COOLING DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stabilize cooling performance in each refrigerant path in a cooling device that includes a plurality of refrigerant paths and that is capable of connecting and disconnecting the refrigerant paths to and from each other.SOLUTION: A cooling device 500 comprises: a refrigerant path 501 for cooling air for air conditioning using refrigerant; a refrigerant path 502 for cooling a heating source 200 by a cooling unit 503 using the refrigerant; a four-way valve 520 configured to switchably connect/disconnect the two refrigerant paths; and an ECU 300. The ECU adjusts a cooling capability of the cooling unit to adjust a refrigerant amount of each of the two refrigerant paths to fall within a predetermined range and then switches the four-way valve if the refrigerant amount of at least one of the two refrigerant paths is out of the predetermined range set to correspond to each of the refrigerant paths, thereby disconnecting the refrigerant path 501 from the refrigerant path 502.