Patent ID: 8499574

Claim:
An inside temperature control device for a cold storage, comprising: a cooling device including a capacity variable type compressor; a memory device configured to store data on a cooling characteristic that shows how a target temperature drop varies over time in a cooling range between an upper limit temperature that is a predetermined temperature higher than a predetermined target temperature and a lower limit temperature that is a predetermined temperature lower than said target temperature; a temperature sensor configured to detect an inside temperature; and a drive control device configured to adjust a capacity of said compressor such that said inside temperature decreases along said cooling characteristic read from said memory device based on an output of said temperature sensor, wherein said cooling characteristic stored in said memory device is defined such that a temperature drop remains at substantially zero after a temperature has decreased from said upper limit temperature and reached said target temperature, wherein said compressor is a speed controllable inverter compressor, including: a temperature variation calculation section configured to calculate an inside temperature drop at every predetermined sampling time based on a signal from said temperature sensor; a target temperature drop output section configured to output a target temperature drop for an inside temperature at said sampling time based on said cooling characteristic data stored in said memory device at every said sampling time; a comparison section configured to compare an actual temperature drop calculated by said temperature variation calculation section with said target temperature drop output from said target temperature drop output section; and a speed control section configured to control a speed of said inverter compressor based on a comparison result from said comparison section so as to increase the speed of said inverter compressor when said actual temperature drop is smaller than said target temperature drop and to decrease the speed of said inverter compressor when said actual temperature drop is larger than said target temperature drop, and wherein said drive control device further includes a correction device configured to correct said cooling characteristic such that said target temperature drop takes a negative value in a range equal to or under a sub-target temperature that is higher than said lower limit temperature but a predetermined temperature lower than said target temperature when an inside temperature is determined as equal to or lower than said sub-target temperature.