CN215909258U

CN215909258U - Electric control box and air conditioner with same

Info

Publication number: CN215909258U
Application number: CN202122006515.0U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 郑冬锐
Original assignee: GD Midea Air Conditioning Equipment Co Ltd
Current assignee: GD Midea Air Conditioning Equipment Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-08-24
Filing date: 2021-08-24
Publication date: 2022-02-25
Anticipated expiration: 2031-08-24

Abstract

The utility model discloses an electric control box and an air conditioner with the same, wherein the electric control box comprises: a housing; the PCB is arranged in the shell and provided with a plurality of terminal slots; the wire slot framework is arranged on the outer side of the shell and is provided with a wire outlet slot; and one end of the terminal connecting wire is matched with the terminal slot, and the other end of the terminal connecting wire penetrates through the wire outlet slot and extends out of the shell. According to the electric control box provided by the embodiment of the utility model, when the circuit connection is required, the external circuit and the end part of the terminal connecting wire extending out of the shell can be connected, so that the operation is simple, and the assembly efficiency can be improved.

Description

Electric control box and air conditioner with same

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the field of household appliances, in particular to an electric control box and an air conditioner with the same.

Background

In the existing wiring mode of the electric control box of the outdoor unit of the air conditioner, after the electric control box is fixed on the middle partition plate, a human hand extends to the bottom of the electric control box, and a wiring plug in each period is inserted into a slot on a PCB (printed circuit board). Because automatically controlled box is the back-off on the outer quick-witted median septum of air conditioner, PCB board wiring groove is down, when producing the line workman and installing the wiring, needs the people half to squat down, and the hand stretches automatically controlled box bottom portion, inserts each device butt plug again on the slot that the PCB board corresponds, because the space limits, visual space is less in this operation, and the plug wire is difficult once only to be aimed at and is inserted well usually, and it is very low to take effect efficiency, and the convenience is not high.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The present invention is directed to solving at least one of the problems of the prior art. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an electrical control box, which is easy to operate and efficient to assemble when the electrical control box is connected to the electrical circuit.

An electronic control box according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a housing; the PCB is arranged in the shell and provided with a plurality of terminal slots; the wire slot framework is arranged on the outer side of the shell and is provided with a wire outlet slot; and one end of the terminal connecting wire is matched with the terminal slot, and the other end of the terminal connecting wire penetrates through the wire outlet slot and extends out of the shell.

According to the electric control box provided by the embodiment of the utility model, the terminal slot of the PCB can be matched with the terminal connecting wire in advance by arranging the wire slot framework on the outer side of the shell, then the terminal connecting wire can be matched on the wire slot framework, and the terminal connecting wire can better extend out of the shell through the support of the wire slot framework, so that when circuit connection is required, an external circuit and the end part of the terminal connecting wire extending out of the shell can be connected, the operation is simple, and the assembly efficiency can be improved.

In addition, the electric control box according to the utility model can also have the following additional technical features:

in some embodiments of the present invention, the terminal connection lines are provided in plurality corresponding to the terminal insertion grooves, and a stopper portion is formed on the housing so that the plurality of terminal connection lines are arranged side by side.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the terminal insertion grooves are disposed on one side of the housing in the length direction, and the outlet groove is disposed on one side of the housing in the width direction.

Optionally, one end of the terminal connection line extends in a direction perpendicular to the length direction of the housing after being matched with the terminal insertion slot, and then is bent to extend in a direction parallel to the length direction of the housing, and then is bent to extend in a direction of the wire outlet slot.

Optionally, the electronic control box further comprises: and the bending shaping part is arranged at the bending part of the terminal connecting wire.

Optionally, the wire duct framework includes a plurality of wire duct clasps, and the plurality of wire duct clasps are uniformly spaced along the width direction of the housing to construct the wire outlet duct extending along the width direction of the housing.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the end of the terminal connection wire is formed with a snap.

In some embodiments of the present invention, at least one end of the terminal connecting wire is provided with a prompt label.

