

Isao Funayama

Yasunori Shida

Shigeki Onishi

Itsutarou Akiyama

Mitsunori Kurachi

Masahiro Nakayama

Katsuyuki Kawasaki

Shohichiroh Masuda

Toshihiro Kikukawa

Akemi Ueyama

Shigeki Oonishi

A computing device calculates a quality of a refrigerant flowing out of a second expansion device on the basis of an inlet liquid enthalpy calculated on the basis of a temperature of the refrigerant flowing into the second expansion device and a saturated gas enthalpy and a saturated liquid enthalpy calculated on the basis of a temperature of the refrigerant flowing out of the second expansion device or a pressure of the refrigerant sucked into a compressor; calculates a liquid-phase concentration and a gas-phase concentration of the refrigerant flowing out of the second expansion device on the basis of the temperature of the refrigerant flowing out of the second expansion device and the pressure of the refrigerant sucked into the compressor; and calculates a composition of the refrigerant circulating in a refrigeration cycle on the basis of the calculated quality, liquid-phase concentration, and gas-phase concentration.

Air-conditioning apparatus

A computing device calculates a quality of a refrigerant flowing out of an expansion device on the basis of an inlet liquid enthalpy calculated on the basis of a temperature of the refrigerant flowing into the expansion device, and a saturated gas enthalpy and a saturated liquid enthalpy calculated on the basis of a temperature or pressure of the refrigerant flowing out of the expansion device; calculates a liquid-phase concentration and a gas-phase concentration of the refrigerant flowing out of the expansion device on the basis of the temperature and pressure of the refrigerant flowing out of the expansion device; and calculates a composition of the refrigerant circulating in a refrigeration cycle on the basis of the calculated quality, liquid-phase concentration, and gas-phase concentration.

An air-conditioning apparatus is capable of suppressing refrigerant flow noise regardless the refrigerant state of an inlet of an expansion mechanism. In parallel to a flow control valve, an opening and closing valve that opens and closes a refrigerant passage and an expansion mechanism having porous bodies capable of passing a refrigerant therethrough are connected in series with each other. In a heating mode, in the case where a controller stops an operation of one or more of a plurality of indoor units and causes the other indoor unit(s) to operate, the flow control valve of the stopped indoor unit is fully closed and the opening and closing valve of the stopped indoor unit is opened.

A ventilation and air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle includes: a ventilator that sucks air from outside the vehicle; an air conditioner that conditions air inside the vehicle; a duct for fresh outside air that connects the ventilator with the air conditioner so as to supply the air that the ventilator has sucked from outside the vehicle to the air conditioner; and a duct for conditioned air that supplies the conditioned air blown out from the air conditioner to inside the vehicle. The duct for fresh outside air is branched so as to be connected to the duct for conditioned air. With this configuration, even if the operation of the air conditioner is stopped due to, e.g., a leakage of a flammable refrigerant, an amount of ventilation can be secured in the vehicle.

Ventilation and air conditioning apparatus for vehicle

Disclosed is a non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture containing tetrafluoropropane as a high-boiling refrigerant and a refrigeration cycle apparatus in which a non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture containing tetrafluoropropane as a high-boiling refrigerant circulates through a refrigeration cycle so as to avoid occurrence of negative pressure in a low-pressure circuit. The non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture is characterized in that a mixing ratio of a high-boiling refrigerant and a low-boiling refrigerant is determined so that a saturated vapor line where pressure is 0.00 MPa is not higher than &#x2212;45&#xb0; C. in a low-pressure circuit formed between the decompressor to the compressor.

Non-Azeotropic refrigerant mixture and refrigeration cycle apparatus

In a refrigerating cycle incorporating a second flow controller having a throttle section, which is composed of an inlet noise eliminating space, an inlet side porous permeable member communicating in a refrigerant flow direction, an orifice, an outlet side foamed metal, and an outlet noise eliminating space, and a multi-directional valve, a gas/liquid two-phase refrigerant is caused to pass through the throttle section.

Refrigerating cycle device, air conditioner, choke, and flow rate controller

In a refrigerating cycle incorporating a second flow controller having a throttle section, which is composed of an inlet noise eliminating space, an inlet side porous permeable membercommunicating in a refrigerant flow direction, an orifice, an outlet side foamed metal, and an outlet noise eliminating space, and a multi-directional valve, a gas/liquid two-phase refrigerant is caused to pass through the throttle section.

Refrigerating cycle apparatus, air conditioning apparatus, throttle device and flow controller

A heat source unit and refrigerant used in an existing refrigeration system are replaced with new refrigerant and a new heat source unit which employs the new refrigerant and is equipped with an oil separator and extraneous-matter trapping device. An indoor unit of the existing refrigeration system may be used, in its present form, or replaced with a new indoor unit. Further, connecting pipes used for the existing refrigeration are reused. After replacement of refrigerant, the refrigeration system performs an ordinary operation after having performed a cleaning operation. The extraneous-matter trapping device is provided in a refrigerant pipe close to the heat source unit or in a bypass channel connected to the refrigerant pipe close to the heat source unit. Alternatively, only the heat source unit of the existing refrigeration system is replaced with a new one, and there is employed refrigeration oil which has no mutual solubility with respect to HFC or has very low mutual solubility.

