CN116164401A - Air outlet structure and air conditioner - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses an air outlet structure and an air conditioner. The air-out structure includes: an air outlet; the air guide parts are used for adjusting the air flow direction of the air outlet, each air guide part comprises an arc-shaped surface and a plane along the thickness direction, the cross section of each air guide part along the thickness direction comprises an arc line and a straight line which are connected end to end, each air guide part is arranged at intervals, the plane faces the plane, and the arc-shaped surface faces the arc-shaped surface; the driving mechanism is used for driving at least one air guide piece to rotate relative to the air flow direction of the air outlet. Because each wind-guiding piece has smooth arcwall face, the wind flow can flow along the surface of arcwall face, and the wind flow changes the wind direction along the arcwall face gradually, reduces the forced steering of wind flow, and the travelling comfort of wind-guiding is better, and actuating mechanism drive at least one wind-guiding piece simultaneously rotates in the wind flow direction of air outlet to realize the off-wind effect of different directions.

Description

Air outlet structure and air conditioner

Technical Field

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

Background

An Air Conditioner (Air Conditioner) is a device for quickly adjusting and controlling parameters such as the ambient temperature in a building or structure by using manual means.

When adjusting ambient temperature, the air conditioner flows cold wind or hot wind through the air outlet, and cold wind or hot wind flows into the ambient space, so that the ambient temperature is forcedly adjusted, more comfortable enjoyment is brought to users in order to adapt to different user needs, and the air conditioner also has an air outlet structure for adjusting the air outlet direction.

In the existing air outlet structure for adjusting the air outlet direction, a single or a plurality of flaky grille structures swing on the air flow of an air outlet, so that the effect of swinging air is realized. However, in such a manner, the airflow is forcibly turned, and when the air output is large, the airflow is influenced, and a disturbed airflow is generated, and at the same time, the wind sensation of such a regulation manner is hard.

Disclosure of Invention

To solve at least one of the problems in the prior art, according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an air outlet structure, including: an air outlet; the air guide pieces are used for adjusting the air flow direction of the air outlet, each air guide piece comprises an arc-shaped surface and a plane along the thickness direction, the cross section of each air guide piece along the thickness direction comprises an arc line and a straight line which are connected end to end, the air guide pieces are arranged at intervals, the planes face to the planes, and the arc-shaped surfaces face to the arc-shaped surfaces; the driving mechanism is used for driving at least one air guide piece to rotate relative to the air flow direction of the air outlet.

Therefore, as each wind guide piece is provided with a smooth arc surface, when wind flows on the surface of the wind guide piece, according to the coanda effect, the wind flows along the surface of the arc surface, the wind gradually changes the wind direction along the arc surface, the forced direction of the wind flow is reduced, the wind guide comfort is better, and the wind sense is softer; meanwhile, the driving mechanism drives at least one air guide piece to rotate in the air flow direction of the air outlet, so that the wind deflection effect in different directions is realized, namely, the wind gathering effect or the wind dispersing effect is realized, and the requirements of different customers are met.

In some embodiments, each two wind guide members are combined into a wind guide member group, and each wind guide member group is arranged at intervals.

Therefore, different air outlet effects are achieved, and the air guide piece is driven to rotate under the driving of the driving mechanism, so that different air deflection effects are achieved.

In some embodiments, two wind guides in each wind guide group are staggered with each other.

Like this, through the staggered arrangement's of different modes wind-guiding spare group, realize the effect of the partial wind of different directions.

In some embodiments, the driving mechanism is configured to drive the wind guiding component set in the singular position to rotate in a first direction, and to drive the wind guiding component set in the even position to rotate in a second direction, where the first direction and the second direction are the same or opposite.

Thus, when the first direction and the second direction are the same, the effect of deflecting wind only in the first direction or the effect of deflecting wind only in the second direction can be realized; or when the first direction and the second direction are opposite, the effect of deflecting wind in the first direction and the second direction can be achieved.

In some embodiments, the driving mechanism is configured to drive a group of the wind guide groups close to the sidewall of the air outlet to rotate.

Thus, different wind deflection effects are realized by different modes of driving the wind guide piece to rotate.

In some embodiments, four wind guides are combined into a wind guide group, and the driving mechanism is used for driving at least one middle wind guide to rotate.

In this way, different wind deflection effects are realized by driving the rotation of at least one wind guide piece positioned at the middle position.

