CN1123737C

CN1123737C - Air conditioner

Info

Publication number: CN1123737C
Application number: CN00137605A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 小平千春; 藤森俊司; 近藤秀雄; 中岛浩明; 横山启二
Original assignee: Hitachi Ltd
Current assignee: Hitachi Appliances Inc
Priority date: 1999-12-27
Filing date: 2000-12-27
Publication date: 2003-10-08
Anticipated expiration: 2020-12-27
Also published as: GB2360840B; CN1515837A; GB0031509D0; GB2360840A; KR20010062672A; MY125090A; CN1242217C; KR100396969B1; JP2001182958A; JP3168266B1; CN1308210A

Abstract

To obtain an inexpensive air conditioner in which cleaning workability of an air filter disposed on the inside of a front panel is enhanced while enhancing cleaning workability of a front panel. The air conditioner comprises a front panel forming the front part of a laterally elongated housing, and an air filter disposed removably on the inside of the front panel wherein the front panel is split laterally into two and the side end part thereof is supported rotatably in the horizontal direction and removably.

Description

Air-conditioner

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of air-conditioner, particularly preferably relate to a kind of air-conditioner that is installed in eminence and has the front panel of energy opening/closing casing front end face.

Background technology

An air cleaner is arranged in the air-conditioner of routine, a heat exchanger, a slipstream blower fan in the rectangle casing, casing has one, and the employing resin is injection molded and chassis body formation casing aft section is injection molded with the employing resin and the deckboard of formation casing previous section, deckboard has the front panel that the deckboard main body is connected with front end face with the deckboard main body, being shaped as frame-type and having the grid type air suction inlet that is positioned on its upper surface and be positioned at the air outlet of its lower surface of deckboard main body, with its top is that rotating shaft is opened its downside and front panel can be opened, front panel and the deckboard main body is dismountable is assembled together so just can unclamp the cooperation (related background art 1) between the dual-side of end portion of rotating shaft and deckboard main body.

Furthermore, according to related background art 1, when filter is cleaned, utilize both hands to mention the dual-side of lower surface part, front panel is upwards rotated, front panel can be opened, can directly clean filter by the portion that opens like this, perhaps take out filter and then it is cleaned from the part of opening.For example in Japanese patent laid-open H9-210401 number, disclosed and the similar air-conditioner of the structure of background technology 1.

Furthermore, it is injection molded and constituted front panel and dismountable air cleaner that is installed in the inboard of front panel of the front end face of rectangle casing that another kind of conventional air-conditioner has resin, wherein front panel is divided into left and right sides two parts, and each side end portion of divided front panel is being supported (related background art 2) in the horizontal direction rotationally.Furthermore, for the air-conditioner in the background technology 2, when filter had been advanced cleaning, front panel rotated and opens to two, filter can be taken out and clean like this.For example in Japanese patent laid-open H8-285314, disclosed and the similar air-conditioner of the structure of background technology 2.

Yet often such air-conditioner is installed in eminence near ceiling.In the air-conditioner of background technology 1, the lower portion of front panel be opened and its upper part as rotating shaft, open front panel for big degree ground, must use hand that the end portion of front panel is lifted to position near ceiling, opening to so big degree front panel is very difficult the operation.Therefore just force people equally it to be cleaned or takes out to pinnacled filter image pattern 23 is installed; Front panel is opened a little, and this has just caused the difficult problem of cleaning operation.Furthermore, when front panel is opened,, just must with the hands lift front panel, also cause the difficult problem of cleaning operation in this regard in order to unclamp two cooperation of front panel end portion.

Furthermore, front panel is made of whole piece, the size of the resin mo(u)lding-die of corresponding front panel is big and cost is high, and as shown in figure 24, when front panel being taken out and in pond or analog, cleans, front panel has just exceeded the scope of pond or analog widely, in so just being difficult in whole front panel is simply cleaned, in a difficult problem that has also caused cleaning operation aspect this.

Furthermore, suction inlet is positioned at the upper surface of the deckboard main body that front panel separates.When the suction inlet that is positioned at deckboard main body upper surface is cleaned, separate to its cleaning operation with to the cleaning operation of front panel, and be the highest point that is positioned at air-conditioner, therefore in a difficult problem that has also caused cleaning operation aspect this.Furthermore because the deckboard main body be shaped as frame-type, the size of resin mo(u)lding-die is very big and cost is high, and when making a plurality of different types of air-conditioner, large-sized resin mo(u)lding-die also needs multiple.Simultaneously, according to the air-conditioner of background technology 2, front panel can not be installed or remove, and the problem that does not have consideration to remove front panel and clean in water.

Summary of the invention

Goal of the invention of the present invention is to provide a kind of air-conditioner, and this air-conditioner can improve the air cleaner cleaning performance of the inboard that is installed in front panel and improve the cleaning performance of front panel, and this air-conditioner is cheap.

