CN104748233B

CN104748233B - Air conditioner

Info

Publication number: CN104748233B
Application number: CN201510144560.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 赤井竜彦
Original assignee: Daikin Industries Ltd
Current assignee: Daikin Industries Ltd
Priority date: 2006-08-31
Filing date: 2007-08-28
Publication date: 2019-03-08
Anticipated expiration: 2027-08-28
Also published as: CN101501407A; KR101060999B1; JP2008057884A; KR20090016633A; WO2008026599A1; CN104748233A; JP4175410B2

Abstract

The present invention provides air conditioner, can simply carry out the washing and cleaning operation of heat exchanger, can be realized the raising of filter and the maintainability of other various parts, and have the function of the automatic cleaning of filter.The air conditioner includes main unit (10) and filter unit (20) including indoor heat exchanger (12), and the filter unit (20) is provided integrally with: covering filter (21) described in at least front side of the heat exchanger (12)；The mobile member (30) for keeping the filter (21) mobile；And move along the guide member (40) that path guides the filter (21), the guide member (40) there is the function of guiding when the filter (21) are mobile to its both sides and engage with the top of the main unit (10) and the function that makes the filter unit (20) as temporal hold state.

Description

Air conditioner

The application is that application No. is 200780029611.7 (international application no PCT/JP2007/066681), the applying date For August in 2007 28 days, the divisional application of the application for a patent for invention of entitled " air conditioner ".

Technical field

The present invention relates to air conditioners, more particularly to the air conditioner of the automatic cleaning function with filter.

Background technique

In air conditioner, make the room air sucked using Air Blast fan by heat exchanger to it is carried out it is cooling or It heats and it is made to be back to interior, still, the dust pollution heat exchanger to swim in air in order to prevent, in heat exchanger Front side is equipped with filter.When dust, which is attached on the filter, to be blocked mesh and ventilation resistance is caused to increase, air conditioner Air handling capacity reduces, while power consumption increases.In order to eliminate such unfavorable condition, propose various with filter Automatic cleaning function air conditioner.

In the case where automatically cleaning filter, cleared away with entire surface of the cleaning brush to filter, it is therefore desirable to Keep at least any one party in filter and cleaning brush mobile.As the method for keeping filter mobile, it is roughly divided into winding method With circulation (loop) mode.

It is by by the band-like filtering on a roller as disclosed in Patent Document 1 for winding method Device be wound on another roller to make filter it is mobile, in this process by cleaning brush cleaned in the way of.

It is to be formed as cyclic annular using a pair of rolls bearing as disclosed in Patent Document 2 also, for endless form Belt filter, keep belt filter mobile and rotating roller, the side cleaned in this process using cleaning brush Formula.

Patent document 1: Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication 2001-99479 bulletin

Patent document 2: Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication 62-145019 bulletin

But in the air conditioner of the automatic cleaning function with filter, due to adding automatic cleaning function, from forming For the state for being intricately assembled with the various parts including filter in the front side of heat exchanger.Therefore, to because making for a long time With and the heat exchanger that polluted cleaned when, the various parts by configuration in the front side of heat exchanger, which disassemble, makes heat Exchanger exposes or installs the various parts disassembled to original state after cleaning to heat exchanger Operation is many and diverse.

Also, especially in the device of above-mentioned winding method and endless form, since filter is wound onto rolls, The replacement and repairing of filter and other peripheral parts are also many and diverse.

That is, in the air conditioner of the existing automatic cleaning function with filter, although can reduce the clear of filter Operation is swept, but results in and brings obstacle not to the washing and cleaning operation and filter of heat exchanger and the maintenance of other various parts Good situation.

Summary of the invention

The present invention completes to solve above-mentioned existing project, and its purpose is to provide one kind can be simply It carries out the washing and cleaning operation of heat exchanger and can be realized having for the raising of filter and the maintainability of other various parts The air conditioner of the automatic cleaning function of filter.

Air conditioner involved in first aspect has the filter automatic cleaning function for removing the dust of attachment on the filter It can, which is characterized in that the air conditioner includes main unit and filter unit including indoor heat exchanger, the mistake Filter module is provided integrally with: covering filter described in at least front side of the heat exchanger；Keep the filter mobile Mobile member；And the guide member that path guides the filter is moved along, the guide member has Its both sides is guided when the filter is mobile function and engage with the top of the main unit and described in making Filter unit becomes the function of temporal hold state.

