Control system and refrigeration system
AssigneeDaikin Industries, Ltd.
InventorsNaoto KIMURA, Masaaki TAKEGAMI, Tetsuya SHIRASAKI
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Abstract
A control unit outputs control information for controlling cooling operation of each of a plurality of cooling units so that among the plurality of cooling units, a cooling unit with a high degree of priority performs the cooling operation preferentially on the basis of priority information indicative of a degree of priority of each of the plurality of cooling units, first information that can be used to derive a cooling capacity required of each of the plurality of cooling units, and second information that can be used to derive a capacity which the heat source unit can actually demonstrate.
Claims20
A controller for a refrigeration apparatus, the controller comprising:
- circuitry configured to
- output control information to control a cooling operation of each of a plurality of cooling units of the refrigeration apparatus, each cooling unit of the plurality of cooling units having an evaporator, so that among the plurality of cooling units, a cooling unit with a high degree of priority performs the cooling operation preferentially over another cooling unit of the plurality of cooling units with a low degree of priority, the low degree of priority being low relative to the high degree of priority, the output control information being based on
- (i) priority information indicative of a degree of priority of each of the plurality of cooling units,
- (ii) first information indicative of a cooling capacity required by each of the plurality of cooling units, and
- (iii) second information indicative of a capacity a heat source of the refrigeration apparatus is actually capable of providing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.