ATBECHDEDKESFRGBGRITLILUNLSEMCPTIESILTLVFIROMKCYALTRBGCZEEHUPLSKBAHRIS..MTNORSMESM..................JBDM Ver 0.1.63 (23 May 2017) - 1620000/02587177EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATIONA320171206EP12161716.12012032820120328enenen2011011038620111027KR2017120620174920130501201318F25B 1/10 20060101AFI20171030BHEP F25B 49/02 20060101ALI20171030BHEP F24F 11/06 20060101ALI20171030BHEP F24F 1/30 20110101ALI20171030BHEP F25B 13/00 20060101ALN20171030BHEP deKlimaanlageenAir conditionerfrClimatiseur1LG Electronics Inc.101103559T3503 EPLG Twin Towers 20, Yeouido-dong Youngdungpo-guSeoul 150-721KRLee, JaewanLG Electronics Inc. IP Group 327-23, Gasandong, Geumcheon-gu153-802 SeoulKRVossius & Partner Patentanwälte Rechtsanwälte mbB100751388Siebertstrasse 381675 MünchenDEALATBEBGCHCYCZDEDKEEESFIFRGBGRHRHUIEISITLILTLULVMCMKMTNLNOPLPTRORSSESISKSMTRBAME20171206201749

Provided is an air conditioner. The air conditioner includes an indoor unit and an outdoor unit. The outdoor unit includes a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, a supercooling unit for supercooling a refrigerant, a first refrigerant pipe allowing the supercooling unit to communicate with a suction side of the compressor, a first valve disposed in the first refrigerant pipe, a second refrigerant pipe connecting the compressor to the first refrigerant pipe, and a second valve disposed in the second refrigerant pipe. In a first refrigerant flow mode, a refrigerant flowing into the supercooling unit is introduced into the compressor through the second refrigerant pipe. In a second refrigerant flow mode, a refrigerant compressed by the compressor is discharged into the second refrigerant pipe.

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