(19)
(11) EP 1 348 921 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
19.01.2005 Bulletin 2005/03

(43) Date of publication A2:
01.10.2003 Bulletin 2003/40

(21) Application number: 02254634.5

(22) Date of filing: 02.07.2002
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7: F25B 39/02, F25B 43/00
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE SK TR
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK RO SI

(30) Priority: 28.03.2002 JP 2002090866

(71) Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Tokyo 100-8310 (JP)

(72) Inventor:
  • Takamori, Akira, c/o Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki K.
    Tokyo 100-8310 (JP)

(74) Representative: Godwin, Edgar James 
MARKS & CLERK, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London WC2A 3LS
London WC2A 3LS (GB)

   


(54) Refrigerant distributor and air conditioner using the same


(57) To further promote the mutual integration between individual constituting parts of a refrigerant distributor so that collision sounds between the parts are prevented from being generated. An orifice member (10A) is firmly fixed to and unified with a fine particle conversion means (12A) of a refrigerant distributor (4A), and the orifice member (10A) unified with the fine particle conversion means (12A) is firmly fixed to and unified with a distributor refrigerant-pipe (7a). With this arrangement, individual parts constituting the refrigerant distributor (4A) are solidly unified at a plurality of steps taken toward a complete unit of the distributor.






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