It is described to be fixed temporarily shape in the air conditioner involved in first aspect for air conditioner involved in second aspect State is realized by making engagement pawl be fastened on the framework upper of the main unit, the engagement pawl transversely interval The upper end of the guide member is arranged in ground.

For air conditioner involved in the third aspect, in the air conditioner involved in first aspect, filter unit is included The mobile member for keeping filter mobile；And move along the guide member that path guides filter.

For air conditioner involved in fourth aspect, in first aspect either into the third aspect sky involved in face In tune machine, external package casing is mounted on filter unit in a manner of assemble and unassemble.

For air conditioner involved in the 5th aspect, in the air conditioner involved in fourth aspect, for being removed from filter The cleaning unit of dust is gone to be mounted on external package casing in a manner of assemble and unassemble.

In the air conditioner involved in first aspect, due to including the front side for covering the indoor heat exchanger of main unit Filter including various parts be unitized, and the filter unit is mounted on main unit in a manner of assemble and unassemble On frame, therefore when being cleaned to the indoor heat exchanger polluted due to long-time service, only by by filter unit It is disassembled from main unit, it will be able to intensively dismantle and intricately be assembled in the component of the front side of indoor heat exchanger, energy Enough to expose indoor heat exchanger to outside, thus, it is possible to be easy to carry out the washing and cleaning operation of indoor heat exchanger.

Also, it also can be only by that will filter for being safeguarded as the replacement of its peripheral parts of filter and person, repairing Device unit is disassembled from main unit and is simply carried out.Also, make it restore resuming operation for original state also can Only simply carried out and filter unit is installed in main unit.

Further, since filter unit to be fixed on the frame of main unit, filter list can also be realized The raising of the installation accuracy and installation strength of member.Also, by the way that filter unit is disassembled from main unit, and by function Different other filter units are installed in main unit, so as to share main unit and be easy to carry out sky The type of tune machine changes.

In the air conditioner involved in second aspect, by the way that the engagement pawl on the top of filter unit is fastened on main body In the state that the top of unit is to which filter unit to be temporarily fixed in main unit, it is able to carry out under filter unit The fixed operation or disassembly operation in portion, can be improved the workability when handling of filter unit.

In the air conditioner involved in the third aspect, filter unit has filter, mobile member and guide member, It also can be only by by filter accordingly, for being safeguarded as the replacement of filter, mobile member and guide member, repairing Unit is disassembled from main unit and is simply carried out.

In the air conditioner involved in fourth aspect, by the way that external package casing is mounted on filtering in a manner of assemble and unassemble On device unit, assemblability can be further increased, and the repairing or the such maintenance of replacement of each component can be further increased Efficiency.Also, the deformation of external package casing can also be inhibited.

In the air conditioner involved in the 5th aspect, by the way that cleaning unit is mounted on outer packing in a manner of assemble and unassemble On shell, assemblability can be further increased, the repairing or the such efficiency safeguarded of replacement of each component can be further increased.

Detailed description of the invention

Fig. 1 is the exploded perspective view of air conditioner involved in an embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 2 is the longitudinal section view of the air conditioner.

Fig. 3 is the perspective view of filter unit.

Fig. 4 is the figure for showing the opening state of the movable guide in Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is the longitudinal section view of filter unit.

Fig. 6 is the figure for showing the opening state of the movable guide in Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is the figure for showing the state in the automatic cleaning operation of the filter in Fig. 5.

Fig. 8 is the perspective view of filter.

Fig. 9 is the perspective view for showing the fastening state that filter is fastened on endless belt.

Symbol description

10: main unit；

11: bottom framework (frame)；

12: indoor heat exchanger；

20: filter unit；

21: filter；

28: engagement pawl；

30: mobile member；

40: guide member；

50: external package casing；

70: cleaning unit.

Specific embodiment

Next, the specific embodiment for being directed at air conditioner of the invention while referring to attached drawing is described in detail.Fig. 1 It is the whole exploded perspective view of air conditioner, Fig. 2 is the longitudinal section view of the air conditioner.Air conditioner has main unit 10, filtering Device unit 20, external package casing 50 and cleaning unit 70.

Main unit 10 has bottom framework 11, and is equipped with indoor heat exchanger 12, Air Blast fan on the bottom framework 11 (cross flow fan) 13, electric part box 14 (referring to Fig.1) etc., sucking room air such as are freezed, are heated, being dehumidified at the air conditionings It operates, the air return after the adjusting for making sucking is formed on the lower surface of bottom framework 11 to indoor air blow-off outlet 15。

Filter unit 20 by be integrally provided filter 21, the mobile member 30 for keeping filter 21 mobile and along Movement routine guides the guide member 40 of filter 21 and constitutes.

