Patent 7392821 was granted and assigned to Daikin Industries, Ltd. on July, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Disclosed is a drain water discharge structure for an air conditioning apparatus in which at least any one of an internal drain pipe (12) and an external drain pipe (14) is formed from an antibacterial metal pipe, thereby to inhibit the generation of slime in the external drain pipe (14) and to make the external drain pipe (14) less apt to deterioration.