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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
May. 24, 2002
Daikin Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An air conditioner employing a flammable refrigerant, comprises a sensor ( ) that is provided on an external surface of an indoor unit ( ) and detects the flammable refrigerant gas, in order to prevent the accident of a fire or the like even when the flammable refrigerant leaks. Furthermore, an air conditioner is provided with a indoor unit housing a heat exchanger ( ) and a fan ( ) inside its casing ( ) that has an inlet port ( ) and an outlet port ( ). The air conditioner rotates the fan ( ) and flows the flammable refrigerant through the heat exchanger ( ) during operation, performing heat exchange between air taken into the casing ( ) through the inlet port ( ) and the flammable refrigerant, and blows out the air that has undergone the heat exchange to the inside of a room through the outlet port ( ). The air conditioner comprises a sensor ( ) that is provided on an external surface of the casing ( ) and detects a flammable refrigerant gas and a control section ( ) for executing control to rotate the fan ( ) when the sensor ( ) detects the flammable refrigerant gas.