CN103673245A

CN103673245A - Air conditioner

Info

Publication number: CN103673245A
Application number: CN201310412566.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 佐藤诚; 伊藤健二
Original assignee: 三菱重工业株式会社
Priority date: 2012-09-14
Filing date: 2013-09-11
Publication date: 2014-03-26
Also published as: JP6053410B2; CN103673245B; JP2014059078A

Abstract

The present invention provides an air conditioner which causes a plate-shaped air valve to lift vertically through guiding pins that slide in vertical-direction guiding grooves (28) of a left guide rail and a right guide rail (27) that are in a pair, thereby opening and closing a blowing-out opening. A pushing-out groove (29) for pushing the lower part of the air valve to the front side can be connected with a guiding groove (28), and the pushing-out groove (29) and the guiding groove (28) are arranged on the guide rails (27). The pushing-out groove (29) is configured in a manner that the depth of the groove is smaller than that of the guiding groove (28) and a lower guiding pin which only projects from the left end surface and the right end surface of the air valve and has smaller projection length can be engaged with or disengaged from the pushing-out groove. In the air conditioner, structures of the guide rails for lifting the air valve for opening and closing the blowing-out opening and the mechanism for pushing the air valve to the front side can be simplified for realizing smooth movement. Furthermore generation of movement noise, etc. can be prevented.

Description

Air regulator

Technical field

The present invention designs following air regulator: the air after temperature adjustment is being provided with to the air door mechanism for this blow-off outlet is opened and closed to the indoor blow-off outlet blowing out.

Background technology

The air regulator of vertically-arranged type is configured to conventionally, from the blow-off outlet of the upper front setting of the front panel in unit main body, to indoor blowing out by circulate in heat exchanger in unit main body, carries out the air temperature adjustment.In such vertically-arranged type air regulator, be provided with the air-conditioning adjuster of air door mechanism opening blow-off outlet and close blow-off outlet when air regulator turns round when running stops just practical.This air door mechanism is configured to, and possesses: tabular air door, and along pair of guide rails lifting freely, and blow-off outlet is opened and closed, this pair of guide rails is located at the both sides of blow-off outlet along the vertical direction; And elevating mechanism, make this tabular air door carry out lifting.

This tabular air door is configured to, and along guide rail, rises, in the position of sealing blow-off outlet, to front face side, be pushed out, with front panel form flush above.In patent documentation 1, following structure is disclosed: the top guide finger that makes air door forwards rolls oblique rail guidance by the upper portion of gathering sill, by the bottom of air door with along other lifting rail pair of right and left cam freely, be connected, make this cam via be located at guide rail upper end open rake and can forwards move, thereby the bottom of air door can be gone out to thruster above.

Patent documentation 1: No. 4328353 communique of Japan Patent

But, in the mode of patent documentation 1, there are the following problems: the top of air door and bottom must be guided by guide rail separately, not only need many groups for making air door carry out the guide rail of lifting, also need to possess the cam configuration of the function that the bottom of air door is gone out to thruster above, thereby part number increases, for making the mechanism of air door lifting complicated and expensive etc.

And, also consider that the top guide finger that guide rail is made as to pair of right and left single track and air door slides in identical gathering sill with bottom guide finger and the structure of carrying out lifting, but in the situation that be made as such structure, top guide finger likely enters into originally in order to make bottom guide finger by the groove of the bottom of air door release use that slide, that be connected with above-mentioned gathering sill when thruster goes out above, likely hinders the lifting smoothly of air door.

Summary of the invention

The present invention makes in light of this situation, object is to provide a kind of air regulator, can simplify making the air door of the air door mechanism that blow-off outlet opens and closes carry out the structure of guide rail and the structure of mechanism that air door is gone out to thruster above of lifting, make it smoothly movable, and, prevent the generation of movable sound etc.

In order to solve the above problems, air regulator of the present invention adopts following method.

