SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
In order to overcome the above shortcoming of prior art, the utility model aims to provide an indoor unit of air conditioner, it not only can realize the flexible air-out in four sides, improves air supply scope and user's body and feels the comfort level, can adjust the air output of a plurality of air supply directions in a flexible way moreover, satisfies user diversity's user demand.
The utility model discloses a reach its purpose, the technical scheme who adopts as follows:
an indoor unit of an air conditioner comprises an indoor unit shell, an air inlet arranged on the indoor unit shell, an air outlet area arranged in the indoor unit shell, and a fan arranged in the indoor unit shell and positioned between the air inlet and the air outlet area; the indoor unit shell comprises a front cover plate and an inner side panel which are arranged oppositely, an air outlet channel communicated with the air outlet area is formed by a gap between the front cover plate and the inner side panel, a plurality of air outlets are arranged on the surface of the indoor unit shell, at least part of the air outlets are communicated with the air outlet channel, and at least one driving device used for driving the front cover plate to move forwards or backwards is arranged between the front cover plate and the inner side panel and/or on the indoor unit shell.
Furthermore, a plurality of air outlets are arranged on the front cover plate and/or between the edge of the front cover plate and the inner side panel.
Furthermore, the edge of the inner side panel close to the air outlet area is provided with an air inducing part, and the air inducing part is used for guiding the air flow discharged from the air outlet area to flow along the outer side surface of the inner side panel.
Further, the air inducing part is an arc surface or an inclined surface.
Furthermore, the driving device comprises a driving motor and a connecting rod, wherein the driving motor is arranged on the front cover plate, one end of the connecting rod is linked with an output shaft of the driving motor, and the other end of the connecting rod is hinged to the inner side panel; or the driving motor is arranged on the inner side panel, one end of the connecting rod is linked with an output shaft of the driving motor, and the other end of the connecting rod is hinged to the front cover plate.
Further, at least one auxiliary device for assisting the front cover plate to move forwards or backwards is arranged between the front cover plate and the inner side panel
Further, the auxiliary device comprises a guide sleeve and a guide pillar in sliding fit with the guide sleeve, wherein the guide sleeve is arranged on the inner side panel, and the guide pillar is arranged on the front cover plate; or the guide sleeve is arranged on the front cover plate, and the guide post is arranged on the inner side panel.
Further, the driving device comprises a driving motor, a first connecting rod and a second connecting rod, wherein the driving motor is installed on the front cover plate, one end of the first connecting rod is linked with an output shaft of the driving motor, and the other end of the first connecting rod is hinged with one end of the second connecting rod; the other end of the second connecting rod is hinged to the inner side panel; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,
the driving motor is arranged on the inner side panel, one end of the first connecting rod is linked with an output shaft of the driving motor, and the other end of the first connecting rod is hinged with one end of the second connecting rod; the other end of the second connecting rod is hinged to the front cover plate.
Further, a heat exchanger is arranged between the air inlet and the fan, and the heat exchanger is arranged around at least part of the fan.
Correspondingly, the utility model discloses still provide an air conditioner, machine in the aforementioned air conditioning.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that:
the air-conditioning indoor unit provided by the utility model effectively divides the air flow discharged from the air-out area by the air outlets through arranging the air-out channel and the air outlets on the indoor unit shell, meanwhile, the air outlet channel formed in the space between the front cover plate and the inner side panel is used for buffering the air speed of the air flow discharged from the air outlet area, thus, not only the air outlet range is improved, but also the effect of flexibly discharging air from each air outlet can be achieved, thereby improving the body feeling comfort level of a user, meanwhile, the size of the air outlet channel can be adjusted by arranging the driving device which can drive the front cover plate to move back and forth, thereby the air output of the part of the air outlet communicated with the air outlet channel can be adjusted by the driving device, which is very flexible, and the adjustment is realized without controlling the size of the total air output, so that the diversified use requirements of users can be met.
Detailed Description
In order to make the above objects, features and advantages of the present invention more clearly understood, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and detailed description. In addition, the embodiments of the present invention and the features of the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict. In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention, and the described embodiments are merely some embodiments, rather than all embodiments, of the present invention. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative work all belong to the protection scope of 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.
Referring to fig. 1 to 3, an embodiment of the present invention provides an indoor unit of an air conditioner, including an indoor unit casing 1, an air inlet 11 disposed on the indoor unit casing 1, an air outlet region 12 disposed in the indoor unit casing 1, and a fan 2 disposed in the indoor unit casing 1 and located between the air inlet 11 and the air outlet region 12; the indoor unit casing 1 comprises a front cover plate 3 and an inner side panel 13 which are oppositely arranged, an air outlet channel 40 communicated with the air outlet area 12 is formed by a gap between the front cover plate 3 and the inner side panel 13, a plurality of air outlets (not shown in the figure) are arranged on the surface of the indoor unit casing 1, wherein at least part of the air outlets are communicated with the air outlet channel 40, and at least one driving device 5 for driving the front cover plate 3 to move forwards or backwards is arranged between the front cover plate 3 and the inner side panel 13 and/or on the indoor unit casing 1.
