Refrigeration cycle device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10155428-B2
Application number	US-201515531663-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 8, 2015
Priority date	Dec 24, 2014
Publication date	Dec 18, 2018
Grant date	Dec 18, 2018

Abstract

A refrigeration cycle device has a compressor, a radiator, an auxiliary heat exchanger, a decompressor, an evaporator, and an interior heat exchanger. The auxiliary heat exchanger performs a heat exchange between refrigerant and air and causes the refrigerant to radiate heat. The evaporator performs a heat exchange between air and refrigerant after being decompressed in the decompressor before the air is heated in the auxiliary heat exchanger. The interior heat exchanger has a first heat exchanging portion and a second heat exchanging portion and performs a heat exchange between refrigerant flowing in the first heat exchanging portion and refrigerant flowing in the second heat exchanging portion. The first heat exchanging portion is disposed in a refrigerant path between the radiator and the decompressor and is connected to the auxiliary heat exchanger in series. The second heat exchanging portion is disposed in a refrigerant path between the evaporator and the compressor.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A refrigeration cycle device comprising:
a compressor that draws a refrigerant and discharges the refrigerant after compressing the refrigerant;
a radiator that causes the refrigerant, which is discharged by the compressor, to radiate heat;
an auxiliary heat exchanger that performs a heat exchange between the refrigerant flowing from the radiator and air to be blown to an air-conditioning target space and that causes the refrigerant to further radiate heat;
a decompressor that decompresses the refrigerant flowing from the auxiliary heat exchanger;
an evaporator that performs a heat exchange between air and the refrigerant after being decompressed in the decompressor before the air is heated by heat that is radiated from the refrigerant in the auxiliary heat exchanger, the evaporator that cools the air before being heated and evaporates the refrigerant, the evaporator causing the refrigerant after exchanging heat to flow to the compressor; and
an interior heat exchanger that has a first heat exchanging portion and a second heat exchanging portion and performs a heat exchange between refrigerant flowing in the first heat exchanging portion and refrigerant flowing in the second heat exchanging portion, the first heat exchanging portion is disposed in a refrigerant path between the radiator and the decompressor and is connected to the auxiliary heat exchanger in series, the second heat exchanging portion is disposed in a refrigerant path between the evaporator and the compressor, wherein
the first heat exchanging portion is located between the auxiliary heat exchanger and the decompressor in the refrigerant path between the radiator and the decompressor.

2. The refrigeration cycle device according to claim 1 , wherein
the first heat exchanging portion is located between the radiator and the auxiliary heat exchanger in the refrigerant path between the radiator and the decompressor.

3. The refrigeration cycle device according to claim 1 , wherein
the evaporator is disposed in an air conditioning duct that delivers the air into a vehicle compartment as the air-conditioning target space, and
the auxiliary heat exchanger is disposed in the air conditioning duct and located downstream of the evaporator in a flow direction of the air.

4. The refrigeration cycle device according to claim 1 , wherein
a heat radiation amount radiated from the refrigerant in the auxiliary heat exchanger is increased or decreased by a heat radiation amount adjuster.

5. The refrigeration cycle device according to claim 4 , further comprising:
a refrigerant bypass passage that guides the refrigerant to bypass the auxiliary heat exchanger; and
a passage switching valve, as the heat radiation amount adjuster, that is capable of being positioned at a first switching position or a second switching position, the passage switching valve that blocks an inflow of the refrigerant into the auxiliary heat exchanger and opens the refrigerant bypass passage when being positioned at the first switching position, and that causes the refrigerant to flow into the auxiliary heat exchanger and closes the refrigerant bypass passage when being positioned at the second switching position.

6. The refrigeration cycle device according to claim 3 , wherein
the heat radiation amount radiated from the refrigerant in the auxiliary heat exchanger is increased or decreased by opening or closing a warm air passage that is provided in the air conditioning duct and that guides the air flowing from the evaporator to flow to the auxiliary heat exchanger, the warm air passage being opened or closed by an opening/closing device disposed in the air conditioning duct, and
the opening/closing device reduces the heat radiation amount when the warm air passage is closed as compared to a heat radiation amount when the warm air passage is open.

7. The refrigeration cycle device according to claim 1 , wherein
the first heat exchanging portion has a plurality of first stacked bodies that have a flat shape and provide a pathway in which the refrigerant flows, and
the second heat exchanging portion has a plurality of second stacked bodies that provide a pathway in which the refrigerant flows, the plurality of first stacked bodies and the plurality of second stacked bodies being stacked alternately.

8. The refrigeration cycle device according to claim 1 , wherein
the refrigeration cycle device is mounted in a vehicle.

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Sakamoto Kota
• Nishida Shin
• Nishikawa Michio

Classifications

• Y02T10/88

  Optimized components or subsystems, e.g. lighting, actively controlled glasses · CPC title

• B60H2001/00957

  comprising locations with heat exchange within the refrigerant circuit itself, e.g. cross-, counter-, or parallel heat exchange · CPC title

• B60H1/00342

  of the liquid-liquid type · CPC title

• F28F2210/06

  having walls comprising obliquely extending corrugations, e.g. in the form of threads · CPC title

• F25B40/00

  Subcoolers, desuperheaters or superheaters · CPC title