Patent ID: 8499575

Claim:
Air conditioning device for cooling electronic components, the device comprising: a partition that is equipped with heat exchange elements on both sides and which partition borders an exterior channel, said exterior channel having an intake and an exhaust for a flowing first fluid, whereby the device has a first operation mode in which a second fluid, at a side of the partition facing away from the exterior channel, is in a heat exchange with the first fluid and the electronic components, wherein the air conditioning device includes three channels, the exterior channel, a middle channel, and an interior channel in parallel side-by-side relationship defined by a first exterior wall, the partition, a Peltier element, and a second exterior wall, wherein the partition separates the exterior channel from the middle channel, wherein the Peltier element is equipped on both sides with heat exchange elements and separates the middle channel from the interior channel, wherein switchable flaps are provided at ends of the channels said switchable flaps guiding the first fluid in a selectable manner such that in said first operation mode, the first fluid is guided into the exterior channel, and the second fluid is guided into the middle channel, and in a second operation mode, the first fluid is guided into the middle channel and the second fluid is guided into the exterior channel, wherein the first fluid is external air and the intake for said first fluid is adapted to intake external air, wherein the exhaust for the first fluid exhausts said first fluid away from the electronic components, and wherein the second fluid is internal air and an intake for the second fluid intakes internal air which contacts the electronic components within an interior space.