Air conditioner
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsKeiichi Morita, Akihiko Sugiyama, Oserojoin Watabiki, Mithuo Murano
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Abstract
An indoor unit of an air conditioner includes a heat exchanger, through which room air circulates in a predetermined direction, and an air cleaner, The air cleaner includes an electric duct collecting portion for capturing fine duct in the circulating air, a filter portion for absorbing the odor from the circulating air, and a control unit for controlling the operations of the indoor unit and the collecting portion. The collecting portion, filter portion, and control unit are arranged side by side in a direction intersecting the predetermined direction so that filter portion is situated between the collecting portion and the control unit.
Claims9
An air conditioner comprising:
- an indoor unit arranged in a space to be air-conditioned, said unit including a heat exchanger and circulating means for causing air in the space to circulate in a predetermined direction through the heat exchanger;
- an air cleaner incorporated in the indoor unit, said cleaner including an electric dust collecting portion located on an upstream side of the heat exchanger, with respect to said predetermined direction, for capturing dust in the circulating air, a filter portion located on the upstream side of the heat exchanger, with respect to said predetermined direction, for absorbing the odor from the circulating air, said dust collecting portion and said filter portion being arranged side by side in a direction intersecting the predetermined direction;
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- control means for controlling the operations of the indoor unit and the air cleaner, said control means being located side by side with the dust collecting portion and the filter portion, in said intersecting direction, the filter portion being situated between the dust collecting portion and the control means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.