CN215808858U

CN215808858U - Air conditioner indoor unit and air conditioner

Info

Publication number: CN215808858U
Application number: CN202121841523.0U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 暨文伟; 张宏闯
Original assignee: GD Midea Air Conditioning Equipment Co Ltd; Guangzhou Hualing Refrigeration Equipment Co Ltd
Current assignee: GD Midea Air Conditioning Equipment Co Ltd; Guangzhou Hualing Refrigeration Equipment Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-08-06
Filing date: 2021-08-06
Publication date: 2022-02-11
Anticipated expiration: 2031-08-06

Abstract

The utility model discloses an air conditioner indoor unit and an air conditioner, wherein the air conditioner indoor unit comprises a shell, a containing cavity is formed in the shell, the containing cavity is provided with an installation position for installing a fresh air module, the shell is provided with a communication area, the communication area corresponds to a fresh air outlet of the fresh air module on the installation position, and the communication area is provided with a plurality of through holes. The shell structure of the air conditioner indoor unit provided by the utility model can be used for assembling a fresh air conditioner and can also be used for assembling a common air conditioner (without a fresh air module); in addition, the air conditioner indoor unit has simple structure, maintains the structure of the shell of the original common air conditioner indoor unit to the maximum extent, is convenient for production and has low modification cost.

Description

Air conditioner indoor unit and air conditioner

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of air conditioners, in particular to an air conditioner indoor unit and an air conditioner.

Background

The fresh air conditioner is a healthy and comfortable air conditioner with fresh air function, realizes the circulation and ventilation between room air and outdoor air by using a centrifugal fan, and has the function of purifying air. With the increasing demand of people on living quality, the fresh air conditioner is more and more popular.

In order to realize the fresh air function, a fresh air module needs to be installed in the indoor unit, and taking the indoor unit of an air conditioner as an example, the fresh air module is usually installed in an area where electric devices such as an electric control box and the like are installed in the traditional indoor unit of the air conditioner, and then the electric devices are transferred to other vacant areas.

Because the new trend air conditioner needs set up the new trend export in the position that corresponds new trend module new trend export on the casing, traditional casing can not satisfy the installation demand of new trend air conditioner, consequently, need design specific casing to new trend air conditioner usually.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model mainly aims to provide an air conditioner indoor unit and an air conditioner, and aims to solve the problem that the existing shell cannot be universally used for fresh air conditioners and common air conditioners.

In order to achieve the above object, the air conditioner indoor unit provided by the present invention includes a casing, wherein the casing forms a cavity, the cavity has an installation position for installing a fresh air module, the casing has a communication area, the communication area corresponds to a fresh air outlet of the fresh air module on the installation position, and the communication area is provided with a plurality of through holes.

Optionally, the casing includes a face frame and a panel, the face frame forms an installation groove with an opening on one side, the installation position is located in the installation groove, the face frame has a side cover plate arranged corresponding to the fresh air outlet, the panel is arranged at the opening end of the face frame to define the containing cavity together with the face frame, and the panel is arranged opposite to the side cover plate;

the communicating area comprises a first communicating area and a second communicating area, the first communicating area is formed on the side cover plate, the first communicating area is provided with a plurality of first through holes, the second communicating area is correspondingly formed on the panel, the second communicating area is provided with a plurality of second through holes, and the first through holes and the second through holes are communicated to form the through holes together.

Optionally, a plurality of the first through holes are distributed in a matrix.

Optionally, the shape of the first through hole comprises a circle, an ellipse or a polygon.

Optionally, the first through holes are in a strip shape, and a width of each first through hole is not greater than 8 mm.

Optionally, a plurality of the second through holes are distributed in a ring array or a matrix.

Optionally, the shape of the second through hole comprises a circle, an ellipse or a polygon.

Optionally, the second through holes are circular, and the aperture of each second through hole is not greater than 8 mm.

Optionally, the air conditioner indoor unit further includes a sealing structure, the sealing structure abuts against between the panel and the side cover plate, the sealing structure defines a channel, one end of the channel corresponds to the first communicating area, and the other end of the channel corresponds to the second communicating area.

Optionally, the side cover plate is provided with a window spaced from the first communication area;

the sealing structure covers the window arrangement.

Optionally, still include the new trend module, the new trend module corresponds to be installed the installation position, the new trend export of new trend module with the intercommunication district corresponds.

Optionally, the device further comprises an electronic control box, and the electronic control box is correspondingly installed on the installation position.

