Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Refrigeration apparatus
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Application No.: US16342351Application Date: 2017-10-17
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Publication No.: US11041666B2Publication Date: 2021-06-22
- Inventor: Satoru Sakae , Takahito Nakayama , Takenori Mezaki
- Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JPJP2016-203937 20161017
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/037478 WO 20171017
- International Announcement: WO2018/074452 WO 20180426
- Main IPC: F25B49/02
- IPC: F25B49/02 ; F25B1/00 ; F25D11/00 ; F25D13/00

Abstract:
Provided is a refrigeration apparatus that secures safety while suppressing an increase in cost. A refrigeration apparatus performs a refrigeration cycle in a refrigerant circuit including a compressor, a heat source-side heat exchanger, and a usage-side heat exchanger. The refrigeration apparatus comprises a usage-side fan providing an air flow, and a controller. The usage-side fan is disposed in a target space where inside air is cooled. The controller performs a refrigerant leak determination process to determine whether a refrigerant leak occurs, based on a state of a refrigerant in the refrigerant circuit. When the controller performs the refrigerant leak determination process to determine that a refrigerant leak occurs, then the controller performs leakage refrigerant agitation control to operate the usage-side fan so as to suppress local emergence of a region where the refrigerant leaks at a high concentration in the target space.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190242632A1 REFRIGERATION APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2019-08-08
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