In some embodiments of the present invention, a plurality of the terminal insertion grooves are provided on a lower side of the PCB board, and each of the terminal insertion grooves has a downward opening.

The utility model further provides an air conditioner with the electric control box.

The air conditioner provided by the embodiment of the utility model comprises a box body and an electric control box, wherein the electric control box is arranged in the box body. Through be provided with the automatically controlled box of above-mentioned embodiment in the box, can reduce the assembly degree of difficulty, improve assembly efficiency.

Additional aspects and advantages of the utility model 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 utility model.

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 an angle structure of an electric control box according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic view of another angle structure of the electric control box according to the embodiment of the utility model.

Fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of an air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Reference numerals:

an electric control box 10,

A shell 1, a PCB 2, a terminal slot 21, a terminal connecting wire 3, a slot framework 4, a slot claw buckle 41, a prompt label 5,

Air conditioner 100, and cabinet 20.

Detailed Description

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

An electric control box 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 2 and 3.

As shown in fig. 2 and 3, an electric control box 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a housing 1, a PCB board 2, a slot frame 4, and a terminal connection wire 3.

Specifically, PCB board 2 has a plurality of terminal slots 21 on locating casing 1 in the casing 1, and casing 1's the outside is located to wire casing skeleton 4, is formed with the wire groove on the wire casing skeleton 4, and the one end and the terminal slot 21 cooperation of terminal connecting wire 3, the other end of terminal connecting wire 3 passes the wire groove and stretches out the outside of casing 1.

It should be noted that, in the prior art, when the electronic control box is assembled, the electronic control box is often buckled on the middle partition board of the air conditioner outdoor unit, at this time, the PCB wiring slot is arranged downwards, thus, when the lead wires are fitted to the wire connection slots, great inconvenience is brought to the operator, and in the present application, according to the above features, by providing the slot frame 4 outside the housing 1, the terminal insertion slot 21 of the PCB 2 can be fitted with the terminal connection wire 3 in advance, then the terminal connecting wire 3 can be matched on the wire casing framework 4, and the terminal connecting wire 3 can be well extended out of the shell 1 through the support of the wire casing framework 4, so that when the circuit connection is needed, it is possible to connect an external circuit to the end of the terminal connection wire 3 extending to the outside of the housing 1, so that the operation becomes simple and the assembling efficiency can be improved.

Therefore, according to the electric control box 10 provided by the embodiment of the utility model, the slot frame 4 is arranged on the outer side of the shell 1, the terminal slot 21 of the PCB 2 can be matched with the terminal connecting wire 3 in advance, then the terminal connecting wire 3 can be matched on the slot frame 4, and the terminal connecting wire 3 can better extend out of the outer side of the shell 1 through the support of the slot frame 4, so that when circuit connection is required, an external circuit and the end part of the terminal connecting wire 3 extending out of the outer side of the shell 1 can be connected, the operation is simple, and the assembly efficiency can be improved.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2 and 3, the terminal connection lines 3 are provided in plural corresponding to the terminal insertion grooves 21, that is, the terminal connection lines 3 are provided in plural, and the terminal connection lines 3 are provided in one-to-one correspondence with the terminal insertion grooves 21. For example, as shown in fig. 2, seven terminal connection lines 3 are provided, seven terminal insertion grooves 21 are provided, and the seven terminal connection lines 3 and the seven terminal insertion grooves 21 are fitted in one-to-one correspondence. Of course, it can be understood that the number of the terminal slots 21 may be greater than the number of the terminal connection lines 3 according to actual requirements, that is, the actual electronic control box 10 may have multiple control functions, different air conditioners 100 or different household electrical appliances may have different control functions, and functional requirements of some air conditioners 100 or some household electrical appliances are less, at this time, only the terminal slots 21 corresponding to the fewer terminal connection lines 3 need to be matched, and it is not necessary to fully insert all the terminal slots 21.

