Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Refrigeration apparatus with leak detection on the usage side and a refrigerant release mechanism
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Application No.: US16485675Application Date: 2018-02-14
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Publication No.: US11280523B2Publication Date: 2022-03-22
- Inventor: Satoru Sakae , 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: JPJP2017-025459 20170214
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/005141 WO 20180214
- International Announcement: WO2018/151178 WO 20180823
- Main IPC: F25B1/04
- IPC: F25B1/04 ; F25B49/02

Abstract:
Provided is a refrigeration apparatus with improved safety. A refrigeration apparatus includes: a compressor; a heat source-side expansion valve to be controlled to have a minimum opening degree and brought into a closed state in which the heat source-side expansion valve maximizes prevention of a flow of a refrigerant toward a usage-side refrigerant circuit; a fusible plug; a controller; and a refrigerant leak detector configured to detect a refrigerant leak at the usage-side refrigerant circuit. The fusible plug is disposed in a refrigerant circuit, and is brought into an open state to allow the refrigerant circuit to communicate with an external space. When the refrigerant leak detector detects a refrigerant leak at the usage-side refrigerant circuit, the controller performs refrigerant leak first control to bring the heat source-side expansion valve into the closed state, and performs refrigerant leak second control to bring the fusible plug into the open state.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190390877A1 REFRIGERATION APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2019-12-26
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