Heat exchanger and air-conditioning apparatus

An air-conditioning apparatus comprising:

• a refrigerant circuit including a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, and an indoor heat exchanger, the indoor heat exchanger comprising:
• a plate-shaped fin being elongate in a longitudinal direction thereof;
• a plurality of heat transfer tubes passing through the plate-shaped fin;
• and
• a distributor configured to distribute refrigerant to two of the heat transfer tubes,
• the distributor including
• an inflow portion being linear and connected to a first heat transfer tube of the heat transfer tubes,
• a turn-back portion continuous with the inflow portion,
• a first outflow portion being linear, continuous with the turn-back portion and running in parallel to the inflow portion,
• a second outflow portion being linear, continuous with the first outflow portion and branching from the first outflow portion, and
• a connection pipe continuous with the second outflow portion and including a plurality of bent portions,
• the second outflow portion being connected via the connection pipe to a second heat transfer tube of the heat transfer tubes, the second heat transfer tube being not adjacent to the first heat transfer tube,
• wherein, in the distributor,
• a virtual straight line connecting axial centers at two ends of the second outflow portion is orthogonal to a virtual straight line connecting axial centers at two ends of the first outflow portion, and
• in a side view of the turn-back portion, wherein the side view means that the distributor is viewed in a flow direction of the inflow portion and the first outflow portion:
• the virtual straight line connecting the axial centers at the two ends of the second outflow portion and a virtual straight line connecting axial centers at two ends of the turn-back portion form an angle θ.