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US 11,787,258 B2Granted
Refrigeration cycle device
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsNaoya Makimoto, Yoshiki Kato
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Abstract
In a refrigeration cycle device, in an operation mode in which a refrigerant does not flows into a cooling evaporator, a throttle opening degree characteristic of a heat absorption valve disposed upstream of a heat absorption evaporator is set to cause the refrigerant on the outlet side of the heat absorption evaporator to be in a gas-liquid two-phase state.
Claims4
A refrigeration cycle device for an air conditioner, comprising:
- a compressor that compresses and discharges a refrigerant mixed with a refrigerator oil;
- a heating unit that heats a ventilation air by using a heat of the refrigerant discharged from the compressor as a heat source;
- a branch passage that branches a flow of a high-pressure refrigerant flowing out from the heating unit;
- a cooling valve that reduces a pressure of the refrigerant flowing out from one refrigerant outflow port of the branch passage;
- a cooling evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant by heat exchange between the refrigerant reduced in pressure by the cooling valve and the ventilation air;
- a heat absorption valve that reduces a pressure of the refrigerant flowing out from another refrigerant outflow port of the branch passage;
- a heat absorption evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant by heat exchange between the refrigerant reduced in pressure by the heat absorption valve and a heat source fluid;
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- circuit switching valves that switch between a refrigerant circuit allowing the refrigerant to flow into the cooling evaporator and a refrigerant circuit preventing the refrigerant from flowing into the cooling evaporator, wherein
- the heat absorption valve adjusts a throttle opening degree to cause a heat-absorption refrigerant on an outlet side of the heat absorption evaporator to be in a gas-liquid two-phase state when the circuit switching valves are switched to the refrigerant circuit that prevents the refrigerant from flowing into the cooling evaporator and a predetermined condition is satisfied.
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