Further, a stopper portion is formed on the housing 1 so that the plurality of terminal connection wires 3 are arranged side by side. That is to say, when terminal connecting wire 3 is provided with a plurality ofly, a plurality of terminal connecting wire 3 are intertwined easily, thereby cause the interference for the whole equipment of automatically controlled box 10 easily, and, when carrying out circuit connection with terminal connecting wire 3, still bring very big puzzlement for terminal connecting wire 3's discernment, and in this application, through setting up spacing portion, can make terminal connecting wire 3 must have at the in-process that extends by regular, orderly a plurality of terminal connecting wire 3 set up side by side, can be favorable to the pleasing to the eye of automatically controlled box 10, can also reduce terminal connecting wire 3's occupation space, in addition, can also improve terminal connecting wire 3's assembly. In addition, the plurality of terminal connecting wires 3 are arranged side by side, so that mutual friction does not exist between the terminal connecting wires 3, the service life of the terminal connecting wires 3 can be prolonged, and even if a metal circuit of a certain section in the terminal connecting wires 3 is exposed, short circuit with the adjacent terminal connecting wires 3 is not easy to occur, so that the reliability of the electrically controllable box 10 is improved.

Further, the plurality of limiting portions may be provided, and the plurality of limiting portions are provided at regular intervals along the direction of the terminal connecting wire 3. In addition, in the process that the limiting part limits the terminal connecting wire 3, the limiting part can be matched with the outer wall of the shell 1 so as to fix the terminal connecting wire 3 on the outer wall of the shell 1, and the process is simple and reliable. In addition, the terminal connection wire 3 may be limited only by the limiting portion and may be spaced apart from the outer wall of the housing 1 as required. In addition, it should be noted that the structure of the limiting portion is not particularly limited in this application, and the limiting portion may have any shape and material composition as long as the limiting of the terminal connecting wire 3 is achieved.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the plurality of terminal insertion grooves 21 are disposed on one side of the housing 1 in the length direction, and the outlet groove is disposed on one side of the housing 1 in the width direction. That is, the relative positions of the terminal insertion grooves 21 and the wire outlet grooves may be set according to the actual shape of the electrical control box 10, for example, as shown in fig. 2 and fig. 3, the electrical control box 10 is a rectangular parallelepiped, the terminal insertion grooves 21 are uniformly spaced apart along the side of the electrical control box 10 in the length direction, the wire outlet grooves are disposed on the side of the electrical control box 10 in the width direction, and the extending direction of the wire outlet grooves is parallel to the side of the electrical control box 10 in the width direction, so that when one end of the terminal connection wire 3 is engaged with the terminal insertion groove 21, the other end of the terminal connection wire 3 may extend from the side of the box 20 in the length direction to the side of the box 20 in the width direction, so that the working position of the circuit connection may be changed, and the view of the working position and the operating space may be better. Wherein, the length direction and the width direction are only referred to in the length direction and the width direction in fig. 2, and the definition description thereon is made for the convenience of description, not for the specific limitation of the present application.

In addition, it can be understood that, in the present application, the relative positions of the terminal slot 21 and the wire outlet groove are set by using the structural characteristics of the electronic control box 10, and the structural complexity of the electronic control box 10 caused by the centralized arrangement of the terminal slot 21 and the wire outlet groove on the same side of the electronic control box 10 can also be avoided to a certain extent.

