CN212511759U

CN212511759U - Drainage component and air conditioner

Info

Publication number: CN212511759U
Application number: CN202021203639.7U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 穆智慧
Original assignee: GD Midea Air Conditioning Equipment Co Ltd
Current assignee: GD Midea Air Conditioning Equipment Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-06-23
Filing date: 2020-06-23
Publication date: 2021-02-09
Anticipated expiration: 2030-06-23

Abstract

The utility model discloses a drainage component and an air conditioner, which comprises a drainage piece, a drainage hole and a first positioning part, wherein the drainage piece is provided with the first positioning part; one end of the connecting piece is connected with a drain pipe, and the other end of the connecting piece is sleeved on the drain piece so that the drain pipe is communicated with the drain port; the operating piece is provided with a supporting part, an operating part and a second positioning part, wherein the operating part and the second positioning part are respectively positioned on two sides of the supporting part, and the operating piece is fixedly connected to the connecting piece through the supporting part, wherein the first positioning part is matched with the second positioning part to realize the fixed connection of the connecting piece and the drainage piece; the force is applied to the operating part, so that the second positioning part acts in the direction opposite to the moving direction of the operating part, the second positioning part is separated from the first positioning part, the disassembly and the assembly are simple and easy to operate, the labor intensity is low, and the disassembly and the assembly efficiency is high; the phenomena of misassembly, unreliable assembly, water leakage and the like are not easy to cause, and the air conditioner product delivery quality and the user experience feeling are favorably ensured and improved.

Description

Drainage component and air conditioner

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a refrigeration plant field, in particular to drainage subassembly and air conditioner.

Background

The air conditioner is used as a refrigeration device, and the indoor life quality in high-temperature seasons is greatly improved. The basic working principle of the air conditioner is that liquid refrigerant is sent to an evaporator through a capillary tube, the space is suddenly increased after the liquid refrigerant reaches the evaporator, the pressure is suddenly reduced, the liquid refrigerant is vaporized to be changed into gaseous low-temperature refrigerant, a large amount of heat is absorbed, the evaporator is cooled, water vapor in the air is condensed into water drops after encountering the cold evaporator, and the water drops need to be discharged outdoors through a drain pipe.

Conventional drain pipes, which are typically secured to the drain opening by an interference fit or other complex structural connection, have at least one of the following disadvantages:

1. due to interference fit, the drain pipe needs to be spun on the water outlet of the water pan by a large force during assembly, so that the labor intensity is high, and the efficiency is low;

2. along with the miniaturization and the compactification of an air conditioner, particularly a wall-mounted air conditioner, the structure layout inside the air conditioner is compact, the space is small, and the complex installation structure easily causes that installation workers are difficult to identify and operate related parts, so that the phenomena of wrong installation, unreliable assembly, water leakage and the like are caused, and further the outgoing quality and the user experience of air conditioner products are influenced.

For this reason, there is a need for improvements and optimizations to existing products.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model discloses aim at solving one of the technical problem that prior art exists at least. Therefore, the utility model provides a simple structure and drainage subassembly of easy installation.

The utility model discloses still provide an air conditioner with above-mentioned drainage subassembly.

According to the utility model discloses drainage component of first aspect embodiment includes: the drainage piece is provided with a drainage port, and a first positioning part is arranged on the drainage piece; one end of the connecting piece is connected with a drain pipe, and the other end of the connecting piece is sleeved on the drain piece so that the drain pipe is communicated with the drain port; the operating piece is provided with a supporting part, an operating part and a second positioning part, wherein the operating part and the second positioning part are respectively positioned on two sides of the supporting part, and the operating piece is fixedly connected to the connecting piece through the supporting part, wherein the first positioning part is matched with the second positioning part to realize the fixed connection of the connecting piece and the drainage piece; and applying force to the operating part to enable the second positioning part to act in a direction opposite to the moving direction of the operating part, so that the second positioning part is separated from the first positioning part.

