Electrical equipment housing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10674642-B2
Application number	US-201315100117-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 29, 2013
Priority date	Nov 29, 2013
Publication date	Jun 2, 2020
Grant date	Jun 2, 2020

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an electrical equipment housing includes a first storage room, an air conditioner, a second storage room, a temperature sensor, and a heater. The first storage room contains a power converter converting electrical power. The air conditioner adjusts a temperature inside the first storage room. The air conditioner includes an indoor unit and an outdoor unit. The indoor unit is provided inside the first storage room. The outdoor unit is provided outside the first storage room. The second storage room contains the outdoor unit. The temperature sensor senses a temperature inside the second storage room. The heater heats inside the second storage room when the temperature sensed by the temperature sensor is a lower limit or less.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electrical equipment housing, comprising:
a first storage room containing a power converter converting electrical power;
an air conditioner adjusting a temperature inside the first storage room, the air conditioner including an indoor unit and an outdoor unit, the indoor unit being provided inside the first storage room, the outdoor unit being provided outside the first storage room, the outdoor unit having a front surface and an outlet, the outlet being provided on the front surface, the outdoor unit being configured to blow air from the outlet forward relative to the front surface, wherein the outdoor unit houses a compressor, a fan, and a heat exchanger;
a second storage room containing the outdoor unit, the second storage room having an opposing wall surface facing the front surface of the outdoor unit, a distance from the front surface of the outdoor unit to the opposing wall surface of the second storage room being 1000 mm or more;
a first temperature sensor being disposed in the second storage room and being apart from the outdoor unit, the first temperature sensor sensing a first temperature inside the second storage room; and
a first heater being disposed in the second storage room and being apart from the outdoor unit, the first heater heating air in the second storage room when the first temperature sensed by the first temperature sensor is a lower limit or less, the first heater operating by electrical power, the lower limit being higher than a temperature at which refrigerant floodback phenomenon occurs in the outdoor unit.

2. The electrical equipment housing according to claim 1 , wherein
two of the air conditioners are provided, and
the outdoor units of the two air conditioners are arranged inside the second storage room.

3. The electrical equipment housing according to claim 2 , wherein
a distance between centers of the two outdoor units is 1000 mm or more.

4. The electrical equipment housing according to claim 1 , wherein
the first heater stops the heating when a state continues for a constant amount of time in which the first temperature is higher than the lower limit but not less than a prescribed value.

5. The electrical equipment housing according to claim 1 , wherein
the second storage room includes a ventilation fan performing ventilation inside the second storage room when the first temperature sensed by the first temperature sensor is an upper limit or more.

6. The electrical equipment housing according to claim 5 , wherein the ventilation fan is disposed in front of the front surface of the outdoor unit in a blowing direction that the outdoor unit blows air.

7. The electrical equipment housing according to claim 5 , wherein
the second storage room further includes an intake and a shutter, the intake being for introducing external air into the second storage room, the shutter opening the intake when the ventilation fan operates and closing the intake when the ventilation fan is stopped.

8. The electrical equipment housing according to claim 7 , wherein the intake and the shutter are disposed rearward of the front surface of the outdoor unit in a blowing direction that the outdoor unit blows air.

9. The electrical equipment housing according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a third storage room;
a second temperature sensor sensing a second temperature inside the third storage room; and
a second heater heating inside the third storage room when the second temperature sensed by the second temperature sensor of the third storage room is a lower limit or less, the second heater operating by electric power,
two of the air conditioners being provided,
the second storage room containing one outdoor unit of the two air conditioners, and
the third storage room containing the other outdoor unit of the two air conditioners.

10. The electrical equipment housing according to claim 2 , wherein
a distance between a side surface of each of the two outdoor units and the wall surface of the second storage room is 200 mm or more.

Assignees

• Toshiba Mitsubishi Elec Ind

Inventors

• Takahashi Nobuhiro
• Itami Takuo

Classifications

• F24F2221/34

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