In order to reach the foregoing invention purpose, according to typical aspect of the present invention, air-conditioner of the present invention comprises a rectangle casing, has heat exchanger, air cleaner and blower fan in the inside of casing; Said machine casing comprises a chassis body and a deckboard, and the said machine casing main body has been formed the aft section of said machine casing, and above-mentioned deckboard has been formed the previous section of said machine casing; It is characterized in that: above-mentioned deckboard comprises dress cover plate main body, a front panel and a bracing or strutting arrangement, above-mentioned deckboard main body is installed on the front side edge of said machine casing main body, above-mentioned front panel is positioned at the front end face of above-mentioned deckboard main body, and length two parts about direction is divided into of the relative casing of energy; Above-mentioned front panel comprises a front end face part and a upper surface part, the front end face part of above-mentioned front panel is relative with the front end face of above-mentioned deckboard main body, and the upper surface part of above-mentioned front panel is formed to the extension of the upper end of above-mentioned deckboard main body by above-mentioned front end face part; Above-mentioned deckboard main body comprises a notch part, a top mate and an engagement notch part, above-mentioned notch part is used for the cooperation between the upper surface of the upper surface part of above-mentioned front panel and above-mentioned deckboard main body, above-mentioned top mate is used for being connected between the upper surface of the side end portion of upper surface part of above-mentioned front panel and above-mentioned deckboard main body, thereby the upper surface part that makes above-mentioned front panel matches with above-mentioned notch part and is connected, and above-mentioned engagement notch part is used for being connected with outstanding the matching of the engagement of above-mentioned front panel; But above-mentioned bracing or strutting arrangement supports above-mentioned front panel in the long terminad portion of said machine casing and makes its front end face opening/closing of said machine casing relatively; It is outstanding to be formed with engagement on above-mentioned front panel, is used for being connected between the front end face part of above-mentioned front panel and above-mentioned deckboard body front end face.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the perspective view according to the air-conditioner of first embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 2 is the front view of Fig. 1 air-conditioner;

Fig. 3 is the right view of Fig. 1 air-conditioner;

Fig. 4 is the plane of Fig. 1 air-conditioner;

Fig. 5 is the upward view of Fig. 1 air-conditioner;

Perspective view when Fig. 6 is in open mode for the front panel of Fig. 1 air-conditioner;

Fig. 7 is the sectional drawing of the major part of Fig. 1 air-conditioner;

Fig. 8 is the sectional drawing of hinge fraction of the front panel of Fig. 1 air-conditioner;

Fig. 9 is the perspective view of second embodiment of the invention air-conditioner when front panel is in open mode;

Figure 10 is the perspective view according to the third embodiment of the invention air-conditioner;

Figure 11 is the perspective view according to the fourth embodiment of the invention air-conditioner;

Figure 12 is the perspective view according to the fifth embodiment of the invention air-conditioner;

Figure 13 is the schematic perspective view according to sixth embodiment of the invention air-conditioner deckboard;

Figure 14 is the schematic perspective view according to seventh embodiment of the invention air-conditioner deckboard;

Figure 15 is the schematic perspective view according to eighth embodiment of the invention air-conditioner deckboard;

Figure 16 is the schematic perspective view according to ninth embodiment of the invention air-conditioner deckboard;

Figure 17 is the schematic diagram stereogram according to tenth embodiment of the invention air-conditioner deckboard;

Figure 18 is the schematic perspective view according to eleventh embodiment of the invention air-conditioner deckboard;

Figure 19 is the schematic perspective view according to twelveth embodiment of the invention air-conditioner deckboard;

Figure 20 is the schematic perspective view according to thriteenth embodiment of the invention air-conditioner deckboard;

Perspective view when Figure 21 cleans it for the front panel of air-conditioner among Fig. 1 is in open mode and cleanup crew;

Perspective view when Figure 22 is removed for the air-conditioner front panel among Fig. 1 and in the pond it is cleaned;

Perspective view when Figure 23 cleans it for the front panel of conventional air-conditioning device is in open mode and cleanup crew;

Perspective view when Figure 24 is removed for the front panel of conventional air-conditioning device and in the pond it is cleaned;

The specific embodiment

Below with reference to the accompanying drawings each embodiment of the present invention is described.And in second embodiment and later embodiment for first embodiment in identical parts will not remake repeat specification.Identical Reference numeral is represented identical or suitable parts in the accompanying drawing of each embodiment.

1-8,21,22 pairs of first embodiment of the present invention describe at first with reference to the accompanying drawings.The left surface of air-conditioner and right flank are symmetrical according to the present invention.

At first according to embodiments of the invention with reference to the accompanying drawings 1-7 the unitary construction of air-conditioner is described.

Indoor unit 1 is made up of lower member: a rectangle casing 2, and this rectangle casing has formed the outer shape of indoor unit 1; An air cleaner 5 that is installed in

air suction inlet

30a, 41a, 41b inboard,

air suction inlet

30a, 41a, 41b are formed on the casing 2; A heat exchanger 6 (referring to accompanying drawing 6) that is positioned at air cleaner 5 inboards; A slipstream blower fan 7, this slipstream blower fan 7 sucks room air through behind air cleaner 5, the heat exchanger 6 room air being blown out from air outlet 40b from

air suction inlet

30a, 41a, 41b; And other parts (referring to accompanying drawing 7).Size about indoor unit 1, usually the scope of lateral width L is 690mm≤L≤1000mm in its rectangle external dimensions, the scope of height H is 240mm≤H≤320mm, the scope of depth W is 140mm≤W≤220mm, rectangle external dimensions according to embodiment indoor unit 1 is: lateral width is made as 798mm, highly be made as 270mm, depth is made as 183mm, and lateral width is a twice highly or more.