In addition, the utility model provides an air conditioner which comprises an air conditioner indoor unit, wherein the air conditioner indoor unit comprises a shell, a cavity is formed in the shell, the cavity is provided with an installation position used for installing a fresh air module, the shell is provided with a communication area, the communication area corresponds to a fresh air outlet of the fresh air module on the installation position, and the communication area is provided with a plurality of through holes.

According to the technical scheme provided by the utility model, a plurality of through holes are formed in the communicating area of the shell corresponding to the fresh air outlet of the fresh air module, when the indoor unit of the air conditioner is a fresh air conditioner, the fresh air module can be installed on the installation position, and the fresh air outlet of the fresh air module is arranged corresponding to the communicating area, so that purified fresh air can be discharged through the plurality of through holes; simultaneously, under the condition of the equal area in communicating region, the design of a plurality of through-holes compares single open-ended setting, and the size of each through-hole is must be littleer, can make fingers etc. can't pass the through-hole through the aperture and the shape of adjustment through-hole, and when the air conditioner indoor set was traditional air conditioner, this casing was suitable for equally, at this moment, can install electric control box isoelectronic device on the installation position, and the design of a plurality of through-holes can play the guard action, prevents to electrocute. The shell structure of the indoor unit of the air conditioner can be used for assembling a fresh air conditioner and can also be used for assembling a common air conditioner (without a fresh air module); in addition, the air conditioner indoor unit has simple structure, maintains the structure of the shell of the original common air conditioner indoor unit to the maximum extent, is convenient for production and has low modification cost.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the structures shown in the drawings without creative efforts.

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

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the indoor unit of the air conditioner shown in FIG. 1 with a panel removed;

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the indoor unit of the air conditioner of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged detail view of A in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged detail view of FIG. 1 at B;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged detail view of FIG. 2 at C;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged detail view at D of FIG. 3;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural view of the sealing structure of fig. 1.

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the implementation, functional features and advantages of the objects of the present invention will be further explained with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Detailed Description

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, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

It should be noted that, if directional indications (such as up, down, left, right, front, and back … …) are involved in the embodiment of the present invention, the directional indications are only used to explain the relative positional relationship between the components, the movement situation, and the like in a specific posture (as shown in the drawing), and if the specific posture is changed, the directional indications are changed accordingly.

In addition, if there is a description of "first", "second", etc. in an embodiment of the present invention, the description of "first", "second", etc. is for descriptive purposes only and is not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In addition, technical solutions between various embodiments may be combined with each other, but must be realized by a person skilled in the art, and when the technical solutions are contradictory or cannot be realized, such a combination should not be considered to exist, and is not within the protection scope of the present invention.

In view of this, the present invention provides an air conditioner, including an air conditioner indoor unit 1000, the specific type of the air conditioner indoor unit 1000 is not limited, and may be a wall-mounted indoor unit, or a cabinet-type indoor unit; the air conditioner can be a fresh air conditioner or a common air conditioner without fresh air function. The indoor unit 1000 of the air conditioner comprises a shell, wherein a cavity is formed in the shell, the cavity is provided with an installation position 101 for installing a fresh air module 200, the shell is provided with a communication area, the communication area corresponds to a fresh air outlet 201 of the fresh air module 200 on the installation position 101, and the communication area is provided with a plurality of through holes. The design of the through holes can meet the air outlet requirement of fresh air, prevent fingers from stretching into the through holes and play a role in protection, so that the shell can be used for assembling a fresh air conditioner and an ordinary air conditioner (without the fresh air module 200); in addition, the shell is simple in structure, the structure of the shell of the original common air-conditioning indoor unit is reserved to the greatest extent, production is facilitated, and the modification cost is low.

Specifically, the air conditioner indoor unit 1000 of the present invention may be a fresh air conditioner, or may be a general air conditioner without fresh air function. Referring to fig. 1, in this embodiment, the air conditioner indoor unit 1000 further includes a fresh air module 200, the fresh air module 200 is correspondingly installed at the installation position 101, a fresh air outlet 201 of the fresh air module 200 corresponds to the communication area, and fresh air exhausted from the fresh air outlet 201 of the fresh air module 200 can be exhausted from a plurality of through holes of the communication area. In another embodiment, the air conditioner indoor unit 1000 further includes an electrical control box (not shown) correspondingly installed at the installation location 101, and the air conditioner indoor unit 1000 of this embodiment is a common air conditioner without fresh air function, and although the air conditioner indoor unit has a communication area, the design of the plurality of through holes can prevent fingers and the like from passing through, so as to play a role in protection.

Fig. 1 to 8 show an embodiment of an indoor unit 1000 of an air conditioner according to the present invention. The air conditioner indoor unit 1000 of the illustrated embodiment is an air conditioner indoor unit 1000 having a fresh air function.

