Patent ID: 9671123
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: F24F

Claim:
1. An indoor unit or an outdoor unit of an air conditioner comprising: a communication terminal to receive a signal including a voltage through communication lines in response to said indoor unit or said outdoor unit being in a standby mode; a switching unit, connected to the communication terminal, to be turned off in response to said indoor unit or said outdoor unit entering the standby mode, and to be turned on when the standby mode is released; a voltage distribution unit, connected to the communication terminal in parallel with the switching unit, to receive the signal from the communication terminal and to distribute the voltage of the signal received by the voltage distribution unit; a communication unit to receive the distributed voltage and, when the received distributed voltage is more than a reference voltage, to generate a standby mode release signal; a voltage adjustment unit to adjust the distributed voltage received by the communication unit to an adjusted voltage when the distributed voltage received by the communication unit exceeds a designated voltage; and a control unit to turn the switching unit off in response to said indoor unit or said outdoor unit entering the standby mode, and to turn the switching unit on in response to the standby mode release signal being generated by the communication unit, wherein