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(11) | EP 0 837 289 A3 |
| (12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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| (54) | Air conditioner and method of controlling the air conditioner |
| (57) Air conditioner (1) has a function capable of automatically restarting a predetermined
air conditioning operation in a case where a power supply from a power source (21)
to the air conditioner (1) is interrupted and then the power supply from the power
source (21) thereto is recovered. Whether or not the automatically restart operation
is performed is switchably set by an auto-re-start setting means. A refrigerant is
reversibly circulated by a refrigerating cycle elements annularly connected with each
other of an executing means whereby an air conditioning operation is executed. A content
of the air conditioning operation is memorized by a memory means as an operation content
data. Whether or not the interruption of the power supply and the recovery thereof
occur during the air conditioning operation is judged by a judgment means. Only in
a case where the performance of the automatically restart operation is set by the
auto-re-start setting means and where the interruption of the power supply and the
recovery thereof occur during the air conditioning operation by the judgment of the
judgment means, the operation content data is read out by a control means from the
memory means and the control means makes the executing means restart automatically
an air conditioning operation according to the readout operation content data. |