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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2019
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuya Takeuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An air-conditioning system includes an air-conditioning apparatus that includes a refrigerant circuit in which an indoor unit and an outdoor unit are connected to each other by a refrigerant pipe and inflammable refrigerant flows in the refrigerant pipe, and is configured to supply conditioned air to a plurality of areas corresponding to air-conditioned spaces, an air-conditioning duct that connects the indoor unit to the plurality of respective areas, a plurality of dampers that are arranged in the air-conditioning duct and openable and closable to interrupt or pass the conditioned air supplied to the plurality of respective areas, and a controller configured to control the dampers, in which the controller controls the dampers such that a total floor area of the areas to which the conditioned air is supplied is set as an area equal to or larger than a minimum floor area corresponding to a floor area with which an inflammable region is not formed even when the inflammable refrigerant is leaked.