Patent 7334430 was granted and assigned to Denso on February, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A plurality of evaporators 5, 11 for evaporating an refrigerant at low pressure, which has passed through pressure reducing means 4, 10, are provided, an accumulator 9 is provided on the outlet side of one evaporator 5, an internal heat exchanger 3 is provided on the outlet side of the accumulator 9, the outlet side of another evaporator 11 is joined to a portion between the outlet side of the accumulator 9 and the inlet side of the internal heat exchanger 3, and the pressure reducing means 10 at the evaporator 11 side is composed of a fixed throttle.