Firstly, the guide member 40 has the mobile road for constituting filter 21 if be illustrated to guide member 40 Guide frame 22a, 22b of the pair of right and left of diameter, filter 21 are supported on each guide frame 22 respectively in a manner of it can move On (hereinafter, indicating guide frame with label 22 in the case where not distinguishing especially left and right).

As shown in figure 3, guide frame 22 has the main part 23 for being located at lower part and extends obliquely upward from main part 23 Arm 24.The mobile member 30 of aftermentioned filter 21 is equipped in main part 23, also, arm 24 is formed on the inside of it There is channel-shaped guide part 25 (referring to Fig. 2), is held in a predetermined position filter 21 in common use, it is mobile in filter 21 When with the function being oriented to its both sides.

In turn, the front side of the mobile member 30 in each main part 23 becomes movable guide 41.It can action-oriented for this Part 41, end is supported in a manner of rotating freely around horizontal axis 42 via locking (latch) mechanism thereon, and lower end being capable of court It opens wide forwards.That is, movable guide 41 can be in the closed state (referring to Fig. 3 and Fig. 5) for constituting movement routine and unlimited shifting It is switched between dynamic opening state (referring to Fig. 4 and Fig. 6) of the path filter 21 can be loaded and unloaded.

As shown in figure 8, filter 21 is sticked to formation on the framework 21a of clathrate by that will net 21b, and integrally has and scratch Property.In framework 21a along on longitudinal both ends, it has been provided projectingly in the longitudinal direction with identical spacing in its back side multiple Protrusion 35.

As shown in figs. 5 and 9, mobile member 30 include along filter 21 moving direction interval configuration it is upper Lower a pair of toothed belt belt wheel 31,32；Motor 26 for driving downside belt wheel 31 to rotate (referring to Fig. 3)；And winding is set Set the toothed endless belt 33 between two belt wheels 31,32.In turn, downside belt wheel 31 drives rotation by motor 26, by This upside driven rotation of belt wheel 32, endless belt 33 rotate.This mobile member 30 is used as pair of right and left in each guide frame 22 Component configuration it is each two.

As shown in figure 9, being formed with embedded hole 34 at predetermined intervals (equidistant) throughout its complete cycle on endless belt 33. In turn, by being entrenched in the protrusion 35 of filter 21 in the embedded hole 34 of endless belt 33, so that filter 21 is fastened on ring-type On band 33, by deviating from the protrusion 35 of filter 21 from the embedded hole 34 of endless belt 33, thus filter 21 and endless belt 33 Engaging be released from.

In this case, as initial position (common to use position), with the lower end of filter 21 in downside band Mode near wheel 31 is installed.In turn, in this state, as shown in figure 5, the upside of filter 21 is led from its two sides It is oriented to and is supported to the arm 24 of frame 22.Also, the downside of filter 21 is from the front side by the back of movable guide 41 Face is oriented to and is supported.In turn, same as existing air conditioner for filter 21, cover the upper of indoor heat exchanger 12 The substantially the entire area of wind side prevents the dust pollution indoor heat exchanger 12 to swim in air.

For the filter unit 20 constituted in this way, appropriate guiding is arranged at intervals on as shown in Fig. 2, will transversely separate The engagement pawl 28 of the upper end of the arm 24 of frame 22a, 22b is engaging in the upper end of the bottom framework 11 of main unit 10, also, The bottom framework 11 that will be provided projectingly the installation sheet 29 in the lower end of main part 23 using Screw 16 and be fixed on main unit 10 Air blow-off outlet 15 near, as a result, the filter unit 20 covering main unit 10 indoor heat exchanger 12 front side And top side, it is mounted in a manner of assemble and unassemble on the bottom framework 11 of main unit 10.

Therefore, by disassembling filter unit 20 from main unit 10, instead of for example only installing filter in this Or filter and other filter units with deodorization functions are installed, it is automatic clear thus, it is possible to which type to be changed to not have The air conditioner of function is swept, main unit 10 can be shared and different types of machines can be coped with low cost.

