Patent · US Active

Heat pump device, and air conditioner, heat pump water heater, refrigerator and freezing machine including heat pump device

US10208991B2 · kind B2 · utility

1Cited by
18References
14Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateDec 14, 2011
Grant dateFeb 19, 2019
Priority date
Expiry dateJan 28, 2034

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02B30/70
  • WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A heat pump device includes an inverter control unit for controlling an inverter. The inverter control unit includes a constraint-energization control unit that, during operation standby of a compressor, determines whether heating to the compressor is necessary, on the basis of a refrigeration stagnation amount in the compressor, and, when having determined that heating to the compressor is necessary, selects, according to the refrigeration stagnation amount, any one of direct-current energization for supplying a direct-current voltage to the motor and high-frequency energization for supplying a high-frequency voltage having a frequency higher than a frequency during a normal operation to the motor, so as to output a constraint energization command for carrying out constraint energization of the motor; and a driving-signal generating unit that generates a driving signal on the basis of the constraint energization command.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.