Refrigeration system, and method of updating and operating the same

An air conditioner capable of conducting a natural circulation operation by circulating refrigerant through an evaporator and a condenser located at a higher position than the evaporator, which are connected with pipes, wherein the air conditioner has means for obtaining an air conditioning load quantity to an outdoor air temperature in a temperature range, means for obtaining an air conditioning ability quantity to an outdoor air temperature in a temperature range in a case of using a predetermined mount of refrigerant, means for obtaining the maximum outdoor air temperature capable of conducting air conditioning at the time when an air conditioning load quantity produced from the means for obtaining an air conditioning load quantity substantially coincides with an air conditioning ability quantity from the means for determining an amount of refrigerant, as an amount to be charged, in which a maximum outdoor air temperature capable of conducting air conditioning among the obtained maximum outdoor air temperatures becomes the maximum.

Method for controlling refrigerant for an air conditioner

In the detection of circulating compositions in the cycle of a non-azeotropic refrigerant composed of three or more kinds of refrigerants, there have been drawbacks in that the number of sensors required is large, and large errors are contained in the circulating composition which can be detected. To overcome these drawbacks, the refrigerating and air-conditioning apparatus comprises at least a compressor, a condenser, a pressure reducing device, and an evaporator, and in a refrigerant cycle which uses as a working refrigerant a non-azeotropic refrigerant composed of N kinds (N&gE;3) of refrigerants and is provided with composition detecting means for detecting the circulating compositions of the non-azeotropic refrigerant, circulating compositions are determined by using (N&minus;2) relations on compositions among a first component to a j-th (2&lE;j&lE;N&minus;1) component of the non-azeotropic refrigerant.

Refrigerating and air-conditioning apparatus and method of determining refrigerant composition of refrigerating and air-conditioning apparatus

Method for determining a charging amount of refrigerant for an air conditioner, a method for controlling refrigerant for an air conditioner and an air conditioner

A refrigerant circulation system of the present invention includes a compressor, a condenser, a evaporator, a throttle device and a control unit. The control unit controls a composition of a refrigerant circulating in the refrigerant circulation system based on a temperature and pressure of the refrigerant of an inlet and outlet portion of the compressor, condenser, evaporator and throttle device. The control unit controls to open and close the throttle device to change the composition of the refrigerant circulating in the refrigerant circulation system.

Refrigerant circulating system

An air conditioner has a refrigeration circuit formed by sequentially connecting a compressor 1, a condenser 2, an electronic expansion valve 4 and an evaporator 7 by pipes (6, 10). A compressor bypass pipe 12 is provided to connect an outlet of the evaporator 7 with an inlet of the condenser 2. A first on-off valve 11 is located in the bypass pipe 12. The air conditioner is controlled to switch to either a forced circulation operation or a natural circulation operation. In the forced circulation operation, the first on-off valve 11 is closed, the expansion valve 4 is opened to a first degree to allow refrigerant to pass therethrough, and the compressor 1 is operated in a running state. In the natural circulation operation, the first on-off valve 11 is opened, the expansion valve 4 is opened to a second degree, different from the first degree, to allow refrigerant to pass therethrough, and the compressor 1 is stopped.

Air conditioner

In order to modify the composition of a non-azeotropic mixed refrigerant circulating through the refrigeration cycle of a refrigerating and air-conditioning apparatus using a refrigerant rectifier column, the level of the liquid refrigerant rich in the low-boiling point fraction that is obtained from a refrigerant rectifier column (11) and which collects in a refrigerant container (14), as well as the level of the liquid refrigerant rich in the high-boiling point fraction that collects in an accumulator (6) are adjusted so as to modify the composition of the refrigerant circulating through the refrigeration cycle. The circuit structure can be made simple, and the energy need not be supplied during the cooling and heating operations to modify the composition of the non-azeotropic mixed refrigerant.

Refrigerating air-conditioning apparatus

In the detection of circulating compositions in the cycle of a non-azeotropic refrigerant composed of three or more kinds of refrigerants, there have been drawbacks in that the number of sensors required is large, and large errors are contained in the circulating composition which can be detected. To overcome these drawbacks, the refrigerating and air-conditioning apparatus comprises at least a compressor, a condenser, a pressure reducing device, and an evaporator, and in a refrigerant cycle which uses as a working refrigerant a non-azeotropic refrigerant composed of N kinds (N.gtoreq.3) of refrigerants and is provided with composition detecting means for detecting the circulating compositions of the non-azeotropic refrigerant, circulating compositions are determined by using (N-2) relations on compositions among a first component to a j-th (2.ltoreq.j.ltoreq.N-1) component of the non-azeotropic refrigerant.

Refrigerating and air-conditioning apparatus and method of determining

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Yoshihiro Sumida