Indoor unit 1 generally be installed near the top of the indoor wall of ceiling and by refrigerant tubing be installed in the outdoor outdoor unit (not shown) that is connected, be connected with electric power connection line, signal connecting line and other and form an air-conditioner thus, thereby can freeze, heating, dehumidifying, air cleaner, blowing and other operation.

Casing 2 has a chassis body 3 and a deckboard 4, and this chassis body 3 has formed the aft section of casing, 4 previous sections that form casing of deckboard.Deckboard 4 removably is assembled together with chassis body 3.The assembly structure specific according to deckboard 4, its upper part has constituted the engaging mechanism of ledge and mate, and its end portion has constituted a retention mechanism by screw.For deckboard 4 is disassembled from chassis body 3, by turning on the screw of end portion, the end portion of deckboard 4 is overturn to the front upper place, and upwards lift deckboard 4, unclamp the connection of upper part thus, thereby deckboard 4 can be disassembled.

The front shell 31 that chassis body 3 has a back case 30, is connected with back case 30 front side edge, an operation display unit 32 that is connected with front shell 31 (referring to accompanying

drawing

4,5).When chassis body 3 was formed together by the foundation 32a of back case 30, front shell 31 and operation display unit 32 on the whole, the cost of chassis body 3 was cheaper.

Back case 30 is with air intake passage part 132, back dew receiving unit 33, backwind housing part 34 and air-out channel part 35 integrally formed (referring to accompanying drawing 7) by the resin injection moulding.And back dew receiving unit 33 and backwind housing part 34 shared public parts.

Furthermore, front shell 31 has by resin injection molded front nose 36 and front dew receiving unit 37, this front nose 36 is relative with slipstream blower fan 7, and this front dew receiving unit 37 is used to receive the dew of condensation on heat exchanger 61 and 62.Slipstream blower fan 7 is between the backwind housing part 34 of the front nose 36 of front shell 31 and back case 30 (referring to accompanying drawing 7).Like this, slipstream blower fan 7 sucks room airs by air intake passage 71 and by air-out passage 72 room air is blown out, and wherein front side and the upside at slipstream blower fan 7 formed air intake passage 71, has formed air-out passage 72 at the downside of slipstream blower fan 7.

Air intake passage 71 is formed by the air intake passage part 32 of back case 30, the upper part and the front panel 41 of deckboard main body 40.Air cleaner 5 and heat exchanger 6 are installed in the inside of air intake passage 71.Simultaneously air-out passage 72 is formed by the lower surface of the dew receiving unit 37 of the air-out channel part 35 of back case 30 and front shell 31, and communicates with air outlet 40b on the deckboard main body 40.

Operation display unit 32 is installed in the core of casing 2 front end faces with a showy size, and its end portion partly is connected with the front end face of front shell 31, and its upper part extends to the upper side of front end face.Furthermore, operation display unit 32 has the function of display operation state and receives the function of the control signal that transmits from remote controller.Operation display unit 32 can only have the function of display operation state in addition, and receiving function can be realized in the position of a separation.Furthermore, operation display unit 32 have a foundation 32a who is connected with front shell 31, be positioned at foundation 32a front end face core large scale liquid crystal display part 32b, be positioned at the both sides of foundation 32a and be used to be connected the lower end engages part 32c of front panel 41.By lower end engages part 32c, front panel 41 can be connected with deckboard main body 40 tightly.Therefore, can suppress vibration and the reduction noise that casing 2 produces at work.Liquid-crystal display section 32b has a receiving function part in addition.

A plurality of front panels 41 and guide disc that deckboard 4 has deckboard main body 40, is connected with the front end face of deckboard main body 40, this guide disc is used to change the direction of the air that is blown by air-out passage 72 and air outlet 40a.Guide disc is made up of with a plurality of vertical guide disc 42b two horizontal guide disc 42a.Horizontal guide disc 42a is used to change the direction up and down of the air that blows out, rotate by a horizontal guide disc motor driving, in shut-down operation, can block the air outlet of deckboard 40, in running, horizontal direction dish 42a can select to turn to predetermined angle and stop or the repeated rotation state.Furthermore, vertical guide disc 42b is used to change the left and right directions of the air that blows, and it is installed in the inboard of horizontal guide disc 42a, and is in the air-out passage 72 and can carries out the rotation of left and right directions.

Adopt the resin injection moulding process that deckboard main body 40 is made the shape of frame-type, and deckboard main body 40 have a notch part 40a and an air outlet 40b who is positioned at the lower surface part, is connected with air-out passage 72 who is positioned at the upper surface part, is fallen in by its front end face side.Furthermore, deckboard main body 40 have one the core of notch part 40a outstanding become integral upper mate 40c with it, this top mate 40c is used for being connected with front panel 41.By top mate 40c, front panel 41 can link together with deckboard main body 40 tightly.Therefore can suppress vibration and reduction noise that casing 2 produces at work.