According to the utility model discloses drainage component of first aspect embodiment has one of following beneficial effect at least: the first positioning part is arranged on the drainage piece, the operating piece is fixedly connected to the connecting piece through the supporting part, when the drainage pipe is installed, only in the process that the connecting piece is sleeved on the drainage piece, force is applied to the operating part, the second positioning part on the operating piece smoothly enters the first positioning part and then is matched with the first positioning part, and the connecting piece is easily and fixedly connected with the drainage piece; when the drain pipe needs to be disassembled or replaced, force is applied to the operating part, the second positioning part takes the supporting part as a supporting point and acts in the direction opposite to the moving direction of the operating part, so that the second positioning part can be easily separated from the matching with the first positioning part, the connecting piece and the drain pipe can be easily and simply withdrawn from the drain piece, and the fixing mode of interference fit in the traditional structure is abandoned, so that the disassembly and assembly of the drain pipe are simple and easy to operate, the working labor intensity is low, and the mounting efficiency is high; simple structure, with low costs, easily form mass production, improve product competitiveness.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, the operation portion is provided with an anti-slip pattern.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the operating part extends obliquely upwards relative to the connecting piece.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, the first positioning portion is a positioning groove, or a positioning through hole.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, the second positioning portion is a hook.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, the hook is provided with a guide slope.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the drain member is provided with a sealing member between the connecting member and the water discharging member.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the sealing member is U-shaped in cross-section and is sleeved on the side end surface of the drainage member.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the operating member and the connecting piece are plastic pieces, and are provided as an integral molding.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, the operating member and the first positioning portion are more than 2 groups and circumferentially and evenly distributed.

According to the utility model discloses the air conditioner of second aspect embodiment, including foretell drainage component.

According to the utility model discloses air conditioner of second aspect embodiment has one of following beneficial effect at least: the air conditioner, especially the miniaturized and compact design of a wall-mounted air conditioner, is fully considered, has a simple structure and is convenient to operate, so that an installer can easily identify and operate the air conditioner, the phenomena of wrong installation, unreliable assembly, water leakage and the like are avoided, the air conditioner is favorable for guaranteeing and improving the delivery quality and the user experience of air conditioner products, and the product competitiveness is improved.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the assembly completion status of an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of FIG. 1;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a pre-demolition state according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a partial enlarged view of B in FIG. 3;

fig. 5 is a schematic view of a disassembled state of the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of a portion C of FIG. 5;

reference numerals:

a drain member 100, a drain port 110, and a first positioning portion 120;

a drain pipe 200;

a connector 300, a first wall 310, a second wall 320;

the operating part 400, the supporting part 410, the operating part 420, the second positioning part 430, the anti-slip pattern 440 and the guide slope 450;

a seal 500.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar functions throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary only for the purpose of explaining the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be understood that the orientation or positional relationship referred to the orientation description, such as the upper, lower, front, rear, left, right, inner, outer, etc., is the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and is only for convenience of description and simplification of description, and does not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, a plurality of means are one or more, a plurality of means are two or more, and the terms greater than, less than, exceeding, etc. are understood as not including the number, and the terms greater than, less than, within, etc. are understood as including the number. If the first and second are described for the purpose of distinguishing technical features, they are not to be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated or implicitly indicating the precedence of the technical features indicated.

In the description of the present invention, unless there is an explicit limitation, the words such as setting, installation, connection, assembly, cooperation, etc. should be understood in a broad sense, and those skilled in the art can reasonably determine the meaning of the above words in the present invention by combining the specific contents of the technical solution.

A drain assembly of an embodiment of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 1-6.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, in some embodiments, the drainage assembly includes a drainage member 100 having a drainage opening 110, the drainage member is a known technology in an air conditioning unit, for example, in some embodiments, a water pan is disposed in the air conditioning unit, the water pan may be a drainage member, and the drainage opening is disposed on the water pan, which is not described herein again; the drain member 100 is provided with the first positioning portion 120, and in consideration of the small structural size of the drain member 100, when the drain pipe 200 is assembled, the relevant component is directly put on the outer peripheral wall of the drain member 100, so in some embodiments, the first positioning portion 120 is provided on the outer peripheral wall of the drain member 100, where a wall surface close to the side of the central axis of the drain member 100 is referred to as an inner side wall and a wall surface far from the side of the central axis of the drain member 100 is referred to as an outer side wall in the radial direction of the drain member 100.

The drainage assembly further includes a connector 300, in some embodiments, the connector 300 may be made of plastic, which is easy to form and low in cost, the connector 300 is used to fixedly connect the drainage pipe 200 to the drainage member 100, so that water drops in the drainage port 110 can be drained through the drainage pipe 200, specifically, one end of the connector 300 is connected to the drainage pipe 200, and the other end of the connector 300 is sleeved on the drainage member 100.

