| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an air conditioner which can vary the amount of a refrigerant circulating in a refrigerant circuit so as to increase operation efficiency and has high safety even if stopping operating owing to a sudden power failure during operation.SOLUTION: There is provided an air conditioner in which a refrigerant amount control part 10 provided in parallel with a throttle device 5 constituting a refrigerant circuit includes a receiver 13 which reserves a refrigerant, a first connection pipe 14 connecting the receiver 13 to piping 11 and a second connection pipe 15 connecting the receiver 13 to piping 12, and a first flow rate control device 16 and a second flow rate control device 17 interposed in the first connection pipe 14 and a second connection pipe 15 and adjusting flow rates of the refrigerant. At least one of the first flow rate control device 16 and second flow rate control device 17 has a structure which is not fully opened. |
