Patent ID: 7797956

Claim:
An air conditioning apparatus comprising: a refrigerating cycle which includes at least a compressor for sucking a refrigerant, compressing the sucked refrigerant, and discharging the compressed refrigerant, and in which the refrigerant discharged from the compressor is returned to the compressor through an outdoor heat exchanger, and an indoor heat exchanger; at least a first motor-actuated expansion valve which is provided between the outdoor heat exchanger and the indoor heat exchanger, and in which at the time of non-operation and full closure, when the refrigerant pressure on the indoor heat exchanger side is higher than the refrigerant pressure on the outdoor heat exchanger side by a predetermined value or more, the full closure is released by receiving the refrigerant pressure on the indoor heat exchanger side; and at least a second motor-actuated expansion valve which is connected in parallel with the first motor-actuated expansion valve, and in which at the time of non-operation and full closure, when the refrigerant pressure on the outdoor heat exchanger side is higher than the refrigerant pressure on the indoor heat exchanger side by a predetermined value or more, the full closure is released by receiving the refrigerant pressure on the outdoor heat exchanger side.