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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2015
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Christopher Reed Laughman, Waltham, MA (US);
Hongtao Qiao, Malden, MA (US);
Daniel J Burns, Wakefield, MA (US);
Scott A Bortoff, Brookline, MA (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A vapor compression system includes a heat transfer system including an arrangement of components moving a refrigerant through a vapor compression cycle to condition a controlled environment and a refrigerant management system including at least one expansion device regulating an amount of the refrigerant in the vapor compression cycle. The vapor compression system also includes a controller including a processor jointly controlling the expansion device and at least one component of the heat transfer system according to a metric of performance of the vapor compression system.