Referring to fig. 1 to 3, the indoor unit 1000 of the air conditioner includes a housing, the housing is formed with a cavity, the cavity has an installation position 101 for installing a fresh air module 200, the housing has a communication area, the communication area corresponds to a fresh air outlet 201 of the fresh air module 200 on the installation position 101, and the communication area is provided with a plurality of through holes.

According to the technical scheme provided by the utility model, a plurality of through holes are formed in a communicating area of a shell corresponding to a fresh air outlet 201 of a fresh air module 200, when an indoor unit 1000 of an air conditioner is a fresh air conditioner, the fresh air module 200 can be installed on an installation position 101, and the fresh air outlet 201 of the fresh air module 200 is arranged corresponding to the communicating area, so that purified fresh air can be discharged through the plurality of through holes; simultaneously, under the condition of the equal area in communicating region, the design of a plurality of through-holes compares single open-ended setting, and the size of each through-hole is must be littleer, can make fingers etc. can't pass the through-hole through the aperture and the shape of adjustment through-hole, and when machine 1000 was traditional air conditioner in the air conditioner, this casing was suitable for equally, at this moment, can install electric control box isoelectronic component on the installation position 101, and the design of a plurality of through-holes can play the guard action, prevents to electrocute. The shell structure of the air conditioner indoor unit 1000 can be used for assembling a fresh air conditioner and can also be used for assembling a common air conditioner (without the fresh air module 200); in addition, the air conditioner indoor unit 1000 has simple structure, maintains the structure of the shell of the original common air conditioner indoor unit to the maximum extent, is convenient for production and has low modification cost.

Specifically, the shell is formed with a cavity, and the cavity is used for installing air conditioner components such as fan assembly, heat exchanger, automatically controlled box, motor. The electric device refers to an electronic device arranged in the cavity, such as an electric control box, a motor and the like; the shell is provided with an air inlet, an air outlet and an air channel communicated with the air inlet and the air outlet, the fan assembly and the heat exchanger are arranged in the air channel, and the electric control box and the motor are arranged outside the air channel. Generally, in order to make reasonable use of space, electric devices such as an electric control box and a motor are installed at an end portion of a housing, as shown in fig. 1, the housing is substantially in a long cylindrical shape, a cavity of the shape is also in a long cylindrical shape, and the electric devices are disposed at one end of the cavity in a length direction, that is, in the present embodiment, the installation location 101 is disposed in a region near the end portion of the cavity. Referring to fig. 1, in the air conditioner indoor unit 1000 of the present embodiment, the fresh air module 200 is installed on the installation site 101, and is disposed near the end of the cavity, the fresh air module 200 has a fresh air outlet 201, and the area of the casing opposite to the fresh air outlet 201 is set as a communication area, which is used for discharging fresh air when the fresh air module 200 is installed on the installation site 101.

For convenience of description, the housing has upper and lower sides oppositely disposed in an up-down direction, left and right ends oppositely disposed in a left-right direction, and has a front side facing a user with reference to an installation and use state of the indoor unit 1000 of the air conditioner. In this embodiment, the right-hand member at the casing is installed to new trend module 200, and its new trend export 201 sets up forward, correspondingly, has the intercommunication district that corresponds with new trend export 201 on the front side of casing, and the intercommunication district is used for the intercommunication to hold chamber and external world to supply the new trend to discharge, and the intercommunication district is close to the right-hand member setting of casing equally, and its concrete shape and size do not do the restriction, can design according to actual air-out demand and new trend module 200 new trend export 201 size. The present embodiment provides a plurality of through holes through the sidewall of the housing in the communication area. The number of the through holes is not limited, and in order to increase the air output, the through holes can be arranged in the range of the communication area as much as possible, so that the communication area is completely covered by the through holes; the shape of the through hole is not limited, and the through hole can be designed into any shape, such as a circle, an ellipse, a polygon, or a special shape changed on the basis of the circle and the polygon, such as a flower shape, a crescent shape, a spinning cone shape, a gourd shape, and the like; the size of the through hole is not limited, and can be adjusted according to the shape of the through hole under the standard of preventing fingers from extending into the through hole; in addition, the plurality of through holes may be arranged in any manner, for example, randomly dispersed, distributed in a matrix, distributed in a circular array, distributed in a linear array, and the like, which is not limited by the present invention.

