Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Outdoor unit of air conditioner and air conditioner
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Application No.: US14681299Application Date: 2015-04-08
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Publication No.: US09909784B2Publication Date: 2018-03-06
- Inventor: Kotaro Toya , Makoto Shimotani , Hideya Tamura , Takahiro Matsunaga , Shinju Watanabe , Koji Ogata , Masaki Arai , Yasuhiro Oka , Ken Nakashima , Toshihiro Takahashi , Masakazu Sato
- Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
- Current Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP
- Priority: JP2014-189804 20140918
- Main IPC: F25B5/04
- IPC: F25B5/04 ; F25B13/00

Abstract:
An outdoor unit of an air conditioner coupled to an indoor unit by a liquid pipe and a gas pipe, includes: a compressor; an outdoor heat exchanger; a discharge pipe coupled to a refrigerant discharge side of the compressor; an intake pipe coupled to a refrigerant intake side of the compressor; an outdoor-unit high-pressure gas pipe coupled to the discharge pipe; an outdoor-unit low-pressure gas pipe coupled to the intake pipe; an outdoor-unit liquid pipe that couples a first refrigerant entry/exit opening of the outdoor heat exchanger and the liquid pipe together; a bypass pipe coupled to the outdoor-unit liquid pipe; a first flow-passage switcher coupled to a second refrigerant entry/exit opening of the outdoor heat exchanger, the discharge pipe, the intake pipe, and the bypass pipe; and a second flow-passage switcher coupled to the gas pipe, the outdoor-unit high-pressure gas pipe, and the outdoor-unit low-pressure gas pipe.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160084535A1 OUTDOOR UNIT OF AIR CONDITIONER AND AIR CONDITIONER Public/Granted day:2016-03-24
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