Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Tomoki Inagaki

Osamu Morimoto

Hiroyuki Okano

Tatsuo Ono

Yudai Morikawa

Kazuyoshi Shinozaki

Hiroki Okazawa

Yuudai Morikawa

An outdoor unit includes: a lower heat exchanger having a first heat-transfer tube; an upper heat exchanger provided above the lower heat exchanger, including a first-row heat-exchanger core and a second-row heat-exchanger core, and a second heat-transfer tube; and a reinforcing member supporting the upper heat exchanger, wherein the reinforcing member includes a first supporting tab supporting the bottom of the second-row heat-exchanger core; a second supporting tab supporting the lower side surface of the second-row heat-exchanger core and formed integrally with the first supporting tab; a third supporting tab providing a gap between the first-row heat-exchanger core and the second-row heat-exchanger core and formed integrally with the first supporting tab; an engaging tab holding the first heat-transfer tubes and formed integrally with the third supporting tab; and an engaging tab holding the second heat-transfer tubes and formed integrally with the third supporting tab.

Air-conditioning-apparatus outdoor unit and method of manufacturing air-conditioning-apparatus outdoor unit

Heat exchanger tube holding fixture

An air conditioning apparatus includes a plurality of heat source apparatuses having heat source apparatus side heat exchangers and compressors, one or a plurality of indoor units having flow rate control devices and indoor unit side heat exchangers, at least two main pipes for performing connection-piping between a plurality of heat source apparatuses and one or a plurality of indoor units, a tubular distributor for branching the refrigerant from the main pipe flowing from the inlet to a plurality of outlets to distribute into a plurality of heat source apparatuses, and connection piping for connecting the plurality of heat source apparatuses and distributor respectively. Among a plurality of heat source apparatuses, the distributor is fixedly disposed at a specified position and in a specified direction against one heat source apparatus.

Air conditioning apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Tomoki Inagaki