Distributor, heat exchanger and air conditioner
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsAtsushi Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Maeda, Satoru Yanachi
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Abstract
A distributor includes at least: a first flow path through which refrigerant flowing in from a refrigerant inflow unit flows in a first direction toward a heat transfer tube disposed on the side of a refrigerant outflow unit; two second flow paths branched from the first flow path; two third flow paths, through each of which the refrigerant flows in a second direction opposite to the first direction; two fourth flow paths, each of which is formed to protrude from a main body toward the second direction and through each of which the refrigerant flows in a third direction intersecting the two third flow paths; and two fifth flow paths, through each of which the refrigerant flows in the first direction.
Claims7
A distributor for distributing refrigerant to each of a plurality of heat transfer tubes with a space being interposed between the plurality of heat transfer tubes, the distributor at least comprising:
- a first flow path through which the refrigerant flowing in from an inflow port flows in a first direction toward the heat transfer tubes disposed on the side of an outflow port;
- two second flow paths branched from the first flow path in a direction intersecting the first flow path;
- two third flow paths, through each of which the refrigerant from a corresponding one of the two second flow paths flows in a second direction opposite to the first direction;
- two fourth flow paths, each of which is formed to protrude in the second direction from a main body of the distributor on the side of the inflow port, and through each of which the refrigerant from a corresponding one of the two third flow paths flows in a third direction intersecting each of the two third flow paths;
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- two fifth flow paths, through each of which the refrigerant from a corresponding one of the two fourth flow paths flows in the first direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.