KR100755826B1 - Air conditioner - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an air conditioner for selectively supplying oxygen to a room and a user. To this end, the present invention includes an air conditioner for maintaining indoor air at a predetermined temperature and humidity, including an indoor unit, an outdoor unit, and a refrigerant pipe; An air conditioner comprising an oxygen generator, including an oxygen generator, an oxygen discharger, and an oxygen supply pipe, for supplying oxygen to the room through the air conditioner, wherein the oxygen discharger selects the supplied oxygen to the room or a predetermined user. It provides an air conditioner characterized in that the discharge.

Air conditioner, oxygen generation, switching structure

Description

Air Conditioner {AIR CONDITIONER}

1 is a schematic view showing the configuration of an air conditioner according to the present invention.

2 is a schematic view showing the configuration of an oxygen generator in the oxygen supply device of the present invention.

3 is a schematic view showing the configuration of an oxygen discharger in the oxygen supply device of the present invention.

Description of the main parts of the drawing

10: outdoor unit 20: indoor unit

100: oxygen generator 110: outer part

120: drive unit 121: air pump

122a, 122b: first and second switching pump 123: adsorption tower

124: check valve 125a, 125b: first and second flow path

126a, 126b: first and second air pipes 200: oxygen exhaust

210: switching valve 220: the first oxygen flow path

230: second oxygen flow path 240: first oxygen discharge part

250: second oxygen outlet 300: oxygen transfer pipe

The present invention relates to an air conditioner, and more particularly to an air conditioner that can control the temperature and humidity of indoor air, and at the same time can supply oxygen beneficial to the human body.

In general, the air conditioner maintains the indoor air at a constant temperature and humidity through the heat exchange action by the working fluid, that is, the refrigerant, and there are various forms such as a separate type and a window type air conditioner according to the relative positions of the respective components.

Recently, complex and additional functions are required for the air conditioner in addition to the basic air conditioner, for example, an air conditioner having an anion generator is commercially available. The negative ion generating air conditioner supplies anion, which is beneficial to the human body, with the cooled air to the room during operation.

At present, air conditioners having more complex functions have been developed, and this development trend is further increased by various users' demands and related technologies. On the other hand, in addition to such a complex function, the development for the convenience of use should also be parallel to satisfy the needs of the user.

The present invention has been devised in accordance with this tendency, and an object of the present invention is to provide an air conditioner capable of efficiently supplying oxygen to a room.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an air conditioner that is convenient to use the oxygen supply function.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention includes an air conditioner for maintaining indoor air at a constant temperature and humidity, including an indoor unit, an outdoor unit, and a refrigerant pipe; An air conditioner comprising an oxygen generator, including an oxygen generator, an oxygen discharger, and an oxygen supply pipe, for supplying oxygen to the room through the air conditioner, wherein the oxygen discharger selects the supplied oxygen to the room or a predetermined user. It provides an air conditioner characterized in that the discharge.

Here, the oxygen discharge unit is connected to the oxygen supply pipe and the valve member for selectively forming an oxygen supply flow path to the room or a predetermined user; A first oxygen passage connected to the switching valve and extending to a predetermined length to directly discharge oxygen into the room; And a second oxygen flow passage connected to the switching valve and extending to a predetermined length to discharge oxygen to a predetermined user.

Preferably, the oxygen discharge unit is connected to the first oxygen flow path, and a first oxygen discharge unit for discharging the oxygen transported to be discharged to the inside of the indoor unit; It is connected to the second oxygen flow path, and further comprises a second oxygen discharge unit for discharging the transported oxygen from the outside of the indoor unit. In addition, the second oxygen outlet is more preferably an oxygen mask that allows the user to directly inhale oxygen.

On the other hand, the switching valve is preferably to form the first and second oxygen flow path at the same time.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention in which the above objects can be specifically realized are described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In describing the present embodiment, the same name and the same reference numerals are used for the same configuration and additional description thereof will be omitted below.

