Refrigeration apparatus
AssigneeDaikin Industries, Ltd.
InventorsMasaaki TAKEGAMI, Shuichi TAGUCHI
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Abstract
A refrigeration apparatus includes a heat source-side unit and a utilization-side unit that are connected to each other, and performs a refrigeration cycle in which a high pressure of a refrigerant reaches or exceeds a critical pressure. The refrigeration apparatus also includes a control unit configured to perform a first action of returning the refrigerant to the heat source-side unit when a stop condition of the utilization-side unit is satisfied, and a second action of prohibiting the first action when a pressure at the heat source-side unit is equal to or more than the critical pressure of the refrigerant. This configuration suppresses damage to a refrigerant storage reservoir and the like in returning the refrigerant to the heat source-side unit.
Claims8
A refrigeration apparatus comprising:
- a refrigerant circuit including
- a heat source-side unit installed outdoors, and
- a utilization-side unit connected to the heat source-side unit,
- the refrigerant circuit being configured to perform a refrigeration cycle in which a high pressure reaches or exceeds a critical pressure of the refrigerant;
- and
- a control unit configured to control an action of the refrigerant circuit and to perform
- a first action of recovering at least a part of the refrigerant from the utilization-side unit and returning the refrigerant thus recovered to the heat source-side unit in a case where a stop condition of the utilization-side unit is satisfied, and
- a second action of prohibiting the first action in a case where a first condition indicating that a pressure at the heat source-side unit is equal to or more than the critical pressure of the refrigerant is satisfied, and
- the heat source-side unit includes a radiator and a refrigerant storage reservoir, and
- the control unit performs the second action in a case where a predetermined condition indicating that a pressure at the refrigerant storage reservoir is equal to or more than the critical pressure of the refrigerant is satisfied as the first condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.