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20090093569 | Novel Dispersant And Compositions Thereof - A composition comprising a particulate Solid, an organic medium and a compound with an alkyleneoxy compound with an inorganic acidic polar head group (Z), wherein the compound is defined by Formula (1) and salts thereof: U—(Y) | 04-09-2009 |
20090126375 | Air conditioner, refrigerant filling method of air conditioner, method for judging refrigerant filling state of air conditioner as well as refrigerant filling and pipe cleaning method of air conditioner - An air conditioner is arranged so as to be able to accurately judge a refrigerant filling state within the air conditioner regardless of environmental and installation conditions. The air conditioner has a computing section | 05-21-2009 |
20090133435 | Refrigerating Air-Conditioning Apparatus - A refrigerating air-conditioning apparatus, at least provided with no possibility that a foreign material returns to a compressor from an accumulator at a time of the pipeline-cleaning operation firstly, and provided with a possibility to perform a collecting operation for the foreign material in a short time secondary, is provided. | 05-28-2009 |
20110232308 | AIR CONDITIONER - An air conditioner that can perform defrosting efficiently while heating or the like is continued even if the air conditioner is configured by one outdoor unit is obtained. In an air conditioner in which an outdoor unit having a compressor that pressurizes and discharges a refrigerant, a plurality of outdoor heat exchangers that exchange heat between outside air and the refrigerant, and a four-way valve that switches a channel on the basis of an operation form and a plurality of indoor units, each having an indoor heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the air in a space to be air-conditioned and the refrigerant and an indoor throttle device are connected by a pipeline so as to configure a refrigerant circuit, a bypass pipeline that divides the refrigerant discharged from the compressor so as to allow the refrigerant to flow into each of the outdoor heat exchangers connected in parallel by a pipeline, a plurality of outdoor third opening/closing valves that pass or shut off the refrigerant from the bypass pipeline to each of the outdoor heat exchangers, and a plurality of outdoor second opening/closing valves that pass or shut off the refrigerant from the indoor unit to each of the outdoor heat exchangers are disposed in the outdoor unit. | 09-29-2011 |
20110308272 | REFRIGERATING AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - A refrigerating air-conditioning apparatus, at least provided with no possibility that a foreign material returns to a compressor from an accumulator at a time of the pipeline-cleaning operation firstly, and provided with a possibility to perform a collecting operation for the foreign material in a short time secondary, is provided. | 12-22-2011 |
20110308273 | REFRIGERATING AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - A refrigerating air-conditioning apparatus, at least provided with no possibility that a foreign material returns to a compressor from an accumulator at a time of the pipeline-cleaning operation firstly, and provided with a possibility to perform a collecting operation for the foreign material in a short time secondary, is provided. | 12-22-2011 |
20130219937 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - When using at least one of heat exchangers related to heat medium that exchange heat between a heat source side refrigerant and a heat medium as an evaporator, in a case where an air-conditioning apparatus has detected, in the heat exchanger related to heat medium that functions as the evaporator, an evaporating temperature of the heat source side refrigerant which causes the temperature of the heat medium passing through this heat exchanger related to heat medium to become equal to or lower than a freezing temperature, the air-conditioning apparatus performs a heat medium anti-freezing operation by blocking entry of the heat source side refrigerant into the heat exchanger related to heat medium that functions as the evaporator, and causing the heat source side refrigerant to flow to a bypass pipe. | 08-29-2013 |
20130269379 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a refrigerant flow switching device, a refrigerant flow path of a heat exchanger related to heat medium that exchanges heat between a refrigerant and a heat medium, an expansion device, and a heat source-side heat exchanger are connected by a refrigerant pipe to form a refrigeration cycle, and a heat medium circuit in which a heat medium flow path of the heat exchanger related to heat medium, a pump, and a use-side heat exchanger are connected by a heat medium pipe. The air-conditioning apparatus includes an opening and closing device that is provided in a heat medium supply pipe that supplies the heat medium to the heat medium circuit from outside the circuit, and that passes or cuts off the heat medium flowing from the heat medium supply pipe to the heat medium circuit. | 10-17-2013 |
20140060105 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus has a heating only temporary operation mode in which, in changing from a heating main operation mode to a heating only operation mode, when an outside air temperature is at or above a predetermined temperature, at least one of heat exchangers functioning as a condenser in the heating main operation mode continues functioning as the condenser, and the refrigerant is not supplied to the intermediate heat exchanger functioning as an evaporator in the heating main operation mode and a cooling only temporary operation mode in which, in changing from a cooling main operation mode to a cooling only operation mode, when the outside air temperature is at or below a predetermined temperature, at least one of heat exchangers functioning as the evaporator in the cooling main operation mode continues functioning as the evaporator, and the refrigerant is not supplied to the intermediate heat exchanger functioning as the condenser in the cooling main operation mode. | 03-06-2014 |
20140137589 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit including a compressor, a first refrigerant flow switching device, a plurality of intermediate heat exchangers, a first expansion device, and a heat-source-side heat exchanger, through all of which a refrigerant circulates and all of which in combination form a refrigeration cycle; and a heat medium circuit including the plurality of intermediate heat exchangers, a pump, and a plurality of use-side heat exchangers, through all of which a heat medium circulates. The air-conditioning apparatus further includes a heat medium energy storage that is connected to the heat medium circuit and stores the heat medium; and an intra-storage heat exchanger that is connected to the refrigerant circuit and heats or cools the heat medium in the heat medium energy storage by using the heat-source-side refrigerant supplied thereto. | 05-22-2014 |
