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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2005
Julio I. Concha, Rocky Hill, CT (US);
Robert J. Braun, Windsor, CT (US);
Sivakumar Gopalnarayanan, Simsbury, CT (US);
Don A. Schuster, Lindale, TX (US);
Sathish R. Das, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Julio I. Concha, Rocky Hill, CT (US);
Robert J. Braun, Windsor, CT (US);
Sivakumar Gopalnarayanan, Simsbury, CT (US);
Don A. Schuster, Lindale, TX (US);
Sathish R. Das, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Carrier Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
The refrigerant charge adequacy of an air conditioning system is determined by the sensing of two temperatures in the system, one being at a midpoint in a condenser coil and the other being the temperature in the liquid line of the condenser discharge, with the difference then being indicative of the degree of subcooling, which, in turn, may be indicative of refrigerant charge condition. The method is refined by measuring a third temperature at the compressor discharge, with the three temperature values then being used to calculate a pair of residual values which provide an indication of whether the two temperature approach is useful in determining charge adequacy under the existing conditions and if not, whether the system is overcharged or undercharged.