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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2010
Yasushi Kanai, Wako, JP;
Yasushi Kanai, Wako, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a hot water supply system having a solar heater that heats a heating medium with absorbed solar heat, a cogeneration unit that heats the medium by heat exhausted from an engine, a hot water supply unit with a heat exchanger for heat-exchanging between the medium and water supplied from a water supply source to generate the hot water, a medium circulator that circulates the medium among the solar heater, cogeneration unit and heat exchanger, an electric heater that heats the hot water with the power generated by the generator, a heat absorption amount to be adsorbed by the solar heater is estimated and operations of the cogeneration unit and the electric heater are controlled based on the estimated heat absorption amount, thereby enabling to improve energy efficiency of the entire system.