; air regulator of the present invention is being provided with to the indoor blow-off outlet place blowing out the air door mechanism that this blow-off outlet is opened and closed by the air after temperature adjustment; in air regulator; above-mentioned air door mechanism possesses: pair of right and left guide rail; be arranged at along the vertical direction the both sides of above-mentioned blow-off outlet, and be provided with the gathering sill along above-below direction; Tabular air door, carries out lifting and above-mentioned blow-off outlet is opened and closed along this guide rail; Guide finger, is located at left and right both ends of the surface upper and lower of this air door, in the above-mentioned gathering sill of above-mentioned guide rail, slides; And elevating mechanism, make above-mentioned air door carry out lifting along above-mentioned guide rail, can when above-mentioned air door rises to the position of closing above-mentioned blow-off outlet, the lower quadrate part of the above-mentioned air door release groove that face thruster goes out forward and above-mentioned gathering sill be conjointly located to above-mentioned pair of right and left guide rail, this release groove is configured to, groove depth is more shallow than above-mentioned gathering sill, is only can be chimeric or depart from this release groove from the shorter above-mentioned bottom guide finger of the outstanding outstanding length of the left and right both ends of the surface of above-mentioned air door.

According to the present invention, the guide finger sliding in gathering sill via the above-below direction along pair of right and left guide rail and make tabular air door along carrying out up and down lifting, thereby in the air regulator that blow-off outlet can open and close, the lower quadrate part of air door face thruster goes out forward release groove and gathering sill conjointly can be located to guide rail, this release groove is configured to, groove depth is more shallow than gathering sill, and be only can be chimeric or depart from this release groove from the short bottom guide finger of the outstanding outstanding length of the left and right both ends of the surface of air door, therefore all guide fingers setting up and down of the left and right both ends of the surface at air door are embedded in sliding freely in the gathering sill arranging at pair of right and left guide rail, even slide freely in same gathering sill, also without worrying that top guide finger is embedded into, release in groove, can make air door along the successfully lifting of pair of right and left guide rail, and, even in the closed position of blow-off outlet by air door when releasing with substantially flush of front panel, only by the shorter bottom guide finger of outstanding length is gone out to thruster above along releasing groove, just air door can be released to the position with substantially flush of front panel.Therefore, without gathering sill is divided into for top guide finger and for bottom guide finger, can simplify its structure, and can simplify the ejecting mechanism of air door, can make it smoothly movable and prevent the generation of movable sound etc.

And, the upper portion of above-mentioned gathering sill is to rolling tiltedly to tilt above, the extrusion position towards front face side of the upper end of above-mentioned gathering sill and the leading section of above-mentioned release groove towards the outstanding extrusion position of front face side, be set as same position, when above-mentioned air door moves to the position of closing above-mentioned blow-off outlet in above-mentioned gathering sill and above-mentioned release groove, air door above with front panel form the structure of substantially flush above.

According to the present invention, the upper portion of the gathering sill of guide rail is to rolling tiltedly to tilt above, the extrusion position towards front face side of the upper end of this gathering sill with release groove leading section towards the outstanding extrusion position of front face side, be set as same position, when air door moves to the position of closing blow-off outlet in gathering sill and release groove, air door above with front panel form the structure of substantially flush above, therefore in this air regulator, after the gathering sill that air door is tilted along the front face side towards guide rail rises to the upper end position of cutting out blow-off outlet, the bottom guide finger of air door is pushed out to the leading section of releasing groove, thereby can make air door above with front panel automatically form substantially flush above.Therefore, only by the set positions of the position, upper end of gathering sill and the leading section position of release groove, what just can make simply air door closes blow-off outlet with the forming flush above of front panel above, can guarantee design when blow-off outlet is closed and improve aesthetics.

And, air regulator of the present invention is characterised in that, in above-mentioned air regulator, than near the face of top side's above-mentioned guide rail surface side above-mentioned release groove be set as along and the both ends of the surface of above-mentioned air door between the inclined plane of the direction that narrows down gradually to front face side of gap.

According to the present invention, than the face of releasing near top side's guide rail surface side groove be set as along and the both ends of the surface of air door between the inclined plane of the direction that narrows down gradually to front face side of gap, therefore in this air regulator, when air door slides and during lifting in gathering sill, can between the both ends of the surface of air door and the surface of guide rail, guarantee certain gap and make successfully lifting of air door, on the other hand, when air door is pushed out to front face side in the position of closing blow-off outlet, can closes blow-off outlet and to reduce gap, avoid generation to rock.Activity and the closing property of air door to blow-off outlet during lifting that therefore, this air regulator can improve air door simultaneously.

And, air regulator of the present invention is characterised in that, in above-mentioned arbitrary air regulator, guide finger setting up and down in the left and right of above-mentioned air door both ends of the surface is set as the guide finger that pin length is the same structure of equal length, and above-mentioned bottom guide finger is arranged at the position shortening from the outstanding outstanding length of the left and right both ends of the surface of above-mentioned air door.