In some embodiments, the driving mechanism drives the air guide to rotate by an angle less than or equal to 15 ° relative to the airflow direction of the air outlet.

Thus, the wind flow deflection effect generated at this time is optimal, and the wind flow deflection effect is weakened after the rotation is more than 15 degrees.

In some embodiments, the wind guide rotates by an angle of 10 ° with respect to the wind flow direction of the air outlet.

In this way, the angle of deflection of the air flow is most pronounced.

In some embodiments, the arcuate line is a circular arc or an elliptical arc.

Like this, through the setting of the wind-guiding of different structures, realize the wind current effect of different deflection angle sizes.

The invention provides an air conditioner in other embodiments, comprising the air outlet structure.

Therefore, each wind guide piece in the air outlet structure of the air conditioner is provided with a smooth arc surface, when the wind flows to the surface of the wind guide piece, according to the coanda effect, the wind flows along the surface of the arc surface, the wind direction of the wind flows along the arc surface is gradually changed, the forced direction of the wind flows is reduced, the wind guiding comfort is better, and the wind sense is softer; meanwhile, the driving mechanism drives at least one air guide piece to rotate in the air flow direction of the air outlet, so that the wind deflection effect in different directions is realized, namely, the wind gathering effect or the wind dispersing effect is realized, and the requirements of different customers are met.

Drawings

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

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a first combination of the wind guides of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a flow field simulation of the air guide assembly of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a second combination of the wind guides of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a flow field simulation of the air guide of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a third combination of the wind guide members shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a flow field simulation of the air guide of FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of a fourth combination of the wind guide of FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 is a flow field simulation of the air guide of FIG. 8;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of a fifth combination of the wind-guiding members shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 11 is a schematic view of a sixth combination of the wind guiding members shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 12 is a schematic view of a seventh combination of the wind guide of FIG. 1;

FIG. 13 is a schematic view of an eighth combination of the wind guide of FIG. 1;

FIG. 14 is a schematic view of a ninth combination of air guides of FIG. 1;

FIG. 15 is a schematic view of a tenth combination of the wind guide of FIG. 1;

FIG. 16 is a schematic view of an eleventh combination of air guides of FIG. 1;

FIG. 17 is a schematic view of a twelfth combination of air guides of FIG. 1;

FIG. 18 is a schematic view of a thirteenth combination of air guides in FIG. 1.

Wherein the reference numerals have the following meanings:

an air outlet structure 100;

an air outlet 10 and a side wall 11;

the air guide piece 20, the arc-shaped surface 21, the plane 22, the arc-shaped line 23 and the straight line 24;

a drive mechanism 30;

an air guide group 40;

an air conditioner 200;

a body 210.

Detailed Description

For a better understanding and implementation, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, merely to facilitate description of the present invention and simplify the description, and do not indicate or imply that the apparatus or elements referred to must have a specific orientation, be configured and operated in a specific orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used herein in the description of the invention is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention.

The invention is described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 1 to 18, an air outlet structure 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an air outlet 10, at least two air guiding members 20, and a driving mechanism 30.

Referring to fig. 1, the air outlet structure 100 of the present embodiment is described as being applied to a cabinet air conditioner, and in other embodiments, the air outlet structure 100 is not limited to be applied to other types of air conditioners, such as wall-mounted air conditioners, ceiling-mounted air conditioners, and the like. Wherein, each wind-guiding piece 20 is rectangular shape, has length direction, and air conditioner 200 includes body 210, and when air-out structure 100 set up in air conditioner 200's body 210, can vertical setting, can follow the horizontally setting, or the setting of slope, the setting that is certain contained angle is all in relative vertical direction and horizontal direction promptly to realize the accent wind of different modes.

Wherein, each wind guiding piece 20 is used for adjusting the wind flow direction of the air outlet 10, each wind guiding piece 20 comprises an arc-shaped surface 21 and a plane 22 along the thickness direction, the cross section of each wind guiding piece 20 along the thickness direction comprises an arc-shaped line 23 and a straight line 24 which are connected end to end, each wind guiding piece 20 is arranged at intervals, the plane 22 faces the plane 22, and the arc-shaped surface 21 faces the arc-shaped surface 21; the driving mechanism 30 is used for driving at least one wind guide 20 to rotate relative to the wind flow direction of the air outlet 10.

