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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2016
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yutaka Aoyama, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An outdoor unit being part of a refrigeration cycle apparatus in which refrigerant circulates and having a maintenance opening port includes an open-close panel configured to cover the maintenance opening port by being attached openably and closably to the outdoor unit, a heat source side heat exchanger disposed above the maintenance opening port and provided at least with an open-close panel-facing heat exchange unit facing a plane containing the open-close panel, a drainage channel located at least below the open-close panel-facing heat exchange unit of the heat source side heat exchanger, wherein the heating energy supply unit includes a refrigerant pipe configured to pass refrigerant higher in temperature than a freezing point of water in an upstream direction from a downstream direction of the drainage channel.