Patent ID: 8826678

Claim:
An air conditioner which includes an indoor unit and an outdoor unit comprising: in the indoor unit, an indoor air temperature detection unit, provided at a predetermined position of the indoor unit, to detect an indoor air temperature; a floor, wall, and ceiling temperature detection unit, provided at a front of the indoor unit, to detect a floor and wall temperature and a ceiling ambient temperature; and a control device including a microcomputer in which a program relating to control of the air conditioner is embedded, the microcomputer being configured to calculate a body-sensory temperature of a user based on the indoor air temperature detected by the indoor air temperature detection unit and the floor and wall temperature detected by the floor, wall, and ceiling temperature detection unit, wherein, in heating operation or ventilation operation, the control device is configured to compare an indoor air preset temperature set by a user and the body-sensory temperature when the ceiling ambient temperature detected by the floor, wall, and ceiling temperature detection unit becomes higher, by a predetermined threshold value or more, than the indoor air preset temperature, and to perform a circulator operation of moving air accumulating near a ceiling to a floor when the body-sensory temperature is higher than the indoor air preset temperature.