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US 8,261,569 B2Granted
Air conditioning system
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsSong Choi, Yun Ho Ryu, Beom Soo Seo
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Abstract
An air conditioner includes: a compressor configured to compress refrigerant; an indoor heat exchanger configured to condense the refrigerant compressed by the compressor; an outdoor heat exchanger configured to evaporate the refrigerant condensed by indoor heat exchanger; a heater configured to transfer heat to the refrigerant condensed by the indoor heat exchanger; a first pipe configured to flow fluid towards the heater; a second pipe configured to flow fluid away from the heater; and a bypass pipe configured to flow fluid between the first pipe and the second pipe.
Claims13
An air conditioner, comprising:
- a compressor configured to compress refrigerant;
- an indoor heat exchanger configured to condense the refrigerant compressed by the compressor;
- an outdoor heat exchanger configured to evaporate the refrigerant condensed by indoor heat exchanger;
- a heater configured to transfer heat to the refrigerant condensed by the indoor heat exchanger;
- a first pipe between the indoor heat exchanger and the outdoor heat exchanger;
- a first connection pipe connecting the outdoor heat exchanger to the heater,
- a second connection pipe configured to selectively flow fluid from the first pipe to the heater;
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- a third connection pipe configured to flow the fluid from one of the heater and the compressor to the other one,
- wherein the first connection pipe is configured to selectively flow the fluid from the outdoor heat exchanger to the heater during a heating mode and to flow the fluid from the heater to the outdoor heat exchanger during a cooling mode.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.