CN110848798A

CN110848798A - Air conditioner

Info

Publication number: CN110848798A
Application number: CN201911129778.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 余杰彬; 吴俊鸿; 刘汉; 陈志伟; 李建建; 李树云; 梁博; 曹睿
Original assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Current assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Priority date: 2019-11-18
Filing date: 2019-11-18
Publication date: 2020-02-28

Abstract

The invention provides an air conditioner. The air conditioner includes the shell, the structure has the air outlet on the shell, the wind channel spiral case has in the shell, the wind channel spiral case is used for leading the air-out air current extremely air outlet department and discharge air conditioner, be equipped with seal assembly in the air outlet, seal assembly has and can seal the first position of air outlet, and can make the air-out air current flows the second position of air conditioner. The air conditioner provided by the invention is provided with the sealing assembly, so that dirty water formed by cleaning can be effectively prevented from leaking out of the air conditioner through the air outlet when the air conditioner is cleaned, and the cleaning process of the air conditioner is facilitated.

Description

Air conditioner

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of air conditioning, and particularly relates to an air conditioner.

Background

With the increasing demand of people on living quality, the indoor air quality is widely regarded by people, because most of the time of people is spent indoors, and good indoor air quality is particularly important to human health. After the air conditioner is used for a long time, dust is easily accumulated in the air conditioner, such as an air duct, a filter screen and a heat exchanger, and bacteria are bred, so that a user is required to clean the air conditioner, the indoor air quality is prevented from being reduced due to internal dirt, the adopted cleaning means is to manually clean internal components, particularly the inner wall of the air duct and the heat exchanger after corresponding shielding components, such as a shell cover plate, are manually assembled and disassembled, and the air conditioner is automatically cleaned by adopting a corresponding automatic cleaning device arranged in the air conditioner in the prior art, and no matter whether the air conditioner is manually cleaned or automatically cleaned, an air outlet of the air conditioner is not provided with a necessary sealing structure, so that dirty water or water vapor leaks out through an air outlet when the air conditioner is cleaned, and the inconvenience is brought to the user for cleaning the air conditioner.

Disclosure of Invention

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an air conditioner having a sealing assembly, which can effectively prevent dirty water from leaking out of the air conditioner through an air outlet when the air conditioner is cleaned, and facilitate the cleaning process of the air conditioner.

In order to solve the above problem, the present invention provides an air conditioner, including a housing, an air outlet configured on the housing, and an air duct volute inside the housing, where the air duct volute is used to guide an outlet airflow to the air outlet and discharge the outlet airflow out of the air conditioner, and a sealing assembly is disposed inside the air outlet, and the sealing assembly has a first position capable of sealing the air outlet and a second position capable of enabling the outlet airflow to flow out of the air conditioner.

Preferably, the seal assembly comprises a seal plate, a drive member for driving the seal plate to switch between the first and second positions.

Preferably, the air conditioner further comprises a water receiving structure, and when the sealing assembly is in the first position, the sealing plate can guide sewage formed by cleaning into the water receiving structure.

Preferably, the water receiving structure is integrally configured on the air duct volute and is located on one side of the air duct volute, which is adjacent to the air outlet.

Preferably, the sealing plate has a first end surface and a second end surface in the length direction, the first end surface is provided with a pivot shaft, the second end surface is connected with the driving component, and the sealing plate is pivotally connected to the air duct volute through the pivot shaft.

Preferably, the sealing plate further has a third end surface and a fourth end surface in the width direction, and when the sealing assembly is in the first position, the fourth end surface is located in the water receiving cavity of the water receiving structure.

Preferably, at least one of the first end face, the second end face and the third end face is provided with a sealing strip.

Preferably, the housing is further configured with a component mounting through hole, and the component mounting through hole is detachably mounted with a cover plate.

Preferably, a plurality of claws are arranged outside the hole of the component mounting through hole, and the claws can lock the cover plate on the component mounting through hole.

Preferably, the cover plate is provided with a flow guide structure on the inner side wall facing the air conditioner, and the flow guide structure can guide the sewage on the cover plate into the water receiving structure.

Preferably, the outlet has a guide surface extending towards one side of the duct volute, the sealing plate engaging the guide surface when the seal assembly is in the second position.

According to the air conditioner provided by the invention, the sealing assembly is arranged in the air outlet, and the sealing assembly is arranged to prevent generated sewage from directly flowing out of the air outlet when parts in the air conditioner, such as a heat exchanger, a fan, the inner wall of an air duct volute, an air guide blade and the like, are cleaned, so that unnecessary trouble is caused in a cleaning process, and the cleaning process of the air conditioner is facilitated.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of the overall appearance structure of an air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present invention (when a sealing assembly is in a first position);

fig. 2 is a schematic view of the overall appearance structure of the air conditioner according to the embodiment of the present invention (when the sealing assembly is in the second position);

fig. 3 is a schematic view (cross section) of the internal structure of an air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of a portion of FIG. 3 at A;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the seal assembly of FIG. 1;

fig. 6 is a schematic view of an external structure of an air conditioner according to another embodiment of the present invention.

