CN217464679U - Air conditioner - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses an air conditioner, air conditioner includes: the water receiving tray is provided with a supporting structure; the water pumping wheel is sleeved outside the driving shaft, and the driving shaft is arranged on the supporting structure so that the supporting structure supports the driving shaft; and the driving piece is suitable for being connected with the driving shaft to drive the water beating wheel to rotate so as to spray liquid in the water receiving disc to a condenser of the air conditioner. From this, through set up bearing structure in order to support the drive shaft on the water collector, can avoid beating the water wheel and drop into in the water collector after drive shaft and driving piece disconnection, compare with prior art, under the condition that the condenser is not demolishd to the air conditioner, the driving piece can be assembled together once more with the drive shaft to can simplify the change flow of driving piece, can improve the change efficiency of driving piece, and then can reduce the cost of maintenance of air conditioner.

Description

Air conditioner

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of life electrical apparatus and specifically relates to an air conditioner is related to.

Background

In the related art, a water fetching wheel is arranged in the air conditioner, and the water fetching wheel is used for sprinkling condensed water generated on the surface of an evaporator of the air conditioner to the surface of a condenser so as to cool the condenser, so that the water fetching wheel is arranged between the condenser and a water receiving disc, and the output end of a driving piece needs to extend into a gap of the condenser so as to be connected with a driving shaft. When the driving piece damages, current air conditioner is when changing the driving piece, in order to avoid driving piece and drive shaft disconnection back to beat the water wheels and drop and cause in getting into the water collector that the driving piece is difficult to assemble once more with the drive shaft, maintenance personal need pull down the condenser to it is loaded down with trivial details to cause the change flow of driving piece, has influenced the change efficiency of driving piece, and then causes the cost of maintenance of air conditioner to rise.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model discloses aim at solving one of the technical problem that exists among the prior art at least. Therefore, an object of the utility model is to provide an air conditioner, this air conditioner under the condition of not demolising the condenser, the driving piece can assemble once more together with the drive shaft to can simplify the change flow of driving piece, can improve the change efficiency of driving piece, and then can reduce the cost of maintenance of air conditioner.

According to the utility model discloses an air conditioner includes: the water receiving tray is provided with a supporting structure; the water pumping wheel is sleeved outside the driving shaft, and the driving shaft is arranged on the supporting structure so that the supporting structure supports the driving shaft; the driving piece is suitable for being connected with the driving shaft to drive the water fetching wheel to rotate so as to spray liquid in the water receiving disc to the condenser of the air conditioner.

According to the utility model discloses an air conditioner through set up bearing structure with the support drive shaft on the water collector, can avoid beating in the water collector that drops after drive shaft and driving piece disconnection, compares with prior art, under the condition that the condenser is not demolishd to the air conditioner, the driving piece can assemble once more with the drive shaft together to can simplify the change flow of driving piece, can improve the change efficiency of driving piece, and then can reduce the cost of maintenance of air conditioner.

In some examples of the invention, the support structure comprises a first support structure, along in an axial direction of the drive shaft, the first support structure is located the beater is kept away from one side of the drive member and supports the drive shaft.

In some examples of the invention, the first support structure defines a mounting hole into which the drive shaft is inserted.

In some examples of the invention, the first support structure is provided on an inner surface of a side wall of the water pan.

In some examples of the invention, the support structure further comprises: and the second supporting structure is positioned on one side of the water beating wheel close to the driving piece and supports the driving shaft along the axial direction of the driving shaft.

In some examples of the invention, the second support structure is close to the end of the drive shaft is provided with a limiting groove, and the drive shaft is mounted in the limiting groove.

In some examples of the present invention, the first supporting structure is disposed on an inner surface of a side wall of the water pan, the water pan is provided with and is provided with a supporting wall of the first supporting structure, the side wall of the supporting wall is relatively disposed, a water-fetching space is formed between the supporting wall and the side wall, the water-fetching wheel is located in the water-fetching space, and the second supporting structure is disposed on the supporting wall.

In some examples of the invention, the support structure is integrally formed with the water collector.

In some examples of the invention, the drive shaft is rotatably provided to the support structure.

