Patent ID: 8667810

Claim:
An air conditioner for communication equipment, comprising: an indoor module disposed at an indoor space of a base station having communication equipment and including an indoor heat exchanger and an indoor ventilator disposed closely to the indoor heat exchanger; an outdoor module disposed at an outside of the base station and including an outdoor ventilator; a brine cooling cycle including the indoor heat exchanger on a brine pipe, a brine pump, first and second outdoor brine heat exchanger, and first and second brine coolers, which are connected in a brine circulating direction; and a refrigerant cooling cycle including first and second expansion valves on a refrigerant pipe, the first and second brine coolers on the brine pipe, first and second compressors, first and second outdoor refrigerant heat exchangers, which are connected in a refrigerant circulating direction, wherein the first and second expansion valves are connected in parallel on the refrigerant pipe, and the first and second brine coolers are connected in parallel on the refrigerant pipe, the first outdoor brine heat exchanger is disposed closely to the first outdoor refrigerant heat exchanger, and the second outdoor brine heat exchanger is disposed closely to the second outdoor refrigerant heat exchanger, the outdoor ventilator is disposed between the first outdoor refrigerant heat exchanger and the second outdoor heat exchanger, and the brine pump, the first and second brine coolers, the first and second expansion valves, and the first and second compressors are selectively included in one of the indoor module and the outdoor module.