Portable air conditioner

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10634367-B2
Application number	US-201615751148-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 5, 2016
Priority date	Aug 7, 2015
Publication date	Apr 28, 2020
Grant date	Apr 28, 2020

Abstract

Portable air conditioner provided with an external container comprising internally a refrigerating circuit provided with a condenser.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A portable air conditioner provided with an external container and comprising: a refrigerating circuit having a compressor, a condenser, an expansion member and an evaporator, a fan that generates a stream of air passing through the condenser, wherein said refrigerating circuit has an auxiliary exchanger inside which a hot gas exiting from the compressor is made to circulate before being sent to the condenser for a first reduction in temperature, said auxiliary exchanger being disposed downstream relative to said condenser such that the stream of air generated by the fan hits first the condenser and then the auxiliary exchanger.

2. The portable air conditioner as in claim 1 , wherein said auxiliary exchanger has a surface affected by the stream of air lower than a surface of the condenser affected by the same stream of air of said condenser.

3. The portable air conditioner as in claim 1 , wherein said auxiliary exchanger is located upstream of the condenser with respect to the circuit of hot gas.

4. The portable air conditioner as in claim 1 , wherein said auxiliary exchanger is located downstream of the condenser with respect to said stream of air.

5. The portable air conditioner as in claim 1 , wherein said auxiliary exchanger is located upstream of a centrifugal ventilator which generates the stream of air.

6. The portable air conditioner as in claim 1 , wherein said auxiliary exchanger is distinct with respect to said condenser.

7. The portable air conditioner as in claim 1 , wherein said auxiliary exchanger and said condenser are combined.

8. The portable air conditioner as in claim 1 , wherein said auxiliary exchanger and said condenser are made in a single body, but with two distinct circuits.

9. The portable air conditioner as in claim 1 , wherein said auxiliary exchanger and said condenser have pipes with identical sections and/or said auxiliary exchanger and said condenser have pipes with identical areas of transit.

10. The portable air conditioner as in claim 1 , wherein said auxiliary exchanger and said condenser have pipes with different sections and/or said auxiliary exchanger and said condenser have pipes with different areas of transit.

11. The portable air conditioner as in claim 1 , wherein heat disposal means of said auxiliary exchanger has characteristics identical to heat disposal means of said condenser.

12. The portable air conditioner as in claim 1 , wherein heat disposal means of said auxiliary exchanger has characteristics different from heat disposal means of said condenser.

13. The portable air conditioner as in claim 1 , comprising a tank containing water, the tank being located adjacent a bottom of the portable air conditioner.

14. The portable air conditioner as in claim 1 , wherein, once the gas has exited the condenser, the gas flows toward the expansion member in the form of a throttling valve, where the gas expands before entering the evaporator.

Assignees

• De Longhi Appliances Srl

Inventors

• De' Longhi Giuseppe
• Callegaro Ivano
• Vit Stefano

Classifications

• F25B40/02

  Subcoolers · CPC title

• F25D3/06

  Movable containers · CPC title

• F24F1/022

  comprising a compressor cycle · CPC title

• F24F2221/12

  transportable · CPC title

• F25B6/04

  arranged in series · CPC title