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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2015
Hitachi-johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Koji Naito, Tokyo, JP;
Kazumoto Urata, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiko Tani, Tokyo, JP;
Masayoshi Murofushi, Tokyo, JP;
Gen Yasuda, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a air conditioner including high-and-low-pressure gas pipe expansion valves each of which is provided to a corresponding one of the cooling-heating switching units and adjusts feeding of high-temperature and high-pressure gas refrigerant to the corresponding indoor unit; and a refrigeration cycle controller which adjusts a valve opening degree of the high-and-low-pressure gas pipe expansion valve of the cooling-heating switching unit connected to one of the indoor units which is not in heating operation, in accordance with a determination result on excess or deficiency of refrigerant in a refrigeration cycle.