External package casing 50 is installed from outer side covering main unit 10 and filter unit 20, and in a manner of assemble and unassemble On filter unit 20.The external package casing 50 has the front panel 60 that can be opened and closed on its front side, in the front panel 60 Back side be configured with filter unit 20 movable guide 41.It therefore, even if will not be under 50 integral demounting of external package casing Come, by only making front panel 60 open wide or be disassembled, it will be able to movable guide 41 be made to expose and behaviour is opened and closed Make, is able to carry out the handling of filter 21.

Cleaning unit 70 is constituted and being integrally provided dust-collecting box 71 and rotating brush 72, and the dust-collecting box 71 is stored from mistake The dust that filter 21 removes, the configuration of rotating brush 72 scrape the dust being attached on filter 21 in the dust-collecting box 71.Such as Shown in Fig. 2, dust-collecting box 71 make its dust taking mouth 76 in the opened downward and plate 60 and air in front of mobile member 30 It is exposed in the state of the outer surface of air conditioner between blow-off outlet 15, external package casing 50 is mounted in a manner of assemble and unassemble Lower part.In addition, the drive members such as not shown drive motor of rotating brush 72 drive and rotate.

In above-mentioned air conditioner, filter 21 is made to be located at Fig. 2 and usual position progress air conditioning operating shown in fig. 5. In turn, at the end of operating or carried out at the end of operating after the operating of predetermined time etc., be filtered device 21 from Dynamic cleaning work.Hereinafter, being illustrated referring to Fig. 5 and Fig. 7 to the step.In addition, for ease of description, the state of Fig. 5 is (logical Often state when operating) under the lower portion of filter 21 be known as winding start end, by the upper front end portion of filter 21 Divide and is known as winding end portion.

Firstly, keep endless belt 33 mobile from each motor 26 of state-driven of Fig. 5, meanwhile, drive the rotation of cleaning unit 70 Turning brush 72 makes its rotation.In this way, filter 21 declines together with endless belt 33, winding start end passes through the week of downside belt wheel 31 It encloses and overleaf side (rear side in air circulation direction) rises.At this point, rotating brush 72 is towards the direction of rotation with downside belt wheel 31 Opposite direction rotates, and the dust on 21 surface of filter is scraped and is fallen.

Also, at this point, protrusion 35 is successively chimeric with the embedded hole 34 of endless belt 33 in the midway portion of filter 21.Into And as shown in fig. 7, stopping the shifting of endless belt 33 when winding end portion contacts with rotating brush 72, completes the cleaning to the part Dynamic and rotating brush 72 rotation drives, and terminates the cleaning work for going to path.

Next, the cleaning work of return path is carried out, at this point, making the moving direction and rotating brush 72 of endless belt 33 Direction of rotation with above-mentioned to go to path opposite.In this case, pass through the movement of endless belt 33, the winding end of filter 21 Portion rises, and is detached from from endless belt 33.

In this regard, endless belt 33 passes through upside belt wheel 32 towards back side lateral bend, but filter 21 is rigid by its own Property maintain upright state, therefore the interval of the two becomes larger, in turn, when filter 21 returns to usually used position shown in fig. 5 When setting, the cleaning work of return path is completed.

The dust that automatic cleaning operation in this way is scraped is fallen in dust-collecting box 71 from dust taking mouth 76, and is received It is contained in dust-collecting box 71.When the dust in dust-collecting box 71 accumulates to get up, from main body side, that is, external package casing 50 by dust-collecting box 71 It disassembles, abandons the dust in dust-collecting box 71.

In addition, being forward-mounted plate 60 and air blowout due to dust-collecting box 71 to be exposed to the state of the outer surface of air conditioner Between mouthfuls 15, therefore do not have to open wide or disassembly front panel 60 can load and unload the dust-collecting box 71, that is, can with not with The mode that the front panel 60 of closed state (common state) interferes dismantles the dust-collecting box 71.

It is needed to be serviced when due to long-time service etc., i.e. the cleaning of indoor heat exchanger 12, filter 21 and its week Whens enclosing replacement, the repairing etc. of component, filter simple eye 20 is disassembled from main unit 10.

When carrying out the disassembly, external package casing 50 is disassembled from filter unit 20 first, then will be fixed The Screw 16 of the installation sheet 29 of filter module 20 disassembles.At this point, even if Screw 16 is disassembled, due to filter The engagement pawl 28 on 20 top is fastened on the top of main unit 10, and filter unit 20 forms temporal hold state, so mistake Filter module 20 will not be split away off from main unit 10, it can be ensured that safety.