In some examples of the invention, the first support structure defines a mounting hole for mounting the drive shaft, along an axial direction of the drive shaft, the mounting hole and the limiting groove are correspondingly arranged.

In some examples of the invention, the drive shaft is configured as a hollow shaft, the output end of the drive member being mounted in the drive shaft for fixed connection with the drive shaft.

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 plan view of an air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken at A-A of FIG. 1;

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

fig. 4 is an enlarged schematic view at B in fig. 3.

Reference numerals:

an air conditioner 100;

a water pan 10; a support wall 101; a water beating space 102;

a support structure 20; a first support structure 201; a mounting hole 202; a second support structure 203; a limiting groove 204;

a water beating wheel 30; a drive shaft 40; a drive member 50; a condenser 60.

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 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 drawings are exemplary only for the purpose of explaining the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

An air conditioner 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 1-4, wherein the air conditioner 100 may be a split type air conditioner 100, that is, the air conditioner 100 includes an indoor unit and an outdoor unit, the outdoor unit may include a condenser 60, and the indoor unit may include an evaporator. In other embodiments, the air conditioner 100 may be an integrated air conditioner 100, that is, the indoor unit and the outdoor unit may be integrated, and the condenser 60 and the evaporator may be both included in the integrated air conditioner 100.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, an air conditioner 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: the water-receiving tray 10 is used for storing liquid, preferably, condensed water generated when an evaporator refrigerates air, the water-receiving tray 10 is provided with a support structure 20, the water-beating wheel 30, the driving shaft 40 and the driving member 50, the condenser 60 can be positioned above the water-receiving tray 10. In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 2 to 4, the driving shaft 40 and the water wheel 30 may be constructed as an integral component, when the driving shaft 40 rotates along the central axis, the driving shaft 40 may drive the water wheel 30 to rotate along the central axis of the driving shaft 40, when the water wheel 30 rotates, the condensed water stored in the water tray 10 may be sprinkled onto the surface of the condenser 60 of the air conditioner 100, the condenser 60 may exchange heat with the condensed water, and the condensed water may cool the condenser 60, so that the cooling efficiency of the condenser 60 on the refrigerant in the refrigerant flowing loop of the air conditioner may be improved, and the refrigeration performance of the air conditioner 100 may be improved.

Further, the driving member 50 is adapted to be connected to the driving shaft 40 to drive the driving shaft 40 to rotate the water fetching wheel 30 to spray the liquid in the water receiving tray 10 to the condenser 60 of the air conditioner 100. According to some specific embodiments of the present invention, the driving member 50 may be a driving motor having an output end, and the output end of the driving motor is connected with the driving shaft 40 to drive the driving shaft 40 to rotate.

Furthermore, the driving shaft 40 is disposed on the supporting structure 20 so that the supporting structure 20 supports the driving shaft 40, the supporting structure 20 can support the driving shaft 40 in the height direction of the water tray 10, the height direction of the water tray 10 can refer to the up-down direction in fig. 2, the supporting structure 20 can limit the driving shaft 40 from moving toward the bottom wall of the water tray 10 by making the supporting structure 20 and the driving shaft 40 interfere in the height direction of the water tray 10, when the driving member 50 is disconnected from the driving shaft 40, the driving shaft 40 will not fall into the water tray 10 under the supporting effect of the supporting structure 20, the supporting structure 20 can make the position of the driving shaft 40 not change, or the supporting structure 20 can make the position of the driving shaft 40 keep other positions which are easy to connect with the driving member 50, in the process of disconnecting the driving shaft 40 from the driving member 50 or reconnecting the driving shaft 40 to the driving member 50, this arrangement allows a service person to remove the drive element 50 and reconnect the replaced drive element 50 to the drive shaft 40 without removing the condenser 60.

