Patent ID: 8695361

Claim:
An in-ceiling embedded type air conditioner including an outdoor unit having a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger, and an indoor unit having an air blower and an indoor heat exchanger, the outdoor unit and the indoor unit being connected to each other through a joint pipe, comprising: an air filtering apparatus including an electrolytic unit for generating and supplying electrolytic water containing active oxygen species, an air filtering unit containing a gas-liquid contact member that is disposed to be adjacent to the indoor heat exchanger at a downstream side of the indoor heat exchanger with respect to an air flowing direction on an air flowing passage formed by the air blower of the indoor unit so that air passing through the indoor heat exchanger is supplied to the gas-liquid contact member and infiltrated with the electrolytic water so that air passing through the gas-liquid contact member is brought into contact with the electrolytic water to filter the air, and a base plate on which the electrolytic unit and the air filtering unit are integrally mounted on opposite surfaces of the base plate, and a controller for controlling the air conditioner having the air filtering apparatus, and selectively executing, as an operation mode, an interlocking operation mode for interlocking an air-conditioning operation based on the air conditioner and an air filtering operation based on the air filtering apparatus, and an independent air filtering operation mode for executing only the air filtering operation based on the air filtering apparatus without executing the air-conditioning operation based on the air conditioner; wherein the air filtering apparatus has a water dispersing tray for dispersing water into the air filtering unit, an air flowing space which is located between the base plate and the air filtering unit and through which air passing through the air filtering unit flows downwardly to a lower side of a housing of the indoor unit, and a thermal insulating member disposed on the base plate; wherein the housing in which the air blower and the indoor heat exchanger are mounted, has a side surface having an opening, and the air filtering apparatus having the air filtering unit and the electrolytic unit integrally mounted on the base plate is positioned in the opening; and wherein the indoor heat exchanger is disposed in the housing, and the filtering apparatus is in the opening, the air filtering unit facing the indoor heat exchanger and the electrolytic unit facing an outside of the housing.