Air conditioner having air cleaning function

An air conditioner which contains therein a dust collecting device having a high voltage unit coupled to a power supply and discharge and dust collecting electrodes each coupled to said high voltage unit, and which has an air cleaning function for collecting by means of said dust collecting device dust contained in external air sucked by rotation of a fan thereby to exhaust the air thus cleaned to an outside, said air conditioner comprising:

• a heating section provided at said dust collecting electrode;
• and
• a dust removing control section which executes a dust removing mode for heating said heating section to remove dust adhered to said dust collecting electrode,
• wherein said dust removing control section executes the dust removing mode after stopping an operation of an air conditioning function, and
• wherein said dust removing control section drives, in the dust removing mode, the fan at a rotation speed sufficient for suppressing increase of temperature within said air conditioner heated by said heating section.