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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2016
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems, Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuhiro Saito, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoki Hase, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuya Nakagawa, Aichi, JP;
Koji Nakado, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A heat exchanger and a heat pump system capable of reducing the amount of a refrigerant that accumulates in an outdoor heat exchanger during heating operation, and of decreasing the appropriate amount of refrigerant during heating operation. A vehicle-external heat exchanger is provided with a hollow first header, a hollow second header provided facing the first header, and a plurality of tubes provided between and communicating with the first header and the second header. The first header is provided with a partition plate that divides the interior of the first header. A first opening formed on a partition plate side between the upper end of the first header and the partition plate. When functioning as an evaporator, the refrigerant is supplied from the lower part of the first header or of the second header, and the first opening serves an outflow port for the refrigerant.