IP Library Granted Patent US 10,538,144
Granted Patent B2
US 10,538,144 · App. 16/378,077 · Granted Jan 21, 2020

Vehicle air conditioning device

Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki (Isesaki, JP); Ryo Miyakoshi (Isesaki, JP); Kouhei Yamashita (Isesaki, JP)
Assignee: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
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Patent No.
US 10,538,144
App. No.
16/378,077
Granted
Jan 21, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is disclosed a vehicle air conditioning device of a heat pump system which delays proceeding of frosting onto an outdoor heat exchanger, thereby eliminating or inhibiting deterioration of a heating capability due to the frosting. The vehicle air conditioning device executes a heating mode in which a controller lets a refrigerant discharged from a compressor 2 radiate heat in a radiator 4, decompresses the refrigerant by which heat has been radiated, and then lets the refrigerant absorb heat in an outdoor heat exchanger 7, and on the basis of a difference ΔTXO=(TXObase−TXO) between a refrigerant evaporation temperature TXObase of the outdoor heat exchanger 7 in non-frosting and a refrigerant evaporation temperature TXO of the outdoor heat exchanger 7, the controller corrects a target subcool degree TGSC that is a target value of a subcool degree of the refrigerant in the radiator 4 in an increasing direction in accordance with increase of the difference ΔTXO.

Claims (9)

1. A vehicle air conditioning device comprising:

a compressor which compresses a refrigerant;

an air flow passage through which air to be supplied to a vehicle interior flows;

a radiator which lets the refrigerant radiate heat to heat the air to be supplied from the air flow passage to the vehicle interior;

a heat absorber which lets the refrigerant absorb heat to cool the air to be supplied from the air flow passage to the vehicle interior;

an outdoor heat exchanger disposed outside the vehicle interior to let the refrigerant absorb heat; and

control means,

the vehicle air conditioning device executing at least a heating mode in which the control means lets the refrigerant discharged from the compressor radiate heat in the radiator, decompresses the refrigerant by which heat has been radiated, and then lets the refrigerant absorb heat in the outdoor heat exchanger,

wherein the control means corrects a target subcool degree TGSC that is a target value of a subcool degree of the refrigerant in the radiator in an increasing direction at an early stage of start.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 22, 2022
From: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
To: SANDEN CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 061296/0529 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 8, 2019
From: SUZUKI, KENICHI; MIYAKOSHI, RYO; YAMASHITA, KOUHEI
To: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 048822/0556 →