Refrigeration apparatus

A refrigeration apparatus that uses R32 as a refrigerant, the refrigeration apparatus comprising:

• a compressor arranged and configured to suck in the refrigerant from a suction flow path and compress the refrigerant;
• a condenser arranged and configured to condense the refrigerant that has been discharged from the compressor;
• an expansion mechanism arranged and configured to expand the refrigerant that has exited the condenser;
• an evaporator arranged and configured to evaporate the refrigerant that has expanded in the expansion mechanism;
• and
• an accumulator disposed in the suction flow path, the accumulator having
• a casing forming an inside space arranged and configured to separate the refrigerant into gas refrigerant and liquid refrigerant and accumulating surplus refrigerant,
• an inlet pipe arranged and configured to feed the refrigerant that has evaporated in the evaporator into the inside space, and
• an outlet pipe arranged and configured to channel the separated gas refrigerant to the compressor,
• a distal end opening in a distal end section of the inlet pipe of the accumulator being located in a height position separated by a dimension from a bottom of the inside space, the dimension being 0 to 0.3 times a height dimension of the inside space the distal end section of the inlet pipe being bent such that the distal end opening in the distal end section of the inlet pipe of the accumulator faces upward or diagonally upward.