In front in the plate 41, comprise its front end face part and to adopt resin to be injection molded into L shaped in a zone of the upper surface part of partly being extended by front end face, thereby formed the front end face part and the upper surface part of casing 2.Furthermore, front panel 41 has a suction inlet 41a and suction inlet 41b, this suction inlet 41a is positioned at the mid portion of front end face part of front panel 41 and relative with preceding bottom heat exchanger 61, and this suction inlet 41b is positioned at the upper surface part of front panel 41 and relative with front upper part heat exchanger 62.The form of

suction inlet

41a, 41b is a grid type.Furthermore, formed a slit 43 between the both-side ends of plate 41 part and the deckboard main body 40 in front.Furthermore, the structure about front panel 41 hereinafter will provide explanation in more detail.

Like this, casing 2 has a plurality of

suction inlet

30a, 41a, 41b and 43 in its front end face, upper surface, side, and suction inlet forms on front end face, upper surface and side.Therefore, such structure can make inspiratory resistance become very little.

As shown in Figure 6, air cleaner 5 is divided into left and right sides two parts, and the inboard that is installed in front panel 41

covers suction inlet

30a, 41a and 41b, and mounting arrangements is in the suction side of heat exchanger 6.Adopt the resin injection moulding process that air cleaner 5 is made it and be in identical shaped when being installed on the deckboard main body 40, exactly, the cross sectional shape of air cleaner 5 is an inverted L shape.Therefore when front panel 41 is in open mode, just can assembles and remove air cleaner 5 by the simple operations of front face side, and need not carry out downward taking-up operation.So the cleaning operation performance of air cleaner 5 can become fine.

Furthermore, air cleaner 5 has lower end engages in the both sides of its end portion outstanding, has a center at the core of front end face and grab by part 5a, at mask thereafter the outstanding 5b of locking arranged.Simultaneously, use Lock Part to install and fix at front end face with locking recess part with the heat exchanger 6 that locks outstanding 5b relative position.Like this, grab by the center of holding and to press air cleaner 5 by part 5a, from the front side, lower end engages is outstanding like this is connected with deckboard main body 40, outstanding 5b of locking and locking recess partly lock, thereby air cleaner 5 is installed, carried out opposite operation and air cleaner 5 can be removed.The cleaning operation performance of air cleaner 5 can become more superior like this.

As shown in Figure 7, the heat exchanger 6 that constitutes a kind of refrigeration cycle part is made up of a plurality of heat exchangers, exactly, comprises preceding lower end heat exchanger 61, preceding upper end heat exchanger 62 and back heat exchanger 63.Heat exchanger 61 main and generally perpendicularly installations relative in preceding lower end with suction inlet 41a, heat exchanger 62 main and with being inclined upwardly installations relative in preceding upper end with suction inlet 41b.Back heat exchanger 63 main with the suction inlet 63 relative and tiltedly installations that dip down.Furthermore, preceding upper end heat exchanger 62 and back heat exchanger 63 form roughly inverted V-shape.Heat exchanger 61,62 and 63 all is an intersection fin-type heat exchanger, a plurality of heat loss through radiation fins are installed in the narrow interval and are parallel to each other, heat exchanging pipe 6b passes this radiating fin, has constituted independent heat exchanger 6 thereby by connecting pipe the heat exchanging pipe 6b of each heat exchanger 61,62,63 is coupled together.

Heat exchanger 6 is arranged like this and is made a plurality of heat exchangers 61,62,63 relative with

suction inlet

30a, 41a, 42b respectively, therefore just constituted a very big intake region.

The slipstream blower fan 7 that is used to blow room air is installed in the rear side of preceding lower end heat exchanger 61 and the downside of preceding upper end heat exchanger 62 and back heat exchanger 63.By rotary tangential flow blower fan 7, room air sucks and blows out from air-out passage 72 from air intake passage 71.

To make an explanation to the basic operation of air-conditioner operation below.

Here typical refrigerating operaton is described.Carry out refrigerating operaton by the slipstream blower fan 7 that starts kind of refrigeration cycle, rotation outdoor unit blower fan and indoor unit 1.By the running of kind of refrigeration cycle, the temperature of heat exchanger 6 reduces.Furthermore, by rotary tangential flow blower fan 7, room air is sucked by

suction inlet

30a, 41a, 41b and 43 and carries out dedusting by air cleaner 5.Room air was cooled and dehumidified, reaches slipstream blower fan 7 afterwards, passes air-out passage 72 and enter in the room through air outlet 40b by each heat exchanger again in 61,62,63 o'clock then.So just finished predetermined refrigerating operation.Furthermore, in refrigerating operation, horizontal guide disc 42a opens and stops or repeated rotation in the precalculated position.

In refrigerating operaton, the dew that condenses on preceding lower end heat exchanger 61 and preceding upper end heat exchanger 62 flows to downwards in the front dew receiving unit 37 of front shell 31, bottom by flowing to the back of indoor unit 1 after 37 collections of front dew receiving unit is discharged to the outside at last.Simultaneously, the dew that condenses on the heat exchanger 63 flows to downwards in the back dew receiving unit 33 in the back, and the dew of being collected by the both sides of back dew receiving unit flows to the bottom of the back of indoor unit 1, is discharged to the outside at last.

Concrete structure below with reference to 6～8 pairs of front panels 41 of accompanying drawing describes.