1 is a schematic diagram showing the air conditioner having an oxygen supply function according to the present invention as a whole, and the configuration of the present invention will be described with reference to this.

As shown, the air conditioner according to the present invention is a separate type, and in addition to the air conditioning device for maintaining the indoor air at a constant temperature and humidity, further an oxygen generating device for supplying a certain amount of oxygen to the room in conjunction with the air conditioning device. It is made to include.

First, the air conditioner includes an outdoor unit 10 that compresses and condenses a refrigerant as a whole, and an indoor unit 20 that exchanges heat with indoor air by evaporating the compressed refrigerant, and a refrigerant pipe 20 is used to transfer the refrigerant. The outdoor unit 10 and the indoor unit 20 are connected.

Here, the outdoor unit 10 includes a condenser 11 for condensing the refrigerant, a blowing fan 12 for blowing air to the condenser 11, and a compressor 13 for compressing the refrigerant and supplying the refrigerant to the condenser 11. It includes. The indoor unit 20 includes an evaporator 21 for expanding and evaporating the supplied high temperature and high pressure refrigerant, a blower fan 22 for supplying air exchanged from the evaporator 21 to the room, and the evaporator 21, respectively. ) And a suction port 23 / discharge port 24 formed in a case of the indoor unit 20 adjacent to the blowing fan 22.

In the air conditioner of the present invention, the outdoor unit 10 and the indoor unit 20 are the same as the general air conditioner, and thus a detailed description thereof will be omitted, and the oxygen generator will be described in detail as follows.

The oxygen generator connects the oxygen generator 100 installed at an arbitrary position of the outdoor unit 10, the oxygen discharger 200 installed in the indoor unit 10, and the oxygen generator 100 and the oxygen discharger 200. It is made of an oxygen transfer pipe (300).

In the air conditioner according to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, the oxygen generator 100 and the oxygen discharger 200 are positioned separately from the outdoor unit 10 and the indoor unit 20, respectively, and provide smooth oxygen supply. To operate in conjunction with the indoor and outdoor air (10, 20) respectively. Accordingly, the oxygen generator can be relatively easily installed in a general air conditioner, and since the operating oxygen generator 100 is located outside, the operation noise can be prevented from entering the room. And unlike the general oxygen generator is independently located in the room in the present invention, since the oxygen generator is provided integrally with the air conditioner, the indoor space is not reduced by the oxygen generator. In addition, in the attachment position of the oxygen generator 100, the oxygen generator 100 on the upper portion of the outdoor unit 10 can be more easily installed than the other side portion and is supported more stably. Therefore, the oxygen generator 100 may be located at any position of the outdoor unit 10 as described above, that is, at any position of the outdoor unit 10 except for the suction unit, but as shown in FIG. Is preferably located on top of the

The oxygen generator 100 of the overall configuration of the oxygen generator of the present invention operates independently in the air conditioner of the invention to generate oxygen, a general configuration of such an oxygen generator is schematically shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 2, the oxygen generator 100 includes a driving unit 120 formed of a plurality of components to substantially perform an oxygen generation function, and an exterior unit 110 protecting the driving unit.

Here, the driving unit 120 generally separates and supplies approximately 21% of oxygen contained in the atmosphere to the user. The oxygen generation method of the drive unit 120 may be applied to the electrolysis of water, the reaction of chemicals, etc. Recently, direct adsorption using an adsorbent has been used. Among these various methods, the present invention adopts an adsorbent method that is easy to handle and has high stability, and thus, FIG. 2 shows a configuration of an oxygen generator by the adsorbent method.

As shown, the driving unit 120 is connected to the air pump 121 for forced circulation of the air, the first and second switching valve 122a for selectively generating an air flow path in parallel with the air pump 10, 122b), an adsorption tower 123 connected to the first / second switching valves 122a and 122b and filled with an adsorbent for adsorbing nitrogen from the air therein, and a check valve installed on the oxygen transfer pipe 300; It consists of 124.                     