From this, through set up bearing structure 20 in order to support drive shaft 40 on water collector 10, can avoid beating the water wheel 30 and drop into in water collector 10 after drive shaft 40 and driving piece 50 disconnection, compare with prior art, under the condition that air conditioner 100 does not demolish condenser 60, driving piece 50 can assemble together with drive shaft 40 once more to can simplify the change flow of driving piece 50, can improve the change efficiency of driving piece 50, and then can reduce air conditioner 100's cost of maintenance.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2-4, the supporting structure 20 may include a first supporting structure 201, the first supporting structure 201 is located on one side of the water beating wheel 30 away from the driving member 50 and supports the driving shaft 40 in the axial direction of the driving shaft 40, the axial direction of the driving shaft 40 may refer to the left-right direction in fig. 2, wherein the output shaft of the driving member 50 is adapted to be fixedly connected with one end of the driving shaft 40, that is, the other end of the driving shaft 40 (i.e., the end of the driving shaft 40 away from the driving member 50) may be configured as a free end of the driving shaft 40, by providing the first supporting structure 201 to support a part of the driving shaft 40 located on one side of the water beating wheel 30 away from the driving member 50, the first supporting structure 201 may limit the free end of the driving shaft 40 from moving towards the bottom wall of the water receiving tray 10, and thus may prevent the free end of the driving shaft 40 from driving the water beating wheel 30 to fall towards the bottom wall of the water receiving tray 10, the problem that the driving shaft 40 is difficult to be connected with the driving member 50 again after being disconnected is effectively avoided, and the maintenance difficulty of the air conditioner 100 is reduced.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2, the first support structure 201 may define a mounting hole 202, and the drive shaft 40 may be inserted into the mounting hole 202. Wherein the mounting hole 202 may be extended toward the inside of the first support structure 201, and the open end of the mounting hole 202 may be open toward the driving shaft 40, in some preferred embodiments, the mounting hole 202 may be coaxially arranged with the driving shaft 40, the free end of the driving shaft 40 may extend into the first support structure 201 through the mounting hole 202 at the opening of the first support structure 201, a portion of the driving shaft 40 located in the first support structure 201 is adapted to abut against the inner wall of the mounting hole 202, and the first support structure 201 may limit the free end of the driving shaft 40 from moving in the radial direction of the driving shaft 40 by the interference of the driving shaft 40 with the first support structure 201, so that the free end of the driving shaft 40 may be prevented from falling toward the bottom wall of the water receiving tray 10.

In addition, when the driving shaft 40 is connected to the driving member 50, the driving shaft 40 is inserted into the mounting hole 202, the inner wall of the mounting hole 202 can support the driving shaft 40, and the torque between the end of the driving shaft 40 far away from the driving member 50 and the connection between the driving shaft 40 and the driving member 50 can be balanced, so that the problem of bending or breaking of the connection between the driving shaft 40 and the driving member 50 can be avoided, the rotational stability of the driving shaft 40 can be improved, and the operational reliability of the air conditioner 100 can be improved.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2 to 4, the first supporting structure 201 may be disposed on an inner surface of a side wall of the drip tray 10. When the driving member 50 and the driving shaft 40 are both disposed in the water collector 10, the first supporting structure 201 is disposed on the inner surface of the sidewall of the water collector 10, so that the first supporting structure 201 is disposed close to the driving shaft 40, and the driving shaft 40 and the first supporting structure 201 can be conveniently supported and matched.

