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US 10,041,664 B2Granted
Cooling apparatus, light source apparatus including cooling apparatus, and projection-type image display apparatus including light source apparatus
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsDaisuke Ito, Takashi Okazaki
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Abstract
A cooling apparatus includes: a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve and an evaporator are circularly connected sequentially, via a pipe, and a refrigerant circulates; and a heater provided to the refrigerant circuit, in which the evaporator is thermally connected to an exothermic element.
Claims7
An electronic apparatus comprising:
- a cooling apparatus comprising
- a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve and an evaporator are circularly connected sequentially, via a pipe, and refrigerant circulates, and
- a heater provided to the refrigerant circuit;
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- a controller configured to control at least the heater of the cooling apparatus,
- the evaporator being thermally connected to an exothermic element,
- the heater comprising heaters provided between the evaporator and a suction side of the compressor, and between the evaporator and the expansion valve, respectively,
- the controller being configured to
- control the heater to keep a temperature of the evaporator to be higher than a dew point,
- control the heater provided between the evaporator and the expansion valve, to adjust a quality of refrigerant in a two-phase state, and
- control the heater provided between the evaporator and the suction side of the compressor, to turn refrigerant to be sucked into the compressor into the vapor state.
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