CN111219792B

CN111219792B - Air inlet panel assembly and air conditioner

Info

Publication number: CN111219792B
Application number: CN202010046672.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 黄江江; 陈荣华; 陈珠秀; 王高敏; 杨登明; 梁翠飞
Original assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Current assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Priority date: 2020-01-16
Filing date: 2020-01-16
Publication date: 2021-03-09
Anticipated expiration: 2040-01-16
Also published as: CN111219792A

Abstract

The invention provides an air inlet panel component and an air conditioner. On the arc extending direction of the cover part, both sides of the mounting opening are provided with limiting holes, and limiting buckles are arranged on the positions, corresponding to the limiting holes, of the cover part. The limiting hole is internally provided with a first stopping wall and a second stopping wall which are oppositely arranged, the first stopping wall is arranged towards the side wall of the mounting opening, the limiting buckle is inserted into the limiting hole, the limiting buckle is in clearance fit with the first stopping wall, and the limiting buckle is in clearance fit with the second stopping wall. The air intake panel assembly can correct deformation of the air conditioner cover member.

Description

Air inlet panel assembly and air conditioner

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of air conditioners, in particular to an air inlet panel assembly and an air conditioner.

Background

The holistic support frame of air conditioner is regarded as to the air inlet panel subassembly, mainly plays the air inlet effect, as outward appearance piece in addition, and its fit-up gap requires highly. The rear cover of the existing vertical cabinet air conditioner is assembled with the air inlet panel in the following way: the four bolts at the lower part of the rear cover are inserted into the slots at the lower end of the air inlet panel, the two elastic buckles arranged at the upper part of the rear cover are clamped with the corresponding positions at the rear side of the air inlet panel, and finally, a screw is arranged to fasten the rear cover and the air inlet panel.

Because the plastic part expands when heated and contracts when cooled, the plastic part prepared by adopting the hot processing method can shrink and deform after being cooled and shaped. Because the left and right sides of back lid does not set up the structure fixed with air inlet panel lock, when curved back lid was because of the inside shrink deformation of structure atress, great fit clearance appeared when can leading to both to assemble, inside easy debris such as messenger's dust got into the air conditioner to influence the outward appearance of air inlet panel subassembly.

Disclosure of Invention

A first object of the present invention is to provide an intake panel assembly that corrects deformation of a cover member of an air conditioner.

The second purpose of the invention is to provide an air conditioner with the air inlet panel assembly.

In order to achieve the first object, the invention provides an air inlet panel assembly, which comprises an air inlet panel and a cover component, wherein the horizontal cross sections of the air inlet panel and the cover component are both arc-shaped, the air inlet panel is provided with an installation opening, and the cover component is detachably installed in the installation opening. On the arc extending direction of the cover part, both sides of the mounting opening are provided with limiting holes, and limiting buckles are arranged on the positions, corresponding to the limiting holes, of the cover part. The limiting hole is internally provided with a first stopping wall and a second stopping wall which are oppositely arranged, the first stopping wall is arranged towards the side wall of the mounting opening, the limiting buckle is inserted into the limiting hole, the limiting buckle is in clearance fit with the first stopping wall, and the limiting buckle is in clearance fit with the second stopping wall.

According to the scheme, the limiting buckle is matched with the limiting hole to limit the deformation of the cover component relative to the air inlet panel in the bending direction of the cover component, so that the size of a gap between the cover component and the side wall of the mounting opening is limited. When the lid part outwards expands because of the structure atress and warp, the spacing buckle outside structure of both sides, second backstop wall promptly can withstand the air inlet panel relevant position inboard to can correct the outside deformation that the back lid produced. When the cover part warp because of the inside shrink of structure atress, the inside structure of the spacing buckle of both sides, first backstop wall promptly can prevent and correct the inside deformation that the cover part produced to great fit clearance appears when preventing both assembles, influence the outward appearance of air inlet panel subassembly, and prevent that debris such as dust from getting into inside the air conditioner.

One preferred scheme is that the side wall is provided with a matching part, the matching part protrudes out of the side wall, and the limiting hole is formed in the matching part.

Further, the matching part extends outwards from the side wall along the arc-shaped extending direction of the cover part, and the limiting hole penetrates through the matching part in the radial direction.

Preferably, the limit catch is provided on an inner surface of the cover member.

Therefore, the structure that the cover component is connected with the air inlet panel in a matched mode is located on the inner side of the cover component, and the influence of the matched connection structure on the appearance of the air conditioner is avoided.

An optimal scheme is that the limiting hole and the limiting buckle are both arranged in a rectangular shape.

Therefore, the structure is simple, and the cover component is limited in the arc extending direction of the cover component easily.

