Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Temperature-adjusting fluid supply apparatus
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Application No.: US15576065Application Date: 2016-05-20
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Publication No.: US10345023B2Publication Date: 2019-07-09
- Inventor: Hideo Chikami , Wim Vansteenkiste
- Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD. , DAIKIN EUROPE N.V.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka BE Ostend
- Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.,DAIKIN EUROPE N.V.
- Current Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.,DAIKIN EUROPE N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka BE Ostend
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JP2015-104965 20150522
- International Application: PCT/JP2016/064989 WO 20160520
- International Announcement: WO2016/190232 WO 20161201
- Main IPC: F25B13/00
- IPC: F25B13/00 ; F25B49/02 ; F24H4/02 ; F25B1/00 ; F24F11/89 ; F24H9/20 ; F24D3/08 ; F24D3/18 ; F24D17/02 ; F24D19/10 ; F24F11/85 ; F24F140/20

Abstract:
Provided is a temperature-adjusting fluid supply apparatus that causes a fluid for temperature adjustment to be circulated between a heat exchanger that transfers heat supplied from a refrigerant to the fluid, and an object to be adjusted for temperature that uses the heat of the fluid, the temperature-adjusting fluid supply apparatus being able to prevent the fluid from freezing. A temperature-adjusting fluid supply apparatus is provided with a heat exchanger that transfers heat supplied from a refrigerant to a fluid for temperature adjustment, a supply tube through which the fluid flows from the heat exchanger toward an object to be adjusted for temperature, a return tube through which the fluid returning from the object to be adjusted for temperature flows, a flow rate adjustable pump, a flow sensor, a flow switch, a temperature sensor, and a control part. The flow switch, in comparison with the flow sensor, is able to detect flow rate changes with coarser precision, and is less affected in detection accuracy by viscosity changes in the fluid. On the basis of the temperature of the fluid detected by the temperature sensor, the control part switches between pump control based on the detection results of the flow sensor and pump control based on the detection results of the flow switch.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180156511A1 TEMPERATURE-ADJUSTING FLUID SUPPLY APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-06-07
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