Refrigeration cycle device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10131203-B2
Application number	US-201415027120-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 22, 2014
Priority date	Oct 8, 2013
Publication date	Nov 20, 2018
Grant date	Nov 20, 2018

Abstract

An ejector draws a refrigerant on a downstream side of an exterior heat exchanger serving as an evaporator, from a refrigerant suction port by a suction effect of an injection refrigerant injected from a nozzle portion for decompressing a part of the refrigerant discharged from a compressor, and mixes the injection refrigerant with the suction refrigerant to pressurize the mixed refrigerant at a diffuser. The refrigerant flowing out of the diffuser is drawn into the compressor. In this way, the density of the refrigerant drawn into the compressor can be increased, thereby suppressing reduction in flow amount of the refrigerant flowing into an interior condenser serving as a radiator. Thus, even if the temperature of the outside air (heat-absorption target fluid) is decreased, the interior condenser is prevented from degrading its heating capacity for the ventilation air (heating target fluid).

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A refrigeration cycle device comprising:
a compressor that compresses and discharges a refrigerant;
a radiator that exchanges heat between a heating target fluid and a high-pressure refrigerant discharged from the compressor to dissipate heat from the high-pressure refrigerant;
a decompression device that decompresses the refrigerant flowing out of the radiator;
an evaporator that exchanges heat between a heat-absorption target fluid and a low-pressure refrigerant decompressed by the decompression device to evaporate the low-pressure refrigerant;
an ejector that draws a refrigerant on a downstream side of the evaporator from a refrigerant suction port by a suction effect of an injection refrigerant injected at a high velocity from a nozzle portion decompressing the high-pressure refrigerant discharged from the compressor, wherein the ejector includes a pressurizing portion that mixes the injection refrigerant with the suction refrigerant drawn from the refrigerant suction port, pressurizes the mixed refrigerant, and allows the pressurized mixed refrigerant to flow out toward a suction port side of the compressor;
a flow-amount ratio adjustment portion that adjusts a flow amount ratio of an ejector-side refrigerant flow amount to a discharge refrigerant flow amount, wherein the discharge refrigerant flow amount is a flow amount of the refrigerant discharged from the compressor, and the ejector-side refrigerant flow amount is a flow amount of the refrigerant flowing into the nozzle portion of the ejector;
a flow-amount ratio control portion that controls an operation of the flow-amount ratio adjustment portion; and
a controller configured to
obtain a refrigerant discharge capacity of the compressor, and
determine a target flow amount ratio, which is a target value of the flow amount ratio, based on the refrigerant discharge capacity of the compressor, wherein

the flow-amount ratio control portion controls the operation of the flow-amount ratio adjustment portion such that an actual increase rate of a flow amount of the refrigerant actually flowing into the radiator is equal to or more than an increase rate of a radiator-side refrigerant flow amount that is a flow amount of the refrigerant flowing into the radiator when the flow-amount ratio is zero,
the flow-amount ratio control portion is configured to control the flow-amount ratio adjustment portion such that the flow amount ratio approaches the target flow amount ratio, and
the flow-amount ratio control portion is configured to control the operation of the flow-amount ratio adjustment portion to set the flow amount ratio to be greater than 0 and less than 0.7.

2. The refrigeration cycle device according to claim 1 , further comprising a gas-liquid separator that separates the refrigerant flowing out of the evaporator into gas and liquid phase refrigerants, wherein
a gas-phase refrigerant outflow port of the gas-liquid separator is coupled to the refrigerant suction port of the ejector.

3. The refrigeration cycle device according to claim 1 , wherein
the flow-amount ratio adjustment portion is configured of a flow-amount adjustment valve that adjusts the ejector-side refrigerant flow amount.

4. The refrigeration cycle device according to claim 1 , wherein
the flow-amount ratio control portion controls the operation of the flow-amount ratio adjustment portion such that the radiator-side refrigerant flow amount approaches a maximum value.

5. The refrigeration cycle device according to claim 1 , further comprising a branch portion that branches the high-pressure refrigerant discharged from the compressor into a side of the radiator and an inlet side of the nozzle portion, wherein
the branch portion is disposed such that the high-pressure refrigerant branched by the branch portion into the inlet side of the nozzle portion flows into the nozzle portion while bypassing the radiator.

6. The refrigeration cycle device according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured to obtain a rotating speed of the compressor as the refrigerant discharge capacity.

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Suzuki Tatsuhiro
• Ogata Gouta
• Shirota Yuichi

Classifications

• F25B2600/2501

  Bypass valves · CPC title

• F25B2600/2515

  Flow valves · CPC title

• F25B2341/0012

  Ejectors with the cooled primary flow at high pressure · CPC title

• F25B2600/2513

  Expansion valves · CPC title

• F25B2400/0411

  for expansion valves or capillary tubes · CPC title