20140216083 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - A refrigerant circuit is configured by connecting, by pipes, a compressor that compresses a heat-source-side refrigerant, a first refrigerant flow switching device, a heat-source-side heat exchanger, an expansion device, and one or more intermediate heat exchangers that exchange heat between a heat-source-side refrigerant and a heat medium that is different from the heat-source-side refrigerant. A controller performs control of pumps to drive the pumps at a specific pump capacity or higher to circulate the heat medium at a time when a heat recovery defrosting operation for causing the heat-source-side refrigerant that has been heated by the heat medium in the intermediate heat exchangers to flow into the heat-source-side heat exchanger for defrosting purposes. | 08-07-2014 |
20140238061 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus includes a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature of the heat medium sent from each of the intermediate heat exchangers to each of the use-side heat exchangers, and a temperature of the heat medium that has exited each of the use-side heat exchangers, an opening degree controller for regulating a flow rate of the heat medium through each of the heat medium flow control devices, and a computing unit for computing a usage capacity of each of the indoor units from a rotation speed of the pump, an opening degree of each of the heat medium flow control devices, temperatures detected by the temperature sensors, and power consumption of each of the indoor units, and proportionally dividing the power consumption for a common portion among each of the indoor units based on the computed usage capacity and the power consumption of the common portion. | 08-28-2014 |
20140305152 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigeration cycle that includes one or more intermediate heat exchangers, exchanging heat between a heat source side refrigerant and a heat medium different from the heat source side refrigerant, a heat medium circuit that includes at least one pump configured to circulate the heat medium for heat exchange by the intermediate heat exchanger, a use side heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between the heat medium and air in an air-conditioning target space, and flow switching valves configured to switch between passing the heated heat medium through the use side heat exchanger and passing the cooled heat medium through the use side heat exchanger and in which the pump, the use side heat exchanger, and the flow switching valves are connected by pipes, and a controller configured to calculate an actual temperature efficiency ratio based on a temperature at a heat medium inlet of the heat exchanger in the heat medium circuit and determine whether a flow rate of the heat medium in the heat medium circuit is abnormal based on the actual temperature efficiency ratio and a set reference temperature efficiency ratio. | 10-16-2014 |
20140318734 | METHOD FOR SELECTING HEAT MEDIUM OF USE SIDE HEAT EXCHANGER IN INSTALLING AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM - A method for selecting a heat medium in installing an air-conditioning system includes: determining power required for use side heat exchangers corresponding to a plurality of air-conditioned spaces; calculating a total refrigerant amount required when a refrigerant is circulated through all the use side heat exchangers having the determined power; calculating a refrigerant concentration when the total refrigerant amount leaks to each air-conditioned space using the refrigerant, for each air-conditioned space; determining the refrigerant concentration for each air-conditioned space exceeds a predetermined limit concentration; when any air-conditioned space exceeds the limit concentration, selecting, as a nontoxic medium, the circulation heat medium of the use side heat exchanger installed in one of the air-conditioned spaces; and calculating a total refrigerant amount required when the refrigerant is circulated through all other use side heat exchangers. | 10-30-2014 |
20150034293 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus according to the present invention includes at least indoor heat exchangers. In response to a request to increase heat exchange performance from the indoor heat exchanger, the air-conditioning apparatus decreases a heat exchange capacity of an outdoor heat exchanger and controls an opening degree of an expansion valve corresponding to the indoor heat exchanger a to decrease a flow rate of a refrigerant that flows through the indoor heat exchanger. | 02-05-2015 |
20150047379 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus is provided to which, even when a heat medium leaks from a heat medium circuit for some reason and air enters the heat medium circuit, the heat medium circuit can be automatically refilled with the heat medium before a pump is heated and damaged. When it is determined that a rotational speed of a pump is higher than an upper rotational speed limit, the controller determines that the heat medium is leaking from the heat medium circuit and performs a heat-medium-introducing and air-purging control process. | 02-19-2015 |
20150059380 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus includes a compressor, an indoor heat exchanger configured to function as a condenser or an evaporator, indoor heat exchanges each configured to function as a condenser or an evaporator, a plurality of expansion valves each provided for a corresponding one of the indoor heat exchangers each configured to adjust a flow rate of a refrigerant that flows through the corresponding indoor heat exchanger and a controller configured to control an operation capacity of the compressor and opening degrees of a plurality of expansion devices. When increasing heat exchange performance of the indoor heat exchanger, the controller increases the operation capacity of the compressor and controls the opening degree of the expansion valve corresponding to the indoor heat exchanger to decrease the flow rate of the refrigerant that flows through the indoor heat exchanger. | 03-05-2015 |
20150253020 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus includes a heat medium temperature adjustment operation mode in which when the temperature of a heat medium falls outside a predetermined temperature range while a compressor and a pump are kept stopped, the compressor and the pump are driven to cause an intermediate heat exchanger to exchange heat between a refrigerant and the heat medium so that the heat medium is heated or cooled to have a temperature that falls within the temperature range. | 09-10-2015 |
20150260440 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus includes actuation control means including an actuation unit that sequentially opens heat medium flow switching devices or heat medium flow control devices on a one-by-one basis. The actuation control means performs control in such a manner that start time of driving of pumps is later than start of actuation of the heat medium flow switching devices and the heat medium flow control devices. | 09-17-2015 |
