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US 5,295,531 AGranted
Air conditioner with outside air introduction path
AssigneeSanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsShoji Tsunekawa, Koji Mori, Yoshiki Ikari, Fujio Suzuki, Toshiyuki Komuro, Toshimasa Tsukui
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Abstract
An air conditioner having a partition for partitioning the inside thereof into indoor and outdoor sections with an intake port. A damper is provided at the intake port so that an outdoor air introduction path of the outdoor section and an outdoor air discharge path are cut off when introducing outdoor air by opening the damper. Air the outdoor air introduction path is guided into the indoor section.
Claims6
An air conditioner comprising:
- a housing;
- a bottom plate having a partition fitted into said housing and partitioning the inside of said housing into an indoor section and an outdoor section,
- an indoor heat exchanger and an indoor disposed in said indoor section,
- an outdoor heat exchanger disposed at a back center portion of said outdoor section,
- an outdoor blower disposed opposite to said outdoor heat exchanger,
- suction ports on the back of said outdoor section,
- an outdoor fan case for guiding outdoor air drawn into said suction ports by said outdoor blower to said outdoor heat exchanger,
- an intake port disposed on said partition for guiding outdoor air sucked from one of said suction ports on the back of said outdoor section into said indoor section, p1 an outdoor air introduction path defined in said housing as extended from one of said suction ports to said intake port of said partition,
- an outdoor air discharge path defined in said housing as extending from said outdoor air introduction path to said outdoor heat exchanger, and
- a damper means disposed in said intake port of said partition for stopping substantially all air flow from said one of said suction ports to said outdoor heat exchanger by cutting off said outdoor air introduction path from said outdoor air discharge path when said intake port of said partition is opened and for providing substantially all of said air flow direct communication from said one of said suction ports to said intake port.
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