In the above air-out structure 100, since each air guiding member 20 has the smooth arc surface 21, when the air flows to the surface of the air guiding member 20, according to the coanda effect, the air flows along the surface of the arc surface 21, the air flow gradually changes the air direction along the arc surface 21, so as to reduce the forced turning of the air flow, and the air guiding member has better comfort and softer air sense; meanwhile, the driving mechanism 30 drives at least one wind guide piece 20 to rotate in the wind flow direction of the air outlet 10, so that the wind deflection effect in different directions is realized, namely, the wind gathering effect or the wind dispersing effect is realized, and the requirements of different customers are met.

The rotation in this embodiment may not only refer to driving the air guide 20 to rotate clockwise by a preset angle on the air outlet flow, but also drive the air guide 20 to rotate anticlockwise by a preset angle, and further drive the air guide 20 to rotate 360 degrees on the air outlet flow, thereby bringing different air outlet effects.

The present invention is described by taking the same manner of the arc line 23 and the straight line 24 of each air guiding piece 20 mounted on the air outlet 10 as an example, that is, each air guiding piece 20 has the same shape and structure, so that the air guiding pieces 20 with the same structure are convenient to produce and mount, and the positions of some air guiding pieces 20 can be adjusted selectively in different air outlet modes. In other embodiments, the structures of the respective wind guides 20 may be different from each other, that is, each may have an arc line and a straight line of different lengths, or the lengths of the straight lines are the same but have different arc line lengths; or the respective arcuate lines may have different numbers of central angles, for example the central angle may be a major arc of greater than 180 degrees; or the central angle may be a minor arc of less than 180 degrees.

In addition, the central angle of the arc line 23 of each wind guiding piece 20 in the embodiment is less than or equal to 180 °, that is, the wind guiding piece 20 is D-shaped or fan-shaped, so that wind flow can flow along the surface of the arc surface 21, the coanda effect is realized, the wind flow is smooth in reversing, the wind sense is soft, and the flow of the wind flow from the plane 22 side is not blocked.

In a specific embodiment of the present invention, the central angle of each wind guiding piece 20 is 180 degrees, and the wind guiding pieces 20 are D-shaped, that is, each wind guiding piece 20 has only one plane wind guiding surface, so that the wind flow can flow along the surface of the arc-shaped surface 21, the wind flow direction is gradually changed, a relaxed wind flow is obtained, the wind flow can flow along another flat wind guiding plane, and the arc-shaped wind guiding surface and the plane wind guiding surface cooperate to adjust the wind flow direction.

It can be appreciated that when the central angle of the arc line 23 corresponds to 180 degrees, the arc line 23 of each wind guiding member 20 may be an arc or an elliptical arc, and may be set according to different customer requirements, so that the effect of deflecting wind in different ranges is achieved by setting the arc line 23 of the wind guiding member 20 to be an arc or an elliptical arc.

In the following, different combinations of the air guiding members 20 are listed, it will be understood that the air guiding members 20 can be variously combined by different pairing, combining and array modes to change the direction or the characteristic of the air flow, and since the combinations are endless, only some combinations are listed in the embodiment.

In one embodiment of the present invention, taking two wind-guiding members 20 as an example, the two wind-guiding members 20 form a wind-guiding member group 40, and the wind-guiding member groups 40 are mutually spaced, so as to achieve different wind-out effects, and the wind-guiding members 20 are driven to rotate by being matched with the driving mechanism 30, so as to achieve different wind-deflecting effects.

It will be appreciated that when two wind-guiding elements 20 form a wind-guiding element group 40, the plane 22 can be opposite to the plane 22, for example, as shown in fig. 2, wherein a flow field simulation diagram in this way refers to fig. 3, so as to realize self-exciting forward stable diffusion flow of air flow; the curved surface 21 may be opposite to the curved surface 21, for example, as shown in fig. 4, wherein a flow field simulation diagram of this manner is shown in fig. 5, and the combination manner can also realize self-excited wind-adjusting type wind deflection.

In addition, it should be noted that, referring to fig. 2, taking the combination of the wind-guiding members 20 shown in fig. 2 as an example, when the planes 22 of the two wind-guiding members 20 in each group are combined towards the planes 22, the distance between the vertex of the curved surface 21 of the wind-guiding member 20 in one group and the vertex of the curved surface 21 of the wind-guiding member 20 in the adjacent group is h, and the distance between the vertex of the curved surface 21 of the wind-guiding member 20 and the planes 22 is s, where h=2s, so that the effect of sufficiently exciting the airflow to diffuse and flow forward is achieved by this arrangement.