The reference numerals are represented as:

1. a housing; 11. an air outlet; 12. a guide surface; 13. a component mounting via; 14. a cover plate; 141. a flow guide structure; 15. a claw; 2. an air duct volute; 3. a seal assembly; 31. a sealing plate; 311. a pivotal shaft; 312. a guide projection; 32. a drive member; 4. a water receiving structure; 5. a sealing strip; 100. an air inlet; 101. a fan; 102. a heat exchanger; 103. and (5) cleaning the device.

Detailed Description

Referring to fig. 1 to 6 in combination, according to an embodiment of the present invention, an air conditioner is provided, which includes a housing 1, and more specifically, the housing 1 is a frame body of the air conditioner, and may include a base housing and a front panel frame housing of the air conditioner, and it is understood that the housing 1 forms a mounting carrier for internal components of the air conditioner, such as a heat exchanger 102, a fan 101, a duct volute 2, and the like, the housing 1 is configured with an air outlet 11 and an air inlet 100, the housing 1 has a duct volute 2 therein, the duct volute 2 is used for guiding an outlet airflow to the air outlet 11 and discharging the outlet from the air conditioner, and the fan 101 and the heat exchanger 102 are disposed inside the duct volute 2, so that when the air conditioner is in operation, the airflow flows into the duct volute 2 via the air inlet 100, exchanges heat, and then flows out of the air conditioner via the air outlet 11, a sealing component 3 is arranged in the air outlet 11, the sealing component 3 is provided with a first position capable of sealing the air outlet 11, and a second position enabling the outlet airflow to flow out of the air conditioner, different from the wind shield arranged outside the air outlet 11 in the prior art, the sealing component 3 in the technical scheme of the application is arranged in the air outlet 11, the device is arranged to prevent the generated sewage from directly flowing out of the air outlet 11 when cleaning the components in the air conditioner, such as the heat exchanger 102, the fan 101 (mainly a fan blade of a cross-flow fan), the inner wall of the air duct volute 2, the air guide blade (when the sealing component 3 is at the first position, the air guide blade is at the inner side of the sealing component 3) and the like, and causes unnecessary troubles to the washing process, thereby facilitating the washing process of the air conditioner. Preferably, a cleaning device 103 capable of automatically spraying water or steam is further disposed in the air duct volute 2 to automatically clean the components in the air duct volute 2, and the cleaning device may be implemented by using a corresponding spraying structure in the prior art, which is not particularly limited in the present invention.

As a specific embodiment of the sealing assembly 3, preferably, the sealing assembly 3 includes a sealing plate 31 and a driving member 32, and the driving member 32 is used for driving the sealing plate 31 to switch between the first position and the second position, it can be understood that the specific size of the sealing plate 31 matches with the flow area of the air outlet 11, as long as the sealing plate 31 can seal and close the flow passage of the corresponding air outlet 11 when in the first position. The driving component 32 may be, for example, a common rotary motor, and for a rotary motor with a high rotation speed, a corresponding reduction gear box may be further disposed to be connected between the sealing plate 31 and the rotary motor, as a conventional driving method in the industry, which is not particularly limited in the present invention.

Preferably, the waste water resulting from the cleaning can be directed out of the room in a timely manner, for example, by using a water pan that is originally provided in the prior air conditioner and is capable of receiving the condensed water discharged from the heat exchanger 102, as an advantageous improvement, the air conditioner is preferably provided with a water receiving structure 4 alone, which, when the sealing assembly 3 is in the first position, the sealing plate 31 can guide the sewage formed by cleaning into the water receiving structure 4, the water receiving structure 4 is integrally constructed on the air duct volute 2 and is located on one side of the air duct volute 2 adjacent to the air outlet 11, thereby the water receiving structure 4 and the air duct volute 2 form an organic whole, the water leakage hidden trouble of the matching gap of the separated and assembled water receiving structure is prevented, therefore, the water receiving structure 4 of the integral structure is particularly suitable for an air conditioner capable of realizing automatic water washing.

Further, the sealing plate 31 has a first end surface and a second end surface in the length direction thereof, the first end surface has a pivot shaft 311, the second end surface is connected with the driving member 32, and the sealing plate 31 is pivotally connected to the air duct volute 2 through the pivot shaft 311, it can be understood that a hole groove structure capable of pivotally connecting and accommodating the pivot shaft 311 is disposed at a corresponding position of the air duct volute 2, and a stator portion (e.g., a housing of the motor and a mounting flange) of the driving member 32 is preferably fixed on an outer sidewall of the air duct volute 2 or the housing 1, and of course, a power output shaft thereof should be drivingly connected to the sealing plate 31. Furthermore, the sealing plate 31 further has a third end surface and a fourth end surface in the width direction, when the sealing assembly 3 is located at the first position, the fourth end surface is located in the water receiving cavity of the water receiving structure 4, at this time, when the sealing plate 31 in the sealing assembly 3 is located at the first position, not only can the sewage formed by internal cleaning be ensured not to leak out of the air outlet 11, but also drainage can be realized on the sewage at the upper wall position of the air duct volute 2, so that the sewage can efficiently enter the water receiving structure 4 and be discharged. In order to improve the sealing performance of the sealing plate 31 against contaminated water, it is preferable that a sealing strip 5 is provided on at least one of the first end surface, the second end surface, and the third end surface, and it is preferable that the sealing strips 5 are provided at the same time.

