Air conditioner
AssigneeToshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
InventorYasushi Morizono
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Abstract
An air conditioner includes a flow path through which air to be humidified flows, an agitating plate group, and a spray nozzle. The agitating plate group is configured by arranging agitating plates in parallel at intervals over an entire cross-section of the flow path. Each of the agitating plates has a plate width adjusted to cause a vortex downstream. The spray nozzle is disposed immediately downstream of the agitating plate group, and sprays water particles in a direction perpendicular to a flow direction of the flow path. The plate width of each of the agitating plates is adjusted to satisfy a range of a Reynolds number causing a Karman vortex within a range of used wind speeds. The air conditioner provides high humidification efficiency and high saturation efficiency.
Claims7
An air conditioner, comprising:
- a flow path through which air to be humidified flows;
- an agitating plate group in which agitating plates are arranged in parallel at intervals over an entire cross-section of the flow path, each of the agitating plates having a plate width selected to cause a vortex flow downstream;
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- a spray nozzle disposed immediately downstream of the agitating plate group, and configured to spray water particles in a direction perpendicular to a flow direction of the flow path,
- wherein the spray nozzle sprays the water particles with spray force at which a spray range covers a plurality of agitating plates of the agitating plate group as viewed in the flow direction of the flow path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.