Air conditioning system
AssigneeDaikin Industries, Ltd.
InventorsMiki Yamada, Junichi Shimoda
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Abstract
An air conditioning system (1) has: a heat pump unit (60) that heats a room with a vapor compression refrigerant circuit (20); a separate heat source unit (70) that heats a room with a heat source separate from the heat pump unit (60); and a control unit (8) that controls an operation of the heat pump unit (60) and the separate heat source unit (70). As a refrigerant, a flammable refrigerant is sealed in the refrigerant circuit (20). When the flammable refrigerant is leaking, the control unit (8) heats the room with the separate heat source unit (70) in both cases where a heat pump heating condition is satisfied and where a separate heat source heating condition is satisfied.
Claims4
An air conditioning system comprising:
- a heat pump unit that heats a room with a refrigerant circuit of vapor compression;
- a separate heat source that heats the room with a heat source separate from the heat pump unit, said separate heat source being a furnace that heats air to be sent into the room by burning fuel and being housed in an indoor unit and having an igniter, said refrigerant circuit extending into a space in the indoor unit occupied by said furnace such that a shared space of the indoor unit houses both said furnace and a portion of said refrigerant circuit;
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- a controller that controls an operation of the heat pump unit and the separate heat source, wherein
- a flammable refrigerant is sealed in the refrigerant circuit as a refrigerant,
- when the controller determines that the flammable refrigerant is not leaking in said shared space, the controller heats the room with the heat pump unit instead of the separate heat source in a case where a heat pump heating condition is satisfied, and heats the room with the furnace instead of the heat pump unit in a case where a separate heat source heating condition is satisfied, and when the controller determines that the flammable refrigerant is leaking in said shared space, the controller heats the room with the furnace instead of the heat pump unit where the heat pump heating condition is satisfied.
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