Air conditioner
AssigneeDaikin Industries, Ltd.
InventorTaro Kataoka
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Abstract
An air conditioner includes a controller that controls a driving unit of the air conditioner. The controller includes a determination unit that determines necessity of a contaminant reduction operation of the air conditioner based on whether the air conditioner is in a non-cooling operation period, and a setting unit that sets a condensation operation condition for forming condensed water on a surface of an indoor heat exchanger of the air conditioner. The controller performs the contaminant reduction operation of the air conditioner based on a necessity determination result of the determination unit in accordance with the condensation operation condition set by the setting unit.
Claims10
An air conditioner configured to perform a cooling operation, the air conditioner comprising:
- a controller that controls a driving unit of the air conditioner, wherein the controller includes
- a determination unit that determines necessity of a contaminant reduction operation of the air conditioner based on whether the air conditioner is in a non-cooling operation period, and
- a setting unit that sets a condensation operation condition for forming condensed water on a surface of an indoor heat exchanger of the air conditioner,
- wherein the controller performs the contaminant reduction operation of the air conditioner when the air conditioner is in the non-cooling operation period, based on a necessity, determination result of the determination unit in accordance with the condensation operation condition set by the setting unit.
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