摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress generation of abnormal sound resulting from the thermal expansion-contraction of an element and improve the durability of an air conditioner by rational improvement in upper and lower attachment portions of the element while preventing a support load and an external force from acting on a protruding portion of a heat transfer tube penetrating the element.SOLUTION: An air conditioner is configured so that a heat absorbing or heat radiation element 3 through which a heat transfer tube penetrates is attached over an upper support frame 13 and a lower support frame 17 of a body in a vertical profile, and the element 3 is cooled or heated by passing a heat medium through the heat transfer tube 4, thereby cooling or heating air around the element 3. Thermal expansion-contraction allowing means for allowing thermal expansion-contraction of the element 3 with respect to the upper support frame 13 is provided in an attachment portion in which an upper end of the element 3 is attached to the upper support frame 13, and an elastic member 28 is provided between a lower end of the element 3 and the lower support frame 17, thereby elastically supporting the lower end of the element 3 on the lower support frame 17.</p> |