Air-conditioning and hot water supplying composite system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10088198-B2
Application number	US-201415518629-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 27, 2014
Priority date	Nov 27, 2014
Publication date	Oct 2, 2018
Grant date	Oct 2, 2018

Abstract

An air-conditioning and hot water supplying composite system includes a heat source unit and a heat source-side heat exchanger, an indoor heat source unit, a hot water supply unit connected to the heat source unit and including a hot water supply-side heat exchanger and a hot water supply-side expansion device, and a controller that controls the heat source unit. The controller includes a mode switching unit that switches a control mode of the air-conditioning and hot water supplying composite system between a hot water supply control mode, a hot water supply preheating mode, and a condensing temperature control unit. The condensing temperature control unit determines the target condensing temperature according to a temperature of a heat medium subjected to heat exchange by the hot water supply unit, in the hot water supply control mode.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An air-conditioning and hot water supplying composite system comprising:
a heat source unit including a compressor and a heat source-side heat exchanger;
an indoor unit connected to the heat source unit and including an indoor heat exchanger and an indoor expansion device, the indoor unit being configured to perform a heating operation;
a hot water supply unit connected to the heat source unit and including a hot water supply-side heat exchanger and a hot water supply-side expansion device, the hot water supply unit being configured to perform a hot water supplying operation; and
a controller configured to control the heat source unit,
the controller
being configured to
switch a control mode between a hot water supply control mode in which the hot water supplying operation is primarily performed and a hot water supply preheating mode in which the heating operation is primarily performed,
set a target condensing temperature in accordance with the control mode, and
set the target condensing temperature in accordance with a temperature of a heat medium subjected to heat exchange by the hot water supply unit, in the hot water supply control mode.

2. The air-conditioning and hot water supplying composite system of claim 1 ,
wherein the controller is configured to set the target condensing temperature to a value obtained by adding a constant to a temperature of the heat medium, in the hot water supply control mode.

3. The air-conditioning and hot water supplying composite system of claim 1 ,
wherein the controller is configured to set the target condensing temperature to a fixed value in the hot water supply preheating mode.

4. The air-conditioning and hot water supplying composite system of claim 1 ,
wherein the controller is configured to control the compressor to allow a refrigerant condensing temperature of the indoor unit or the hot water supply unit to accord with the target condensing temperature.

5. The air-conditioning and hot water supplying composite system of claim 1 ,
wherein the controller is configured automatically to switch between the hot water supply control mode and the hot water supply preheating mode in accordance with an operation status of the indoor unit and the hot water supply unit.

6. The air-conditioning and hot water supplying composite system of claim 5 ,
wherein the controller is configured to select the hot water supply preheating mode when the indoor unit is in operation and the hot water supply unit is at a stop, and select the hot water supply control mode when the hot water supply unit is in operation and the indoor unit is at a stop.

7. The air-conditioning and hot water supplying composite system of claim 5 ,
wherein the controller is configured automatically to switch between the hot water supply control mode and the hot water supply preheating mode in accordance with the temperature of the heat medium, when the indoor unit and the hot water supply unit are simultaneously in operation.

8. The air-conditioning and hot water supplying composite system of claim 7 ,
wherein the controller is configured to maintain the hot water supply control mode or the hot water supply preheating mode, when the temperature of the heat medium is equal to or higher than a first threshold and lower than a second threshold.

9. The air-conditioning and hot water supplying composite system of claim 1 ,
wherein the controller is configured to communicate with an external communication apparatus, and
the controller is configured to switch, when a signal instructing to change the control mode is received from the external communication apparatus, the control mode to a control mode instructed by the received signal.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Kawagoe Tomokazu
• Koge Hirofumi
• Morimoto Osamu

Classifications

• F24H9/2007 Primary

  for water heaters · CPC title

• F24H4/04

  Storage heaters · CPC title

• F25B49/022

  Compressor control arrangements · CPC title

• F24D17/02

  using heat pumps · CPC title

• F25B25/005

  using primary and secondary systems · CPC title