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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2013
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Shogo Tamaki, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuyoshi Shinozaki, Cypress, CA (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The air-conditioning apparatus includes a compressor; a heat source side heat exchanger; a use side pressure-reducing mechanism; a use side heat exchanger and an accumulator connected by a pipe so that a refrigerant circulates therethrough; a high-low pressure bypass pipe; a high-low pressure bypass unit installed in the high-low pressure bypass pipe; and a unit controller configured to perform a refrigerant amount detection operation in which an operation frequency of the compressor is controlled so that a value of an evaporating temperature becomes an evaporating temperature target value of the compressor to discharge a liquid-state refrigerant of the refrigerant from the accumulator, and control an opening degree of the high-low pressure bypass unit in performing the refrigerant amount detection operation.