According to the present invention, guide finger setting up and down in the left and right of air door both ends of the surface is set as the guide finger that pin length is the same structure of equal length, bottom guide finger is arranged at the position shortening from the outstanding outstanding length of the left and right both ends of the surface of air door, therefore in this air regulator, can make at all guide fingers setting up and down of the left and right of air door both ends of the surface general by a kind of guide finger, and for shortening from the bottom guide finger of the outstanding outstanding length of the left and right both ends of the surface of air door, can shorten the outstanding length of pin by changing its setting position.Therefore,, in this air regulator, by making guide finger generalization, can reduce part number, easily assembling, cost etc.

And, air regulator of the present invention is characterised in that, in above-mentioned arbitrary air regulator, above-mentioned air door is connected with above-mentioned elevating mechanism via connector, wherein one end of above-mentioned connector and the upper end of above-mentioned elevating mechanism are rotated and are connected freely, and the other end rotates and is connected freely with the bottom of above-mentioned air door.

According to the present invention, air door is connected with elevating mechanism via connector, wherein one end of this connector and the upper end of elevating mechanism are rotated and are connected freely, the other end rotates and is connected freely with the bottom of air door, therefore in this air regulator, when making air door rise to by elevating mechanism the position of closing blow-off outlet, at top guide finger, arrive the upper end of gathering sill and after cannot continuing to rise, by making elevating mechanism increase, make connector tilt to move, utilize this action that the bottom of air door is released along releasing groove, until bottom guide finger contacts with the leading section of releasing groove, can make thus air door above with front panel form substantially flush above.Therefore, in this air regulator, only, by the simple lifting action of elevating mechanism, just can simply air door be moved to the position of the regulation of closing blow-off outlet, save in gathering sill the cam that slides and move in its sloped-end etc., thus simplification that can implementation structure.

Invention effect

According to the present invention, all guide fingers setting up and down in the left and right of air door both ends of the surface are embedded in the gathering sill arranging at pair of right and left guide rail sliding freely, even slide freely in same gathering sill, also without worrying that top guide finger is embedded into, release in groove, can make air door along the successfully lifting of pair of right and left guide rail, and, even in the closed position of blow-off outlet by air door when releasing with substantially flush of front panel, only by the shorter bottom guide finger of outstanding length is gone out to thruster above along releasing groove, just air door can be released to the position with substantially flush of front panel, without gathering sill being divided into for the gathering sill of top guide finger with for the gathering sill of bottom guide finger, can simplify its structure, and can simplify the ejecting mechanism of air door, can make its movable generation that prevents smoothly movable sound etc.

Accompanying drawing explanation

Fig. 1 is the stereoscopic figure of the air regulator of one embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is the stereogram of state of having pulled down the upper front plate of the air regulator shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 has pulled down the lower front panel of the air regulator shown in Fig. 1 and air door that blow-off outlet is opened and closed is declined and has been contained in the longitudinal sectional view of state of the rear side of upper front plate.

Fig. 4 makes the air door shown in Fig. 3 rise near the longitudinal sectional view of the state upper end of blow-off outlet.

Fig. 5 further rises the air door shown in Fig. 4 and the longitudinal sectional view of state after going out to thruster above.

Fig. 6 is the stereogram of the state of the above-mentioned air door observed from face side.

Fig. 7 means the stereogram of the state that arranges of the top guide finger arranging on the top of the both ends of the surface of above-mentioned air door.

Fig. 8 means the stereogram of the state that arranges of the bottom guide finger arranging in the bottom of the both ends of the surface of above-mentioned air door.

Fig. 9 is the side view of guide rail that the lifting of above-mentioned air door is guided.

Figure 10 is the figure suitable with the cutaway view of a-a line in Fig. 9.

Figure 11 is the figure suitable with the cutaway view of b-b line in Fig. 9.

Figure 12 is the stereogram of assembled state that makes the elevating mechanism of above-mentioned air door lifting.

Figure 13 is the stereogram of the state when lower side of the tooth bar bracket guides in the elevating mechanism of above-mentioned air door is assembled in to guide rail.

Figure 14 is assembled in the lower side of the tooth bar bracket guides shown in Figure 13 the stereogram of the state after guide rail.

Figure 15 is the side view of air door mechanism residing state in Fig. 3 of above-mentioned air door and elevating mechanism being formed by connecting by connector.

Figure 16 is the side view of the status in Fig. 4 of the air door mechanism shown in Figure 15.