With continued reference to fig. 2, taking an example that the plane 22 of the two air guiding elements 20 in each group faces the plane 22, the distance between the two air guiding elements 20 in one group is a, the distance between the arc-shaped surface 21 of the air guiding element 20 located at the outermost side and the side wall 11 of the air outlet 10 is b, where a=b=s, and thus, by setting the values of a, b, s to be the same, the effect of more uniform air flow is achieved. It will be appreciated that, in order to achieve different airflow effects, the numerical relationships between the four members h, a, b, s may be adjusted as required, and when it is desired to achieve a more concentrated airflow effect, h is set to a value greater than a and b, and the distance h between each two sets of air guides is greater, and the distance between each set of air guides 20 is smaller.

In addition, on the basis of fig. 4, the wind guiding elements 20 in each wind guiding element group 40 may be staggered, refer to fig. 6, which is a staggered arrangement mode of two wind guiding elements 20 of the arc surface 21 to the arc surface 21, so that the wind deflecting effect is achieved, and meanwhile, the wind flow can be deflected, and meanwhile, the flow field simulation diagram of the wind guiding elements 20 refers to fig. 7.

Referring to fig. 8 and 9, based on the combination of the wind guiding component groups 40 in fig. 2, that is, the planes of the two wind guiding components 20 in each wind guiding component group 40 are opposite to each other, the effect of downward wind deflection can be achieved when the two wind guiding components 20 in each wind guiding component group 40 are staggered, wherein fig. 9 is a flow field simulation diagram of the wind guiding component group 40 in fig. 8.

It can be understood that, based on the combination of the wind guiding component groups 40 in fig. 2, that is, the two wind guiding components 20 in each wind guiding component group 40 are plane to plane, when the two wind guiding components 20 in each wind guiding component group 40 are alternately arranged, the generated wind flow deflection direction is please refer to fig. 10.

The driving mechanism 30 in the embodiment is described on the basis of the wind guiding member group 40 in fig. 2, and different wind deflection modes can be obtained by driving different numbers of wind guiding members 20 and different positions of wind guiding members 20 to rotate.

For example, referring to fig. 11, when the outermost wind guiding member 20 is driven to rotate, for example, in a direction approaching or moving away from the adjacent wind guiding member 20, the wind adjusting effect is achieved.

It can be appreciated that when a plurality of air guiding members are combined, not only one air guiding member 20 can be driven to rotate, but also one air guiding member set 40 can be driven to rotate simultaneously, for example, a set of one air guiding member set 40 close to the side wall 11 of the air outlet 10 is driven to rotate, so as to achieve the effect of deflecting air in different directions, for example, please refer to fig. 12 and 13, so as to achieve the effect of deflecting air in different directions.

It can be appreciated that when a plurality of wind guiding members are combined, not only one wind guiding member 20 can be driven to rotate, but also a plurality of wind guiding member groups 40 can be simultaneously rotated, so as to realize different wind deflecting effects.

For example, referring to fig. 14 to 17, in order to simultaneously drive each wind guiding component set 40 to rotate, for example, the driving mechanism 30 is used to drive the wind guiding component set 40 at a singular position to rotate in a first direction and drive the wind guiding component set 40 at a dual position to rotate in a second direction, wherein the first direction and the second direction are identical, referring to fig. 14 and 17, and at this time, the effect of deflecting wind in the same direction is achieved; when the first direction and the second direction are opposite, refer to fig. 15 and fig. 16, in which the effect of deflecting wind in both the first direction and the second direction is achieved.

In addition, referring to fig. 18, not only can two wind guiding elements 20 be used as a combination, but also four wind guiding elements 20 can be used as a combination, and when four wind guiding elements 20 are combined into one wind guiding element group 40, the driving mechanism 30 can be used for driving at least one wind guiding element 20 located in the middle to rotate, so as to achieve the effect of partially deflecting downward wind as shown in fig. 18. Wherein one of the air guides 20 in the neutral position is driven in rotation as shown in fig. 18.

