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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2016
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kota Morimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit, a high-side pressure sensor, an outside air temperature sensor, an outdoor fan, a fan driving unit, and a controller. The controller includes a pressure prediction unit that predicts, based on a high-side pressure detected by the high-side pressure sensor, a predicted value of high-side pressure at the elapse of a set time, a fan rotation speed control unit that, during cooling operation in which an indoor heat exchanger acts as an evaporator, adjusts the rotation speed of the fan driving unit based on the outside air temperature detected by the outside air temperature sensor and the operating capacity of an indoor unit, and an intermittent fan control unit that, if the fan driving unit is running at a set lower limit rotation speed, and if the high-side pressure is below a target value, controls the fan driving unit to perform intermittent operation, the intermittent operation being performed by setting an ON time and an OFF time such that the predicted value predicted by the pressure prediction unit approaches the target value.