Heat exchange ventilator

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10928093-B2
Application number	US-201616343654-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 13, 2016
Priority date	Dec 13, 2016
Publication date	Feb 23, 2021
Grant date	Feb 23, 2021

Abstract

A heat exchange ventilator includes: a partition wall that has a bypass opening allowing an exhaust air duct upstream of a total heat exchanger to communicate with the exhaust air duct between the total heat exchanger and a humidifier, and separates the exhaust air duct upstream of the total heat exchanger and a supply air duct downstream of the total heat exchanger; a bypass damper that opens and closes the bypass opening; and a controller that performs control to open the bypass opening by the bypass damper at a first time, and close the bypass opening by the bypass damper at a second time.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A heat exchange ventilator comprising:
a body in which an exhaust air duct for exhausting air in a room to the outside of the room and a supply air duct for supplying air outside the room into the room are formed independently;
a supply blower provided in the supply air duct;
an exhaust blower provided in the exhaust air duct;
a heat exchanger provided in the body to allow heat exchange between air flowing through the supply air duct and air flowing through the exhaust air duct;
a humidifier disposed downstream of the heat exchanger in the supply air duct;
a partition wall including a bypass opening that allows the exhaust air duct upstream of the heat exchanger to communicate with the supply air duct between the heat exchanger and the humidifier, and separating the exhaust air duct upstream of the heat exchanger and the supply air duct downstream of the heat exchanger;
an opening/closing part to open and close the bypass opening; and
a controller configured to perform control to open the bypass opening by the opening/closing part at a first time set in advance, and close the bypass opening by the opening/closing part at a second time set in advance, wherein
the first time corresponds to start of operation of the heat exchange ventilator, and
the second time corresponds to a time after a lapse of a predetermined time set in advance from the start of operation of the heat exchange ventilator, the predetermined time corresponding to a time at which a humidity in the room reaches a desired humidity.

2. The heat exchange ventilator according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller performs control to stop the exhaust blower and run the supply blower when the bypass opening is opened by the opening/closing part.

3. The heat exchange ventilator according to claim 1 , wherein
in a fully opened position, the opening/closing part is disposed between the heat exchanger and the humidifier upstream of the bypass opening to close the supply air duct.

4. The heat exchange ventilator according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an air conditioning coil that is disposed between the heat exchanger and the humidifier in the supply air duct to heat air passing through the supply air duct; and
a temperature sensor that is disposed upstream of the heat exchanger in the exhaust air duct and configured to detect a temperature of air passing through the exhaust air duct, wherein
the bypass opening is disposed between the heat exchanger and the air conditioning coil in the supply air duct, and
when running the supply blower with the bypass opening opened by the opening/closing part, the controller performs control to not heat the air passing through the supply air duct by the air conditioning coil when a temperature detected by the temperature sensor is higher than a predetermined reference temperature, or to heat the air passing through the supply air duct by the air conditioning coil when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is lower than or equal to the predetermined reference temperature.

5. The heat exchange ventilator according to claim 1 , further comprising
a carbon dioxide sensor that is disposed upstream of the heat exchanger in the exhaust air duct to detect a carbon dioxide concentration of air passing through the exhaust air duct, wherein
the controller performs control to run the supply blower with the bypass opening opened by the opening/closing part when a carbon dioxide concentration detected by the carbon dioxide sensor is lower than or equal to a predetermined reference carbon dioxide concentration.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Okeya Kenta
• Matsumoto Kohei

Classifications

• F24F11/46 Primary

  Improving electric energy efficiency or saving · CPC title

• F24F2011/0006

  using low temperature external supply air to assist cooling · CPC title

• F24F7/08

  with separate ducts for supplied and exhausted air {with provisions for reversal of the input and output systems} · CPC title

• Y02B30/56

  Heat recovery units · CPC title

• F24F12/006

  using an air-to-air heat exchanger (F24F12/002 takes precedence) · CPC title