Of course, the present invention is not limited thereto, for example, the first supporting structure 201 may be configured as an independent component, and the first supporting structure 201 may be disposed near the inner surface of the side wall of the water collector 10, so that the disposition of the first supporting structure 201 may be more flexible, thereby reducing the position limitation of the components such as the driving shaft 40, the supporting structure 20, the driving member 50, and the condenser 60 with respect to the water collector 10, and further making the installation position of each component in the air conditioner 100 more suitable, and further optimizing the structure of the air conditioner 100.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2-4, the support structure 20 may further include: and a second support structure 203, the second support structure 203 being located on a side of the paddlewheel 30 adjacent to the driving member 50 in the axial direction of the driving shaft 40 and supporting the driving shaft 40. Wherein, through setting up the second bearing structure 203 with the partial structure that is located the driving wheel 30 and is close to driving piece 50 side of support drive shaft 40, the partial structure that is located the driving wheel 30 and is close to driving piece 50 side of drive shaft 40 can be restricted by first bearing structure 201 and the removal of the diapire that can avoid the free end of drive shaft 40 to drive the driving wheel 30 towards the water collector 10, and, through setting up first bearing structure 201 and second bearing structure 203 simultaneously in air conditioner 100, the partial structure that is located the driving wheel 30 both sides of drive shaft 40 can be supported respectively to first bearing structure 201 and second bearing structure 203, thereby can further restrict the drive shaft 40 and remove, and then can make drive shaft 40 and driving piece 50 link together more easily after the disconnection, further reduced the maintenance degree of difficulty of air conditioner 100.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 4, the end of the second supporting structure 203 near the driving shaft 40 may be provided with a limiting groove 204, and the driving shaft 40 may be installed in the limiting groove 204. The limiting groove 204 can penetrate through the second supporting structure 203 along the axial direction of the driving shaft 40, the limiting groove 204 can be provided with an opening which is open upwards, the driving shaft 40 can extend into the limiting groove 204 from the opening of the limiting groove 204, the driving shaft 40 is suitable for being abutted against the groove bottom of the limiting groove 204, and the groove bottom of the limiting groove 204 can support the driving shaft 40, so that the driving shaft 40 can be limited to move towards the direction close to the bottom wall of the water pan 10, and the driving shaft 40 and the driving piece 50 can be guaranteed to be assembled easily.

And, the inner wall of spacing groove 204 can also at least partially restrict the drive shaft 40 at the radial direction of drive shaft 40 and remove, and at the pivoted in-process of drive shaft 40, through setting up spacing groove 204 in order to restrict the drive shaft 40 and remove, can improve the stability of drive shaft 40, can avoid drive shaft 40 to appear driving wheel 30 when rocking and producing the vibration to noise when can reducing air conditioner 100 operation, and then can improve the product quality of air conditioner 100.

In other embodiments of the present invention, when the driving member 50 is connected to the driving shaft 40 and the driving shaft 40 is installed in the limiting groove 204, the driving shaft 40 is adapted to be spaced apart from the groove bottom of the limiting groove 204, so as to avoid friction between the driving shaft 40 and the groove bottom of the limiting groove 204 during rotation, thereby avoiding wear of the driving shaft 40 and making the driving shaft 40 rotate more smoothly. Moreover, after the driving member 50 is disconnected from the driving shaft 40, the driving shaft 40 may drop downward to stop against the bottom of the limiting groove 204, and the limiting groove 204 may support the driving shaft 40, so as to prevent the driving shaft 40 from dropping toward the bottom wall of the water tray 10.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2 to 4, the first supporting structure 201 may be disposed on an inner surface of a side wall of the water tray 10, a supporting wall 101 disposed opposite to the side wall provided with the first supporting structure 201 is disposed in the water tray 10, the supporting wall 101 may be disposed at a distance from the side wall of the water tray 10, a water beating space 102 is formed between the supporting wall 101 and the side wall, condensed water may be stored in the water beating space 102, the water beating wheel 30 is disposed in the water beating space 102, and the condenser 60 may be disposed directly above the water beating space 102, the condensed water stored in the water beating wheel 30 may be sprinkled to the condenser 60 by the water beating wheel 30, so as to achieve a technical effect of cooling the condenser 60 by the condensed water stored in the water tray 10.

The second support structure 203 may be disposed on the support wall 101, in some embodiments, the second support structure 203 may protrude from a side wall of the support wall 101, the second support structure 203 may be coupled to the drive shaft 40, and the support wall 101 may support the second support structure 203 to support the drive shaft 40. In the utility model discloses in some other embodiments, as shown in fig. 4, the supporting wall 101 can be provided with dodges the breach, dodge the breach and can dodge drive shaft 40, drive shaft 40 can pass and stretch into behind the dodge breach in space 102 of fetching water, and second bearing structure 203 can set up in dodging the breach, second bearing structure 203 can be connected the cooperation with supporting wall 101 in dodging the breach, and second bearing structure 203 can be connected the cooperation with drive shaft 40, and supporting wall 101 can support second bearing structure 203 in order to support drive shaft 40. Further, the supporting wall 101 may be integrally formed with the second supporting structure 203, so that the number of parts in the air conditioner 100 may be reduced, thereby reducing the assembly time of the air conditioner 100 and reducing the production cost of the air conditioner 100.