A first flow path 125a is formed to interconnect the air pump 10, the first switching pump 122a, and the adsorption tower 123, and the air pump 10, the first switching pump 122b, and A second flow path 125b is formed to interconnect the adsorption tower 123. In addition, the first and second air pipes 126a and 126b communicate the external air with the respective switching valves 122a and 122b. In this case, since the first air pipes 126a and 126b perform the same function, the first air pipes 126a and 126b may be preferably integrated into one to facilitate the design and installation of the drive unit 120. In addition, it is preferable to use zeolite which is generally excellent in nitrogen adsorption as an adsorbent filled in the adsorption tower 123.

The oxygen transport pipe 300 of the oxygen generating device of the present invention delivers the oxygen generated by the oxygen generator 100 to the oxygen discharger (200). Here, it is preferable that the coolant tube 30 of FIG. 1 is disposed adjacent to the coolant tube through which the low temperature and low pressure refrigerant flows, rather than the coolant tube through which the high temperature and high pressure refrigerant flows. This is because the temperature of oxygen transported by this arrangement is lowered so that fresh and comfortable oxygen can be supplied. In addition, in order to more effectively lower the oxygen temperature, the oxygen delivery pipe 300 is more preferably arranged to be wound around the coolant tube of the low temperature and low pressure.

Finally, the oxygen discharger 200 of the oxygen generating device is connected to the oxygen transfer pipe 300 to perform the function of releasing oxygen into the room. In this case, the oxygen discharge unit 200 may have a structure capable of introducing the oxygen simply transferred into the room as illustrated in FIG. 1. On the other hand, preferably the oxygen discharge unit 200 may have a switching structure that can selectively discharge the oxygen supplied to the room or a predetermined user. Such an oxygen discharger 200 is shown in FIG. 3 and described in more detail with reference to the following.

As shown in the figure, the switchable oxygen discharger includes a switching valve 210 connected to the oxygen supply pipe and first and second oxygen flow paths connected to the switching valve 210, respectively.

First, the switching valve 210 selectively connects the first and second oxygen flow paths 220 and 230 with the oxygen transfer pipe 300 according to an operation of a predetermined switch attached to the outside of the outdoor unit. That is, oxygen flows through the first to second oxygen flow paths from the oxygen transfer pipe 300.

The first oxygen flow passage 220 extends from the switching valve 210 to a predetermined position inside the indoor unit 20, more specifically, around the evaporator 21 or the blowing fan 22. Accordingly, oxygen discharged through the first oxygen passage 220 flows into the room through the discharge port 24. In addition, the second oxygen passage 230 extends from the switching valve 210 to the outside of the indoor unit 20, and a predetermined user may directly inhale oxygen from the second oxygen passage 230.

Meanwhile, the oxygen may be discharged to the room or the user only by the switching valve 210 and the first and second oxygen flow paths 220 and 230, but the oxygen discharge unit 200 may be the first and second oxygen outlets for more stable oxygen discharge. Preferably, the first and second oxygen outlets 240 and 250 are connected to the oxygen flow paths 220 and 230, respectively.                     

The first oxygen outlet 240 discharges the inside of the indoor unit 21 so that the transferred oxygen can be discharged to the room. Here, the first oxygen outlet 240 is preferably disposed in front of the evaporator 21 through which air to be cooled is sucked or behind the evaporator 21 through which cooled air is discharged. This is because in any case, oxygen from the first oxygen outlet 240 may be cooled and more freshly supplied.

In a similar manner, the second oxygen outlet 250 allows a predetermined user to directly inhale the transferred oxygen, and is preferably an oxygen mark for easy oxygen intake of the user.

On the other hand, the switching valve 210 may be replaced by another type of valve means for simultaneously connecting the first and second oxygen flow path with the oxygen transfer pipe 300 according to a predetermined switch operation. By introducing such valve means, the oxygen may simultaneously flow from the oxygen transport pipe 300 to the first and second oxygen flow paths 220 and 230.

