US 11,874,026 B2
Air conditioner and control method therefor
Jungsoo Lim, Suwon-si (KR); Kyoungmok Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Seulkiro Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Sunhee Park, Suwon-si (KR); Hyesoon Yang, Suwon-si (KR); Kisup Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Sinyoung Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Jongho Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Mingyu Jung, Suwon-si (KR); and Jeongsu Han, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Appl. No. 17/309,521
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
PCT Filed Nov. 29, 2019, PCT No. PCT/KR2019/016724
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 3, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/116866, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 11, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0154552 (KR), filed on Dec. 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0010993 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. F24F 8/60 (2021.01); B01D 53/02 (2006.01); B01D 53/62 (2006.01); F24F 8/15 (2021.01); F24F 8/95 (2021.01); F24F 7/08 (2006.01); F24F 7/00 (2021.01)
CPC F24F 8/60 (2021.01) [B01D 53/02 (2013.01); B01D 53/62 (2013.01); F24F 7/08 (2013.01); F24F 8/15 (2021.01); F24F 8/95 (2021.01); F24F 2007/001 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An air conditioner, comprising:
an indoor unit including a carbon dioxide remover configured to
filter carbon dioxide from indoor air to supply clean air into a room;
an outdoor unit including a discharger and an oxygen generator configured to:
discharge the filtered carbon dioxide to an outside via the discharger,
separate oxygen from outdoor air introduced from an outside of the air conditioner to supply the separated oxygen into the room, and
discharge residues from which the oxygen is separated to the outside;
an air discharge pipe configured to provide into the room the clean air from which the carbon dioxide has been removed from the indoor air;
a first exhaust pipe configured to discharge the filtered carbon dioxide from the indoor unit to outdoor unit;
a second exhaust pipe configured to discharge the residues by the oxygen generator;
a third exhaust pipe coupled to the discharger and configured to join the first exhaust pipe and the second exhaust pipe; and
a processor configured to control the carbon dioxide remover and the oxygen generator to discharge the filtered carbon dioxide and the residues to the outside together via the third exhaust pipe and the discharger.