Preferably, the air outlet 11 has a guiding surface 12 extending towards one side of the duct volute 2, and when the sealing assembly 3 is in the second position, the sealing plate 31 is attached to the guiding surface 12, that is, when the sealing plate 31 is an extending part of the duct volute 2 towards the air outlet 11 and is a movable part, it can be understood that the movable volute covers the guiding surface 12 below the sealing plate 31 and receives dirt such as dust falling possibly generated during operation, and when the air conditioner needs to be cleaned, the sealing plate 31 is in the first position, and when the air conditioner needs to be cleaned, the dirt surface of the sealing plate 31 is cleaned simultaneously with the sealing of the air outlet 11. The sealing plate 31 may further include a plurality of guide protrusions 312 on a side facing the guide surface 12, a plurality of corresponding grooves are provided on the corresponding guide surface 12, and the plurality of guide protrusions 312 are inserted into the plurality of grooves in a one-to-one correspondence, so as to ensure rotational stability of the sealing plate 31 during the switching between the first position and the second position, which is particularly suitable for a case where the sealing plate 31 has a large length.

Preferably, the housing 1 is further configured with a component mounting via hole 13 for facilitating mounting of internal components of the air conditioner, such as a filter screen, etc., the component mounting via hole 13 is detachably mounted with a cover plate 14 to ensure the air-tightness of the air conditioner, further, a plurality of claws 15 are arranged outside an orifice of the component mounting via hole 13, the claws 15 can lock the cover plate 14 on the component mounting via hole 13, and at this time, a corresponding panel body can be added on the side of the housing 1 facing a user to improve the aesthetic appearance of the air conditioner. The cover plate 14 has a flow guide structure 141 on the inner side wall facing the air conditioner, and the flow guide structure 141 can guide the sewage on the cover plate 14 into the water receiving structure 4.

It is readily understood by a person skilled in the art that the advantageous ways described above can be freely combined, superimposed without conflict.

The present invention is not limited to the above preferred embodiments, and any modifications, equivalent substitutions and improvements made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention. The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, several improvements and modifications can be made without departing from the technical principle of the present invention, and these improvements and modifications should also be regarded as the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides an air conditioner, its characterized in that, includes shell (1), be constructed air outlet (11) on shell (1), there is wind channel spiral case (2) in shell (1), wind channel spiral case (2) are used for leading the air-out air current to air outlet (11) department and discharge the air conditioner, be equipped with seal assembly (3) in air outlet (11), seal assembly (3) have can seal the first position of air outlet (11) and can make the air-out air current flows the second position of air conditioner.

2. The air conditioner according to claim 1, wherein the sealing assembly (3) comprises a sealing plate (31), a driving member (32), and the driving member (32) is configured to drive the sealing plate (31) to switch between the first position and the second position.

3. Air conditioner according to claim 2, characterized in that it further comprises a water collecting structure (4), said sealing plate (31) being able to direct wash-forming effluent into said water collecting structure (4) when said sealing assembly (3) is in said first position.

4. The air conditioner according to claim 3, wherein the water receiving structure (4) is integrally constructed on the air duct volute (2) at a side of the air duct volute (2) adjacent to the air outlet (11).

5. The air conditioner according to claim 3, wherein the sealing plate (31) has a first end surface and a second end surface in the length direction, the first end surface has a pivot shaft (311), the second end surface is connected with the driving member (32), and the sealing plate (31) is pivotally connected to the air duct volute (2) through the pivot shaft (311).

6. The air conditioner according to claim 5, wherein the sealing plate (31) further has a third end surface and a fourth end surface in the width direction, and when the sealing assembly (3) is in the first position, the fourth end surface is located in the water receiving cavity of the water receiving structure (4).

7. The air conditioner according to claim 6, wherein a sealing strip (5) is provided on at least one of the first end surface, the second end surface, and the third end surface.

8. The air conditioner according to claim 3, wherein the housing (1) is further configured with a component mounting through hole (13), and a cover plate (14) is detachably mounted on the component mounting through hole (13).

9. Air conditioner according to claim 8, characterized in that the outside of the aperture of the component mounting through hole (13) is provided with a plurality of claws (15), said claws (15) being able to lock the cover plate (14) onto the component mounting through hole (13).

10. The air conditioner according to claim 9, characterized in that the cover plate (14) has a flow guiding structure (141) on its inner side wall facing the air conditioner, the flow guiding structure (141) being capable of guiding the sewage on the cover plate (14) into the water receiving structure (4).

11. Air conditioner according to claim 2, characterized in that the outlet opening (11) has a guiding surface (12) extending towards one side of the duct volute (2), the sealing plate (31) abutting the guiding surface (12) when the sealing assembly (3) is in the second position.