According to present embodiment, front panel 41 is divided into right side front panel and left side front panel in the horizontal direction.Therefore the size that is divided into two front panel 41 has just become half of single a slice.Exactly, the size of front panel 41 is 240mm～320mm for its altitude range, and the scope of side width is 340mm～500mm.Two front panels 41 are arranged to operation display unit 32 and top mate 40c are clipped in the middle.Furthermore, in this embodiment, according to front panel 41, on the limit of the side that its upper part on side end portion separately and end portion are installed in casing 2, upper part and end portion on the side end portion of the left and right sides are supported in the horizontal direction rotationally, and can flexibly install and remove.The back will provide the detailed explanation about supporting mechanism.

Furthermore, in the plate 41, the upper part that is positioned at the central side of casing 2 is connected separably with upper end mate 40c in front, and its end portion divides 32 to be connected separably with operation display part.According to the engaging mechanism of this embodiment, be formed with outstanding 41g of engagement and 41h in front in upper part on the rear side of the side end portion of plate 41 and the end portion.Relatively form

engagement notch part

40e and 32d on the lower end engages part 32c of the top of deckboard main body 40 mate 40c and display unit 32 respectively,

engagement ledge

41g and 41h can flexibly cooperate with

engagement notch part

40e and 32d.

Furthermore, have a hand in front on the plate 41 and touch part 41i, this hand touches on the front end face of end portion that part 41i is positioned at corresponding side end portion, and is positioned at the central side of previous section.Hand touches part 41i and is formed by notch part, and finger just can touch the part 41i that touches in one's hands from the surface like this.

In such structure, the hand by finger touch front panel 41 touches part 41i and spurs hand forward and touches part 41i, and mesh the top and bottom that just can unclamp on the central side of front end face, and left side and right side front panel 41 can be opened to both sides.

As shown in Figure 8, the supporting mechanism on the side end portion of plate 41 is made of a upper hinge part 44 and underneath hinges part 48 in front.

Forming the upper hinge part 44 of the side end portion supporting mechanism of front panel 41 is made up of following parts: upper support member 41c, the top rotating shaft 41d of outstanding shape, upper bearing part 45, bearing clamping part 46, disc spring 47, fix and remove bar 45a, this upper support member 41c is positioned at the upper part of the side end portion of front panel 41, this top rotating shaft 41d is positioned on the upper surface of upper support part 41c, the upper support part 40d (direction of arrow P 3 and P4) that this upper bearing part 45 is used to support top rotating shaft 41d and is fixed on the deckboard main body along the direction of top rotating shaft 41d slidably, this bearing clamping part 46 is used for upper bearing part 45 is clamped in deckboard main body 40 slidably, thereby this disc spring 47 is positioned at the inside of upper bearing part 45 and promotes upper bearing part 45 by the direction along arrow P 3 and makes disc spring 47 fixing and clamping rotating shaft 41d, fix and remove the top of bar 45a at bearing portions 45, by the dismounting bar hole 46a on bearing clamping part 46, pilot bearing 45 slides along bearing clamping part 46.

According to the upper hinge part 44 of present embodiment, push bearing portions 45 by the pressure that utilizes disc spring 47 along arrow P 3 directions, deckboard main body 40 can be clamped rotating shaft 41d.Furthermore, rotating shaft 41d is being supported rotationally by bearing portions 45, and when air cleaner 5 directly being cleaned or removing cleaning, front panel 41 can rotate to be opened or closed condition accordingly.Furthermore, fixing and remove bar 45a or front panel 41 is upwards pushed away so that front panel 41 is in open mode by finger or similar fashion along arrow P 4 directions pushings, the angle of opening is predetermined angle or bigger, preferably 45 degree or more can unclamp the cooperation between rotating shaft 41d and the bearing portions 45 like this.

Furthermore, the underneath hinges part 48 of the supporting mechanism of the side end portion of composition front panel 41 is made up of following parts: the rotating shaft 41f of lower support 41e, outstanding shape, wherein lower support part 41e is positioned at the lower end of the side end portion of front panel 41, rotating shaft 41f is from the outstanding shape in the lower surface of support section 41e, and the lower bearing part 140e of deckboard main body 40 is used for fixing and supporting rotating shaft 41f.

According to the underneath hinges part 48 of present embodiment, rotating shaft 41f is supported rotationally by lower bearing part 140e, and when air cleaner 5 directly being cleaned or removing cleaning, front panel 41 can rotate to be opened or closed condition accordingly.

When front panel 41 is removed and clean in water, at first by holding and upwards push the end portion of front panel 41, front 41 is rotated to predetermined angle or more, 45 degree or more in the present embodiment, the spring force that overcomes disc spring 47 upwards pushes away upper bearing part 45, just can unclamp the cooperation between bottom rotating shaft 41f and the lower bearing part 140e.By moving forward front 41 and moving front panel 41 to lower end side downwards, just can unclamp the cooperation between top rotating shaft 41d and the upper bearing part 45 then.So just can simply front panel 41 be removed from deckboard main body 40.

Thereby upwards mention fixing and remove bar 46a make engagement between top rotating shaft 41d and the upper bearing part 45 released after, the upper part of front panel 41 moves forward, and upwards lifting so as to unclamp bottom rotating shaft 41f and lower bearing part 140e between engagement.Just can simply front panel 41 be removed from deckboard main body 40 thus.