Figure 17 is the side view of the status in Fig. 5 of the air door mechanism shown in Figure 15.

Description of reference numerals

1 air regulator

6 front panels

9 blow-off outlets

10 air door mechanisms

20 air doors

21 elevating mechanisms

22 top guide fingers

23 bottom guide fingers

26 pins

27 guide rails

28 gathering sills

28A upper portion

29 release groove

29A leading section

30 inclined planes

49 connectors

50,51 axles

The specific embodiment

Below, referring to figs. 1 through Figure 17, one embodiment of the present invention is described.

Fig. 1 represents the stereoscopic figure of air regulator of the vertically-arranged type of one embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 has represented to pull down the stereogram of the state of its upper front plate, and Fig. 3 has represented to pull down its underpart front panel and air door that blow-off outlet is opened and closed is declined and has been contained in the longitudinal sectional view of state of the rear side of upper front plate.

The air regulator 1 of vertically-arranged type possesses: backplate 4, is arranged on base plate 3; Left/right side panel 5; And the unit main body 2 of lengthwise rectangular shape, by front panel 6 and top board 7 etc., assembled.

Front panel 6 is plates that the cross sectional shape that possesses the extension extending towards rear in both sides is U word, along being divided into up and down two parts, in the both sides of lower front panel 6A, be provided with for sucking the suction grid 8 of room air, before the upper portion of upper front plate 6B, be provided with the blow-off outlet 9 that blows out the air after temperature adjustment to indoor.At blow-off outlet 9 places, be provided with the air door mechanism 10 that this blow-off outlet 9 is opened and closed.This air door mechanism 10 forms as described below, closes blow-off outlet 9 when the running of air regulator 1 stops, and when air regulator 1 running, makes blow-off outlet 9 in open mode.

Rear side at lower front panel 6A is the inside of unit main body 2, as shown in Figure 3, is incorporated with from suction grid 8 via air cleaner the air blasts such as Sirocco fan 11 towards the upper portion pressurized delivered of unit main body 2 by the room air sucking.The blow-off outlet 12 of this air blast 11 is connected with the wind path 13 being formed at along vertical in unit main body 2.In wind path 13, longitudinally the heat exchanger 14 of long OBL fin-tube type is positioned at front side, upper-end part of driving in the mode tilted configuration of rear side with bottom.

Heat exchanger 14 makes the circulation the wind path 13 in vertical towards the air of top pressurized delivered from below by air blast 11, carries out cooling or heating therebetween, thereby to indoor, blow out from blow-off outlet 9 as the air-conditioner wind of design temperature with refrigerant generation heat exchange.Heat exchanger 14 is connected with outdoor unit side via the coolant piping consisting of refrigerant tracheae and cooling medium liquid pipe, forms known freeze cycle.And the lower position in the bottom of heat exchanger 14 disposes drain pan 15, form the condensed water that the surface aggregation at heat exchanger 14 condensed and flow down and the structure to outdoor discharge via drainage piping.

By the air-conditioner wind after heat exchanger 14 temperature adjustments, from being located at blow-off outlet 9 before the upper portion of upper front plate 6B, vertically changing and flow to and blow out to indoor, but the wind direction that blows out wind in order to adjust this, along multiple longitudinal shutter boards 16 of vertical, be disposed at blow-off outlet 9 along multiple horizontal shutter boards 17 of horizontal direction in the mode that can rotate respectively.And, upper portion at heat exchanger 14, when the lower angle part of blow-off outlet 9 vertically changes air-conditioner wind, for suppressing to depart from and preventing the reduction of air quantity, the generation of noise and the guide vane 18 that guides to blow-off outlet 9 is swimmingly fixedly arranged at the side plate of heat exchanger 14 via bracket part 19.

Make air door mechanism 10 that blow-off outlet 9 opens and closes by forming below: air door 20, via guide, lifting is arranged at blow-off outlet 9 freely along the vertical direction; And elevating mechanism 21, make this air door 20 carry out lifting.As shown in Figure 6, air door 20 is the resinous sheet material having with the rectangular shape of growing crosswise of blow-off outlet 9 same size, at the upper-lower position of both ends of the surface, is provided with resinous top guide finger 22 and bottom guide finger 23.This top guide finger 22 and bottom guide finger 23, in the interior slip of gathering sill 28 of guide rail 27 described later, form from the outstanding different structure of outstanding length of both ends of the surface.

