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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2002
Tomohiro Yabu, Sakai, JP;
Yoshimasa Kikuchi, Sakai, JP;
Tomohiro Yabu, Sakai, JP;
Yoshimasa Kikuchi, Sakai, JP;
Daikin Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An air conditioning apparatus is provided with an adsorption element having a humidity adjusting side passageway configured to adsorb and desorb moisture by passage of adsorption air or regeneration air and a cooling side passageway through which cooling air passes so that the adsorption air is cooled by absorption of heat of adsorption generated during the adsorption in the humidity adjusting side passageway. In the air conditioning apparatus, air is humidified or dehumidified in the humidity adjusting side passageway of the adsorption element and is supplied to an indoor space. In order to achieve improvements in the cooling efficiency when cooling adsorption air by the use of cooling air in the cooling side passageway, room air, conditioned air, or mixed air which is a combination of room air and outdoor air is used as cooling air which is forced to flow through the adsorption element.