Preferably, in the arc extending direction of the cover component, at least three limiting holes are arranged on each side of the mounting opening, and the limiting holes on the same side of the mounting opening are uniformly arranged along the extending direction of the side wall.

It can be seen that the cover member is uniformly stressed everywhere along the extension direction of the side walls.

One preferred scheme is that the free end of the limiting buckle is provided with a chamfer.

Therefore, the limiting buckle is convenient to insert into the limiting hole.

Preferably, the bottom wall of the mounting opening is provided with a slot, and the cover member is provided with an insertion portion at a position corresponding to the slot, and the insertion portion is inserted into the slot.

It can be seen that the mating of the spigot and the socket effects the positioning of the cover member.

Preferably, the top of the mounting opening is provided with an elastic buckle, and the top of the cover part is provided with a hook which is matched and connected with the elastic buckle.

Therefore, the clamping hooks are matched with the elastic clamping buckles to realize the primary fixation between the cover component and the air inlet panel.

In order to achieve the second objective, the present invention provides an air conditioner, which includes the above-mentioned air intake panel assembly.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the intake air panel assembly of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a partially enlarged view of a portion a in fig. 1.

FIG. 3 is a front view of an embodiment of the intake air panel assembly of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view at B-B in fig. 3.

FIG. 5 is a partial block diagram of an intake air panel in an embodiment of the intake air panel assembly of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a rear cover in an embodiment of the intake air panel assembly of the present invention.

Fig. 7 is a partially enlarged view at B in fig. 6.

The invention is further explained with reference to the drawings and the embodiments.

Detailed Description

The air conditioner comprises an air inlet panel assembly, a fan, a heat exchanger and the like.

Referring to fig. 1 to 5, the air inlet panel assembly of this embodiment includes air inlet panel 1 and back lid 2 as the lid component, and the horizontal cross-section of air inlet panel 1 and back lid 2 all is the arc, has seted up installation opening 10 on the position that air inlet panel 1 is close to the downside, and back lid 2 detachably installs in installation opening 10.

In the arc extending direction of rear cover 2, mounting opening 10 has lateral wall 11 and lateral wall 12, is provided with three cooperation portion 13 on the lateral wall 11, and three cooperation portion 13 evenly arranges along the extending direction of lateral wall 11, and cooperation portion 13 is protruding from lateral wall 11, has seted up spacing hole 131 on the cooperation portion 13, and spacing hole 131 radially runs through cooperation portion 13.

Be provided with three cooperation portion 14 on the lateral wall 12, three cooperation portion 14 evenly arranges along the extending direction of lateral wall 12, and cooperation portion 14 outwards bulges along the arc extending direction of back lid 2 from lateral wall 12, has seted up spacing hole 141 on the cooperation portion 14, and spacing hole 141 radially runs through cooperation portion 14. One fitting portion 13 is disposed opposite to one fitting portion 14 in the arc-shaped extending direction of the rear cover 2.

Referring to fig. 2, 5 to 7, a position corresponding to the position-limiting hole 131 on the rear cover 2 is provided with a position-limiting buckle 21, a position corresponding to the position-limiting hole 141 on the rear cover 2 is provided with a position-limiting buckle 22, both the position-limiting buckle 21 and the position-limiting buckle 22 protrude radially from the inner surface of the rear cover 2, and the inner surface of the rear cover 2 is a surface of the rear cover 2 facing away from one side of the rear cover 2 in the bending direction. The limiting hole 131, the limiting hole 141, the limiting buckle 21 and the limiting buckle 22 are all arranged in a rectangular shape.

A stop wall 1311 and a stop wall 1312 are arranged in the limiting hole 131, the stop wall 1311 is arranged towards the side wall 11 of the mounting opening 10, the limiting buckle 21 is inserted into the limiting hole 131, the limiting buckle 21 is in clearance fit with the stop wall 1311, and the limiting buckle 21 is in clearance fit with the stop wall 1312.

A stop wall 1411 and a stop wall 1412 are arranged in the limiting hole 141, the stop wall 1411 is arranged towards the side wall 12 of the mounting opening 10, the limiting buckle 22 is inserted into the limiting hole 141, the limiting buckle 22 is in clearance fit with the stop wall 1411, and the limiting buckle 22 is in clearance fit with the stop wall 1412.

The free ends of the

limiting buckles

21 and 22 are provided with chamfers 210, and the chamfers 210 are convenient for the limiting buckles to be inserted into the corresponding limiting holes.

The bottom wall of the mounting opening 10 is provided with a slot 15, a plug-in part 23 is arranged on the position of the rear cover 2 corresponding to the slot 15, and the plug-in part 23 is inserted into the slot 15.

The top of the mounting opening 10 is provided with two elastic buckles 16, the top of the rear cover 2 is provided with two hooks 24 respectively connected with the two elastic buckles 16 in a matching manner, and the two hooks 24 are arranged along the arc-shaped extending direction of the rear cover 2.

