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US 5,402,844 AGranted
Air conditioning apparatus
AssigneeCarrier Corporation
InventorsPatrice Elluin, Philippe Cardon, Georges Haffner
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Abstract
An air conditioning apparatus intended to serve several rooms and having for this purpose a number of individual air conditioning modules. Each air conditioning module (5) serves a single room and has an ice storage reservoir (69) and refrigeration means (53) for making ice, as well as heat transfer means (36, 49 and 71 to 78) to effect heat exchange between the air and the ice.
Claims26
An improved apparatus for ventilating and air conditioning several rooms of the type having a number of modules located in a mechanical room, with each module having
- an air suction connector in air flow communication with a room,
- an air discharge connector in air flow communication with said room,
- an internal air flow path between said air suction connector and said air discharge connector,
- ventilating and air conditioning means through which said internal flow path passes, said ventilating and air conditioning means including means for exchanging heat between air and a cooling medium,
- means for connecting said modules to a source of power and
- means for adjustably controlling the operation of said ventilating and air conditioning means
- in which the improvements comprise:
- said cooling medium being water;
- means for storing water being located in each said module;
- and
- means for freezing water being located in each said module and controlled by said control means.
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