Patent ID: 7322210

Claim:
A receiver drier equipped to a refrigeration system of a car for temporarily retaining a liquid-phase refrigerant, the receiver drier comprising: a cylindrical body having an opening at a bottom portion thereof; a sealing member for airtightly sealing an opening portion of the body; an inlet path and an outlet path for the refrigerant formed to the sealing member; a solenoid valve for discharging the refrigerant within the body to the atmosphere; a valve chamber having a path communicated with an interior of the body; and a valve seat formed between the valve chamber and a path communicated to the atmosphere, wherein the solenoid valve is equipped with a plunger that can be in contact with and separated from the valve seat, the solenoid valve is equipped with a magnet coil, an attractor that generates magnetic attraction by the magnet coil and a spring disposed between the attractor and the plunger.