The top of installing opening 10 is seted up and is radially run through the first fixed orifices 17 of air inlet panel 1, has seted up second fixed orifices 25 on the back lid 2, and mounting such as screw passes first fixed orifices 17 and second fixed orifices 25 in proper order and covers 2 and air inlet panel 1 fixed connection after with.

The cooperation mode of back lid 2 and air inlet panel 1 does: insert four grafting portions 23 of back lid 2 downside earlier in the slot 15 that air inlet panel 1 corresponds, then insert elasticity buckle 16, spacing buckle 21 and spacing buckle 22 in the spacing hole that air inlet panel 1 corresponds, beat a screw at last and fix on the upside of back lid 2. The insertion part 23 is matched with the slot 15, and the elastic buckle 16 is matched with the hook 24 to mainly limit the displacement of the rear cover 2 in the up-down direction, and the limit buckles on the left side and the right side of the air inlet panel 1 are matched with the corresponding limit holes to limit the displacement of the rear cover 2 in the left-right direction and correct the inward and outward deformation generated by the rear cover 2.

It is thus clear that spacing buckle cooperates with spacing hole and restricts the lid component for the ascending deformation in the crooked direction of lid component of air inlet panel to the size in clearance between restriction lid component and the installation opening's lateral wall. When the lid part outwards expands because of the structure atress and warp, the spacing buckle outside structure of both sides, installation opening's lateral wall promptly can withstand the air inlet panel relevant position inboard to the outside deformation that the lid produced after can correcting. When the cover part warp because of the inside shrink of structure atress, the inboard structure of the spacing buckle of both sides, stop the wall promptly and can prevent and correct the inside deformation that the cover part produced to reach reasonable fit clearance and appear great fit clearance when preventing both assembles, influence the outward appearance of air inlet panel subassembly, and prevent that debris such as dust from getting into inside the air conditioner.

In addition, the limiting hole can also be a blind hole, namely the limiting hole does not penetrate through the matching part in the radial direction. The quantity of cooperation portion also can be two, and two cooperation portions are located the installation opening respectively and cover the arc extending direction's in the back both sides, have seted up one or more spacing hole in every cooperation portion. The number and the shape of the limiting buckles and the limiting holes can be changed according to requirements. The above-described modifications also achieve the object of the present invention.

Finally, it should be emphasized that the above-described preferred embodiments of the present invention are merely examples of implementations, not limitations, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, and any changes, equivalents, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and scope of the present invention are intended to be embraced therein.

Claims

1. The air inlet panel assembly comprises an air inlet panel and a cover component, the horizontal sections of the air inlet panel and the cover component are both arc-shaped, an installation opening is formed in the air inlet panel, and the cover component is detachably installed in the installation opening;

the method is characterized in that:

in the arc extending direction of the cover component, two sides of the mounting opening are respectively provided with a limiting hole, and a limiting buckle is arranged on the position, corresponding to the limiting hole, of the cover component;

a first stop wall and a second stop wall which are oppositely arranged along the arc-shaped extending direction of the cover component are arranged in the limit hole, the first stop wall is arranged towards the side wall of the mounting opening, the limit buckle is inserted into the limit hole, the limit buckle is in clearance fit with the first stop wall to correct inward deformation generated by the cover component, and the limit buckle is in clearance fit with the second stop wall to correct outward deformation generated by the cover component;

the side wall that spacing buckle extends along the grafting direction is the plane wall, spacing hole with spacing buckle all is the rectangular block shape setting, the free end of spacing buckle is provided with the chamfer.

2. The intake air panel assembly of claim 1, wherein:

the side wall is provided with a matching portion, the matching portion protrudes out of the side wall, and the limiting hole is formed in the matching portion.

3. The intake air panel assembly of claim 2, wherein:

the fitting portion extends outward from the side wall along an arc-shaped extending direction of the cover member, and the stopper hole penetrates the fitting portion in a radial direction.

4. An air intake panel assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein:

the limiting buckle is arranged on the inner surface of the cover component.

5. An air intake panel assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein:

in the arc extending direction of the cover component, at least three limiting holes are arranged on each side of the mounting opening, and the limiting holes on the same side of the mounting opening are uniformly arranged along the extending direction of the side wall.

6. An air intake panel assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein:

the bottom wall of the mounting opening is provided with a slot, and the cover component is provided with an inserting part at a position corresponding to the slot, and the inserting part is inserted into the slot.

7. An air intake panel assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein:

the top of the mounting opening is provided with an elastic buckle, and the top of the cover part is provided with a clamping hook which is matched and connected with the elastic buckle.

8. An air conditioner comprising the intake air panel assembly as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 7.