In the present embodiment, the driving device 5 may be a driving structure known to those skilled in the art, and may be, for example, a motor-driven rack-and-pinion mechanism, a motor-driven ball screw mechanism, a motor-driven worm gear mechanism, an electric push rod, etc., as long as the driving device can drive the front cover 3 to move forward or backward, which is not limited in the present embodiment. In addition, the arrangement position and the number of the driving devices 5 can be flexibly determined according to actual needs, for example, the arrangement number of the driving devices 5 may be one, in which case the driving devices 5 may be arranged at a position corresponding to the middle between the front cover plate 3 and the inner side panel 13, or for example, the arrangement number of the driving devices 5 may also be four, in which case the driving devices 5 may be arranged at positions corresponding to four corners of the front cover plate 3, and so on, as long as the use requirements can be met, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment.
In the air-conditioning indoor unit of the embodiment, the air outlet channel 40 and the air outlets are arranged on the indoor unit casing 1, the air outlet channels 40 are used for effectively shunting the air flow discharged from the air outlet area, and the air outlet channel 40 formed in the space between the front cover plate 3 and the inner side panel 13 is used for buffering the air speed of the air flow discharged from the air outlet area 12, so that the air outlet range is improved, and the flexible air outlet effect of each air outlet can be achieved, thereby improving the comfort level of a user by feeling, meanwhile, the size of the air outlet channel 40 can be adjusted by arranging the driving device 5 capable of driving the front cover plate 3 to move back and forth, further, the air output of the air outlets communicated with the air outlet channel can be adjusted by the driving device, the air outlet channel is very flexible and does not need to be adjusted by controlling the size of the total air output, thereby meeting the diversified use requirements of users. For example, when the air output of the portion of the air outlet communicated with the air outlet channel 40 needs to be increased, the adjustment can be realized by driving the front cover plate 3 to move forward (i.e., away from the inner side panel 13) by the driving device 5; when the air output of the portion of the air outlet communicated with the air outlet channel 40 needs to be reduced, the driving device 5 can drive the front cover plate 3 to move backwards (i.e. in a direction close to the inner side panel 13) to achieve adjustment.
Further, referring to fig. 2, in an exemplary embodiment, the driving device 5 includes a driving motor 50 and a link 53, the driving motor 50 is mounted on the inner side panel 13, and one end of the link 53 is linked with an output shaft of the driving motor 50 and the other end is hinged to the front cover 3. In some embodiments, one end of the connecting rod 53 may be sleeved on the output shaft of the driving motor 50 and linked with the output shaft of the driving motor 50, and in other embodiments, one end of the connecting rod 53 may also be linked with the output shaft of the driving motor 50 through the existing reduction gearbox structure. Alternatively, the driving motor 50 may be mounted on the front cover 3, and one end of the link 53 may be linked with the output shaft of the driving motor 50, and the other end may be hinged to the inner panel 13.
In the present embodiment, based on the above structural design, the front cover plate 3 can be driven to move forward or backward by controlling the forward and reverse rotation of the motor. Here, in order that the front cover 3 may be more smoothly moved forward or backward, referring to fig. 2, in some embodiments, at least one swing link 61 disposed parallel to the link 53 may be disposed at a suitable position between the front cover 3 and the inner panel 13, wherein one end of the swing link 61 is hinged to the front cover 3 and the other end is hinged to the inner panel 13.
Further, in an exemplary embodiment, a plurality of air outlets are provided on the front cover 3 and/or between an edge of the front cover 3 and the inner side panel 13. Referring to fig. 1 to 3, in some embodiments, a gap exists between each edge of the front cover plate 3 and the inner side panel 13 to form a plurality of air outlets, where the plurality of air outlets include an upper air outlet 41, a lower air outlet 42, a left air outlet 43, and a right air outlet 44 (for convenience of description, four air outlets, an upper air outlet, a lower air outlet, a left air outlet, a right air outlet, and a left air outlet, are provided on a surface of the indoor unit casing 1, and at this time, four sides of flexible air outlet can be realized); more specifically, the front side of the indoor unit casing 1 has a mounting surface frame (not shown in the drawings), the mounting surface frame includes a frame 14 and an inner side panel 13 disposed in the frame 14, the front cover 3 is mounted in the frame 14 and disposed opposite to the inner side panel 13, wherein an upper outlet 41 is formed between the top edge of the front cover 3 and the top frame of the frame 14 by an interval communicated with the outlet duct 40, a left outlet 43 is formed between the left edge of the front cover 3 and the left frame of the frame 14 by an interval communicated with the outlet duct 40, a right outlet 44 is formed between the right edge of the front cover 3 and the right frame of the frame 14 by an interval communicated with the outlet duct 40, and a lower outlet 42 is formed between the bottom edge of the front cover 3 and the bottom frame of the frame 14 by an interval and directly communicated with the outlet duct 12. In other embodiments, a portion of the air outlets may be disposed on the front cover 3, and another portion of the air outlets may be disposed between the edge of the front cover 3 and the inner panel 13, and specifically, referring to fig. 4 and 5, the air outlets include an upper air outlet 41, a lower air outlet 42, a left air outlet 43, and a right air outlet 44, wherein the upper air outlet 41, the left air outlet 43, and the right air outlet 44 are opened on the front cover 3, and the lower air outlet 42 is disposed between the bottom edge of the front cover 3 and the bottom rim of the frame 14. Of course, in other embodiments, all of the air outlets may be disposed on the front cover 3, for example, the upper air outlet 41, the lower air outlet 42, the left air outlet 43, and the right air outlet 44 are all opened on the front cover 3. It should be noted that the plurality of air outlets may be interconnected (which is equivalent to the plurality of air outlets being integrated into an integrated air outlet, and at this time, the integrated air outlet may be rectangular, circular, oval, cross-shaped, etc.), or may not be interconnected, and this embodiment does not specifically limit this.