Top guide finger 22 and bottom guide finger 23 as shown in Figure 7, Figure 8, are configured to the guide finger of same structure, have: the installation portion 25 of rectangular shape, is provided with the through hole of Screw 24; And the cylindric pin 26 of specific length, from one side vertical of this installation portion 25 give prominence to.Top guide finger 22 as shown in Figure 7, the cylindric pin 26 that installation portion 25 is arranged at this guide finger is from the end face of air door 20 outstanding position to greatest extent, thereby the outstanding length outstanding from the end face of air door 20 is longer, on the other hand, bottom guide finger 23 as shown in Figure 8, installation portion 25 is arranged at the position that enters into given size inner side from the end face of air door 20, thus the size of the outstanding Length Ratio top guide finger 22 short regulations that the end face from air door 20 of cylindric pin 26 is given prominence to.

Along 27 liftings of pair of right and left resin guide rail freely, wherein this pair of right and left resin guide rail 27 is arranged at the inner surface of the both sides of blow-off outlet 9 to air door 20 along the vertical direction.As shown in Figures 9 to 11, upper section forms slightly widely guide rail 27, and face side is provided with the gathering sill 28 for the certain depth extending along the vertical direction of top guide finger 22 and 23 slips of bottom guide finger within it.The upper portion 28A of this gathering sill 28 is configured to, from the top position of regulation, towards front face side, tilt obliquely, when having closed blow-off outlet 9 by air door 20, can make to advance to before the upper portion of air door 20 position of substantially flush above with upper front plate 6B.

And, in guide rail 27, for by the lower quadrate part of the air door 20 release groove that face thruster goes out forward 29 and gathering sill 28 conjointly along continuous straight runs be located at the middle position on the above-below direction of gathering sill 28, i.e. the position corresponding with position after 23 risings of bottom guide finger when the rising by air door 20 makes top guide finger 22 arrive the upper end position of gathering sill 28.As shown in figure 10, this release groove 29 is configured to, groove depth is more shallow than gathering sill 28, and is only can be chimeric or depart from this releases groove 29 from the shorter bottom guide finger 23 of the outstanding outstanding length of the left and right both ends of the surface of air door 20, and top guide finger 22 but cannot enter in release groove 29.

The position of the outstanding leading section 29A of front face side to releasing groove 29 is made as to identical position with the extrusion position towards front face side of the upper end of the upper portion 28A of front side inclination to gathering sill 28, at the top of air door 20 guide finger 22 and bottom guide finger 23 at gathering sill 28 and release in groove 29 when move the position of closing blow-off outlet 9, be configured to air door 20 above with upper front plate 6B before become substantially flush.And, guide rail 27 form slightly wide upper section as shown in figure 10, the face of guide rail surface side be set as along and the both ends of the surface of air door 20 between the inclined plane 30 of the direction that narrows down gradually to front side of gap.

So, air door 20 carries out lifting along guide rail 27, top guide finger 22 rises to upper end position in gathering sill 28, and, bottom guide finger 23 is pushed out at the leading section 29A that releases groove 29, thereby close blow-off outlet 9, in this closed position, air door 20 above with upper front plate 6B be substantially flush above.And, in gathering sill 28, drop to its lower end position, thereby as shown in Figure 3, be contained in the rear side of upper front plate 6B and be arranged in the receiving space 32 forming between the base 31 in unit main body 2.

On the other hand, make elevating mechanism 21 that above-mentioned air door 20 carries out lifting as shown in Fig. 2 and Figure 12, by forming below: pair of right and left guide rail 40, is set in parallel in base 31 along the vertical direction with the interval of stipulating; Gear stand guide 41, packs in this guide rail 40 along the vertical direction sliding freely via guide finger 42; The rack pinion 43 of specific length, arranges integratedly along the vertical direction with this gear stand guide 41; Drive motor 44, is fixedly arranged at base 31, for making gear stand guide 41 carry out lifting along guide rail 40; And gear 46(Fig. 2 reference), be fixed on the output shaft 45 of this motor 44, and mesh with rack pinion 43.

Guide rail 40 is the resinous tracks that are formed with the orbit portion (omitting diagram) of rail groove alongst etc., via Screw etc., is fixedly arranged on base 31.Gear stand guide 41 is frameworks of lengthwise rectangular shape, the substantial middle position in this framework, rack pinion 43 alongst via many reinforcements with lined sub-41A ester moulding integratedly.And guide finger 42 is the integrally formed product that formed by resin material, at the upper-lower position of the left and right sides of the length direction of gear stand guide 41, be provided with altogether four, in the orbit portion in guide rail 40, slide freely.

