Patent ID: 7615106

Claim:
A floor-mounted air conditioning apparatus comprising: an ion generator to generate ions; a flow path forming member including said ion generator, to cause air to flow; a blower to cause the air to flow in said flow path forming member; an ion outlet disposed in an end portion of said flow path forming member, to blow said ions along with air flowing around said ion generator disposed on one inner wall surface of said flow path forming member; an air outlet to blow air flowing near another inner wall surface of said flow pat forming member; a louver disposed at said air outlet to change an air flow; a switch to switch over a driving state of said ion generator; a bacteria elimination shower switch to cause said ion generator to run in a bacteria elimination shower mode where said ion generator generates an amount of ions larger than a normally generated amount of ions according to switching over of said switch; a control device to control said blower; and an inlet port to introduce air into an inside from an outside of said air conditioning apparatus, wherein when said air conditioning apparatus is disposed near a wall such that said air outlet is brought relatively closer to said wall rather than said ion outlet while said inlet port is kept relatively away from said wall rather than said ion outlet, the air blown from said air outlet flows so as to cover, from an outside, an air flow including ions blown from said ion outlet, and when said bacteria elimination shower switch is turned on while air is blown immediately upward or obliquely upward by said louver, said control device forcibly drives said ion generator in said bacteria elimination shower mode irrespective of a control state at that time, repeats, for a predetermined number of times, control to automatically change magnitudes of air volumes blown from said air outlet and said ion outlet within a predetermined range, and controls said blower so as to generate air flows including said ions in a dispersed manner into a plurality of positions in a room.