VALVE ASSEMBLY FOR A REFRIGERANT CIRCUIT
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Abstract
A valve assembly for a refrigerant circuit, having at least two ball valves, which each have a ball as a control element and an actuator for adjusting the associated ball, and also a refrigerant circuit having heat pump functionality for a vehicle having such a valve assembly.
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36 Claims
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1-16. -16. (canceled)
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17. A valve assembly for a refrigerant circuit, comprising:
at least two ball valves, which each have a ball as a control element and an actuator for adjusting the associated ball, wherein the at least two ball valves are each embodied as three-way valves, which can have bidirectional through flow, having three connectors, wherein a first ball of a first ball valve has a T-shaped hole, which permits flow alternately through two connectors of the three connectors and blocking of one connector of the three connectors or flow simultaneously through the three connectors, and wherein a second ball of a second ball valve has an L-shaped hole, which permits flow alternately through two connectors of the three connectors and blocking of one connector of the three connectors or blocking of the three connectors. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 35, 36)
- 29. A refrigerant circuit having heat pump functionality for a vehicle, having a compressor, a condenser, an indirect condenser, a chiller, an evaporator, two expansion elements, and a valve assembly having at least two ball valves, via which various operating modes of the refrigerant circuit are settable, wherein the valve assembly has at least two ball valves, which each have a ball as a control element and an actuator for adjusting the associated ball, wherein the at least two ball valves are each embodied as three-way valves, which can have bidirectional through flow, having three connectors, wherein a first ball of a first ball valve has a T-shaped hole, which permits flow alternately through two connectors of the three connectors and blocking of one connector of the three connectors or flow simultaneously through the three connectors, and wherein a second ball of a second ball valve has an L-shaped hole, which permits flow alternately through two connectors of the three connectors and blocking of one connector of the three connectors or blocking of the three connectors.
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