PURPOSE: To provide a refrigerant circuit which can easily recover refrigerant without using any refrigerant recovery device.
CONSTITUTION: In a refrigerant circuit having a compressor 1, a condenser 5, a first pressure reducing device 7 and an evaporator 9 interconnected in that order in a circular form, a series circuit consisting of a refrigerant tank 101 and a second pressure reducing device 104 is provided in parallel connection with the first pressure reducing device and the evaporator and a refrigerant flow switching means is provided which conducts the refrigerant discharged from the compressor to either of the series circuit consisting of the first pressure reducing device and the evaporator or the series circuit consisting of the refrigerant tank and the second pressure reducing device.
OKAMOTO YOSHIMI
OTANI HIROSHI
AKUTSU YASUTOMO
MIYAMOTO KATSUFUMI