Thus, elevating mechanism 21 is configured to, by drive motor 44 positive and reverse returns then make gear 46 rotation, move along the vertical direction with the rack pinion 43 of these gear 46 engagements, thereby via the guide finger 42 of top and bottom, along guide rail 40, carry out along the vertical direction lifting with rack pinion 43 shape all-in-one-piece gear stand guides 41.

Drive motor 44 is set to, and from rear side, in the mode of screw threads for fastening, is fixed on base 31, and output shaft 45 is outstanding to face side.The face side that elevating mechanism 21 is configured at this drive motor 44 arranges guide rail 40 and gear stand guide 41 is packed into sliding freely, therefore after being provided with regularly drive motor 44, in the time gear stand guide 41 will being assembled in to guide rail 40, output shaft 45 can cause interference.But, in elevating mechanism 21, after inserting guide rail 40, will when guide rail 40 arranges drive motor 44, elevating mechanism 21 overturnings need to be assembled several times, thereby assembling reduces.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, elevating mechanism 21 is configured to, in the position by upper side than the output shaft of the drive motor of pair of right and left guide rail 40 44 45, be provided with the notch 47 that the part excision of guide rail 40 is obtained, the guide finger 42 of being located at gear stand guide 41 is inserted in the orbit portion of guide rail 40 from this notch 47, thereby after the arranging of drive motor 44, regardless of giving prominence to of output shaft 45, also gear stand guide 41 can be assembled in to guide rail 40.And elevating mechanism 21 is configured to, after Assembling gear bracket guides 41, utilize Screw etc. will make track cover 48 handling that orbit portion restores be fixedly arranged at freely notch 47, thereby the track function of guide rail 40 can be not impaired.

So the elevating mechanism 21 that, makes air door 20 carry out lifting forms can be by drive motor 44 positive and reverse returns then make gear stand guide 41 along guide rail 40 structure of the stroke of lifting regulation along the vertical direction.At elevating mechanism 21, as shown in FIG. 12 and 15, one end of connector 49 is rotated and is connected with the upper end of gear stand guide 41 freely via axle 50, and the other end of this connector 49 rotates and is connected with the bottom of air door 20 freely via axle 51.Therefore, form the structure that makes air door 20 carry out lifting via connector 49 by the lifting of elevating mechanism 21.

That is, air door 20 and elevating mechanism 21, in air regulator 1 operation process, are contained in the receiving space 32 at the upper front plate 6B back side as illustrated in fig. 3.Figure 15 represents air door 20 and the attitude of elevating mechanism 21 in guide rail 27,40 now.When the running of air regulator 1 stops and closing blow-off outlet 9 by air door 20, if drive motor 44 rotations, move with the rack pinion 43 of gear 46 engagements, slide along the vertical direction along guide rail 40 with the gear stand guide 41 of its one, via connector 49 make air door 20 along guide rail 27 by push away and rise.

Because the gathering sill 28 of air door 20 along guide rail 27 rises, therefore, when arrival is when rolling the upper portion 28A of oblique gathering sill 28 above, top guide finger 22 is guided by upper portion 28A, and the upper portion of air door 20 as shown in Figure 4, is advanced to front face side gradually.And when top guide finger 22 arrives the upper end of gathering sill 28, air door 20 stops rising.Figure 16 represents air door 20 and the attitude of elevating mechanism 21 in guide rail 27,40 now, and the upper portion of air door 20 is in to rolling oblique state above.

When elevating mechanism 21 further rises from this state, air door 20 is just stopping at the upper end position of gathering sill 28, while so connector 49 in the mobile mode that the forwards thruster of the bottom of air door 20 is gone out that tilts, move.In this action, the bottom guide finger 23 of air door 20 enters into and releases groove 29 from gathering sill 28, and moves to the leading section 29A that releases groove 29, and its result is that the bottom of air door 20 is pushed out to front face side.Thus, as shown in Figure 5, the upper end of air door 20, bottom all with substantially flush above of upper front plate 6B, blow-off outlet 9 is closed.Figure 17 represents air door 20 and the attitude of elevating mechanism 21 in guide rail 27,40 now, and air door 20 and gear stand guide 41 are in along the parallel state of vertical.

Thus, according to present embodiment, play following action effect.