Further, referring to fig. 2 or fig. 3, in an exemplary embodiment, the edge of the inner side panel 13 near the wind outlet area 12 has a wind guiding portion 131, and the wind guiding portion 131 is used for guiding the airflow discharged from the wind outlet area 12 to flow along the outer side surface of the inner side panel 13. The air inducing portion 131 may be an arc surface or an inclined surface, and illustratively, the bottom edge of the inner panel 13 is bent inward to form an arc surface. Here, the outer side surface of the inner side panel 13 refers to a surface of the inner side panel 13 that is disposed opposite to the fan 2.
In this embodiment, the air inducing portion 131 is disposed at the edge of the inner panel 13 close to the air outlet region 12, based on the coanda effect, when the airflow is discharged from the air outlet region 12, the airflow can more smoothly enter the air outlet channel 40 along the air inducing portion, thereby being beneficial to reducing the air volume loss when the airflow enters the air outlet channel 40.
Further, referring to fig. 3, in an exemplary embodiment, at least one auxiliary device 6 for assisting the forward or backward movement of the front cover 3 is provided between the front cover 3 and the inner side panel 13. In this manner, by providing the auxiliary device 6, the driving device 5 can drive the front cover 3 to move forward or backward more smoothly.
Further, referring to fig. 3, in an exemplary embodiment, the auxiliary device 6 includes a guide sleeve 62 and a guide post 63 slidably engaged with the guide sleeve 62, wherein the guide sleeve 62 is disposed on the inner side panel 13, and the guide post 63 is disposed on the front cover plate 3; alternatively, the guide bush 62 may be provided on the front cover 3 and the guide post 63 may be provided on the inner side panel 13. In this way, when the driving device 5 drives the front cover plate 3 to move forward or backward, the sliding fit between the guide post 63 and the guide sleeve 62 can guide the front cover plate 3 to move forward or backward better, so that the movement of the front cover plate 3 can be more stable.
Further, when the auxiliary device 6 is configured as a "guide post 63+ guide sleeve 62", in some embodiments, the driving device 5 may be configured as an electric push rod, a rack and pinion mechanism, a ball screw mechanism, etc., and in other embodiments, the driving device 5 may also be configured as other structures, for example, referring to fig. 3, the driving device 5 includes a driving motor 50, a first link 51 and a second link 52, wherein the driving motor 50 is mounted on the front cover 3, one end of the first link 51 is linked with the output shaft of the driving motor 50, and the other end is hinged with one end of the second link 52; the other end of the second connecting rod 52 is hinged on the inner side panel 13; alternatively, the driving motor 50 may be mounted on the inner panel 13, wherein one end of the first link 51 is linked with the output shaft of the driving motor 50, and the other end is hinged to one end of the second link 52; the other end of the second link 52 is hinged to the front cover 3.
Further, referring to fig. 2 or 3, in an exemplary embodiment, a heat exchanger 7 is disposed between the air intake 11 and the fan 2, and the heat exchanger 7 is disposed around at least a portion of the fan 2.
In this embodiment, based on above-mentioned structural design, usable heat exchanger 7 carries out the heat transfer to the air that gets into in the indoor set casing 1 from air intake 11, wherein, through encircleing at least partial fan 2 setting with heat exchanger 7, can carry out abundant heat transfer to the air that gets into in indoor set casing 1 better like this, improves the heat transfer effect.
Correspondingly, the embodiment of the utility model provides a still provide an air conditioner, machine in the air conditioning of above-mentioned arbitrary embodiment.
In this embodiment, thanks to the improvement of the air conditioning indoor unit, the air conditioner of this embodiment has the same technical effect as the air conditioning indoor unit, and will not be described herein again.
It should be noted that other contents of the air conditioner indoor unit and the air conditioner disclosed in the present invention can be referred to the prior art, and are not described herein again.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention in any way, so that any modification, equivalent change and modification made by the technical spirit of the present invention to the above embodiments do not depart from the technical solution of the present invention, and still fall within the scope of the technical solution of the present invention.