According to embodiments of the invention, air cleaner 5 dismountable inboards that are installed in front panel 41, two parts about front panel 41 is divided into, its each side end portion are being supported and can be removed the side of the respective side end portion that supports front panel 41 in the horizontal direction rotationally.Even when the eminence that air-conditioner is installed in as shown in figure 21, also can be at an easy rate two front panels 41 be opened to both sides, promptly can clean air cleaner 5 at an easy rate by the front end face of opening air cleaner 5.Furthermore, can use the cheap resin mo(u)lding-die of small size to produce front panel 41.Furthermore, front panel 41 can be removed and clean, when front panel 41 cleans in as shown in figure 22 common pond or analog, can in water, have only the front panel 41 of conventional air-conditioning device one half-size scale to clean at an easy rate to being divided into.

Furthermore, when front panel 41 is in predetermined rotational angular or more during open mode, front panel 41 is being supported by dismountable, corresponding, front panel 41 is in when moving when being in closed condition and air-conditioner, can prevent that front panel 41 from being removed mistakenly, to predetermined angle or more, can make front panel 41 be in removable state by simple rotation front panel.

Furthermore, front panel 41 is divided into left and right sides two parts, be installed in the upper part of side of side end portion of the corresponding front panel 41 on the side of side of casing 2 and end portion flexibly being supported by casing 2 of rotatable dismounting in the horizontal direction, the upper part and the end portion of center end part that is installed in the corresponding front panel 41 of casing 2 central sides flexibly supported the cooperation that also can unclamp therebetween by casing 2.Corresponding four parts of the front panel 41 of part by casing 2 resiliency supported about being divided into.Prevent the rotation of front panel 41 natures or the noise that produces because of vibration and other factor air-conditioner in service.Furthermore, front panel 41 is divided into left and right sides two parts, it is of a size of altitude range is 240mm-320mm, the side width range is 340mm-500mm, corresponding front panel can be put in the common swimming pool (JIS standard) or analog that size is about 600mm, can extremely easily clean front panel 41 in water like this.

Furthermore, casing 2 is expanded out a upper surface part, suction inlet 41b is positioned at the upper surface part of expansion, the side end portion of front panel 41 can be rotated in the horizontal direction, even front panel 41 is extended to the upper surface part, during rotation front panel 41, the part of expansion also can not be run into the ceiling in the room of the device that installs an air-conditioner.The front end face part and the upper surface part of air cleaner 5 can be opened simultaneously, and it is easier that corresponding cleaning air cleaner 5 can become.By removing air cleaner 5, the upper surface part of heat exchanger 6 also can be opened, thereby can carry out cleaning by the cleaning agent through the upper surface of heat exchanger 6 part injection air-conditioner.

Furthermore, the side end portion of front panel 41 can supported in the horizontal direction with changeing, the side of the front panel 41 relative with support section is in detachable mated condition, hand touches the end portion that part 41i is installed in the side of mate, corresponding hand by finger touch front panel 41 touches part 41i and makes front panel 41 rotations, the cooperation that will easily unclamp mate.

Furthermore, the side end portion of front panel 41 is being supported in the horizontal direction rotationally, can form a slit between side end portion and casing side.Can guarantee the rotating part of side end portion of front panel 41 and support section and the space that is used to rotate like this.By utilizing the slit, can further reduce inspiratory resistance furthermore, promote the performance of air-conditioner as air suction inlet 43.

Furthermore; two parts about front panel 41 is divided into, operation display unit 32 are installed between the front panel of cutting apart 41, and the front end face of casing 2 part is formed by front panel 41 and operation display unit 32; clearly, can protect operation display unit 32 at an easy rate like this.The layout of operation display panel 32 can make the size of front panel 41 reduce, and front panel 41 just can further use small size resin mo(u)lding-die to carry out injection molded.

Second embodiment to air-conditioner describes according to the present invention below with reference to Fig. 9.

The difference of the air-conditioner among the air-conditioner among second embodiment and first embodiment is chassis body 3 and deckboard 4, and is basic identical in other respects, therefore mainly difference described.

The back case 30 and the side assembled portion 39 of chassis body 3 are made of one, this side assembled portion 39 front end portion of the two sides of shell 30 from behind is outwards outstanding and be used for installation side panel 40A, back case 30 is made of one with top mate 38, and this top mate 38 preceding end portion of the upper surface of shell 30 is from behind given prominence to forward and matched with the upper part of front panel 41.Furthermore, similar with first embodiment, top mate 38 is by forming with the outstanding relative engagement notch part 38a of 41g of the engagement of front end face 41, and outstanding 41g of engagement and engagement notch part 38a can flexibly match.

Furthermore, for operation display unit 32, the upper end end portion of the previous section of the dew receiving unit 37 of its foundation 32a and lower end engages part 32c and front shell 31 is made of one.The cost of air-conditioner is cheaper like this.Furthermore, even when foundation 32a and dew receiving unit 37 are injection molded into one, liquid-crystal display section 32b also will separate mutually with foundation 32a and will removably assemble.Thereby can at an easy rate liquid-crystal display section 32b be taken out and maintain operation.

Deckboard 4 can be divided into side panel 40A, front panel 41 and bottom panel 40B.

