CN111271867A

CN111271867A - Air conditioner

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Publication number: CN111271867A
Application number: CN201811574736.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 尚彬; 黄家柏; 霍彪; 曾友坚; 王千广; 王杰杰; 贺佳伟; 许超魁; 徐海涛
Original assignee: Aux Air Conditioning Co Ltd
Current assignee: Aux Air Conditioning Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-12-21
Filing date: 2018-12-21
Publication date: 2020-06-12

Abstract

The invention provides an air conditioner which comprises a shell and a decorative strip, wherein an assembling part is arranged on the shell, the decorative strip is matched with the assembling part, the decorative strip is made of iron wires, and the decorative strip is integrally formed. According to the air conditioner, the decorating strip made of the ABS material in the prior art is replaced by the iron wire, and the iron wire is good in flexibility, brightness and smoothness and good in deformation capacity and ductility, so that on one hand, the decorating strip can be made thinner and thinner on the premise of ensuring that the decorating strip has certain mechanical strength and cannot be easily broken, and meanwhile, the decorating strip has good flexibility and mechanical performance, is convenient to assemble, on the other hand, ensures that the decorating strip has a bright and tidy appearance, and is beneficial to improving the aesthetic performance of the air conditioner.

Description

Air conditioner

Technical Field

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

Background

The air conditioner is indispensable electrical equipment in people's daily life, has diversified structural style. With the continuous improvement of the industrial design level and the application of new processes, new materials and new shapes to air conditioners, not only various air conditioner indoor units are developed, but also the corresponding structural optimization is carried out on the air conditioner outdoor unit. In the prior art, most of the decoration strips on the air conditioner shell are made of ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene) materials, wherein the ABS materials are terpolymers composed of acrylonitrile, butadiene and styrene; the material has the advantages of small density, light weight, neatness, smoothness, flame retardance and the like, is usually used for producing air conditioner shells, decorating parts and decorating strips, has certain defects when being used for producing the decorating strips, particularly has poor flexibility of ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) when being used for producing the slender and long decorating strips, cannot be thinned and thinner when reaching a certain size limit, and is extremely easy to break when being stressed; so that on the one hand its mechanical properties cannot be ensured and on the other hand it is inconvenient to assemble the trim strip and its daily use.

In the prior art, patent CN203907944U discloses a floor type air conditioner, which includes a display panel structure, an indoor unit of the floor type air conditioner is cylindrical, the display panel structure is disposed at the top of a main body of the indoor unit, the display panel structure is a two-color injection molding display panel structure, the display panel structure includes a panel body and a decorative strip, the decorative strip is disposed on the periphery of the panel body, and the panel body and the decorative strip are integrally injection molded. However, the decorative strip in the application is also made of ABS materials, and if the decorative strip needs to be thin and long, the problems of poor flexibility, easiness in breaking, poor mechanical property and the like and inconvenience in assembly still exist.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above, the present invention is directed to an air conditioner, so as to solve the problems of poor flexibility, easy breaking, poor mechanical properties, and the like of the decorative strip made of ABS material in the prior art, and the problem of inconvenient assembly.

In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme of the invention is realized as follows:

the air conditioner comprises a shell and a decorative strip, wherein an assembling portion is arranged on the shell, the decorative strip is matched with the assembling portion, the decorative strip is an iron wire, and the decorative strip is integrally formed.

Further, the shell is a middle frame or a front panel, and the decorative strip is in interference fit with the assembling portion.

Further, the assembly part comprises an assembly groove, a first clamping arm and a second clamping arm, and the first clamping arm and the second clamping arm are matched with the assembly groove respectively.

Further, the assembly portion includes a notch, and the notch is provided on at least one of the first clamping arm and the second clamping arm.

Furthermore, an assembly cavity is formed among the assembly groove, the first clamping arm and the second clamping arm, and the decorative strip is clamped with the assembly cavity.

Further, the assembling groove is provided with a groove body structure, and the decorative strip is matched with the groove body structure; the first clamping arm and the second clamping arm are respectively matched with the decorative strip.

Further, the shell is a middle frame, the middle frame comprises a first side plate, a second side plate and a front end plate, the first side plate is connected with the front end plate, the second side plate is connected with the front end plate, and an air outlet is formed in the front end plate; at least one of the first side plate, the second side plate and the front end plate is provided with an assembling part.

Furthermore, the ornamental strip is including the first decoration section, second decoration section, the third decoration section that connect gradually, first decoration section and first curb plate cooperation, second decoration section and the cooperation of second curb plate, the front end plate is keeping away from one side of air outlet and is decorating the section cooperation with the third.

Further, the assembly portion is made of ABS materials.

Further, the shell is integrally formed.

