Air conditioner with internally grooved heat exchanger tubes optimized for an indoor heat exchanger and an outdoor heat exchanger

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9664455-B2
Application number	US-68060208-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 27, 2008
Priority date	Nov 28, 2007
Publication date	May 30, 2017
Grant date	May 30, 2017

Abstract

A heat exchanger is constituted by an indoor machine equipped with an indoor heat exchanger constituted by a plurality of heat transfer tubes, which have spiral grooves formed with a predetermined lead angle on inner faces of the tubes and are made to pierce a plurality of fins, and an outdoor machine equipped with an outdoor heat exchanger constituted by a plurality of heat transfer tubes which have a lead angle of spiral grooves smaller than that of a heat transfer tubes used for the indoor heat exchanger and are made to pierce a plurality of fins.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An air conditioner comprising:
an indoor machine equipped with an indoor heat exchanger constituted by a plurality of heat transfer tubes which have spiral grooves formed with a lead angle of 35to 40 degrees and whose number of threads is 40 to 60 on faces inside the tubes and which pierce a plurality of fins, and
an outdoor machine equipped with an outdoor heat exchanger constituted by a plurality of heat transfer tubes whose inside faces have spiral grooves formed with a lead angle 25 to 35 degrees smaller than that of the plurality of heat transfer tubes used for said indoor heat exchanger and whose number of threads is made larger from that of the spiral grooves of the plurality of heat transfer tubes used for the indoor heat exchanger and the number of threads is 60-80 and which pierce the plurality of fins.

2. The air conditioner of claim 1 , wherein a depth of the spiral grooves of the plurality of heat transfer tubes in said outdoor heat exchanger is set to be larger than a depth of the spiral grooves of the plurality of heat transfer tubes in said indoor heat exchanger.

3. The air conditioner of claim 2 , wherein in said indoor heat exchanger or outdoor heat exchanger, the plurality of heat transfer tubes and said plurality of fins are joined together by expanding said plurality of heat transfer tubes by a mechanical tube expansion method or hydraulic pressure tube expansion method.

4. The air conditioner of claim 1 , wherein in said indoor heat exchanger or outdoor heat exchanger, the plurality of heat transfer tubes and said plurality of fins are joined together by expanding said plurality of heat transfer tubes by a mechanical tube expansion method or hydraulic pressure tube expansion method.

5. The air conditioner of claim 4 , wherein a tube expansion rate for expanding said plurality of heat transfer tubes by said mechanical tube expansion method or hydraulic pressure tube expansion method is 105.5 to 106.5% in the case of the plurality of heat transfer tubes of said indoor heat exchanger.

6. The air conditioner of claim 4 , wherein a tube expansion rate for expanding said plurality of heat transfer tubes by said mechanical tube expansion method or hydraulic pressure tube expansion method is 106 to 107.5% in the case of the plurality of heat transfer tubes of said outdoor heat exchanger.

7. The air conditioner of claim 4 , wherein said plurality of heat transfer tubes and said plurality of fins joined by said tube expansion are further joined together by brazing.

8. The air conditioner of claim 1 , wherein said plurality of heat transfer tubes are formed of a metal material such as copper or copper alloy, aluminum or aluminum alloy or the like.

9. The air conditioner of claim 1 , wherein a compressor, a condenser, a throttling device, and an evaporator are connected in series by piping, a refrigerant is used as a working fluid, and said indoor heat exchanger or outdoor heat exchanger is used as said evaporator or said condenser.

10. The air conditioner of claim 9 , wherein an HC single refrigerant, a mixed refrigerant containing HC, R32, R41OA, R407C or carbon dioxide is used as the refrigerant.

Assignees

• Lee Sangmu
• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Lee Sangmu

Classifications

• F25B2500/01

  Geometry problems, e.g. for reducing size · CPC title

• F25B39/00

  Evaporators; Condensers · CPC title

• F28F1/422

  with outside means integral with the tubular element and inside means integral with the tubular element (F28F1/424 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F28F1/42

  the means being both outside and inside the tubular element · CPC title

• B21D53/08

  of both metal tubes and sheet metal (connecting tubes in openings B21D39/06) · CPC title