Condenser

A condenser which has a condensation section, a super-cooling section provided below the condensation section, and a liquid receiving section provided between the condensation section and the super-cooling section and formed of a tubular member whose longitudinal direction coincides with a vertical direction and which is closed at upper end lower ends thereof, the condensation section including at least one refrigerant condensation path composed of a plurality of heat exchange tubes disposed in parallel such that their longitudinal direction coincides with a left-right direction and they are spaced apart from one another in the vertical direction, the super-cooling section including at least one refrigerant super-cooling path composed of a plurality of heat exchange tubes disposed in parallel such that their longitudinal direction coincides with the left-right direction and they are spaced apart from one another in the vertical direction, and refrigerant flowing out of the heat exchange tubes of the refrigerant condensation path at a lower end flowing into the heat exchange tubes of the refrigerant super-cooling path at an upper end, wherein

• the liquid receiving section includes a first space into which the refrigerant flows from the heat exchange tubes of the refrigerant condensation path at the lower end, a second space which is located above the first space, into which the refrigerant flows from the first space, and in which the refrigerant is separated into gaseous and liquid phases, and a third space which is located below the first space, into which the refrigerant flows from the second space, and from which the refrigerant flows into the heat exchange tubes of the refrigerant super-cooling path at the upper end;
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• a throttle is provided in a region through which the refrigerant flows from the first space into the second space.