Compared with the prior art, the air conditioner has the following advantages:

according to the air conditioner, the decorating strip made of the ABS material in the prior art is replaced by the iron wire, and the iron wire is good in flexibility, brightness and smoothness and good in deformation capacity and ductility, so that on one hand, the decorating strip can be made thinner and thinner on the premise of ensuring that the decorating strip has certain mechanical strength and cannot be easily broken, and meanwhile, the decorating strip has good flexibility and mechanical performance, is convenient to assemble, on the other hand, ensures that the decorating strip has a bright and tidy appearance, and is beneficial to improving the aesthetic performance of the air conditioner.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate an embodiment of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the invention and not to limit the invention. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic view of an assembly of an air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a partially assembled view of an air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an assembling portion of an air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Description of reference numerals:

1-shell, 11-first side plate, 12-second side plate, 13-front end plate, 14-air outlet, 15-assembly part, 16-assembly groove, 17-first clamping arm, 18-second clamping arm, 19-gap, 2-decorative strip, 21-first decorative section, 22-second decorative section and 23-third decorative section.

Detailed Description

The disclosed inventive concepts will be described hereinafter using terms commonly employed by those skilled in the art to convey the substance of their work to others skilled in the art. These inventive concepts may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. These embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of their inclusion to those skilled in the art. It should also be noted that these embodiments are not mutually exclusive. A component, step, or element from one embodiment may be assumed to be present or used in another embodiment. The particular embodiments shown and described may be substituted for a wide variety of alternate and/or equivalent implementations without departing from the scope of the disclosed embodiments. This application is intended to cover any adaptations or variations of the embodiments discussed herein. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that alternative embodiments may be practiced using only some of the described aspects. Specific numbers, materials, and configurations are set forth in the examples for the purpose of illustration, however, alternative examples may be practiced by those skilled in the art without these specific details. In other instances, well-known features may be omitted or simplified in order not to obscure the illustrative embodiments.

It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict. The terms air conditioner, etc. in the embodiments of the present invention refer to air conditioners in the prior art, including a wall-mounted air conditioner, a ceiling-mounted air conditioner, a cabinet air conditioner, a mobile air conditioner, etc.

Meanwhile, directional terms mentioned in the embodiments of the present invention are based on the normal assembly and normal installation of the air conditioner, wherein "up" refers to the upper direction or space of the normal assembly and normal installation of the air conditioner, "down" refers to the lower direction or space of the normal assembly and normal installation of the air conditioner, "front" refers to the front direction or space of the normal assembly and normal installation of the air conditioner, "back" refers to the rear direction or space of the normal assembly and normal installation of the air conditioner, "horizontal" refers to the horizontal direction of the normal assembly and normal installation of the air conditioner, and the "horizontal" direction is perpendicular to the "up-down" direction or the "vertical" direction as conventionally understood.

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.

The air conditioner aimed at by the embodiment mainly refers to an air conditioner with a decorative strip, and can be an indoor unit with a decorative strip or an outdoor unit with a decorative strip; considering that most of indoor units of air conditioners are currently on the market with decorative strips, the present embodiment is described by taking the indoor unit with a decorative strip as an example, but is not limited to the indoor unit;

the indoor unit comprises a shell component, an air guide door and an air guide blade which have the structures such as a front panel and a middle frame, and an internal component of the air-conditioning indoor unit which has the structures such as a heat exchange coil, a wind wheel and a motor.

In the prior art, in order to decorate the appearance of an air-conditioning indoor unit and improve the aesthetic property of the air-conditioning indoor unit, corresponding decorating parts are often assembled on an external shell of the air-conditioning indoor unit; for the use of the decoration material, ABS material is generally used for producing the decoration; however, in the production of relatively thin and long decorative strips, the flexibility of ABS is too poor, which makes it impossible to make thinner and thinner strips when reaching a certain dimensional limit, or else it is very easy to break when stressed, thus not only making it impossible to ensure its mechanical properties, but also making it inconvenient to assemble the decorative strip and to use it daily.

In order to solve the problems of poor flexibility, easy breakage, poor mechanical property and the like of an ABS decorative strip in the prior art and the problem of inconvenience in assembly, the embodiment provides an air conditioner, as shown in the attached drawings 1 to 4, the air conditioner comprises a shell 1 and a decorative strip 2, an assembly part 15 is arranged on the shell 1, the decorative strip 2 is matched with the assembly part 15, the decorative strip 2 is made of iron wires, and the decorative strip 2 is integrally formed.

The casing 1 is center or front panel, interference fit between ornamental strip 2 and the assembly portion 15, ornamental strip 2 passes through the assembly portion 15 to be fixed on center or front panel, decorates it to improve its aesthetic property.

