Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Yukihiro Makino

Makoto Kojima

Shuji Ikegami

Kouichi Yasuo

Hyunyoung Kim

Mamoru Okumoto

Lan Jiang

Chuncheng Piao

An air conditioner disclosed herein includes a cooling/heating module including a thermoelastic material and an actuator applying tension to the thermoelastic material and a switching control section selectively applying or removing tension to/from the thermoelastic material.

Air conditioning device

A cooling/heating, module configured to cool and heat air includes: first and second cooling/heating sections (), each having a thermoelastic material (); and an actuator () applying tension to the thermoelastic material (). The actuator () is configured to alternately perform the operation of applying tension to the thermoelastic material () of the first cooling/heating section () and removing tension from the thermoelastic material () of the second cooling/heating section () and the operation of applying tension to the thermoelastic material () of the second cooling/heating section () and removing tension from the thermoelastic material () of the first cooling/heating section ().

Cooling/heating module and air conditioning device

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Osaka, Japan

Yukihiro Makino