Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Air conditioner
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Application No.: US16981026Application Date: 2019-02-15
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Publication No.: US11428450B2Publication Date: 2022-08-30
- Inventor: Shintaro Sanada , Yu Hirosaki , Naruhiro Sekine , Ryo Takaoka , Koya Aoki , Tatsuro Yamazaki
- Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
- Current Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JPJP2018-054336 20180322
- International Application: PCT/JP2019/005706 WO 20190215
- International Announcement: WO2019/181315 WO 20190926
- Main IPC: F25B49/02
- IPC: F25B49/02 ; F25B41/31 ; F25B13/00

Abstract:
An air conditioner includes an outdoor unit, a plurality of indoor units, a plurality of expansion valves which are provided upstream of indoor heat exchangers, a plurality of on-off valves which are provided upstream of the expansion valves, and control unit wherein when the indoor units include a stopping indoor unit and an operating indoor unit currently operating, and when a stopping of the stopping unit is due to thermostat-off operation, the control unit performs a procedure to stop the stopping unit, the procedure including closing an on-off valve that corresponds to the stopping unit and driving an indoor fan in the stopping unit until pressure in a part between the on-off valve and an expansion valve that corresponds to the stopping unit and pressure in a part downstream of the first expansion valve are equalized, fully opening the expansion valve, and stopping the indoor fan.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210018236A1 AIR CONDITIONER Public/Granted day:2021-01-21
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