In this embodiment, taking a middle frame as an example, that is, the housing 1 is a middle frame, the middle frame includes a first side plate 11, a second side plate 12, and a front end plate 13, the first side plate 11 is connected with the front end plate 13, the second side plate 12 is connected with the front end plate 13, and an air outlet 14 is disposed on the front end plate 13;

as for the assembly structure of the decoration strip 2 and the middle frame, specifically, the decoration strip 2 includes a first decoration section 21, a second decoration section 22 and a third decoration section 23 which are connected in sequence, the first decoration section 21 is matched with the first side plate 11, the second decoration section 22 is matched with the second side plate 12, and the front end plate 13 is matched with the third decoration section 23 at one side far away from the air outlet 14;

at least one of the first side plate 11, the second side plate 12 and the front end plate 13 is provided with a mounting part 15; the assembling part 15 comprises an assembling groove 16, a first clamping arm 17 and a second clamping arm 18, and the first clamping arm 17 and the second clamping arm 18 are respectively matched with the assembling groove 16; the assembling groove 16 is matched with the decorative strip 2; the assembling groove 16 is provided with a groove body structure, and the decorative strip 2 is matched with the groove body structure; the first clamping arm 17 and the second clamping arm 18 are respectively matched with the decoration strip 2 and used for limiting and fixing the decoration strip 2; an assembly cavity is formed among the assembly groove 16, the first clamping arm 17 and the second clamping arm 18, and the decoration strip 2 is clamped with the assembly cavity. Specifically, the assembling portion 15 is made of a plastic material, such as an ABS material, and has certain elasticity, and the decorative strip 2 is forced to push the first clamping arm 17 and the second clamping arm 18, so that the first clamping arm 17 and the second clamping arm 18 are slightly deformed, and the decorative strip 2 can slide into the assembling cavity and be clamped with the assembling cavity under the condition of external force extrusion.

Because the trim strip 2 and the assembling portion 15 are in interference fit, in order to facilitate the assembling between the trim strip 2 and the assembling portion 15, the assembling portion 15 further comprises a notch 19, and the notch 19 is arranged on at least one of the first clamping arm 17 and the second clamping arm 18.

According to the invention, the decorating strip made of ABS material in the prior art is replaced by the iron wire, and the iron wire has good flexibility, brightness and finish, and good deformation capability and ductility, so that on one hand, the decorating strip can be made thinner and thinner on the premise of ensuring that the decorating strip has certain mechanical strength and cannot be easily broken, and meanwhile, the decorating strip has good flexibility and mechanical property, is convenient to assemble, on the other hand, the decorating strip is ensured to have a brighter and tidier appearance, and is beneficial to improving the aesthetic property of an air conditioner.

In addition, as for casing 1 and assembly portion 15, as preferred, casing 1 is integrated into one piece, and the material of casing 1 including assembly portion 15 is the ABS material, through injection moulding, and this to casing 1, has not only guaranteed the convenient degree of processing production, is favorable to reducing manufacturing cost, is favorable to further improving casing 1 and assembly portion 15's mechanical properties moreover.

In the present invention, the terms "first", "second" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly and can, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally formed; may be mechanically coupled, may be electrically coupled or may be in communication with each other; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or they may be connected internally or in any other suitable relationship, unless expressly stated otherwise. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein.

Claims

1. The air conditioner is characterized by comprising a shell (1) and a decorative strip (2), wherein an assembling part (15) is arranged on the shell (1), the decorative strip (2) is matched with the assembling part (15), the decorative strip (2) is made of iron wires, and the decorative strip (2) is integrally formed.

2. An air conditioner according to claim 1, characterized in that the housing (1) is a center frame or a front panel, and the decorative strip (2) is in interference fit with the fitting portion (15).

3. An air conditioner according to claim 1, characterized in that the fitting portion (15) includes a fitting groove (16), a first catching arm (17), a second catching arm (18), and the first catching arm (17) and the second catching arm (18) are respectively engaged with the fitting groove (16).

4. An air conditioner according to claim 3, characterized in that the fitting part (15) comprises a notch (19), the notch (19) being provided on at least one of the first and second snap-in arms (17, 18).

5. An air conditioner according to claim 3, characterized in that a mounting cavity is formed among the mounting groove (16), the first clamping arm (17) and the second clamping arm (18), and the decorative strip (2) is clamped with the mounting cavity.

6. An air conditioner according to claim 5, characterized in that the fitting groove (16) has a groove structure, the decorative strip (2) cooperating with the groove structure; the first clamping arm (17) and the second clamping arm (18) are respectively matched with the decorative strip (2).

7. The air conditioner according to claim 1, wherein the housing (1) is a middle frame, the middle frame comprises a first side plate (11), a second side plate (12) and a front end plate (13), the first side plate (11) is connected with the front end plate (13), the second side plate (12) is connected with the front end plate (13), and an air outlet (14) is arranged on the front end plate (13); at least one of the first side plate (11), the second side plate (12) and the front end plate (13) is provided with an assembling part (15).

8. An air conditioner according to claim 7, characterized in that the decorative strip (2) comprises a first decorative section (21), a second decorative section (22) and a third decorative section (23) which are connected in sequence, the first decorative section (21) is matched with the first side plate (11), the second decorative section (22) is matched with the second side plate (12), and the front end plate (13) is matched with the third decorative section (23) at the side far away from the air outlet (14).

9. An air conditioner according to claim 1, characterized in that the fitting portion (15) is of ABS material.

10. An air conditioner according to claim 1, characterized in that the housing (1) is integrally formed.