US 4,055,963 AGranted

Heating system

AssigneeDaikin Kogyo Co., Ltd.

InventorsKunihiro Shoji, Akihiro Yokota, Kenzo Watanabe

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Abstract

Improvements in a heating system which heats a fluid medium by a heat exchanger and delivers it to an indoor coil or coils for space heating. Refrigerant, such as fluorohydrocarbons for refrigerators, is utilized as the heating medium. The heat exchanger is supplied with heat from a heat source, such as hot water from a boiler, at a temperature higher than that of air around the exchanger. The refrigerant in liquid form is heated while being vaporized in the heat exchanger at a pressure greater than the saturation pressure corresponding to the ambient air temperature. The medium thus gasified to a high pressure and temperature is drawn into a circulating pump and then delivered to the indoor coil or coils, where it is condensed to a liquid with heat dissipation. In this way a great heating capacity is attained with the heating medium at a low rate of circulation. The suction of high-pressure heating medium enables the circulating pump of a small capacity to accomplish not only a high rate of transfer of the heating medium but also a decrease of the compression ratio. These beneficial effects combine to permit substantial reduction of the pump power consumption.

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Dependent claims

An air conditioning system comprising compressor means (1) having suction side and delivery side;

four-way valve means (2) having a first port connected to the suction side, a second port connected to the delivery side, a third port and a fourth port, heat exchanger means (15) for heating refrigerant passing therethrough by a heat source which is higher in temperature than outdoor air, connected to said third port of said four-way valve means (2);
outdoor coil means (3) connected to said heat exchanger means (15), check valve means (34) connected to said outdoor coil means (3) permitting the refrigerant to flow from said outdoor coil means (3), expansion means (12) for cooling operation connected to said check valve mean (34), indoor coil means (11) connected to said expansion (12) and said fourth port of said four-way valve means (2), first bypass circuit means (31) bypassing said expansion means (12) and having check valve means (37) permitting the refrigerant to flow from said indoor coil means (11), second bypass circuit means (14) bypassing said outdoor coil means (3) and said check valve means (34) and having check valve means (37) permitting the refrigerant to flow from said indoor coil means (11) to said heat exchange means (15), fourth bypass circuit means (35) bypassing said heat exchanger means (15) and having check valve means (38) permitting the refrigerant to flow from said four-way valve means to said outdoor coil means (3), whereby by operating said four-way valve means (2) said system can selectively make a cooling circuit for cooling operation wherein refrigerant flows from said compressor means (1) through said four-way valve means (2), fourth bypass circuit means (35), outdoor coil means (3), check valve means (34), expansion means (12), said indoor coil means (11), and four-way valve means (2) in the indicated order, to said compressor means (1), or a heating circuit for heating operation wherein said refrigerant flows from said compressor means (1) through said four-way valve means (2), indoor coil means (11), first bypass circuit means (31), second bypass circuit (14), heat exchanger means (15) and four-way valve means (2), in the indicated order, to said compressor means (1).

An air conditioning system comprising compressor means (1), outdoor coil means (3) for exchanging heat with outdoor air, expansion means (12) and indoor coil means (11) for exchanging heat with indoor air, said means (1, 3, 12, 11) being connected in fluid flow relationship to form a circuit through which a suitable refrigerant circulates so that the system can perform a cooling operation, characterized in that said system further comprises;

heat exchanger means (15) for heating the refrigerant by a heat source which is higher in temperature than outdoor air,
first bypass circuit means (31) having valve means and bypassing said expansion means (12) and,
second bypass circuit means (14) bypassing said outdoor coil means (3) through valve means, thereby said system being able to form a circuit including said compressor means (1), said indoor coil means (11), said first and second bypass means (31, 14) and said heat exchanger means (15) and offering little resistance to the flow of the refrigerant therethrough, said last-mentioned circuit being used for heating operation wherein all refrigerant passing through said indoor coil means (11) flows through said heat exchanger means (15) and then is forcedly forwarded to said indoor coil means (11) by said compressor means (1) so that the heat energy of the heat source of said heat exchanger means (15) is transferred to the indoor air through said indoor coil means (11).

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.