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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2017
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tsubasa Tanda, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a flow passage switching device, an outdoor heat exchanger, an indoor heat exchanger, a refrigerant container, a first expansion device and a second expansion device connected by pipes, wherein the indoor heat exchanger and the outdoor heat exchanger have inner volumes satisfying a relationship of an inner volume of the indoor heat exchanger<an inner volume of the outdoor heat exchanger, and a controller which, performs control so as to allow the flow passage switching device to switch the flow passage to the heating flow passage and allow an opening degree of the second expansion device to be larger than that of the first expansion device, starts the compressor, performs control so as to allow the opening degrees of the first expansion device and the second expansion device to be initial opening degrees for the cooling operation.