The housing is generally formed by assembling a plurality of components, specifically, in the present embodiment, the housing includes a face frame 10 and a panel 20, referring to fig. 1, the face frame 10 forms a mounting groove with one side open, and generally, the mounting groove is open towards the front; the face plate 20 is provided at the open end of the face frame 10 to define the receiving chamber together with the face frame 10. The mounting location 101 is located in the mounting groove and further located at one end of the mounting groove.

In this embodiment, the face frame 10 has the side cover plate 1, the side cover plate 1 is disposed opposite to the panel 20 and corresponding to the installation position 101, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 3, the face frame 10 includes a front-side opening enclosure frame and the side cover plate 1, the side cover plate 1 is located at the front side of the enclosure frame and connected with one short side wall and two long side walls of the enclosure frame, and the side cover plate 1 and the enclosure frame are integrally formed. In this embodiment, the housing is formed by overlapping at least the panel 20 and the edge cover plate 1 in the area corresponding to the fresh air outlet 201, and in view of this, the communication area in this embodiment includes a first communication area and a second communication area, specifically, the first communication area is formed in the edge cover plate 1, the second communication area is formed in the panel 20, and the first communication area and the second communication area are opposite to each other. The first communicating area is provided with a plurality of first through holes 11, the second communicating area is provided with a plurality of second through holes 21, the first through holes 11 and the second through holes 21 are communicated to jointly form the through holes, specifically, the first through holes 11 jointly form one air port, the second through holes 21 jointly form another air port, and the two air ports are communicated with each other to form an air duct through which air passes, namely the through holes.

It can be understood that, the arrangement of the first through hole 11 and the second through hole 21 is to realize ventilation when installing the fresh air module 200, and plays a role of protection when installing an electric device, therefore, the shape and size of the first communicating area and the second communicating area can be the same, and also can be arranged differently, in this embodiment, the area of the second communicating area is larger than that of the first communicating area, so that the area of the fresh air outlet 201 formed by the plurality of second through holes 21 on the panel 20 is larger, which is helpful for enlarging the air outlet range of the fresh air, and the fresh air can be sent into the indoor space in a larger range. In addition, the number of the first through holes 11 and the second through holes 21 may be the same or different; the shapes of the first through hole 11 and the second through hole 21 may be the same or different; the plurality of first through holes 11 and the plurality of second through holes 21 may be in one-to-one correspondence, and may not be provided in correspondence.

Specifically, referring to fig. 1 and 7, in an embodiment, a plurality of the first through holes 11 are distributed in a matrix. Set up like this, the arrangement of through-hole is more neat, and is not only pleasing to the eye, easily processing moreover, because 11 evenly distributed of first through-hole can make first communicating area new trend air-out everywhere even moreover.

The shape of the first through hole 11 includes a circle, an ellipse, or a polygon. The polygon is a figure formed by sequentially connecting three or more line segments end to end, for example, the polygon may be a quadrangle, a pentagon, a hexagon, an octagon, a hexagram, a pentagram, and the like, and the polygon may be a regular polygon or a non-polygon, which is not limited in the present invention.

When the first through hole 11 is a square, it may be a square or a rectangle. Referring to fig. 4, in an embodiment, the first through hole 11 is in a bar shape, i.e. a rectangle shape, and even if the length of the bar shape is extremely long, fingers cannot pass through the bar shape under the same limited width condition compared with the square design, that is, when the first through hole 11 is in a bar shape, the bar shape structure with a larger length value can be set, which is helpful for increasing the area of the first through hole 11 and increasing the air output. In order to ensure that fingers cannot penetrate deeply, when the first through holes 11 are in the shape of a strip, the width of each first through hole 11 is not more than 8 mm.

Further, when first through-hole 11's shape is the bar, it is a plurality of first through-hole 11 is the matrix distribution, helps reasonable layout, under the first connected region of equal area, can set up more first through-holes 11, helps improving the air output.

Referring to fig. 5, in some embodiments, the second through holes 21 are distributed in a ring array or a matrix. Due to the arrangement, the through holes are arranged more neatly, attractive in appearance and easy to process, and moreover, due to the uniform distribution of the second through holes 21, the fresh air can be uniformly discharged from all the positions of the second communicating area.

The shape of the second through hole 21 includes a circle, an ellipse, or a polygon. The polygon is a figure formed by sequentially connecting three or more line segments end to end, for example, the polygon may be a quadrangle, a pentagon, a hexagon, an octagon, a hexagram, a pentagram, and the like, and the polygon may be a regular polygon or a non-polygon, which is not limited in the present invention.

When the second through holes 21 are circular, the aperture of each second through hole 21 is not larger than 8mm, so that fingers can be prevented from penetrating deeply, and a protective effect is achieved.