20150276240 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - In an air-conditioning apparatus including a plurality of indoor units connected to a heat medium converter and a plurality of remote controllers respectively provided for the indoor units, the remote controllers each include a temperature sensor that detect a temperature of a corresponding space to be air-conditioned, and are each configured to communicate with a heat medium converter controller of the heat medium converter and an indoor unit controller of the corresponding indoor unit, transmit an instruction to start and stop an operation and data related to rotation speed of an indoor air-sending device to the corresponding indoor unit controller, and transmit the instruction to start and stop the operation, and a target temperature and a temperature detected by the temperature sensor or a difference therebetween, to the heat medium converter controller. | 10-01-2015 |
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20080309903 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DEVICE, METHOD APPLIED TO EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An exposure apparatus comprises: a controller configured to control a position of a stage and operation of a detector; and a computer terminal connected to the controller; wherein the controller is configured to: (i) cause the detector to perform position detection of alignment marks under each of a plurality of position detection conditions, and calculate an index of accuracy of the position detection based on an output from the detector associated with the position detection, with respect to each of the plurality of position detection conditions; and (ii) cause the computer terminal to provide a display concerning the index calculated with respect to each of the plurality of position detection conditions, and receive a instruction for selecting a plurality of candidate conditions from among the plurality of displayed position detection conditions via the computer terminal. | 12-18-2008 |
20090303483 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An exposure apparatus which aligns an original held by an original stage with a substrate held by a substrate stage, includes a measurement unit which measures the positional relationship between a mark of the original and a mark of the substrate stage, and a control unit which controls the measurement unit to execute the measurement by bringing the mark of the original and the mark of the substrate into the field of the measurement scope. The control unit controls the measurement unit to execute the measurement in accordance with a first procedure or a second procedure (in the first procedure, the mark attached on the original is measured by the measurement unit a number of times smaller than that in the second procedure), thereby performing the alignment in accordance with the results obtained by the executed measurement. | 12-10-2009 |
20100141913 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An apparatus which projects a pattern of an original onto a substrate by a projection optical system within a chamber to expose the substrate, comprises a measurement unit which performs measurement to calculate a deformation amount of the original, and a controller which calculates a predicted deformation amount of the original and corrects a projection magnification of the projection optical system so as to correct the predicted deformation amount, based on information representing a relationship between the deformation amount with reference to a shape of the original at a certain temperature and a time for which the original receives exposure light, a deformation amount of the original before exposure determined based on a measurement value obtained by measuring, by the measurement unit, the deformation amount of the original loaded into the chamber and unused for exposure, and the time for which the original receives the exposure light. | 06-10-2010 |
20140307241 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An apparatus which projects a pattern of an original onto a substrate by a projection optical system within a chamber to expose the substrate, comprises a measurement unit which performs measurement to calculate a deformation amount of the original, and a controller which calculates a predicted deformation amount of the original and corrects a projection magnification of the projection optical system so as to correct the predicted deformation amount, based on information representing a relationship between the deformation amount with reference to a shape of the original at a certain temperature and a time for which the original receives exposure light, a deformation amount of the original before exposure determined based on a measurement value obtained by measuring, by the measurement unit, the deformation amount of the original loaded into the chamber and unused for exposure, and the time for which the original receives the exposure light. | 10-16-2014 |
20150015861 | CALIBRATION METHOD, MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ARTICLE - The present invention provides a method for calibrating an encoder which includes a scale and a light receiving unit configured to receive light reflected by the scale, and detects a change in relative position between the scale and the light receiving unit, the method comprising a measurement step of measuring a deformation amount of a surface shape of the scale, a specifying step of specifying, based on a measurement result in the measurement step, a range which includes a portion of a surface of the scale, where the deformation amount exceeds a threshold, and within which a detection value of the encoder is corrected, and a determination step of determining a correction value for correcting the detection value of the encoder within the range specified in the specifying step. | 01-15-2015 |
20150042969 | LITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS, AND ARTICLE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A lithography apparatus includes a measuring station that includes a first measuring device configured to measure a height of a substrate holder, and a second measuring device configured to measure a height of a surface of a substrate held by the holder, and a patterning station that includes a third measuring device configured to measure a height of the holder, and patterns the substrate held by the holder based on an output of the second measuring device. The patterning station includes a fourth measuring device configured to measure a height of a surface of a substrate held by the holder. The lithography apparatus includes a controller configured to obtain a correction value for an output obtained from at least one of the first and third measuring devices based on outputs of the second and fourth measuring devices with respect to a substrate held by the holder. | 02-12-2015 |