Patent ID: 6892474
Filing Date: 2005-05-17
Classification: F24F,G05D

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling an air conditioner comprising an indoor unit having an indoor fan and a heat exchanger that is involved in a refrigerating cycle, said indoor fan and said heat exchanger arranged in an air passage connecting an air inlet port and an air outlet port, said method comprising heat-exchanging air sucked through said air inlet port and blowing it through said air outlet port to control a room temperature, wherein said method has an interior drying operation mode for drying the interior of said indoor unit, and said method comprises: at the time of said interior drying operation mode, detecting room humidity (Rh) by a humidity sensor provided in said indoor unit; and repeating a drying operation cycle a predetermined number of times according to said room humidity (Rh), said drying operation cycle including: performing for a predetermined period of time, first heating operation which is weak heating operation with a compressor involved in said refrigerating cycle being operated at a low rotational speed; and then performing for a predetermined period of time, second heating operation which is heating operation close to air blowing operation in which said compressor is stopped, whereby the interior of said indoor unit is dried.