Air conditioner
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsHo Geun Jang, Dong Jin Kwak, Min Chul Cho
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Abstract
An air conditioner is disclosed to supply a room with oxygen as well as control temperature and humidity of the air. The present invention includes an outdoor module 10, an indoor module 20, a refrigerant tube 30, and an oxygen generating module. The oxygen generating module includes an oxygen generator 100 installed at the outdoor module 10 so as to generate oxygen by in-taking outdoor air, an oxygen exhauster 200 installed in the indoor module 20 so as to exhaust the oxygen, and an oxygen transport tube 300 transporting the oxygen generated from the oxygen generator 100 to the oxygen exhauster 200.
Claims46
An air conditioner comprising;
- an outdoor module including a condenser, an outdoor fan, and a compressor so as to condense a refrigerant;
- an indoor module including an evaporator, an indoor fan, an inlet, and an outlet so as cool to discharge air in a room;
- a refrigerant tube connecting the evaporator to the condenser so as to circulate the refrigerant;
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- an oxygen generating module comprising:
- an oxygen generator installed at the outdoor module and generating oxygen by in-taking external air;
- the oxygen generator including a driving part comprising a plurality of components so as to generate the oxygen and an exterior part protecting the driving part, and the oxygen generator being placed at the top of the outdoor module so as to be separated therefrom,
- an oxygen exhauster installed in the indoor module and discharging the oxygen;
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- an oxygen transport tube transporting the oxygen generated from the oxygen generator to the oxygen exhauster, wherein the oxygen generator and the oxygen exhauster are separated from each other in and outside the room, respectively so as to supply the room with the oxygen without altering a structure of the air conditioner.
A method of generating oxygen in an air conditioner, comprising the steps of:
- adjusting an inner part of an adsorption tower to have an atmospheric state by interconnecting the adsorption tower to an external atmosphere when an oxygen generating module is actuated;
- decompressing the inner part of the adsorption tower to have a setup degree of vacuum so as to detach nitrogen from an adsorbent in the adsorption tower;
- readjusting the inner part of the adsorption tower to have the atmospheric state by interconnecting the adsorption tower to the external atmosphere;
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- pressurizing the inner part of the adsorption tower to have a setup pressure so as to extract oxygen from air using the adsorbent.
A switching apparatus in an oxygen generator, comprising:
- a first switch valve comprising:
- a case body having a vertical wall partitioning one inner end;
- horizontal materials installed at spaces partitioned by the vertical wall respectively and having inflow holes and outflow holes through which air flows in and out respectively;
- first and second intake tubes interconnected to the inflow holes, respectively;
- a discharge tube interconnected to the respective outflow holes in common;
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- an opening/shutting means opening and shutting the respective outflow holes;
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- a second switch valve comprising:
- a case body having a vertical wall partitioning one inner end;
- horizontal materials installed at spaces partitioned by the vertical wall respectively and having inflow holes and outflow holes through which air flows in and out respectively;
- an intake tube interconnected to the respective inflow holes in common;
- first and second discharge tubes interconnected to the outflow holes, respectively;
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- an opening/shutting means opening and shutting the respective outflow holes, wherein the first and second switch valves are installed at an air intake side and an air discharge side, respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.