The drainage assembly further includes an operating member 400 having a supporting portion 410, and an operating portion 420 and a second positioning portion 430 respectively located at two sides of the supporting portion 410, wherein the operating member 400 is fixedly connected to the connecting member 300 through the supporting portion 410. The operating part 420 and the second positioning part 430 are respectively located at two sides of the supporting part 410, which means that an included angle between the operating part 420 and the second positioning part 430 is an obtuse angle, or as shown in fig. 1 to 6, an included angle between the operating part 420 and the second positioning part 430 is 180 degrees; thereby, the operating member 400 forms a lever or seesaw structure, and in particular, referring to fig. 1 and 2, the first positioning portion 120 is engaged with the second positioning portion 430, and at this time, the second positioning portion 430 is limited by the first positioning portion 120 and cannot be separated from the right direction, so that the connection member 300 is fixedly connected with the drain member 100; referring to fig. 3 and 4 in particular, a downward force (direction of arrow D) is applied to the operation part 420, the operation part 420 moves downward, the second positioning part 430 rotates upward (direction of arrow E) with the support part 410 as an origin, and the movement direction of the second positioning part 430 is opposite to the action direction of the operation part 420, so that the second positioning part 430 can be quickly separated from the fitting relation with the first positioning part 120, thereby releasing the fixed connection between the connection member 300 and the drain member 100, and referring to fig. 5 and 6, the connection member 300, the drain pipe 200, and the like can be withdrawn rightward from the drain member 100 for maintenance and replacement.

When the drain pipe 200 is installed, only in the process that the connecting member 300 is sleeved on the drain member 100 to the left, an installer's fingers (certainly, an acting force can be applied by means of a tool) hold the operating portion 420, so that the second positioning portion 430 is in an open state as shown in fig. 3 and 4, after the connecting member 300 is sleeved at a preset position, the second positioning portion 430 smoothly enters a position corresponding to the first positioning portion 120, the operating portion 420 is released, the second positioning portion 430 is reset under the action of the deformation of the material itself, so that the second positioning portion 430 is matched with the first positioning portion 120 to form a limiting effect, the fixed connection between the connecting member 300 and the drain member 100 is easily realized, at this time, the drain pipe 200 is installed on the drain member 100, the fixing manner of interference fit in the conventional structure is abandoned, the dismounting and mounting of the drain pipe 200 become simple and easy to operate, the working labor intensity is low, the installation efficiency is high; simple structure, with low costs, easily form mass production, improve product competitiveness.

In some embodiments, the anti-slip pattern 440 is disposed on the operating portion 420, and the anti-slip pattern 440 is disposed to facilitate applying an acting force to the operating portion 420, so that no slipping occurs, a contact area when the acting force is applied is increased, and a comfortable feeling of an installer during operation is improved.

In some embodiments, the operating portion 420 is provided to extend obliquely upward with respect to the link 300. Referring to fig. 1, the operation portion 420 is extended in an oblique upper-right direction with respect to the connection member 300, so that a distance L between the operation portion 420 and the connection member 300 is increased, and a movement allowance when the operation portion 420 is applied with an acting force is increased, thereby facilitating an increase in a swing amount of an up-and-down motion of the second positioning portion 430, enabling easy and rapid realization of a locking or releasing unlocking of the second positioning portion 430 and the first positioning portion 120 in cooperation, sufficiently considering a narrow installation space in the air conditioning assembly, and improving installation efficiency and simplicity

In some embodiments, the first positioning portion 120 is a positioning groove, which may be an annular groove disposed on the outer circumferential wall of the

drainage member

100, or 1 or more independent grooves that are not connected to each other; in other embodiments, the first positioning portion 120 may also be a positioning through hole, as shown in fig. 1 to 6, and the second positioning portion 430 is clamped with the hole edge of the positioning through hole to achieve a fixed connection.

In some embodiments, the second positioning portion 430 is a hook, as shown in fig. 1 to 6, the hook has a simple structure, is stably and stably connected, is not easy to loosen, is easy to mold and manufacture, and is convenient to quickly loosen from the first positioning portion 120 when unlocking is required. In order to achieve a fixed connection with the first positioning portion 120, a person skilled in the art may adopt other forms, such as a convex ring or a protrusion, besides the form of a hook.

