Controller for a refrigeration unit

• US 4,958,502 A
• Filed: 10/10/1989
• Issued: 09/25/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Satoh, Shinji, Ogawa, Hiroshi, Yamashita, Toshio, Isomichi, Kanji, Funahashi, Nobuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Wayner, William E.
• Application Number:
  US07/421,299
• Time in Patent Office: 350 Days
• Field of Search: 236/94, 165/11, 62/126, 364/571.08, 235/557, 235/375
• US Class Current: 62/126
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/12 using record carriers

Abstract

A controller which controls a refrigerating unit so that a temperature detected by a controlled temperature detector is equal to a setting temperature, includes a memory for storing the temperature detected by the detector, a card data input-output unit for reading data from a card and writing data in the card, a reading unit of the card data from the input-output unit, and a discriminator for discriminating whether the card is a setting card or a recording card on the basis of the card data read from the reading unit, whereby (a) when the discriminator discriminates that the card is the setting card, the setting temperature is set on the basis of the card data, and (b) when the discriminator discriminates that the card is the recording card, the temperature data stored in the memory is read to be written in the recording card through card data input-output unit, so that administration of data such as the setting temperature and the controlled temperature by a computer is attained and wrong setting of the temperature by the operator can be eliminated.

Claims

1. A controller of a refrigerating unit which controls the refrigerating unit so that a temperature detected by controlled temperature detection means is equal to a setting temperature, comprising means for storing the temperature detected by said detection means, a card data input-output unit for reading data from a card and writing data in the card, card data reading means for reading the card data from said input-output unit, means for discriminating whether the card is a setting card or a recording card on the basis of the card data read by said reading means, setting temperature decision means for deciding the setting temperature on the basis of the card data when said discriminating means discriminates that the card is the setting card, and card data writing means for reading the data stored in said storing means and writing the data in the recording card through said card data input-output unit when said discriminating means discriminates that the card is the recording card.

2. A controller of a refrigerating unit according to claim 1, wherein said controlled temperature detection means includes a detector for detecting a temperature of blowing air from an evaporator of the refrigerating unit, a detector for detecting a temperature of suction air to said evaporator, and controlled temperature decision means for deciding any one of the blowing air temperature and the suction air temperature detected by both of said detectors, respectively, as the controlled temperature.

3. A controller of a refrigerating unit according to claim 2, comprising control means for controlling an opening of an electronic control valve of the refrigerating unit so that the controlled temperature decided by said controlled temperature decision means is equal to the setting temperature decided by said setting temperature