Patent ID: 7171822

Claim:
An air conditioning kit comprising: an exterior assembly including a condenser fan and a condenser coil precharged with refrigerant fluid, the exterior assembly further including a low loss quick connect inlet port and a low loss quick connect outlet port; an interior assembly including an evaporator fan, a compressor and an evaporator coil precharged with refrigerant fluid, the interior assembly further including a low loss quick connect inlet port and a low loss quick connect outlet port; and first and second low loss quick connect lines, the first low loss quick connect line for connection between the low loss quick connect inlet port of the exterior assembly and the low loss quick connect outlet port of the interior assembly, and the second low loss quick connect line for connection between the low loss quick connect inlet port of the interior assembly and the low loss quick connect outlet port of the exterior assembly; wherein the precharged refrigerant fluid of the condenser coil is isolated from the precharged refrigerant fluid of the evaporator coil until subsequent operable connection of the exterior assembly with the interior assembly by the use of the first and second low loss quick connect lines; and wherein the low loss quick connect ports and the low loss quick connect lines removably connect so that connection and disconnection can take place multiple times with low loss of the refrigerant fluid.