In some embodiments, the hook is provided with a guide ramp 450. The setting of direction inclined plane 450, make when the installation drain pipe 200, along with the continuous embolia of connecting piece 300 on drain 100, first location portion 120 can be touched in the direction inclined plane 450, the reaction force of production guides second location portion 430 to the state of opening, thereby can accomplish locking in the disect insertion first location portion 120, in assembling process, need not that the installer finger (of course also can exert the effort with the help of the instrument) holds between the fingers operating portion 420, can not bring the sense of stinging for the installer because of operating portion 420 size is less, the assembly efficiency is improved, the comfort of installation has also been taken into account.

In some embodiments, a sealing member 500 is disposed between the drain member 100 and the connection member 300. The sealing member 500 can effectively prevent water in the drain member 100 from permeating through the connection position of the connection member 300 and the drain member 100.

In some embodiments, the cross section of the sealing member 500 is U-shaped and is sleeved on the side end surface of the drainage member 100, and the sealing member with the U-shaped cross section can form multi-surface sealing, so that while a good sealing effect is ensured, the insertion depth can be reduced, thereby reducing the frictional resistance brought by the sealing member 500 in the assembling process and improving the good experience of installation. Referring specifically to fig. 1 to 6, in some embodiments, the connecting member 300 has a first wall 310 and a second wall 320, the first wall 310 and the second wall 320 are vertically disposed, and both the first wall 310 and the second wall 320 abut against the sealing member 500 for sealing, which is beneficial to improving the sealing effect; in some embodiments, the sealing element 500 is fixedly connected to the connecting element 300, so that the assembly efficiency can be improved, the sealing element is not easily lost in the assembly and disassembly process, and the condition that the sealing element is not neglected to be assembled is avoided.

In some embodiments, the operation element 400 and the connection element 300 are made of plastic and are integrally formed, so that the cost is low, the connection is reliable, and the product integration design is improved.

In some embodiments, the number of the operating members 400 and the first positioning portions 120 is more than 2, and the operating members and the first positioning portions 120 are uniformly distributed in the circumferential direction, so that the connecting member 300 and the drainage member 100 are stressed evenly, and the number of stress points is large, which is also beneficial to improving the reliability and stability of the connection.

According to the utility model discloses an air conditioner of second aspect embodiment, including any one kind drainage component of above-mentioned first aspect. The air conditioner adopts the drainage subassembly of above-mentioned first aspect, has fully considered the miniaturization and the compactification design of air conditioner especially wall-hanging air conditioner, simple structure, convenient operation for installer discerns easily and operates, can not cause phenomenon such as wrong dress, assembly unreliable, leak, is favorable to guaranteeing and improving air conditioner product outgoing quality and user experience and feels, improves product competitiveness.

The embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various changes can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention within the knowledge of those skilled in the art.

Claims

1. A drain assembly, comprising:

the drainage piece is provided with a drainage port, and a first positioning part is arranged on the drainage piece;

one end of the connecting piece is connected with a drain pipe, and the other end of the connecting piece is sleeved on the drain piece so that the drain pipe is communicated with the drain port;

the operating piece is provided with a supporting part, an operating part and a second positioning part which are respectively positioned at the two sides of the supporting part, the operating piece is fixedly connected on the connecting piece through the supporting part,

the first positioning part is matched with the second positioning part to realize the fixed connection of the connecting piece and the drainage piece; and applying force to the operating part to enable the second positioning part to act in a direction opposite to the moving direction of the operating part, so that the second positioning part is separated from the first positioning part.

2. The drain assembly of claim 1, wherein: the operating part is provided with anti-skid lines.

3. The drain assembly of claim 1, wherein: the operating part extends obliquely upwards relative to the connecting piece.

4. The drain assembly of claim 1, wherein: the first positioning part is a positioning groove or a positioning through hole.

5. The drain assembly of claim 4, wherein: the second positioning part is a clamping hook.

6. The drain assembly of claim 5, wherein: the clamping hook is provided with a guide inclined plane.

7. The drain assembly of claim 1, wherein: and a sealing element is arranged between the drainage element and the connecting element.

8. The drain assembly of claim 7, wherein: the cross section of the sealing element is U-shaped and is sleeved on the side end face of the drainage element.

9. The drain assembly of any of claims 1-8, wherein: the operating part and the connecting part are plastic parts and are integrally formed.

10. The drain assembly of claim 9, wherein: the number of the operation pieces and the first positioning parts is more than 2, and the operation pieces and the first positioning parts are uniformly distributed in the circumferential direction.

11. An air conditioner, characterized in that: comprising a drainage assembly according to any of claims 1-10.