The air door mechanism 10 of the indoor blow-off outlet blowing out 9 of air-conditioning wind direction being opened when air regulator 1 running and being closed when stopping possesses can be made the tabular air door 20 that blow-off outlet 9 opens and closes and make this air door 20 along guide rail 27, carry out the elevating mechanism 21 of lifting, via along be located at blow-off outlet 9 both sides pair of right and left guide rail 27 above-below direction gathering sill 28 interior slips guide finger 22,23 and make tabular air door 20 carry out along the vertical direction lifting, thereby can make blow-off outlet 9 open and close.

The lower quadrate part of the air door 20 release groove that face thruster goes out forward 29 and gathering sill 28 conjointly can be located to this guide rail 27, this release groove 29 is configured to, groove depth is more shallow than gathering sill 28, and is only can be chimeric or depart from this release groove 29 from the shorter bottom guide finger 23 of the outstanding outstanding length of the left and right both ends of the surface of air door 20.Therefore, in air door mechanism 10, all guide fingers setting up and down 22,23 in the left and right of air door 20 both ends of the surface are embedded in the gathering sill 28 arranging at pair of right and left guide rail 27 sliding freely, even in the interior slip of same gathering sill 28 freely, also without worrying that top guide finger 22 is embedded into, release in groove 29, can make air door 20 along successfully lifting of pair of right and left guide rail 27.

And, in air door mechanism 10, even in the closed position of blow-off outlet 9 by air door 20 to upper front plate 6B the position of substantially flush is released above time, also only the shorter bottom guide finger 23 of outstanding length need be gone out to thruster above along releasing groove 29, just air door 20 can be released to the position with substantially flush of upper front plate 6B.

Therefore, in air door mechanism 10, without gathering sill 28 being divided into for the gathering sill of top guide finger 22 with for the gathering sill of bottom guide finger 23, can simplify its structure, and can simplify the mechanism for forwards thruster of air door 20 is gone out, can make it movable smoothly and prevent the generation of movable sound etc.

And, the upper portion 28A of the gathering sill 28 of guide rail 27 is to rolling tiltedly to tilt above, the leading section 29A towards the outstanding extrusion position of front face side and release groove 29 of its upper end is made as same position towards the outstanding extrusion position of front face side, at air door 20 at gathering sill 28 and release while moving to the position of closing blow-off outlet 9 in groove 29, air door 20 above with upper front plate 6B form the structure of substantially flush above.

Therefore, in air door mechanism 10, at the gathering sill 28 that air door 20 is tilted along front face side in towards guide rail 27 and after rising to the upper end position of closing blow-off outlet 9, the bottom guide finger 23 of air door 20 is pushed out to the leading section 29A that releases groove 29, thus can make air door 20 above with upper front plate 6B automatically form substantially flush above.Therefore, in air regulator 1, only by the set positions of the position, upper end of gathering sill 28 and the leading section 29A of release groove 29, what just can make simply air door 20 above closes blow-off outlet 9 with the forming flush above of upper front plate 6B, and the design in the time of can guaranteeing the closing of blow-off outlet 9 also improves aesthetics.

And, than the face of releasing near the face side of top sides' guide rail 27 groove 29 be set as along and the both ends of the surface of air door 20 between the inclined plane 30 of the direction that narrows down gradually to front face side of gap.Therefore, in air door mechanism 10, when air door 20 carries out lifting in the interior slip of gathering sill 28, can between the both ends of the surface of air door 20 and the surface of guide rail 27, guarantee certain gap and make successfully lifting of air door 20, on the other hand, when air door 20 is pushed out into front face side in the position of closing blow-off outlet 9, can close blow-off outlet 9 and to avoid and rock by reducing gap.Activity during lifting that therefore, air door mechanism 10 can improve air door 20 simultaneously and the closing property of 20 pairs of blow-off outlets 9 of air door.

And, in the present embodiment, at top setting up and down and the bottom guide finger the 22, the 23rd of the left and right of air door 20 both ends of the surface, the guide finger of the same structure that the length of pin 26 is equal length, forms bottom guide finger 23 and is arranged at the position shortening from the outstanding length of the left and right both ends of the surface of air door 20.Therefore, in air door mechanism 10, can make at all guide fingers setting up and down 22,23 of the left and right of air door 20 both ends of the surface general by a kind of guide finger, and for shortening from the bottom guide finger 23 of the outstanding outstanding length of the left and right both ends of the surface of air door 20, can shorten by changing its setting position the outstanding length of pin 26.Therefore,, in air door mechanism 10, by making top and 22,23 generalizations of bottom guide finger, can realize the minimizing of part number, facilitation of assembling, cost etc.

