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An air conditioning apparatus includes a cabinet having air inlet and outlet openings and an intense field dielectric air filtration system disposed in the cabinet between the inlet and outlet openings. The filtration system includes a field charging unit and a filter unit. The filter unit may be mo

An air conditioning apparatus includes a cabinet having air inlet and outlet openings and an intense field dielectric air filtration system disposed in the cabinet between the inlet and outlet openings. The filtration system includes a field charging unit and a filter unit. The filter unit may be mounted for removal from the cabinet on spaced apart support brackets connected to the cabinet or to a frame of the field charging unit. Electrical contact elements may be supported by the support brackets for engagement with corresponding contact elements on the filter unit and charging unit for establishing electrical communication between a power supply and the charging unit and filter unit, respectively. A shorting bar is aligned with the contact members on the filter unit for discharging high voltage potential upon removal of the filter unit from the cabinet.

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What is claimed is: 1. An air conditioning apparatus including: a cabinet having an air inlet opening and an air outlet opening, said cabinet including opposed walls forming an enclosed flow path for air flowing through said apparatus between said openings; a blower disposed within the cabinet; a h

What is claimed is: 1. An air conditioning apparatus including: a cabinet having an air inlet opening and an air outlet opening, said cabinet including opposed walls forming an enclosed flow path for air flowing through said apparatus between said openings; a blower disposed within the cabinet; a heat exchanger disposed between the blower and the air inlet opening; and an electrically energized air filtration system integrated into said apparatus and disposed in said cabinet for filtering an air flowstream passing through said cabinet between said inlet opening and said outlet opening; wherein a portion of the air filtration system is disposed between the heat exchanger and the air inlet opening and a portion of the air filtration system is disposed between a bottom of the heat exchanger and the air outlet opening. 2. The apparatus set forth in claim 1 wherein: said filtration system includes a filter unit and an electric field charging unit for imposing a high voltage electric field on said air flowstream for collecting particles on said filter unit from said air flowstream. 3. The apparatus set forth in claim 2 wherein: said electric field charging unit is mounted in said cabinet upstream from said filter unit with respect to the direction of air flow through said filtration system, said filter unit and said field charging unit each being operable to be connected to a source of high voltage electric potential. 4. The apparatus set forth in claim 3 wherein: said filter unit includes a frame, and a filter element supported on said frame and exposed to said source of high voltage electric potential for attracting particulates passing through said filter unit. 5. The apparatus set forth in claim 3 wherein: said field charging unit is disposed adjacent said filter unit, said field charging unit including a frame, a field charging plate having plural openings formed therein, plural spaced apart conductor pins mounted on said frame and disposed in alignment with said openings in said charging plate, respectively, and a conductor operably connected to said conductor pins and said charging plate, respectively, for imposing an intense electric field in a space through which air flow occurs between said inlet opening and said outlet opening. 6. The apparatus set forth in claim 3 wherein: said filter unit and said field charging unit are separable and removable from said cabinet, respectively. 7. The apparatus set forth in claim 6 including: filtration system support structure comprising spaced apart support bracket members disposed in said cabinet. 8. The apparatus set forth in claim 7 wherein: said support bracket members are supported on opposed walls of said cabinet, and said support bracket members include support parts engageable with said filtration system for removably mounting said filtration system in said cabinet and interposed in said air flowstream. 9. The apparatus set forth in claim 7 wherein: said support bracket members are mounted on a frame of said field charging unit for supporting said filter unit with respect to field charging unit. 10. The apparatus set forth in claim 7 wherein: one of said support bracket members includes spaced apart bracket contact members disposed thereon and engageable with cooperating spaced apart ones of contact members on said filter unit, respectively, for imposing a high intensity electric field on said filter unit when said filter unit is disposed in said cabinet. 11. The apparatus set forth in claim 10 wherein: said field charging unit includes spaced apart contact members in electrically conductive communication with plural spaced apart charging pins and a cooperating field charging plate, respectively, and said support structure includes cooperating bracket contact members disposed thereon and engageable with said contact members of said field charging unit, respectively. 12. The apparatus set forth in claim 11 wherein: said source of electric potential comprises a power supply unit and a conductor interconnecting said power supply unit with said bracket contact members for communicating a high voltage electric potential to said filter unit and said field charging unit. 13. The apparatus set forth in claim 11 including: an intermediate bracket interposed one of said support bracket members and said filtration system and supporting said bracket contact members. 14. The apparatus set forth in claim 10 including: an electrical shorting part aligned with said bracket contact members whereby in response to movement of said filter unit out of said support structure said shorting part engages respective ones of said contact members on said filter unit to discharge electric potential residing on said filter unit. 15. The apparatus set forth in claim 3 wherein: said source of electric potential comprises a power supply unit disposed in said cabinet. 16. The apparatus set forth in claim 15 wherein: the power supply unit is operable to provide an electric potential to said filtration system at selected values in a range of about seven kilovolts to ten kilovolts. 17. The apparatus set forth in claim 15 including: a control circuit connected to said power supply unit and a switch interposed in said control circuit for shutting off power to said power supply unit. 18. The apparatus set forth in claim 17 wherein: said switch is mounted for engagement by one of said filter unit and said field charging unit when disposed in a working position on said apparatus, and said switch being operable upon movement toward removal of said one of said filter unit and said field charging unit from said cabinet to shut off electric power to said power supply unit. 19. The apparatus set forth in claim 17 wherein: said switch is mounted for engagement with a panel of said cabinet and said switch is responsive to removal of said panel for shutting off power to said power supply unit. 20. The apparatus set forth in claim 2 wherein: said filter unit includes a perimeter frame, a filter core assembly mountable on said frame including a stack of contiguous filter elements, said filter elements being disposed wherein alternate ones of said filter elements include a surface conductor in electrically conductive contact with a positive high voltage potential and a negative high voltage potential, respectively. 