In contrast to the manner in which the middle one of the air guides 20 is driven to rotate in fig. 18 and the manner in which both of the second and fourth air guides 20 in fig. 8 are driven to rotate, only the middle one of the air guides 20 is driven to rotate at this time to obtain a wind flow deflection angle which is almost the same as that obtained in the manner in which both of the second and fourth air guides 20 in fig. 8 are driven to rotate, and therefore, for the simplicity and compactness of the installation structure of the whole air conditioner, it is preferable to drive only one of the air guides 20 in fig. 18 to rotate.

In addition, referring to fig. 18, the driving mechanism 30 in the present embodiment drives the air guide 20 to rotate at an angle θ smaller than or equal to 15 ° relative to the airflow direction of the air outlet 10, so that the airflow deflection effect is optimal, and the airflow deflection effect is reduced after the rotation is larger than 15 °. Wherein the setting of the deflection angle is adapted to the combination of the various wind guides 20.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the driving mechanism 30 drives the wind guiding member 20 to rotate at an angle θ of 10 ° relative to the wind flowing direction of the wind outlet 10, and the deflection angle of the air flow is most obvious. It will be appreciated that in other embodiments, the user may set the deflection angle as desired to achieve different directions of deflected airflow.

The driving mechanism 30 in this embodiment may use a motor and a gear to drive the wind guiding member 20 or rotate.

Referring to fig. 1, in other embodiments, an air conditioner 200 is further provided, where the air conditioner 200 includes a main body 210 and the air outlet structure 100 disposed on the main body 210. The air conditioner 200 may be a wall-mounted air conditioner, a cabinet air conditioner, a ceiling air conditioner, or the like, and is not limited herein.

In the above air conditioner 200, since each air guide member 20 in the air outlet structure 100 of the air conditioner 200 has a smooth arc surface 21, when the air flows on the surface of the air guide member 20, according to the coanda effect, the air flows along the surface of the arc surface 21, the air flow gradually changes the direction of the air along the arc surface 21, so as to reduce the forced direction of the air flow, and the air guide has better comfort and softer air sense; meanwhile, the driving mechanism 30 drives at least one wind guide piece 20 to rotate in the wind flow direction of the air outlet 10, so that the wind deflection effect in different directions is realized, namely, the wind gathering effect or the wind dispersing effect is realized, and the requirements of different customers are met.

The technical means disclosed by the scheme of the invention is not limited to the technical means disclosed by the embodiment, and also comprises the technical scheme formed by any combination of the technical features. It should be noted that modifications and adaptations to the invention may occur to one skilled in the art without departing from the principles of the present invention and are intended to be within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. Air-out structure, its characterized in that includes:

an air outlet;

the air guide pieces are used for adjusting the air flow direction of the air outlet, each air guide piece comprises an arc-shaped surface and a plane along the thickness direction, the cross section of each air guide piece along the thickness direction comprises an arc line and a straight line which are connected end to end, the air guide pieces are arranged at intervals, the planes face to the planes, and the arc-shaped surfaces face to the arc-shaped surfaces;

the driving mechanism is used for driving at least one air guide piece to rotate relative to the air flow direction of the air outlet.

2. The air-out structure according to claim 1, wherein each two air guiding members are combined into an air guiding member group, and each air guiding member group is arranged at intervals.

3. The air outlet structure according to claim 2, wherein two air guide members in each air guide member group are staggered with each other.

4. The air outlet structure according to claim 2, wherein the driving mechanism is configured to drive the air guide group in a singular position to rotate in a first direction and to drive the air guide group in a plural position to rotate in a second direction, wherein the first direction and the second direction are the same or opposite.

5. The air outlet structure according to claim 2, wherein the driving mechanism is configured to drive a group of the air guide members close to a sidewall of the air outlet to rotate.

6. The air-out structure according to claim 1, wherein four air guiding members are combined into an air guiding member group, and the driving mechanism is used for driving at least one air guiding member located in the middle to rotate.

7. The air outlet structure according to claim 1, wherein the driving mechanism drives the air guide member to rotate by an angle of 15 ° or less with respect to the air flow direction of the air outlet.

8. The air outlet structure according to claim 6, wherein the air guide member rotates by an angle of 10 ° with respect to the air flow direction of the air outlet.

9. The air outlet structure according to claim 1, wherein the arc line is an arc or an elliptical arc.

10. Air conditioner, characterized by comprising an air outlet structure according to any one of claims 1 to 9.

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