Air conditioner

Abstract

An air conditioner includes: an outdoor unit including an outdoor expansion valve, an outdoor heat exchanger, a four-way valve, and a compressor; a plurality of indoor units each including an indoor heat exchanger and an indoor expansion valve that adjusts an amount of refrigerant flowing through the indoor heat exchanger; a refrigerant pipe that connects the outdoor unit and each of the indoor units; a shutoff valve unit that is provided on the refrigerant pipe and incorporates one or more shutoff mechanisms capable of shutting off a flow of refrigerant flowing between the outdoor unit and each of the indoor units; and an emergency power supply device that is arranged in an electric component box made of sheet metal and shuts off the shutoff mechanisms during a power outage. The electric component box is arranged in the shutoff valve unit.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.