摘要 |
An air conditioner comprising a refrigerant circuit formed of an outdoor unit refrigerant circuit including at least a compressor (101), a four-way valve (102) and an outdoor heat exchanger (103) arranged in an outdoor unit (100), and an indoor heat exchanger (201) arranged in an indoor unit (200) and connected to said outdoor unit refrigerant circuit by a liquid-side pipe and a gas-side pipe, wherein a bypass circuit forming a bypass between said liquid-side and gas-side pipes (131, 132) is provided with a receiver (121) for collecting liquid refrigerant, and refrigerant on-off means (128, 129) arranged in a liquid pipe connection pipe (122) connecting said receiver (121) to said liquid-side pipe (131) and in a gas pipe connecting pipe (123) connecting said receiver (121) to said gas-side pipe (132), said refrigerant on-off means (128, 129) is controlled based on determination of presence/absence of surplus refrigerant performed by determining a current heat exchanging performance of said outdoor heat exchanger (103), and thereby an amount of the refrigerant in said receiver (121) is controlled, and the presence/absence of the surplus refrigerant is determined in the heating operation by comparing a representative value of the liquid pipe temperature with a target value of the liquid-pipe temperature.
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