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US 9,945,596 B2Granted
Heat pump apparatus
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsYu Haraki, Hiroyuki Itsuki
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Abstract
A heat pump apparatus includes an evaporator evaporating a refrigerant, an electrochemical compressor compressing the refrigerant evaporated in the evaporator, and a condenser condensing the refrigerant compressed by the electrochemical compressor. The heat pump apparatus is structured such that the refrigerant in a wet steam state is supplied from the evaporator to the electrochemical compressor.
Claims16
A heat pump apparatus comprising:
- a main circuit that includes:
- an evaporator that evaporates a refrigerant in a liquid phase and generates the refrigerant in a wet steam state;
- a compressor that compresses the refrigerant in the wet steam state with electrochemical compression;
- and
- a condenser that condenses the compressed refrigerant, wherein:
- the evaporator includes a wet steam generator that generates the refrigerant in the wet steam state, and
- the wet steam generator generates the refrigerant in the wet steam state by bubbling the refrigerant in the liquid phase stored in the evaporator.
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A heat pump apparatus comprising:
- a main circuit that includes:
- an evaporator that evaporates a refrigerant in a liquid phase and generates the refrigerant in a wet steam state;
- a compressor that compresses the refrigerant in the wet steam state with electrochemical compression;
- and
- a condenser that condenses the compressed refrigerant;
- a first detector that detects a temperature of the refrigerant after compressed by the compressor and before condensed by the condenser;
- a wet steam generator that generates the refrigerant in the wet steam state inside the evaporator;
- and
- a controller that controls the wet steam generator based on the temperature detected by the first detector and the temperature of the refrigerant in the liquid phase stored in the condenser.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.