In one specific example as shown in fig. 2 and 3, the electrical control box 10 is a rectangular parallelepiped, the plurality of terminal insertion grooves 21 are uniformly spaced apart and arranged along the side of the electrical control box 10 in the length direction, the terminal insertion grooves are arranged on the side of the electrical control box 10 in the width direction, the extending direction of the terminal insertion grooves is parallel to the side of the electrical control box 10 in the width direction, one end of the terminal connection wire 3 is extended toward the direction perpendicular to the length direction of the housing 1 after being fitted into the terminal insertion grooves 21, and then bent to extend in the direction parallel to the length direction of the housing 1, and then bent to extend toward the terminal insertion grooves to extend in the direction of the terminal insertion grooves. From this, can be so that have better interval space between a plurality of terminal connecting wire 3, furtherly, have between two adjacent terminal connecting wire 3 and predetermine the spacing distance, have a plurality of spacing distances of predetermineeing between a plurality of terminal connecting wire 3, a plurality of spacing distances of predetermineeing are all equal, like this, can carry out the overall arrangement to terminal connecting wire 3 better, and moreover, a plurality of terminal connecting wire 3 are along the 1 shape of casing of automatically controlled box 10 with the mode overall arrangement of overlay type, can also do benefit to the assembly to a certain extent.

Further, after the terminal connection wire 3 extends from the outlet groove along the direction of the outlet groove, it may be bent to extend toward the wall surface of the casing 20 of the outdoor unit of the air conditioner 100, that is, to extend toward the wall surface of the casing 20 of the outdoor unit of the air conditioner 100 in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the outlet groove.

Optionally, the electronic control box 10 further includes a bending shaping portion, and the bending shaping portion is disposed at a bending position of the terminal connecting wire 3. For example, as shown in fig. 2, each terminal connecting wire 3 has a plurality of bending portions, and the bending angle of each bending portion is a right angle, so that the bending portion can keep the bending portion of the terminal connecting wire 3 at a right angle, and thus, the side-by-side state of the plurality of terminal connecting wires 3 can be kept, and the terminal connecting wires 3 can be assembled easily.

Further, the bending-shaped portion may be a feature structure on the terminal connection wire 3, or may be assembled on the terminal connection wire 3 after external processing is completed. Further, the bending angle of each bending point on the terminal connecting wire 3 may be an acute angle or an obtuse angle, and each bending angle may be equal or unequal, which is not limited herein.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2 and 3, the trunking framework 4 includes a plurality of trunking catches 41, and the trunking catches 41 are uniformly spaced along the width direction of the housing 1 to construct an outlet trunking extending along the width direction of the housing 1. Here, a plurality of spacing grooves evenly spaced apart can be formed on each wire casing pawl 41, and a plurality of terminal connecting wires 3 can be fitted in a plurality of spacing grooves, so can be favorable to the assembly of terminal connecting wires 3, simultaneously, can also fix a position terminal connecting wires 3 betterly, prevent that terminal connecting wires 3 from taking place to remove after the assembly to influence final assembly, or after the assembly is accomplished, terminal connecting wires 3 cause the interference to other structures of automatically controlled box 10 or air conditioner 100.

Further, the slot latch 41 may be made of an elastic material, or may be made of two mating members that can be rotatably connected, and is not limited herein. The wire groove catches 41 may be formed to extend in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the widthwise side walls of the housing 1 extend as shown in fig. 2, and the wire groove catches 41 may also be formed to have an acute angle or an obtuse angle with the widthwise side walls of the housing 1, so that each of the terminal connection wires 3 may be positioned at different positions. In addition, the wire groove catches 41 may also have different lengths to position at different positions of the terminal connection wire 31.

As shown in fig. 2, the wire housing catches 41 are provided in two, and the two wire housing catches 41 have different lengths to be positioned at different positions of the terminal connection wire 31.

Furthermore, the slot latch 41 may be integrally formed with the housing 1, or may be assembled on the housing 1 through a quick connection structure, for example, an insertion slot may be formed on the housing 1, and then the slot latch 41 is inserted into the insertion slot. Of course, other mounting arrangements are possible and not limited herein.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the end of the terminal connecting wire 3 is formed with a letter button, which is beneficial for the terminal connecting wire 3 to perform circuit connection, that is, the end of the terminal connecting wire 3 guiding the circuit connection is also provided with a corresponding letter opening, and the circuit connection can be completed by inserting the letter button, so that the assembly efficiency can be improved. In addition, it can be understood that, in order to improve the assembly efficiency of the terminal connecting wire 3, other positioning connecting structures may also be used, and may be specifically selected according to actual requirements, and are not limited herein.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3, at least one end of the terminal connection line 3 is provided with a prompt label 5, that is, the prompt label 5 may be provided at one end of the terminal connection line 3, or the value prompt labels 5 may be provided at two ends of the terminal connection line 3, in one example, the prompt label 5 may be provided on a line of the terminal connection line 3, or may be provided on letter buttons at two ends of the terminal connection line 3. In still another example, letters may be pasted or stamped or scanned on the terminal connection lines 3 for resolution. In addition, it is also possible to make the terminal connection sections having different connection functions have different colors or the like, without limitation.

