US 8,418,494 B2Granted

Air conditioning apparatus

AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation

InventorsKazuyoshi Shinozaki, Tomoki Inagaki, Tatsuo Ono

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Abstract

An air conditioning apparatus includes a plurality of heat source apparatuses having heat source apparatus side heat exchangers and compressors, one or a plurality of indoor units having flow rate control devices and indoor unit side heat exchangers, at least two main pipes for performing connection-piping between a plurality of heat source apparatuses and one or a plurality of indoor units, a tubular distributor for branching the refrigerant from the main pipe flowing from the inlet to a plurality of outlets to distribute into a plurality of heat source apparatuses, and connection piping for connecting the plurality of heat source apparatuses and distributor respectively. Among a plurality of heat source apparatuses, the distributor is fixedly disposed at a specified position and in a specified direction against one heat source apparatus.

Claims14

Dependent claims

An air conditioning apparatus comprising:

a plurality of heat source apparatuses having a heat source apparatus side heat exchanger and a compressor,
one or plurality of indoor units having a flow rate control device and an indoor unit side heat exchanger,
at least two main pipes for pipe-connecting between said plurality of heat source apparatuses and one or plurality of indoor units,
a tubular distributor for branching a refrigerant from said main pipe flowing from an inlet into a plurality of outlets to distribute into said plurality of heat source apparatuses, and
connection piping for connecting said plurality of heat source apparatuses and said distributor respectively, wherein
said distributor is fixedly disposed inside one heat source apparatus among said plurality of heat source apparatuses at a predetermined position and in a predetermined direction, said distributor being connected to said connection piping having a predetermined shape.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/676,177Filed 26 Sep 2007
Published: US 2010/0199695 A112 Aug 2010
Granted: 16 Apr 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

F24F 3/065
Characterised by the arrangements for the supply of heat-exchange fluid for the subsequent treatment of primary air in the room units: with a…
F24F 1/26
Separate outdoor units, e.g. outdoor unit to be linked to a separate room comprising a compressor and a heat exchanger: refrigerant piping
F24F 1/28
Refrigerant piping: for connecting several separate outdoor units
F25B 13/00
Compression machines, plants or systems, with reversible cycle