The invention discloses a low
refrigerant charging amount
heat pump device and a control method thereof. The device comprises a compressor, a compressor
refrigerant gas outlet is sequentially connected with an indoor
heat exchanger, a throttling device and an outdoor
heat exchanger through a four-way
reversing valve, an outlet of the outdoor
heat exchanger is connected with an inlet of a
liquid storage device through the four-way
reversing valve, an outlet of the
liquid storage device is connected with an inlet of the compressor, and the device further comprises a bypass pipeline; an inlet of the bypass pipeline is located between the compressor and the four-way
reversing valve, an outlet of the bypass pipeline is located between the four-way reversing valve and the
liquid storage device or located on the side or bottom of a shell of the liquid storage device, and a bypass
electromagnetic valve is located on the bypass pipeline; under the heating condition, when the device stably runs, a
refrigerant exhausted out of the compressor flows into the indoor heat exchanger through the four-way reversing valve and then flows back to the compressor through the throttling device, the outdoor heat exchanger, the four-way reversing valve and the liquid storage device, and a
heating cycle is formed; and under the refrigerating condition, stable running is opposite to the
heating cycle flow path. The control method of the device is further provided. In the cold starting process, the problem that a large number of refrigerants are gathered in the liquid storage device and the compressor, and consequently the pressure of an air inlet of the compressor is too low is solved.