Patent ID: 6431268
Filing Date: 2002-08-13
Classification: F24F

Abstract:
A fan recycling control for an air conditioning apparatus including at least one of:a heating apparatus, a cooling apparatus, a humidifying apparatus, a dehumidifying apparatus, and an air cleaning apparatus for providing conditioned air; a fan to distribute conditioned air to an interior space; at least one of: a thermostat and humidstat, each of the at least one of the thermostat and the humidstat for activating and deactivating the air conditioning apparatus and the fan, and further having a selectable constant fan mode, said activating causing a continuous fan operation, said deactivating causing no fan operation; a fan recycling control means for periodically activating and deactivating only the fan of said air conditioning system in order to operate the fan for a first time period after a second time period dependent from the end of a last operation of the fan, wherein the last operation of the fan includes at least one of: a last operation of said air conditioning system, and a last fan operation initiated by the fan recycling control.