Abstract: The invention concerns a reversible rotary compressor which can compress refrigerant in either of the forward and reverse directions, without providing a valve mechanism in a closed container. In a reversible rotary compressor including a cylinder, a rolling piston, and a slide vane, two inlet/outlet ports are formed in a space between the outer surface of the rolling piston and the inner surface of the cylinder in a state that the two inlet/outlet ports are disposed on both sides of the slide vane. The two inlet/outlet ports are closed by the rolling piston when the rolling piston is positioned at the top dead center and fully opened when the rolling piston is positioned at the bottom dead center. Two refrigerant pipes, coupled with the inlet/outlet ports, are provided in the side wall of the cylinder.

Abstract: An air duct type multizone air conditioning system having air dampers and corresponding thermostats in respective zones under the control of a main controller. The main controller can override desired temperatures selected by the corresponding thermostats in any of the zones and automatically detects the number of the number of zones, the presence of an auxiliary heater, and a heat pump, and the presence of an air damper and corresponding thermostat properly located in the same zone. The main controller also receives information regarding the operating cost of the heat pump and the auxiliary heater to ensure their cost-effective use.

Abstract: A plate-fin-tube type heat exchanger is constructed with a multitude of plate fins juxtaposed one another and a plurality of heat transmitting tubes passing through said plate fins and being held thereby. A plurality of cut and raised pieces are formed to intersect orthogonally with the air flowing direction at both front and rear surfaces of said plate fins with a certain space interval among them in the air flowing direction and at a location between the adjacent heat transmitting tubes arranged in the longitudinal direction of said plate fins, and then the edge portion on both sides of each cut and raised piece is re-bent in the direction opposite to the lifting direction of said piece and in substantially parallel with the surface of said plate fin so that the cross-section of said cut and raised piece may assume a sloping form in the direction of the air flow and that fin base plate portion may be present between the adjacent cut and raised pieces in parallel with the air flow.

Abstract: A room-warming/cooling and hot-water supplying heat-pump apparatus comprises a refrigerant circuit provided with a compressor, a four-way valve for switching room warming and cooling operations, a room side heat exchanger, a reversible flow type expansion device and an outdoor side heat exchanger, wherein a first switching means is connected to the outlet side of the compressor; a first branch of the switching means is connected to the four-way valve and a second branch of the first switching means is connected to one end of a heating coil in a hot water tank; the other end of the heating coil extends out of the hot water tank and has a branched part. A pipeline including the branched part has both ends connected to the refrigerant circuit at both sides of the expansion device in which at least one valve means is provided in the pipeline including the branched part and the first switching means and the valve means are controlled by a control device.

Abstract: A warm-air heating apparatus has a warm-air blowing port 2 for blowing warm air which is warmed in a heat source 4 provided in a casing after having been sucked through an air intake port 3, and a non-warm-air blowing port 9 provided independent of the warm-air blowing port 2 in which a blower 5 or 11 is placed for each port 2 or 9 to feed warm air to the lower part of a room and to feed non-warm air to the upper part of the room respectively so as to wrap the warm air with the non-warm air whereby temperature distribution in the vertical direction in the room is improved. The warm-air heating apparatus keeps living space warm to create a comfortable heating condition for the room and reduces wasted energy having been consumed to warm the ceiling area of the room in the conventional apparatus thereby improve efficiency of the heating apparatus.

Abstract: A control device for refrigeration cycle constructed with a compressor, a condenser, an electrically operated expansion valve, an evaporator, and so forth, all being connected in series, wherein there are further provided a by-pass extending from an inlet or an outlet or both of the expansion valve upto an inlet of the compressor through a capillary tube; a first temperature sensor to sense a temperature of a cooling medium at the inlet of the compressor; a second temperature sensor to sense a temperature of the cooling medium within an intake tubing, through which the cooling medium is taken into the inlet of the compressor; and a control device which calculates a super-heat quantity of the cooling medium taken into the compressor on the basis of a difference between the detection outputs of the first and second temperature sensors, and controls a degree of opening of the electrically operated expansion valve, thereby enabling the refrigeration cycle to be operated at high efficiency and in an energy-saving

Abstract: The cooling performance of an air conditioning apparatus is controlled by a selective combination of three methods of regulation, in accordance with the required degree of cooling. A first stage of regulation controls the volume of air delivered by a fan 6, a second stage controls the amount of refrigerant flowing through a pressure reduction means 7, and a third stage controls the amount of refrigerant circulating in a compressor feedback circuit 9. Any one of or combination of these three controls may be employed in accordance with the prevailing temperature condition and the required cooling performance.