IP Library Granted Patent US 10,953,724
Granted Patent B2
US 10,953,724 · App. 16/534,109 · Granted Mar 23, 2021

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 10,953,724
App. No.
16/534,109
Granted
Mar 23, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is disclosed a vehicle air-conditioning device in which a refrigerant subcool degree in a radiator is appropriately controlled, so that comfortable and efficient vehicle interior air conditioning is achievable. 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 by an outdoor expansion valve 6 , and then lets the refrigerant absorb heat in an outdoor heat exchanger 7 . In the heating mode, the vehicle air-conditioning device controls a refrigerant subcool degree SC of the radiator 4 by the outdoor expansion valve 6 . On a basis of a radiator inlet air temperature THin that is a temperature of the air flowing into the radiator 4 , the controller corrects a target subcool degree TGSC that is a target value of the refrigerant subcool degree SC in the radiator 4 in a lowering direction, as the radiator inlet air temperature THin rises.

Claims (11)

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;

an outdoor expansion valve which decompresses the refrigerant flowing into the outdoor heat exchanger;

auxiliary heating means for heating the air to be supplied from the air flow passage to the vehicle interior; 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 by the outdoor expansion valve, and then lets the refrigerant absorb heat in the outdoor heat exchanger, and in the heating mode, the vehicle air-conditioning device controlling a refrigerant subcool degree SC of the radiator by the outdoor expansion valve,

wherein on the basis of a number of revolution NC of the compressor, the control means corrects a minimum valve position of the outdoor expansion valve in a lowering direction, as the number of revolution NC decreases.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 22, 2022
From: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
To: SANDEN CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 061296/0529 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR IN THE NAME OF THE ASSIGNEE PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 049987 FRAME 0838. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Aug 9, 2019
From: SUZUKI, KENICHI; MIYAKOSHI, RYO; YAMASHITA, KOUHEI
To: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 050017/0468 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 7, 2019
From: SUZUKI, KENICHI; MIYAKOSHI, RYO; YAMASHITA, KOUHEI
To: SANDEN HOLDING CORPORATOIN
Reel/Frame 049987/0838 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-198597 · Sep 29, 2014 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 15515085
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