CN101290156A

CN101290156A - Air conditioner

Info

Publication number: CN101290156A
Application number: CNA200710153509XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 申相浩; 尹渊燮
Original assignee: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
Current assignee: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
Priority date: 2007-04-19
Filing date: 2007-09-20
Publication date: 2008-10-22
Also published as: JP2008267777A

Abstract

The invention discloses an air conditioner which, compared with the prior art, simplifies an opening and closing device for opening and closing suction inlet and successfully opens and closes the suction inlet. The air conditioner comprises a main body having the suction inlet, a front panel rotatably mounted on the main body for opening and closing the suction inlet and an opening and closing device for opening and closing the front panel; the opening and closing device comprises a lifting part mounted in the main body in a lifting way, a driving device for causing the lifting part to lift and a connecting part for connecting the lifting part and the front panel and converting the lifting movement of the lifting part into the rotation movement of the front panel.

Description

Air conditioner

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of air conditioner, relate in particular to air conditioner with the opening and closing device that is used to open and close suction inlet.

Background technology

The disclosed air conditioner of Korean granted patent communique " 10-452981 number (2004.10.15 bulletin) " has the blinds apparatus (shutter apparatus) that can open and close suction inlet.This air conditioner cuts out suction inlet by blinds apparatus when not working, thereby can prevent that foreign matter from flowing into suction inlet, and beautiful outward appearance can be provided.

The blinds apparatus of this air conditioner comprise be arranged on the suction inlet front and along a plurality of grid louver boards of horizontal expansion, be arranged on the louvered side of each grid and be used to make the mutually different lifting drive rod of the louvered lifting situation of each grid, be used to make the drive motors of lifting drive rod lifting, the spinning movement of drive motors be converted to the tooth bar and the driven wheel of the elevating movement of lifting drive rod.This blinds apparatus when the lifting drive rod according to the action of drive motors and during lifting, the spacing between each grid louver board becomes big or diminishes, and opens or closes suction inlet thus.That is, when the spacing between each grid louver board becomes big, can suck air, and suction passage is closed when the spacing between each grid louver board narrows down by this slit.

But this air conditioner comprises a plurality of grid louver boards owing to open and close the blinds apparatus of suction inlet, so number of components is many, complex structure.Thereupon, there is the problem difficult, that manufacturing expense is high of making.

Summary of the invention

The present invention proposes in order to address the above problem, and its purpose is to provide a kind of air conditioner that can open and close the opening and closing device of suction inlet when having simplified structure compared with prior art smoothly.

To achieve these goals, according to air conditioner provided by the present invention, it is characterized in that: comprise main body, in order to open and close the opening and closing device that described suction inlet is rotatably installed in the front panel on the described main body and is used to open and close described front panel with suction inlet; Described opening and closing device comprises the Lift Part that liftably is installed in the described main body, the drive unit that is used to make described Lift Part lifting, connection described Lift Part and described front panel and the elevating movement of described Lift Part is converted to the attaching parts that rotatablely move of described front panel.

And it is characterized in that: described Lift Part comprises the tooth-strip part that extends along the lifting direction, and described drive unit comprises the driven wheel that is meshed with described tooth-strip part and is used to rotate the drive motors of described driven wheel.

And it is characterized in that: the bottom of described front panel rotatably is incorporated into described main body front; One end of described attaching parts rotatably is incorporated into described front panel top, and the other end rotatably is incorporated into described Lift Part.

And the front face inner surface that it is characterized in that described main body is provided with the guide rail of the elevating movement that is used to guide described Lift Part.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the profile of expression according to air conditioner structure provided by the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the stereogram of expression according to air conditioner opening and closing device provided by the present invention;

Fig. 3 is the profile according to air conditioner opening and closing device provided by the present invention and front panel, expression front panel closing state;

Fig. 4 is the profile according to air conditioner opening and closing device provided by the present invention and front panel, the state that the expression front panel is opened.

Main symbol description: 10 is main body, and 11 is the back housing, and 12 is the front housing, 13 are the front suction inlet, and 14 is top suction inlet, and 15 is outlet, 16 is heat exchanger, and 17 is ventilating fan, and 18 is front panel, 20 is opening and closing device, and 21 is Lift Part, and 22 is attaching parts, 24 is tooth-strip part, and 25 is driven wheel, and 26 is drive motors, 31 is first, and 32 is second.

The specific embodiment

Below, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in Figure 1, air conditioner provided by the present invention has main body 10, and main body 10 comprises back housing 11 that is fixed in building walls and the front housing 12 that is incorporated into back housing 11 the place aheads.Main body 10 fronts and top front suction inlet 13 (referring to Fig. 2) and the top suction inlet 14 that is formed for sucking room air respectively, main body 10 downsides are formed for the air after regulating is discharged to indoor outlet 15.

Main body 10 inside are provided with heat exchanger 16 that is used for air heat exchange and the ventilating fan 17 that is used for blow air.Ventilating fan 17 is a cross flow fan, and this ventilating fan 17 is rotated according to the drive motors (not shown) that is arranged in the main body 10.Thus, when ventilating fan 17 rotations, air is inhaled into by

suction inlet

13,14, and this air is undertaken being fed to indoor by outlet 15 after the heat exchange by heat exchanger 16.

As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, main body 10 fronts are provided with the front panel 18 that is used to open and close front suction inlet 13, and the front housing 12 of front panel 18 inboards is provided with the opening and closing device 20 that is used to open and close front panel 18.This is for when air conditioner is not worked, and as shown in Figure 3, is closed front suction inlet 13 and is prevented that foreign matter such as dust from flowing into by front suction inlet 13 when aesthetic appearances is provided by front panel 18.And when air conditioner is worked, as shown in Figure 4, open front panel 18 and air is inhaled into by front suction inlet 13 by opening and closing device 20.

