Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Air conditioner
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Application No.: US15522894Application Date: 2015-09-29
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Publication No.: US11248816B2Publication Date: 2022-02-15
- Inventor: Shinsuke Ikawa , Akio Tasaka , Yuusuke Shiono , Shinji Nagaoka , Daisuke Toyoda
- Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JP2014-223397 20141031
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/077564 WO 20150929
- International Announcement: WO2016/067815 WO 20160506
- Main IPC: F24F11/36
- IPC: F24F11/36 ; F25B49/02 ; F25B1/00 ; F25B13/00

Abstract:
An air conditioner which continues driving with a deteriorated gas leakage sensor is provided. An air conditioner of the present invention includes an outdoor unit including a compressor and an indoor unit connected with the outdoor unit and uses flammable refrigerant. The air conditioner includes: a refrigerant gas sensor; and a controlling unit configured to stop the compressor at occurrence of abnormality, when the refrigerant gas sensor detects refrigerant gas while the compressor is being driven. After the compressor is stopped as the refrigerant gas sensor detects the refrigerant gas, the controlling unit does not start driving of the compressor until an operation to cancel the abnormality is performed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170328620A1 AIR CONDITIONER Public/Granted day:2017-11-16
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