In addition, the air conditioner indoor unit 1000 further includes a sealing structure 30. Referring to fig. 1, 6 and 8, the sealing structure 30 is provided between the panel 20 and the edge cover plate 1. Seal structure 30 prescribes a limit to a passageway 31, the one end and the first intercommunication district of passageway 31 correspond, the other end corresponds with the second intercommunication district, and seal structure 30's one end and panel 20 butt, the other end submits with side cover plate 1, thereby can enclose to close out inclosed wind channel between panel 20 and side cover plate 1 and come out, avoided the new trend to get into in the clearance between panel 20 and the side cover plate 1 after first through-hole 11 on the first intercommunication district discharges, both reduced the air volume that can follow second through-hole 21 exhaust, can arouse the noise because of flowing in the clearance again, influence user experience.

In addition, in the conventional air conditioner, the electrical control box is usually installed at the installation position 101, and in order to facilitate maintenance of the electrical control box, a window 12 is usually opened on the edge cover plate 1 for maintenance when the edge cover plate 1 is manufactured. The present invention retains this design for the side cover plate 1 so that it can be maintained easily when the indoor unit 1000 of the air conditioner is a general air conditioner. Based on this, this embodiment seal structure 30 can also the closing cap window 12 simultaneously, so, when this air conditioner 1000 was ordinary air conditioner, demolish seal structure 30 and just can maintain automatically controlled box, when this air conditioner 1000 was the new trend air conditioner, because window 12 is by the closing cap, help improving the pleasing to the eye degree of product. Specifically, the sealing structure 30 of the present embodiment includes a plate-shaped body 32 for covering the window 12, and a sealing portion 33, where the sealing portion 33 is provided at one end of the body 32, the sealing portion 33 forms the passage 31 communicating the first communicating area and the second communicating area, and one side of the sealing portion 33 abuts against the panel 20, and the other end abuts against the edge cover 1.

It should be noted that, when the indoor unit 1000 of the air conditioner is a common air conditioner, the cover plate of the electric control box can be modified to be used as the sealing structure 30, so that the space of the accommodating cavity can be saved, the number of parts to be processed can be reduced, the production efficiency can be improved, and the cost can be reduced.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all modifications and equivalents of the present invention, which are made by the contents of the present specification and the accompanying drawings, or directly/indirectly applied to other related technical fields, are included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. An indoor unit of an air conditioner is characterized by comprising a shell, wherein the shell is provided with a containing cavity, the containing cavity is provided with an installation position for installing a fresh air module, the shell is provided with a communication area, the communication area corresponds to a fresh air outlet of the fresh air module on the installation position, and the communication area is provided with a plurality of through holes.

2. The indoor unit of an air conditioner according to claim 1, wherein the casing includes a face frame and a panel, the face frame forms a mounting groove with one side open, the mounting position is located in the mounting groove, the face frame is provided with a side cover plate corresponding to the fresh air outlet, the panel is arranged at the open end of the face frame to define the cavity together with the face frame, and the panel is arranged opposite to the side cover plate;

3. The indoor unit of claim 2, wherein the plurality of first through holes are arranged in a matrix.

4. An indoor unit for an air conditioner according to claim 2, wherein the shape of the first through hole includes a circle, an ellipse or a polygon.

5. An indoor unit for an air conditioner according to claim 4, wherein the first through holes have a strip shape, and the width of each first through hole is not more than 8 mm.

6. The indoor unit of claim 2, wherein the plurality of second through holes are distributed in an annular array or a matrix.

7. An indoor unit for an air conditioner according to claim 2, wherein the shape of the second through hole includes a circle, an ellipse or a polygon.

8. An indoor unit for an air conditioner according to claim 7, wherein the second through holes have a circular shape, and the diameter of each of the second through holes is not more than 8 mm.

9. The indoor unit of claim 2, further comprising a sealing structure abutting between the panel and the edge cover plate, wherein the sealing structure defines a channel having one end corresponding to the first communication area and the other end corresponding to the second communication area.

10. An indoor unit for an air conditioner according to claim 9, wherein the side cover plate has a window spaced from the first communicating area;

the sealing structure covers the window arrangement.

11. The indoor unit of claim 1, further comprising a fresh air module, wherein the fresh air module is correspondingly installed at the installation position, and a fresh air outlet of the fresh air module corresponds to the communication area.

12. The indoor unit of an air conditioner according to claim 1, further comprising an electric control box, wherein the electric control box is correspondingly installed at the installation position.

13. An air conditioner characterized by comprising the air conditioner indoor unit according to any one of claims 1 to 12.