By screw or analog side panel 40A is installed on the side assembled portion 39 of back case 30 and has formed the side of deckboard 4, side panel 40A forms two lateral sections of the upper surface and the bottom surface of deckboard 4 after extending, these two lateral sections are installed in the both sides of the heat exchanger 6 with radiating fin, in other words, this part is used for the circulation of inner air.

Thereby front panel 41 is extended owing to reduced the upper surface part of the deckboard main body 40 of first embodiment.For front panel 41, it is rotatable and removably supporting by side panel 40A to be installed in side end portion on the side of side of casing 2.Match at the side end portion of the core side of front end face and top mate 38 and lower end engages part 32c, and this cooperation can be unclamped.Furthermore, identical among supporting mechanism and engaging mechanism and first embodiment.

Bottom panel 40B is installed on the lower end end portion of side panel 40A, and has formed air outlet 40b.Furthermore, air outlet 40b fixes with two horizontal guide disc 42a rotationally.

According to a second embodiment of the present invention, deckboard 4 is united by front panel 41, side panel 40A and bottom panel 40B and is constituted, wherein front panel 41 is used to form front end face part and upper surface part, side panel 40A is used to form the two sides part, bottom panel 40B is used to form lower surface air outlet 40b, and the size of deckboard 4 each parts can reduce and be easy to handle.Furthermore, can obtain various forms of deckboards 4, thereby the size that can reduce the resin moulding model of building block can reduce the mounting cost of air-conditioner by changing its building block.

The the 3rd to the 5th embodiment below with reference to 10～15 pairs of air-conditioners of the present invention of accompanying drawing describes.The hand that the air-conditioner of the 3rd to the 5th embodiment relates generally to front panel 41 touches part 41i.

Only be that according to the air-conditioner of the 3rd to the 5th embodiment and difference hand touches part, and be identical with air-conditioner according to first embodiment in others according to the air-conditioner of first embodiment.

According to the air-conditioner of as shown in figure 10 the 3rd embodiment, it is the touch panel type that hand touches part 41i.By utilizing finger touch touch panel type hand to touch part 41i, built-in control appliance and gearing apparatus can carry out work automatically, and the cooperation of front panel 41 just can be unclamped automatically.

According to the air-conditioner of as shown in figure 11 the 4th embodiment, hand touches part 41i and has formed the end portion of front panel 41 and operation display unit 32 is clipped in the middle.By utilizing the end portion 41i of finger touch front panel 41, thereby front panel 41 can be opened from the slit between front panel 41 and the operation display unit 32.

According to the air-conditioner of as shown in figure 12 the 5th embodiment, it is pin-type that hand touches part 41i.Utilize finger pull pin-type hand to touch part 41i, thereby the latch geared assembly that unclamps within the plate 41 and deckboard main body 40 is in front opened front panel 41 at an easy rate.

The the 6th to the 13 embodiment below with reference to 13～20 pairs of air-conditioners of the present invention of accompanying drawing describes.Relate generally to the system that opens of front panel 41 according to the air-conditioner of the 6th to the 13 embodiment.Furthermore, though for each embodiment, the grid type air suction inlet similar to first embodiment is positioned at the mid portion of front panel 41, in each accompanying drawing with its omission.

As shown in figure 13, the air-conditioner of the 6th embodiment is compared its difference and is that operation display unit 32 is not mounted in the front end face part of deckboard 4 with the air-conditioner among first embodiment, the entire front end face portion of deckboard is to be covered by two front panels 41, the central side of the front panel 41 on the front end face part of deckboard 4, the formation of side terminal surface linearity also toward each other.Can simplify the resin mo(u)lding-die of front panel 41 like this.Furthermore, on the lower surface of 32 of operation display unit and deckboard main body 40.

As shown in figure 14, the air-conditioner of the 7th embodiment is compared with the air-conditioner of first embodiment, and the upper surface of deckboard main body 40 and suction inlet 40f are integrally formed, and the part that front panel 41 extends to the upper surface has been cancelled.Like this, front panel 41 just can become the simple flat plate type, and the cleaning operation to front panel 41 in pond or analog can be convenient more, and the size of the resin mo(u)lding-die of front panel 41 can be littler, and cost is lower.

As shown in figure 15, the air-conditioner among the 8th embodiment is the combination of the air-conditioner among the 6th embodiment and the 7th embodiment.Promptly, for this air-conditioner, the upper surface of deckboard main body 40 and suction inlet 40f form one, and the part that extends to the front panel 41 of upper surface has been cancelled, operation display unit no longer is positioned at the core of front end face, and the entire front end face is covered by two front panels 41.Like this, just can embody the advantage of the 6th and the 7th embodiment.

As shown in figure 16, the air-conditioner of the 9th embodiment is compared its difference and is that the upper surface of deckboard main body 40 and suction inlet 40f form one with the air-conditioner of the 8th embodiment, and the part that front panel 41 extends to the upper surface has been cancelled.And the inboard of plate 41 in front, operation display unit 32 is positioned at the core of front end face and extends upward at upper and lower with shape of stripes, and a part that is covered with operation display unit 32 and the front panel 41 relative with liquid-crystal display section 32b has constituted a light transmission part 41j.Furthermore, light transmission part 41j is formed by the lucite manufacturing.By producing such structure, front panel 41 just can be made into the simple flat plate type, and the cleaning operation to front panel 41 in pond or analog can be convenient more, and the size of the resin mo(u)lding-die of front panel 41 can be littler, and cost is lower.Furthermore, can be easy to install the central side of air cleaner by two sides that use operation display unit 32, the design of front end face part also can obtain simplifying.

