Air conditioner
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSungoug Cho, Seonho Hwang
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Abstract
An air conditioner includes: a first heat exchanger disposed indoors; a second heat exchanger disposed outdoors and connected to the first heat exchanger; a water tank for accommodating water for generating steam; a filtering device for filtering indoor air; a first valve, which guides, to the water tank, the water for generating steam or guides, to the outdoors, remaining substances generated in the filtering device or condensate water generated in the first exchanger; and a second valve which is connected to the first valve by means of a connecting pipe, and which receives the water for generating steam or discharges the remaining substances or the condensate water transferred from the first valve.
Claims15
An air conditioner comprising:
- a first heat exchanger positioned indoors;
- a second heat exchanger positioned outdoors and connected to the first heat exchanger;
- a water tank configured to accommodate water for generating vapor;
- a filtering device configured to filter indoor air;
- a first valve;
- a second valve;
- a connecting pipe connecting the first valve to the second valve;
- a water guiding pipe connecting the water tank to the first valve;
- a condensate water guiding pipe connecting the first heat exchanger to the first valve;
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- a residue guiding pipe connecting the filtering device to the first valve;
- wherein the first valve is configured to selectively (i) guide the water for generating vapor to the water tank via the water guiding pipe, (ii) guide residue generated in the filtering device to the second valve via the connecting pipe, and (iii) guide condensate water generated in the first heat exchanger to the second valve via the connecting pipe, and
- wherein the second valve is configured to selectively (i) guide the water for generating vapor to the first valve via the connecting pipe, and (ii) guide the residue or the condensate water transferred via the connecting pipe from the first valve to a discharge outlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.