In some embodiments of the present invention, a plurality of terminal insertion grooves 21 are provided on the lower side of the PCB board 2, with an opening of each terminal insertion groove 21 facing downward. From this, can just can solve the difficult problem of connecting of circuit under the prerequisite that does not change PCB board 2's structure and assembly method, like this, just need not redesign assembly structure, also need not redesign production module, moreover, use original assembly structure and assembly method, also need not carry out great change or need not change at all to the production water line, from this, can be at furthest reduction in production cost.

The present invention also provides an air conditioner 100 having the electric control box 10 of the above embodiment.

As shown in fig. 1, an air conditioner 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a cabinet 20 and an electronic control box 10, and the electronic control box 10 is disposed in the cabinet 20. By arranging the electronic control box 10 of the above embodiment in the box body 20, the assembly difficulty can be reduced, and the assembly efficiency can be improved.

In some examples, the electrical control box 10 may be installed in an internal unit of the air conditioner 100, and may also be installed in an external unit of the air conditioner 100. Of course, it is understood that the present invention may be installed in other electronic devices according to practical use, and is not limited herein.

Other constructions and operations of the electrical control box 10 and the air conditioner 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention are known to those skilled in the art and will not be described in detail herein.

In the description herein, references to the description of the terms "some embodiments," "optionally," "further," or "some examples," etc., mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the utility model. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

While embodiments of the utility model have been shown and described, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the utility model, the scope of which is defined by the claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. An electrical control box, comprising:

a housing;

the PCB board is arranged in the shell and is provided with a plurality of terminal slots;

the wire slot framework is arranged on the outer side of the shell and is provided with a wire outlet slot;

and one end of the terminal connecting wire is matched with the terminal slot, and the other end of the terminal connecting wire penetrates through the wire outlet slot and extends out of the shell.

2. The electrical control box according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the terminal connection lines are provided corresponding to the terminal insertion grooves, and a stopper portion is formed on the housing so that the plurality of the terminal connection lines are arranged side by side.

3. An electrical control box according to claim 2, wherein a plurality of the terminal insertion grooves are provided on one side of the housing in the longitudinal direction, and the outlet groove is provided on one side of the housing in the width direction.

4. An electrical control box according to claim 3, wherein one end of the terminal connection wire extends perpendicular to the length of the housing after engaging the terminal insertion slot, then bends to extend parallel to the length of the housing, and then bends to extend towards the outlet slot to extend in the direction of the outlet slot.

5. The electrical control box according to claim 4, further comprising: and the bending shaping part is arranged at the bending part of the terminal connecting wire.

6. The electrical control box according to claim 3, wherein the raceway arrangement frame includes a plurality of raceway arrangement catches, the plurality of raceway arrangement catches being arranged at regular intervals in a width direction of the housing to configure the outlet groove extending in the housing width direction.

7. An electrical control box according to claim 1, wherein the end of the terminal connection cord is formed with a snap fastener.

8. An electrical control box according to claim 1, wherein at least one end of the terminal connecting wire is provided with a prompt sticker.

9. An electrical control box according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of said terminal slots are provided on the underside of said PCB board, each of said terminal slots having a downwardly facing opening.

10. An air conditioner, comprising:

a box body;

the electrical control box of any of claims 1-9, disposed within the box body.