Patent ID: 8523969
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: F24F

Abstract:
1. An indoor unit of an air conditioner in which an indoor heat exchanger, an indoor fan, and an air filter disposed on an inlet side of the indoor fan are provided in a casing, the indoor unit comprising: a brush member configured to come into contact with the air filter to scrape dust from the air filter; a cleaning brush member configured to come into contact with the brush member to remove dust from the brush member; a drive controller configured to intermittently move the air filter and the brush member relative to each other to scrape dust from the air filter with the brush member for a predetermined area at each time in the entire air filter, the predetermined area being smaller than an entire area of the air filter; and a brush drive controller configured to bring the brush member and the cleaning brush member into contact with each other to remove dust from the brush member with the cleaning brush member after each stop of the intermittent relative movement of the air filter and the brush member.