In turn, after disassembling Screw 16, by by the engagement pawl 28 of filter unit 20 from main unit 10 unload, so as to disassemble filter unit 20.In addition, being installed in main unit 10 by filter unit 20 When, in the state of the engagement pawl 28 of filter unit 20 being fastened in main unit 10 and be fixed temporarily, by filter list The installation sheet 29 of member 20 is fixed in main unit 10 with Screw 16.

The front side of indoor heat exchanger 12 and the filter unit 20 of top side will be covered in this way from main unit 10 disassemble, so that indoor heat exchanger 12 exposes to outside, thus, it is possible to be easy to carry out the clear of indoor heat exchanger 12 Operation is washed, also can easily be done the repairing and the such maintenance of replacement of filter unit 20.

Also, it as shown in Figure 4 and Figure 6, is opened if becoming the movable guide 41 of the filter unit 20 disassembled State opens wide the movement routine of filter 21, then only makes the protrusion 35 of the winding start end side of filter 21 by one side It is pulled out downward from the abjection of the embedded hole 34 of endless belt 33, on one side by filter 21, it will be able to simply tear filter 21 open It unloads down, is able to carry out the replacement or cleaning of filter 21.At this point, due to having retaining mechanism on movable guide 41, Therefore it is able to maintain that opening state, can not interfere and be easy to carry out the extraction of filter 21 with movable guide 41.In addition, When installing filter 21, make movable guide 41 become opening state with open wide movement routine in the state of, on one side incited somebody to action The winding end portion of filter 21 is sent into towards arm 24, is on one side that the protrusion 35 of the winding start end side of filter 21 is successively embedding Enter in the embedded hole 34 of endless belt 33.

Disassembly for such filter 21, even if filter unit 20 is not disassembled from main unit 10, The movable guide 41 of surface side thereafter can be made to reveal as described above by making front panel 60 open wide or be disassembled It is carried out for outside and opening wide.Therefore, without indoor heat exchanger 12 cleaning, only be filtered device 21 replacement or In the case where cleaning, do not need to disassemble filter unit 20.

A specific embodiment of the invention is illustrated above, but the present invention is not limited to aforesaid ways, at this It can implement various changes in the range of invention.

For example, air conditioner of the invention is not limited to the air conditioner for sucking room air and being freezed, heated, being dehumidified etc., It is also possible to the air conditioner only with the air-cleaning function for capturing dust included in room air.

Also, as the mobile member for keeping filter mobile, it is not limited in using above-mentioned upper and lower belt wheel and ring-type The mobile member of band, such as the rack gear for being also possible to make to be formed on filter engage with pinion gear and pass through the pinion gear The shifting for the structure that rotation driving is transferred in a manner of inverting filter from the front side of filter unit towards side below Dynamic component.

Further, for filter unit is installed to the installation exercise in main unit, Screw can also not used But all installed using engagement pawl, and can also without using engagement pawl but all using the fixing pieces such as Screw into Row installation.

Claims

1. a kind of air conditioner, the air conditioner has the filter automatic cleaning function for removing the dust being attached on filter (21) It can, which is characterized in that

The air conditioner includes

Main unit (10) including indoor heat exchanger (12)；

Filter unit (20), the filter unit (20) are provided integrally with: covering the heat exchanger (12) at least Filter described in front side (21)；The mobile member (30) for keeping the filter (21) mobile；And path is moved along to institute State the guide member (40) that filter (21) guides；And

External package casing (50), from main unit described in outer side covering (10) and the filter unit (20),

The guide member (40) has a pair of of the guide frame (22) being set side by side, and each guide frame (22) was made by being equipped with It the main part (23) of the mobile mobile member (30) of filter (21) and is extended, has in the mistake from main part (23) A pair of of the arm (24) for the function of guiding when filter (21) is mobile to the both sides of filter (21) is constituted,

The guide frame (22) has engagement pawl (28) on top, by making the engagement pawl (28) and the main unit (10) Frame (11) top engaging, to face in the state of preventing and falling off from main unit (10) guide frame (22) When fix, and the lower part of the frame (11) by the way that the lower part of guide frame (22) to be fixed on to the main unit (10), from And the filter unit (20) is installed on main unit (10) in a manner of assemble and unassemble,

The external package casing (50) is mounted on the filter unit (20) in a manner of assemble and unassemble.

2. air conditioner according to claim 1, wherein

Cleaning unit (70) for removing dust from the filter (21) is mounted on the outsourcing in a manner of assemble and unassemble It fills on shell (50).