Patents by Inventor Tokihiko ANDO

Tokihiko ANDO has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220146165
    Abstract: An outdoor unit control unit includes a degree-of-dryness calculating unit that calculates the degree of dryness of a refrigerant flowing into an heat exchanger (an indoor heat exchanger at the time of a cooling operation, and an outdoor heat exchanger at the time of a heating operation) disposed on the downstream side of a liquid pipe, and performs an inhibition mode of inhibiting, when the degree of dryness exceeds a threshold A, control that is performed in the direction of decreasing the degree of opening of the expansion valve (an indoor expansion valve at the time of the cooling operation, and an outdoor expansion valve at the time of the heating operation) disposed on the upstream side of the liquid pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Yu HIROSAKI, Tokihiko ANDO, Shintaro SANADA, Koya AOKI, Tatsuro YAMAZAKI