Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ice making system with controlled dryness of refrigerant
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Application No.: US16962052Application Date: 2018-12-14
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Publication No.: US11326817B2Publication Date: 2022-05-10
- Inventor: Kouichi Kita , Azuma Kondou , Shouhei Yasuda , Keisuke Nakatsuka , Kazuyoshi Nomura , Takeo Ueno
- Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP
- Priority: JPJP2018-003948 20180115
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/046062 WO 20181214
- International Announcement: WO2019/138780 WO 20190718
- Main IPC: F25B49/02
- IPC: F25B49/02 ; F25B41/31 ; F25B39/00 ; F25B39/02 ; F25C1/147

Abstract:
An ice making system includes: a refrigerant circuit that performs a vapor compression refrigeration cycle and that includes a compressor, a condenser that condenses refrigerant discharged from the compressor, a first expansion valve with an adjustable opening degree that decompresses the refrigerant from the condenser, a flooded evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant decompressed by the first expansion valve, and a superheater that imparts a degree of superheating to the refrigerant discharged from the flooded evaporator; a circulation circuit that circulates a medium that is cooled by the flooded evaporator; and a control device that controls the adjustable opening degree of the first expansion valve such that the superheater imparts to the refrigerant discharged from the flooded evaporator a degree of superheating at which dryness of the refrigerant is kept within a predetermined range of less than 1.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200348058A1 ICE MAKING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2020-11-05
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