As described above, the air conditioner according to the present invention has a configuration capable of supplying oxygen to the room, and the operation of the present invention by such a configuration will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

The operation of the present invention can be largely divided into an air conditioning process for maintaining indoor air at a constant temperature and humidity and an oxygen supply process for supplying a certain amount of oxygen to the room. The air conditioning process is performed using the outdoor unit 10 and the indoor unit 20, and the oxygen supply process is performed using the oxygen generator 100, the oxygen discharge unit 200, and the like.                     

In the air conditioning process, first, the compressor 13 compresses the low temperature low pressure refrigerant transferred from the evaporator 21 through the refrigerant pipe 30. Thereafter, the compressed refrigerant is phase-transformed into a liquid refrigerant having a high temperature and high pressure in the condenser 11, and is transferred to the evaporator 21 through the refrigerant pipe 30. The refrigerant expanded and evaporated in the evaporator 21 exchanges heat with the air passing through the inlet 23, and the air cooled in this way is supplied into the room through the outlet 24.

Since the air conditioning process of the present invention is a general one, a detailed description thereof will be omitted, and the oxygen supply process will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2 as follows.

The oxygen supply process is the oxygen generation process performed by the oxygen generator 100, the oxygen transfer process for transferring the generated oxygen to the oxygen discharger 200 through the oxygen transfer pipe 300, and the oxygen discharger It may be subdivided into the oxygen discharge process performed by (200).

During the oxygen supply process, the oxygen generation process is divided into a step of pressurizing the inside of the adsorption tower 123 to adsorb nitrogen from the outside air and generate oxygen, and a vacuum step of desorbing and desorbing nitrogen adsorbed to the adsorbent.

First, in the pressurization step, external air is introduced and compressed through the first switching valve 122a and the first air pipe 126a by the operation of the air pump 121. Thereafter, the compressed air is supplied into the adsorption tower 123 through the second switching valve 122b and the second flow path 125b, and the adsorption tower 123 is pressurized by the introduced external air.                     

During the pressurization, oxygen contained in the external air is adsorbed by the adsorbent in the adsorption tower 123 to separate oxygen, and when the pressure is higher than a predetermined pressure, the oxygen is discharged to the oxygen transport pipe 300 by the check valve 124.

Meanwhile, in the vacuum step, the first and second switching valves 122a and 122b switch flow paths as opposed to the pressurization step. That is, the first switching valve 122a is connected to the first flow path 125a and the second switching valve 122b is connected to the second air pipe 126b. In this case, since the air pump 121 transfers air from the first switching valve 122a to the second switching valve 122b in the same manner as the pressurizing step, the suction pump 30 is moved by the suction force of the air pump 121. Becomes a vacuum state. The check valve 124 also remains closed for this reverse air flow. Nitrogen gas is desorbed from the adsorbent during the vacuum process so that the first flow path 125a, the first switching valve 122a, the air pump 121, the second switching valve 122b, and the 2 is sequentially discharged through the air pipe 126b. Accordingly, the adsorbent in the adsorption tower 123 is reduced to a state capable of generating oxygen again by the pressurization step.

As described above, the oxygen generation process continuously generates oxygen by repeatedly performing the pressurization step and the vacuum step.

Thereafter, the oxygen is transferred to the oxygen discharge unit 200 through the oxygen transfer pipe 300 in the oxygen transfer process, and finally, the oxygen is introduced into the room by the oxygen discharge unit 200 in the oxygen discharge process.

As described above, the oxygen may be selectively supplied to the room or a predetermined user by the oxygen discharger 200 having the switching structure.

In more detail, when oxygen is to be supplied to the room according to the operation of the switching valve 210, oxygen is supplied from the oxygen delivery pipe 300 to the first oxygen flow path 220, preferably the first oxygen discharge part. Ejected through 240. Thereafter, the discharged oxygen is introduced into the room from the indoor unit 20 together with the air cooled by the air conditioning process. By supplying a high concentration of oxygen in this way, a more comfortable indoor environment can be maintained and the health of the user can be improved.

