Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Refrigeration apparatus
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Application No.: US16755437Application Date: 2018-10-03
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Publication No.: US11415345B2Publication Date: 2022-08-16
- Inventor: Ryuzaburo Yajima
- 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: JPJP2017-198232 20171012
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/036998 WO 20181003
- International Announcement: WO2019/073870 WO 20190418
- Main IPC: F25B13/00
- IPC: F25B13/00 ; F25B41/20 ; F25B41/24

Abstract:
An outdoor expansion valve is provided for a liquid side pipe of an outdoor circuit. The outdoor circuit is provided with a liquid side bypass pipe that allows the liquid side pipe to communicate with a suction side of a compressor. Receiving a signal indicating that a refrigerant has leaked from an indoor circuit, an outdoor controller executes a refrigerant recovery control operation of operating the compressor with a liquid side control valve closed, and executes a valve control operation of opening a liquid side bypass valve of the liquid side bypass pipe in the refrigerant recovery control operation. As a result, the refrigerant can be recovered from an utilization-side circuit to a heat-source-side circuit while avoiding damage to the compressor, and the amount of refrigerant leaking from the utilization-side circuit can be reduced.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200240686A1 REFRIGERATION APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2020-07-30
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