As shown in figure 17, the air-conditioner of the tenth embodiment is compared its difference and is that the upper surface of deckboard main body 40 and suction inlet 40f form one with the air-conditioner of first embodiment, the part that extends to the front panel 41 of upper surface has been cancelled, furthermore, operation display unit 32 forms one with deckboard main body 40 and is positioned at a side of front end face, and front panel 41 is adjacent with operation display unit 32.Like this; front panel 41 can be made into the simple flat plate type and its size can be littler; in pond or analog, can clean front panel 41 very expediently; the resin mo(u)lding-die of front panel 41 can become very little and cost very low; furthermore, need not to provide individually operation display unit 32.

As shown in figure 18, air-conditioner among the 11 embodiment is compared its difference with the air-conditioner among the 8th embodiment be that upper surface suction inlet 40f can be separated with deckboard main body 40 and suction inlet 40f rotatably installs, air cleaner private filter 5A is removably mounted on the inboard of suction inlet 40f, can install and remove air cleaner private filter 5A at an easy rate.Furthermore,, can select whether to use air cleaner private filter 5A, can become more convenient the cleaning function of air by the air cleaner in the outside is installed an additional air cleaner private filter 5A.

As shown in figure 19, compare its difference with the air-conditioner among the tenth embodiment be the front end face that the small panel 41A that is used for overlapping operation display unit 32 rotatably is positioned at operation display unit to the air-conditioner among the 12 embodiment.The part of common so unwanted operation display unit 32 can cover with small panel 41A.

As shown in figure 20, compare its difference with the air-conditioner among the 8th embodiment be that operation display unit 32 and deckboard main body 40 forms one and be positioned at the end portion of front end face to the air-conditioner among the 13 embodiment.Front panel 41 can be made into simple flat plate type and small-sized; in pond or analog, can clean front panel 41 more expediently; the resin mo(u)lding-die of front panel 41 can become very little and cost very low, furthermore, need not to provide individually operation display unit 32.

According to the present invention, provide a kind of cleaning operation performance, the cleaning operation performance that can improve front panel and cheap air-conditioner that can improve the air cleaner that is installed in the front panel inboard.

Claims

1, a kind of air-conditioner comprises: a rectangle casing has heat exchanger, air cleaner and blower fan in the inside of casing; Said machine casing comprises a chassis body and a deckboard, and the said machine casing main body has been formed the aft section of said machine casing, and above-mentioned deckboard has been formed the previous section of said machine casing; It is characterized in that:

Above-mentioned deckboard comprises a deckboard main body, a front panel and a bracing or strutting arrangement, above-mentioned deckboard main body is installed on the front side edge of said machine casing main body, above-mentioned front panel is positioned at the front end face of above-mentioned deckboard main body, and length two parts about direction is divided into of the relative casing of energy;

Above-mentioned front panel comprises a front end face part and a upper surface part, the front end face part of above-mentioned front panel is relative with the front end face of above-mentioned deckboard main body, and the upper surface part of above-mentioned front panel is formed to the extension of the upper surface of above-mentioned deckboard main body by above-mentioned front end face part;

Above-mentioned deckboard main body comprises a notch part, a top mate and an engagement notch part, above-mentioned notch part is used for the cooperation between the upper surface of the upper surface part of above-mentioned front panel and above-mentioned deckboard main body, above-mentioned top mate is used for being connected between the upper surface of the side end portion of upper surface part of above-mentioned front panel and above-mentioned deckboard main body, thereby the upper surface part that makes above-mentioned front panel matches with above-mentioned notch part and is connected, and above-mentioned engagement notch part is used for being connected with outstanding the matching of the engagement of above-mentioned front panel;

But above-mentioned bracing or strutting arrangement the length of said machine casing to terminal part support above-mentioned front panel and make its front end face opening/closing of said machine casing relatively;

It is outstanding to be formed with engagement on above-mentioned front panel, is used for above-mentioned front panel and above-mentioned deckboard is intersubjective is connected.

2, air-conditioner according to claim 1 is characterized in that: above-mentioned deckboard main body comprises an operation display unit, and the aforesaid operations display unit is fixed on the front end face of above-mentioned deckboard main body, and is positioned at the parting position of above-mentioned front panel.

3, air-conditioner according to claim 2 is characterized in that: above-mentioned front panel also has proficiency and touches notch part, and above-mentioned hand touches the bottom that notch part is positioned at positive middle each side end portion of above-mentioned front panel.

4, according to any one described air-conditioner among the claim 1-3, it is characterized in that: above-mentioned front panel also has a rotating shaft, and above-mentioned rotating shaft is positioned at the end portion of the front end face part of above-mentioned front panel; Above-mentioned deckboard main body also has a support section, and above-mentioned support section is positioned at the end portion of above-mentioned deckboard main body in a longitudinal direction, and is used for supporting rotationally above-mentioned rotating shaft.

5, air-conditioner according to claim 4 is characterized in that: can dismantle when above-mentioned bracing or strutting arrangement makes above-mentioned front panel forward a predetermined angular to.