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(11) | EP 2 426 438 A3 |
| (12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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| (54) | Multi-unit air conditioning system |
| (57) A sufficient cooling capacity can be easily ensured with low costs even when an indoor
unit that always performs a cooling operation is provided in an air conditioning system
including a plurality of indoor units. An indoor unit 3c that always performs a cooling
operation includes a gas pipe pressure control kit 100 including a plurality of electromagnetic
valves 101a, 101b and 101c, controls opening/closing of the electromagnetic valves
101a, 101b and 101c according to a suction temperature of a refrigerant, and thus
adjusts pressure loss of the refrigerant guided via an indoor heat exchanger 40 through
a low-pressure gas pipe 7 to an outdoor unit 1 and adjusts evaporating pressure of
the refrigerant in the indoor heat exchanger 40. This can prevent a suction temperature
from dropping to below zero, and prevent the indoor heat exchanger 40 from freezing
in an indoor unit 3c that performs the cooling operation even when an outside air
temperature is low, the other indoor unit 3 performs the heating operation, and the
outdoor unit functions as an evaporator.
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