Front panel 18 has can cover front suction inlet 13 and with its size of closing, the hinge axis 18a that is arranged on both sides, front panel 18 bottom rotatably is incorporated into front housing 12 both sides respectively fully.Therefore, front panel 18 can rotate and switching front suction inlet 13 front and back.

As shown in Figure 2, opening and closing device 20 comprises the Lift Part 21 that liftably is installed on front housing 12 inboards, connects the attaching parts 22 of Lift Part 21 and front panel 18 and is used to make the drive unit of Lift Part 21 liftings.Lift Part 21 liftably is incorporated into the fluctuating orbit 23 that is arranged on front housing 12 inner surfaces, and the one side has the tooth-strip part 24 that extends along the vertical direction.

Make the drive unit of Lift Part 21 liftings comprise driven wheel 25 that is meshed with the tooth-strip part 24 of Lift Part 21 and the drive motors 26 that makes driven wheel 25 be docile and obedient hour hands or counterclockwise rotate.Drive motors 26 is fixed in the motor support sector 27 of front housing 12 inner surfaces by set bolt 28.This is for when driven wheel 25 rotates according to the action of drive motors 26, makes Lift Part 21 carry out lifting.

Attaching parts 22 are for having the rod-like members of certain-length.One end of attaching parts 22 rotatably is incorporated into front panel 18 inner surface upsides by first 31, and its other end rotatably is incorporated into Lift Part 21 bottoms by second 32.And, be incorporated into Lift Part 21 in order to make attaching parts 22 pass front housing 12 and make attaching parts 22 and Lift Part 21 1 liftings, form opening 19 in front on the housing 12.Along with the lifting of Lift Part 21, second 32 that connects Lift Part 21 and attaching parts 22 is moved along the vertical direction, makes first 31 of connection front panel 18 and attaching parts 22 to be pushed to the place ahead or to pull to the rear thus.And, according to this action front panel 18 by Unscrew or close.

This opening and closing device 20 is compared with existing opening and closing device, and is not only simple in structure, and can open and close front suction inlet 13 smoothly.That is,, therefore front panel 18 is opened and closed smoothly because the lifting action of the Lift Part 21 that the action of drive motors 26 causes is converted to the rotating open-close action of front panel 18.And if adjust the diameter (or gear ratio) of driven wheel 25, then drive motors 26 usefulness less action force also can make Lift Part 21 liftings, therefore can also realize the miniaturization of drive motors 26.And,, therefore can also improve the durability of opening and closing device 20 owing to when opening and closing front panel 18, not acting on excessive power on Lift Part 21 or the driven wheel 25.

The present invention adopts drive motors 26, driven wheel 25, tooth-strip part 24 as the drive unit that makes Lift Part 21 liftings, but this only is an exemplary illustration, and drive unit is not limited to this form, can adopt any form that can make Lift Part 21 liftings.For example, drive unit can adopt and comprise the form that makes the helical axis of Lift Part lifting when rotating according to drive motors, perhaps can adopt common hydraulic cylinder or solenoid (solenoid) form.

The following describes the on-off action of the front panel 18 that takes place according to the action of opening and closing device 20.

As shown in Figure 3, when Lift Part 21 descends according to the action of drive motors 26, move down owing to connect Lift Part 21 and attaching parts 22 second 32, first 31 that therefore connects front panel 18 and attaching parts 22 is pulled to the rear.Thereby front panel 18 rearward rotates and is closed.

Otherwise as shown in Figure 4, when Lift Part 21 rose according to the action of drive motors 26, because connection Lift Part 21 and attaching parts 22 second 32 moves up, first 31 that therefore connects front panel 18 and attaching parts 22 was pushed to the place ahead.Thereby front panel 18 forwards rotates and opens.When front panel 18 was opened, because front suction inlet 13 is open, so room air not only sucked by top suction inlet 14, but also is drawn into body interior by front suction inlet 13.

In sum, owing to adopt front panel according to the action of lowering or hoisting gear and attaching parts and the form of rotating open-close, therefore compared with prior art has the effect that to simplify the opening and closing device structure that is used to open and close suction inlet according to air conditioner provided by the present invention.

And therefore the present invention can realize the smooth switching of front panel because the lifting action of the caused Lift Part of action of drive motors is converted to the rotating open-close action of front panel.

And, the present invention is because drive motors also can make the Lift Part lifting with less action force, therefore can realize the miniaturization of drive motors, and, therefore can improve the durability of opening and closing device owing to can not act on excessive power on Lift Part or the driven wheel when opening and closing front panel.

Claims

1, a kind of air conditioner, it is characterized in that comprising main body with suction inlet, in order to open and close the opening and closing device that described suction inlet is rotatably installed in the front panel on the described main body and is used to open and close described front panel, described opening and closing device comprises the Lift Part that liftably is installed on the described main body, the drive unit that is used to make described Lift Part lifting, connect described Lift Part and described front panel and the elevating movement of described Lift Part is converted to the attaching parts that rotatablely move of described front panel.

2, air conditioner according to claim 1 is characterized in that:

Described Lift Part comprises the tooth-strip part that extends along the lifting direction;

Described drive unit comprises the driven wheel that is meshed with described tooth-strip part and is used to rotate the drive motors of described driven wheel.

3, air conditioner according to claim 2 is characterized in that:

The bottom of described front panel rotatably is incorporated into described main body front;

One end of described attaching parts rotatably is incorporated into described front panel top, and its other end rotatably is incorporated into described Lift Part.

4, air conditioner according to claim 1 is characterized in that comprising the guide rail of the front face inner surface that is arranged on described main body, to be used to guide the elevating movement of described Lift Part.