Air conditioner

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9664456-B2
Application number	US-201313839869-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 15, 2013
Priority date	Nov 28, 2007
Publication date	May 30, 2017
Grant date	May 30, 2017

Abstract

To increase a heat exchange capacity of an indoor heat exchanger without increasing a pressure loss inside tubes of an outdoor heat exchanger. A heat exchanger is constituted by an indoor machine equipped with an indoor heat exchanger 10 constituted by a plurality of heat transfer tubes 12 A, which have a spiral grooves 13 A formed with a predetermined lead angle Ra on inner faces of the tubes and are made to pierce a plurality of fins 11 , and an outdoor machine equipped with an outdoor heat exchanger 20 constituted by a plurality of heat transfer tubes 22 A which have a lead angle Rb of spiral grooves 23 A smaller than that of a heat transfer tubes 10 A used for the indoor heat exchanger 10 and are made to pierce a plurality of fins 11.

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 on faces inside the plurality of heat transfer 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 which have spiral grooves formed on faces inside the plurality of heat transfer tubes and which pierce a plurality of fins,
a depth of the spiral grooves of the plurality of heat transfer tubes of the outdoor heat exchanger functioning as a condenser is deeper than a depth of the spiral grooves of the plurality of heat transfer tubes of the indoor heat exchanger functioning as an evaporator,
wherein a minimum value of the depth of the spiral grooves of the plurality of heat transfer tubes of the outdoor heat exchanger is 0.1 mm,
a maximum value of the depth of the spiral grooves of the plurality of heat transfer tubes of the outdoor heat exchanger is 0.25 mm,
a minimum value of the depth of the spiral grooves of the plurality of heat transfer tubes of the indoor heat exchanger is 0.08 mm which is less than the minimum value of the depth of the spiral grooves of the outdoor heat exchanger, and
a maximum value of the depth of the spiral grooves of the plurality of heat transfer tubes of the indoor heat exchanger is 0.2 mm which is less than the maximum value of the depth of the spiral grooves of the outdoor heat exchanger.

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

3. The air conditioner of claim 1 , wherein an expanded diameter of the plurality of heat transfer tubes of the indoor heat exchanger, expanded by a mechanical tube expansion method or a hydraulic pressure tube expansion method is 105.5 to 106.5% of a original diameter of the plurality of heat transfer tubes of the indoor heat exchanger.

4. The air conditioner of claim 1 , wherein an expanded diameter of the plurality of heat transfer tubes of the outdoor heat exchanger, expanded by a mechanical tube expansion method or hydraulic pressure tube expansion method is 106 to 107.5% of a original diameter of the plurality of heat transfer tubes of the outdoor heat exchanger.

5. The air conditioner of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of heat transfer tubes are formed of a metal material comprising at least one of copper, copper alloy, aluminum or aluminum alloy.

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

7. The air conditioner of claim 6 , wherein R32 is used as the refrigerant.

8. The air conditioner of claim 6 , wherein R410A is used as the refrigerant.

9. The air conditioner of claim 6 , wherein R407C or carbon dioxide is used as the refrigerant.

Assignees

• Lee Sangmu
• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Lee Sangmu

Classifications

• B21D53/08

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

• F28F1/405

  and being formed of wires · CPC title

• F28F13/187

  especially adapted for evaporator surfaces or condenser surfaces, e.g. with nucleation sites · CPC title

• F28F1/32

  the means having portions engaging further tubular elements · CPC title