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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2014
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Nihat O. Cur, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Timothy A. Kee, Stevensville, MI (US);
James W. Kendall, Mt. Prospect, IL (US);
Steven J. Kuehl, Stevensville, MI (US);
Jeffrey A. Miller, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Verne H. Myers, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Heng Tong Pit, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Guolian Wu, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A split air conditioning system for conditioning a plurality of zones within a single living area of a building, that includes a single outdoor unit; a refrigerant flow pathway made up of a plurality of refrigerant conduits having a common refrigerant flow path portion and at least two divergent flow path portions, a first divergent flow path and a second divergent flow path and the first evaporator and second evaporator are in parallel with one another; at least one throttling device; a portioning device configured to selectively and proportionately regulate the flow of a refrigerant fluid to the first evaporator and the second evaporator, respectively where the compressor is configured to be capable of simultaneously driving both the first evaporator and the second evaporator at their full cooling capacity.