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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2017
Japan Climate Systems Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Hiroshi Hamamoto, Hiroshima, JP;
Kohei Fukawatase, Hiroshima, JP;
Yoshihiko Otake, Hiroshima, JP;
Kou Komori, Nara, JP;
Subaru Matsumoto, Osaka, JP;
Katsuyoshi Wakano, Osaka, JP;
JAPAN CLIMATE SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Hiroshima, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A heat pump device includes an air conditioning control device configured to switch the heat pump device among a plurality of operation modes including an air-heating operation mode in which an indoor heat exchanger serves as a radiator and an outdoor heat exchanger serves as a heat absorber, and an air-cooling operation mode in which the indoor heat exchanger serves as a heat absorber and the outdoor heat exchanger serves as a radiator. The air conditioning control device switch a refrigerant pipe such that refrigerant is, in the air-cooling operation mode, supplied to part of the outdoor heat exchanger serving as a refrigerant inlet in the air-heating operation mode.