Air conditioner
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorKeisuke Ikemiya
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Abstract
Included is an indoor device including inside a casing an electrical-component box having electrical components accommodated therein, an indoor-device heat exchanger, and an indoor-device fan to deliver air to the indoor-device heat exchanger. An air conditioner includes a temperature measurement unit to measure a temperature of the indoor-device heat exchanger, and a control unit to determine an upper limit of a rotational speed of the indoor-device fan on the basis of a temperature of the indoor-device heat exchanger measured by the temperature measurement unit, and to execute control to operate the indoor-device fan at a rotational speed equal to or slower than the determined upper limit.
Claims6
An air conditioner that includes an indoor device including inside a casing an electrical-component box having electrical components accommodated therein, an indoor-device heat exchanger, and an indoor-device fan to deliver air to the indoor-device heat exchanger, the air conditioner comprising:
- a temperature measurement device to measure a temperature of the indoor-device heat exchanger;
- a processor;
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- a memory to store a program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of:
- determining an upper limit of a rotational speed of the indoor-device fan on a basis of a temperature of the indoor-device heat exchanger measured by the temperature measurement device, and executing control to operate the indoor-device fan at a rotational speed equal to or slower than the determined upper limit so as to limit an air temperature within the electrical-component box to a temperature equal to or lower than a rated temperature of the electrical components, wherein
- when a temperature of the indoor-device heat exchanger is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature threshold, the processor determines the upper limit to be a predetermined first upper limit, and
- when a temperature of the indoor-device heat exchanger is lower than the temperature threshold, the processor determines the upper limit to be a predetermined second upper limit that is faster than the first upper limit.
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