Patent ID: 8820106
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: F25B

Abstract:
1. An air conditioning apparatus comprising: a heat source-side refrigerant circuit, the heat source-side refrigerant circuit including: an outdoor heat exchanger connected at one end thereof to an end of a compressor; a first refrigerant branch portion connected to the other end of said compressor; a second refrigerant branch portion and a third refrigerant branch portion connected to the other end of said outdoor heat exchanger via branch piping; a first refrigerant flow rate control device configured to control the flow rate of a heat source-side refrigerant flowing in said second refrigerant branch portion; a plurality of intermediate heat exchangers each connected at one end thereof to said first refrigerant branch portion and said third refrigerant branch portion via a first refrigerant flow channel switching device, and connected at the other end thereof to said second refrigerant branch portion; and a plurality of second refrigerant flow rate control devices configured to control the flow rate of said heat source-side refrigerant flowing between the respective intermediate heat exchangers and said second refrigerant branch portion; and