21. The apparatus set forth in claim 20 including: an elongated conductor member disposed in a slot in each of alternate ones of said filter elements and in electrically conductive contact with said surface conductor respectively. 22. The apparatus set forth in claim 3 wherein: said apparatus includes a panel removable from said apparatus to provide access to said filtration system and a retainer mounted on said apparatus and engaged with said field charging unit to prevent removal of said field charging unit from said cabinet prior to removal of said filter unit from said cabinet. 23. The air conditioning apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the portion of the air filtration system that is disposed between the bottom of the heat exchanger and the air outlet opening comprises a power supply of the air filtration system. 24. The air conditioning apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the portion of the air filtration system that is disposed between the bottom of the heat exchanger and the air outlet opening comprises a transformer of the air filtration system. 25. An air conditioning apparatus comprising: a cabinet including a forced air blower disposed therein between an air inlet opening and an air outlet opening, said cabinet including opposed walls forming an enclosed flow path for air flowing through said apparatus between said openings; a heat exchanger disposed between the blower and the air inlet opening; an electrically energized air filtration system disposed in said cabinet for filtering an air flowstream passing through said cabinet between said openings, including a filter unit and an electric field charging unit disposed upstream of said filter unit with respect to the direction of air flow through said cabinet, said filter unit and said field charging unit including electrical contact member operable to be in contact with a source of high voltage electric potential; and spaced apart support bracket members disposed in said cabinet and including support parts engageable with said filtration system for removably mounting said filtration system in said cabinets; wherein a portion of the air filtration system is disposed between the heat exchanger and the air inlet opening and a portion of the air filtration system is disposed between a bottom of the heat exchanger and the air outlet opening. 26. The apparatus set forth in claim 25 including: an intermediate bracket interposed one of said support brackets and said filtration system and supporting spaced apart bracket contact members, a power supply, and a conductor interconnecting said power supply with said bracket contact members for communicating a high voltage potential to said filter unit and said field charging unit by way of said bracket contact members and said contact members on said filter unit and said field charging unit, respectively. 27. The apparatus set forth in claim 26 wherein: said field charging unit includes plural spaced apart charging pins and a cooperating field charging plate, respectively, and respective ones of said bracket contact members are disposed thereon and engageable with said contact members of said field charging unit, respectively, when said field charging unit is placed in a working position in said cabinet. 28. The apparatus set forth in claim 27 wherein: said filter unit and said field charging unit are separable and are slidably disposed in said intermediate bracket for mounting in and removal from said cabinet, respectively. 29. The apparatus set forth in claim 28 including: an electrical shorting part on said intermediate bracket and aligned with said bracket contact members whereby in response to movement of said filter unit out of said support structure said shorting part engages respective ones of said contact members on said filter unit to discharge any electric potential residing on said filter unit. 30. The apparatus set forth in claim 25 wherein: said source of high voltage electric potential comprises a power supply unit disposed in said cabinet. 31. The apparatus set forth in claim 30 wherein: said power supply unit is operable to provide an electric potential to said filtration system at selected values in a range from about seven kilovolts to about ten kilovolts. 32. The apparatus set forth in claim 30 including: a control circuit connected to said power supply unit and a switch interposed in said control circuit and field charging unit when disposed in a working position on said apparatus, said switch being operable upon movement toward removal of said one of said filter unit and said field charging unit from said cabinet to shut off electric power to said power supply. 33. The air conditioning apparatus according to claim 25, wherein at least one of the filter unit and the electric field charging unit are selectively removable by sliding in a direction substantially orthogonal to the direction of air flow through said cabinet. 34. An air conditioning apparatus comprising: a cabinet including a forced air blower disposed therein between an air inlet opening and an air outlet opening, said cabinet including opposed walls forming an enclosed flow path for air flowing through said apparatus between openings; a heat exchanger disposed between the blower and the air inlet opening; an electrically energized air filtration system disposed in said cabinet for filtering an air flowstream passing through said cabinet between said openings, including a filter unit and an electric field charging unit disposed upstream of said filter unit with respect to the direction of air flow through said cabinet, said filter unit and said field charging unit including electrical contact members operable to be in contact with a source of high voltage electric potential; and a support engageable with said filtration system for mounting said filtration system in said cabinet; wherein a portion of the air filtration system is disposed between the heat exchanger and the air inlet opening and a portion of the air filtration system is disposed between a bottom of the heat exchanger and the air outlet opening. 35. The apparatus set forth in claim 34 wherein: said field charging unit includes a frame engaged with said support for mounting and spaced apart support brackets connected to said frame for receiving said filter unit supported on said frame for removal therefrom. 36. The apparatus set forth in claim 35 wherein: one of said support brackets supports spaced apart bracket contact members, said apparatus includes a power supply and a conductor interconnecting said power supply with said bracket contact members for communicating a high voltage potential to said filter unit and said field charging unit by way of said bracket contact members. 37. The apparatus set forth in claim 36 including: an electrical shorting part on one of said support brackets whereby in response to movement of said filter unit out of said support brackets said shorting part engages respective ones of contact members on said filter unit to discharge any electric potential residing on said filter unit. 38. The apparatus set forth in claim 34 including: a control circuit connected to said source of electric potential and a switch interposed in said control circuit and mounted for engagement by a movable panel of said cabinet and being operable upon movement of said panel to gain access to one of said filter unit and said field charging unit to shut off electric power to said source of electric potential. 39. The air conditioning apparatus according to claim 34, wherein the electric field charging unit is selectively removable and wherein the electric field charging unit comprises a plurality of electrical charging pins.