And, air door 20 is configured to via connector 49 and is connected with elevating mechanism 21, wherein one end of this connector 49 is rotated and is connected freely with the upper end of elevating mechanism 21, the other end rotates and is connected freely with the bottom of air door 20, therefore in air door mechanism 10, when making air door 20 rise to by elevating mechanism 21 position of closing blow-off outlet 9, at top guide finger 22, arrive the upper end of gathering sills 28 and after cannot continuing to rise, by making elevating mechanism 21 increase, make connector 49 tilt to move, utilize this action that the bottom of air door 20 is released along releasing groove 29, until bottom guide finger 23 contacts with the leading section of releasing groove 29, can make thus air door 20 above with upper front plate 6B form substantially flush above.

Therefore, air door mechanism 10 is only by the simple lifting action of elevating mechanism 21, just can simply air door 20 be moved to the position of the regulation of closing blow-off outlet 9, save in gathering sill the cam that slides and move in its sloped-end etc., thus simplification that can implementation structure.

In addition, the present invention does not limit the invention of above-mentioned embodiment, within not departing from the scope of its purport, can suitably be out of shape.For example, in the above-described embodiment, illustrated top guide finger 22 and bottom guide finger 23 have been made as to the guide finger of same structure and unitized example, but can certainly be made as the structure of the guide finger that uses the different structure that pin length is different.And, also can be made as and make this top guide finger 22 and bottom guide finger 23 and the top arranging and bottom guide finger 42A, the unitized structure of 42B on the gear stand guide 41 of elevating mechanism 21.

And, in the above-described embodiment, in making the elevating mechanism 21 of air door 20 liftings, gear stand guide 41 and rack pinion 43 are made as to the integrally formed product that formed by resin, but not needing must be integrally formed product, also can be made as the structure that the component combination being shaped by split is formed.And gear stand guide 41 is made as framework, but also a part of stamping-out of sheet material can be become to rectangular shape and at the end face of its stamping-out portion, rack pinion 43 is set.

Claims

1. an air regulator, is being provided with to the indoor blow-off outlet place blowing out the air door mechanism that described blow-off outlet is opened and closed by the air after temperature adjustment, and described air regulator is characterised in that,

Described air door mechanism possesses: pair of right and left guide rail, is arranged at along the vertical direction the both sides of described blow-off outlet, and is provided with the gathering sill forming along above-below direction; Tabular air door, carries out lifting and described blow-off outlet is opened and closed along described guide rail; Guide finger, is located at left and right both ends of the surface upper and lower of described air door, and slides in the described gathering sill of described guide rail; And elevating mechanism, make described air door carry out lifting along described guide rail,

Can when described air door rises to the position of closing described blow-off outlet, the lower quadrate part of the described air door release groove that face thruster goes out forward and described gathering sill be conjointly located to described pair of right and left guide rail,

Described release groove is configured to, and groove depth is more shallow than described gathering sill, is only can be chimeric or depart from this release groove from the short described bottom guide finger of the outstanding outstanding length of the left and right both ends of the surface of described air door.

2. air regulator according to claim 1, wherein,

The upper portion of described gathering sill tilts obliquely towards front face side, the extrusion position to side-prominent above of the leading section to side-prominent above extrusion position and described release groove of the upper end of described gathering sill is set as same position, when described air door moves to the position of closing described blow-off outlet in described gathering sill and described release groove, described air door above and front panel before form the structure of substantially flush.

3. air regulator according to claim 2, wherein,

Than near the face of top side's described guide rail surface side described release groove be set as along and the both ends of the surface of described air door between the inclined plane of the direction that narrows down gradually to front face side of gap.

4. air regulator according to claim 1, wherein,

Guide finger setting up and down in the left and right of described air door both ends of the surface is set as the guide finger that pin length is the same structure of equal length, and described bottom guide finger is arranged at the position shortening from the outstanding outstanding length of the left and right both ends of the surface of described air door.

5. air regulator according to claim 2, wherein,

6. air regulator according to claim 3, wherein,

7. according to the air regulator described in any one in claim 1～6, wherein,

Described air door is connected with described elevating mechanism via connector,

One end of described connector is rotated and is connected freely with the upper end of described elevating mechanism, and the other end rotates and is connected freely with the bottom of described air door.