IP Library Granted Patent US 12,326,285
Granted Patent B2
US 12,326,285 · App. 18/072,247 · Granted Jun 10, 2025

Binary refrigeration apparatus

Inventors: Takashi Toyooka (Saitama, JP); Minoru Suto (Gunma, JP)
Assignee: PHC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
F25B7/00F25B6/02F28D9/0031
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Patent No.
US 12,326,285
App. No.
18/072,247
Granted
Jun 10, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a binary refrigeration apparatus including: a low-temperature side refrigeration circuit including a spiral heat exchanger including a main tube and a spiral tube wound around the main tube in a spiral form, the main tube being a tube where a low-temperature side refrigerant that flows into a low-temperature side compressor enters, the spiral tube being a tube where the low-temperature side refrigerant flown out from the low-temperature side compressor enters; and a high-temperature side refrigeration circuit where a high-temperature side refrigerant that exchanges heat with the low-temperature side refrigerant through a plate heat exchanger circulates.

Claims (27)

1. A binary refrigeration apparatus comprising:

a low-temperature side refrigeration circuit including a spiral heat exchanger including a main tube and a spiral tube wound around the main tube in a spiral form, the main tube being a tube where a low-temperature side refrigerant that flows into a low-temperature side compressor enters, the spiral tube being a tube where the low-temperature side refrigerant flown out from the low-temperature side compressor enters; and

a high-temperature side refrigeration circuit where a high-temperature side refrigerant that exchanges heat with the low-temperature side refrigerant through a plate heat exchanger circulates,

wherein the low-temperature side refrigerant flown out from the low-temperature side compressor as a whole enters the spiral tube.

2. The binary refrigeration apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the main tube is disposed such that a direction of an axis line of the main tube is set along an up-down direction; and

wherein the spiral tube is wound such that the low-temperature side refrigerant flows from an upper side to a lower side of the main tube.

3. The binary refrigeration apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a portion where the low-temperature side refrigerant flows in the spiral tube is formed in a rectangular shape in cross section.

4. The binary refrigeration apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a heat exchanging unit,

wherein the heat exchanging unit includes the plate heat exchanger, the spiral heat exchanger, a high-temperature side heat exchanger, a liquid receiver, a low-temperature side dryer, a low-temperature side heat exchanger, and a pipe disposed at a periphery of the plate heat exchanger and the spiral heat exchanger, and

wherein the heat exchanging unit is formed such that a length in a predetermined direction is suppressed.

5. The binary refrigeration apparatus according to claim 4 ,

wherein the plate heat exchanger is formed in a cuboid shape;

wherein the pipe is connected to a first surface of the plate heat exchanger; and

wherein the predetermined direction is a direction orthogonal to the first surface.

6. The binary refrigeration apparatus according to claim 4 ,

wherein the plate heat exchanger is formed in a cuboid shape;

wherein the pipe is connected to a first surface of the plate heat exchanger; and

wherein the predetermined direction is a width direction of the first surface.

7. The binary refrigeration apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein

the high-temperature side refrigerant flown out from the plate heat exchanger enters the liquid receiver, and

the low-temperature side refrigerant flown out from the plate heat exchanger enters the low-temperature side dryer.

8. The binary refrigeration apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the heat exchanging unit is covered with a heat insulating member, and housed in a side wall of a box where the binary refrigeration apparatus is used, wherein the heat insulating member is formed of an urethane foam.

9. The binary refrigeration apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the low-temperature side compressor is directly connected to the spiral tube by a low-temperature side pipe.

10. A binary refrigeration apparatus comprising:

a low-temperature side refrigeration circuit including a double-tube heat exchanger including a multi-petal tube formed in a tubular shape with a wave shape in a cross section orthogonal to an axis line and an outer tube formed in a tubular shape for housing the multi-petal tube inside, the multi-petal tube being a tube where a low-temperature side refrigerant flown out from a low-temperature side compressor enters, the outer tube being a tube where the low-temperature side refrigerant that flows into the low-temperature side compressor enters between an inner peripheral surface of the outer tube and an outer peripheral surface of the multi-petal tube; and

a high-temperature side refrigeration circuit where a high-temperature side refrigerant that exchanges heat with the low-temperature side refrigerant through a plate heat exchanger circulates.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Dec 12, 2024
From: PHC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
To: PHC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 069618/0382 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 30, 2022
From: TOYOOKA, TAKASHI; SUTO, MINORU
To: PHC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 061926/0647 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-097933 · Apr 6, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2021018389 · May 14, 2021
Related Publication 20230093643A1 · Mar 23, 2023
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