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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2019
Mitsubishi Electric Us, Inc., Cypress, CA (US);
Joseph Paul Bush, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC US, INC., Cypress, CA (US);
Abstract
An air-conditioner, comprising: an indoor coil; an outdoor coil; a drain pan under the indoor and outdoor coils, the drain pan including a slinging trough having a slinging depth, a draining trough having a draining depth, a pumping trough having a pumping depth, and a drain hole formed in a bottom surface of the draining trough; a drain valve for selectively allowing liquid to pass through the drain hole; a drain pump for selectively pumping liquid out of the pumping trough; a fan for blowing air on the outdoor coil and moving the liquid from the slinging trough onto the outdoor coil when the fan is operating; and a controller for controlling operation of at least the drain pump and the fan, wherein the pumping depth is greater than the draining depth, the draining depth is greater than the slinging depth.