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US 2012/0247136 A1Published application
Outdoor unit of air conditioner and method for controlling the same
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsJahyung KOO, Byungil Park, Kyongmin Kwon, Byungsoon Kim
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Abstract
An outdoor unit for an air conditioning system includes a tank to store defrosting liquid, a nozzle to apply defrosting liquid from the tank to a heat exchanger, a valve to control flow of the defrosting liquid between the tank and nozzle, and a controller to control the valve based on a temperature of the heat exchanger and a number of times the valve has been set to an open state during a heating mode of the air conditioning system.
Claims20
An outdoor unit for an air conditioning system, comprising:
- a tank to store defrosting liquid;
- a nozzle to apply defrosting liquid from the tank to a heat exchanger;
- a valve to control flow of the defrosting liquid between the tank and nozzle;
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- a controller to control the valve based on a temperature of the heat exchanger and a number of times the valve has been set to an open state during a heating mode of the air conditioning system.
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An outdoor unit for an air conditioning system, comprising:
- a first tank;
- a container to collect defrosting liquid from a heat exchanger;
- a pump to move the defrosting liquid from the container to the first tank;
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- a controller to control flow of defrosting liquid from the first tank to the heat exchanger based on a temperature of the heat exchanger during a heating mode of the air conditioning system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.