Patent ID: 6871508

Claim:
An air conditioner, comprising a refrigerant circuit in which components are connected by pipes through which a refrigerant passes and which forms a closed piping circuit: wherein the refrigerant circuit comprising a compressor that compresses the refrigerant and a condenser that is contiguous to the compressor on the downstream side thereof, is connected to the compressor by a pipe, and cools and liquefies the compressed refrigerant, wherein the condenser comprises plural fin tubes, through which the refrigerant compressed by the compressor passes and which serve as a heat-exchanging portion, two headers, to which both ends of the plural fin tubes are connected respectively and fluidly and which have a firm structure, at least one vibration insulating material that supports the condenser and has a vibration insulating effect, and at least one lower mounting bracket that is firmly fixed to at least one of the two headers, on the bottom face of which the vibration insulating material is provided, and though which the vibration insulating material joins the condenser, wherein the refrigerant circuit further comprises a pressure reducing device that is contiguous to the condenser on the downstream side thereof, is connected to the condenser by a pipe, and reduces the pressure of the compressed refrigerant and expands it, at least one evaporator that is contiguously located on the downstream side of the pressure reducing device, is connected to the pressure reducing device by a pipe, through which the refrigerant passes and has an air blower, wherein the evaporator is contained in an air-conditioning duct and air is supplied to the air-conditioning duct by the air blower, therefore, the air passes through the at-least-one evaporator and is cooled or heated, a bypass pipe, through which the refrigerant bypasses the condenser and the pressure reducing device and flows through the evaporator, and a channel switching means that has a function to change the flow routes of the refrigerant, from the compressor, between the condenser and the bypass pipe and is integrally formed with plural components into a unit; and wherein the channel switching means is attached to the lower mounting bracket.