When the user wishes to directly inhale oxygen as necessary, oxygen is supplied from the oxygen transfer pipe 300 to the second oxygen flow path 230 and the second oxygen discharge part 250 by the operation of the switching valve 210. ), Ie through an oxygen mask. Therefore, since the user can directly inhale oxygen that is insufficient after exercise or alcohol intake, fatigue does not accumulate after exercise and hangover is quickly resolved.

In addition, oxygen can be supplied to the room and the user at the same time by the predetermined valve means, which can bring about substantially the effects of the respective indoor and user oxygen supply mentioned above.

On the other hand, the entire oxygen supply process described above is generally performed at the same time as the air conditioner process in the air conditioner according to the present invention, it can be performed independently according to the needs of the user to supply only oxygen to the room.

Although only a few embodiments have been described herein above, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be embodied in many other specific forms without departing from the spirit and scope thereof. . Therefore, the above-described embodiments are to be considered as illustrative and not restrictive, and thus, the invention is not limited to the above detailed description, but may vary within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents.

The effect of the air conditioner according to the present invention described above is as follows.

First, the air conditioner according to the present invention has a structure that can effectively supply oxygen to the room.

In the present invention, according to the structure of the separate air conditioner, the oxygen generator is separated into an oxygen generator and an oxygen discharger and integrated with an outdoor unit and an indoor unit, respectively. As such, the air conditioner has an oxygen supply capability without changing the structure by an oxygen generator optimized for the air conditioner structure. In addition, since only the oxygen discharger is built in the indoor unit, the air conditioner has an oxygen supply capacity but does not increase in appearance and does not reduce the indoor space.

Second, the performance of the oxygen generator inside the air conditioner can be substantially improved.

In the present invention, the oxygen generating device may have various advantages in operation by partially interlocking with the air conditioner. For example, the oxygen transfer pipe is arranged near the refrigerant tube of low temperature and low pressure, and the oxygen generated by the oxygen discharge unit is located before and after the evaporator may be more freshly supplied to the room. In addition, since the air pipes of the driving unit are disposed around the compressor, the oxygen generation efficiency may be increased by the hot air sucked into the driving unit.

Third, the convenience in using the oxygen supply function in the air conditioner of the present invention can be increased.

The oxygen discharger according to the present invention can selectively supply oxygen to a room or a predetermined user by having a predetermined switching structure. That is, the air conditioner according to the present invention can supply oxygen to the room for a comfortable indoor environment and health, and can also supply oxygen to the oxygen mask for direct oxygen intake of the user. Therefore, the user can conveniently use the oxygen according to his needs.

Claims (5)

delete An air conditioner for maintaining indoor air at a constant temperature and humidity, including an indoor unit, an outdoor unit, and a refrigerant pipe; In the air conditioner comprising an oxygen generator for supplying oxygen to the room through the air conditioner, including an oxygen generator, oxygen discharger and oxygen supply pipe, The oxygen discharger selectively discharges the supplied oxygen to a room or a predetermined user, The oxygen discharger: A valve member connected to the oxygen supply pipe and selectively forming an oxygen supply flow path to a room or a predetermined user; A first oxygen passage connected to the switching valve and extending to a predetermined length to directly discharge oxygen into the room; And a second oxygen flow passage connected to the switching valve and extending to a predetermined length to discharge oxygen to a predetermined user. The method of claim 2, The oxygen discharger: A first oxygen discharge part connected to the first oxygen flow path and discharging oxygen transferred to be discharged to the inside of the indoor unit; And a second oxygen discharge unit connected to the second oxygen channel and discharging the transferred oxygen from outside the indoor unit. The method of claim 3, wherein And the second oxygen discharging portion is an oxygen mask which allows the user to directly inhale oxygen. The method of claim 2, And the switching valve simultaneously forms the first and second oxygen flow paths.

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