Non-reversible multiple-refrigeration-cycle solar apparatus including a variable directing valve mechanism

A hermaphrodite modified refrigeration apparatus for enabling selective generation, storage, and use of heating or cooling, for heating or cooling a medium, and for enabling defrosting of the apparatus, integrated to generate heating or cooling for use as desired by the user, adapted to subject the medium to a refrigerant, for heating or cooling the medium or for defrosting, by transferring heat from or to the refrigerant, which refrigerant is conditioned in the apparatus in one of a plurality of true refrigeration cycles each generated by non-reversible flow of the refrigerant through selected elements of the apparatus, and further adapted to actively acquire, store, and use solar energy, for generating solar heating, comprising:

• (a) means for conditioning the refrigerant, adapted to generate non-reversible flow of, exchange heat with, and transform the phase, temperature and pressure of, the refrigerant, to enable the medium to be subjected to the conditioned refrigerant for heating or cooling of the medium, including a plurality of elements, which include an element for absorbing, storing, and using heat derived from solar energy, adapted to heat the refrigerant, and further adapted to be positioned so as to receive the heat of solar energy;
• (b) means for enabling selective directly, and varying of the sequence, of non-reversible flow of the refrigerant through selected elements, bypassing and isolating non-selected elements, of the means for conditioning the refrigerant, adapted to generate a selected one of the plurality of true refrigeration cycles to enable operation of the apparatus in the selected refrigeration cycle for conditioning the refrigerant, to selectively generate, store, and use heating or cooling of the medium or to defrost the apparatus;
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• (c) means for interconnecting the means for enabling selective directing of non-reversible flow of the refrigerant, and the plurality of elements of the means for conditioning the refrigerant.