Further, in other embodiments of the present invention, the second supporting structure 203 may be configured as a supporting wall 101, the supporting wall 101 may be provided with a limiting groove 204, the driving shaft 40 may be installed in the limiting groove 204, and the driving shaft 40 may penetrate the limiting groove 204 and then extend into the water pumping space 102. It can be understood that the supporting wall 101 can simultaneously achieve the technical effects of defining the pumping space 102 and supporting the driving shaft 40, so that the functionality of the supporting wall 101 can be increased, and thus the number of parts of the air conditioner 100 can be reduced.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the support structure 20 may be integrally formed with the drip tray 10. When the air conditioner 100 is provided with the first support structure 201 and the second support structure 203, at least one of the first support structure 201 and the second support structure 203 may be integrally formed with the drain pan 10, for example, the first support structure 201 may be integrally formed with the drain pan 10, or the second support structure 203 may be integrally formed with the drain pan 10, or both the first support structure 201 and the second support structure 203 may be integrally formed with the drain pan 10, and by constructing the support structure 20 and the drain pan 10 as an integrally formed part, the number of parts in the air conditioner 100 may be reduced, so that the assembly efficiency of the air conditioner 100 may be improved, and the production cost of the air conditioner 100 may also be reduced.

Of course, in other embodiments of the present invention, the supporting structure 20 may be configured as an independent component with the water-receiving tray 10, that is, the first supporting structure 201, the second supporting structure 203, and the water-receiving tray 10 are all made separately. Connection structures can be arranged between the first support structure 201 and the water pan 10 and between the second support structure 203 and the water pan 10 respectively, and the connection structures fixedly connect the first support structure 201 and the second support structure 203 to the water pan 10, so that maintenance personnel can conveniently replace the first support structure 201 and the second support structure 203, and the maintenance cost of the air conditioner 100 can be reduced.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2 and 4, the driving shaft 40 is rotatably disposed on the supporting structure 20. Wherein, the driving shaft 40 can rotate relative to both the first supporting structure 201 and the second supporting structure 203, when the first supporting structure 201 is provided with the mounting hole 202, preferably, the inner wall of the mounting hole 202 of the first supporting structure 201 can be adapted to the circumferential outer side wall of the driving shaft 40, so that the partial structure of the driving shaft 40 located in the mounting hole 202 can rotate in the mounting hole 202. Also, when the second support structure 203 is provided with the limiting groove 204, preferably, the inner wall of the limiting groove 204 of the second support structure 203 may be adapted to the circumferential outer sidewall of the driving shaft 40, so that the part of the driving shaft 40 located in the limiting groove 204 can rotate in the limiting groove 204.

By making the driving shaft 40 rotatable relative to the supporting structure 20, when the driving shaft 40 rotates, no interference occurs between the driving shaft 40 and the supporting structure 20, so that the influence of the first supporting structure 201 and/or the second supporting structure 203 on the normal operation of the driving shaft 40 can be avoided, and it can be ensured that the driving shaft 40 drives the water beating wheel 30 to sprinkle the condensed water onto the surface of the condenser 60 when rotating.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2-4, the first supporting structure 201 defines a mounting hole 202 for mounting the driving shaft 40, and the mounting hole 202 and the limiting groove 204 are correspondingly disposed along the axial direction of the driving shaft 40 (i.e., the left-right direction in fig. 2). Wherein, the mounting hole 202 can be disposed opposite to one end of the driving shaft 40, the limit groove 204 can be disposed opposite to the other end of the driving shaft 40, by disposing the mounting hole 202 opposite to the driving shaft 40, one end of the driving shaft 40 can be adapted to be connected and matched with the mounting hole 202, so that the first supporting structure 201 can support one end of the driving shaft 40, and by disposing the limit groove 204 opposite to the driving shaft 40, the other end of the driving shaft 40 can be adapted to be connected and matched with the limit groove 204, so that the second supporting structure 203 can support the other end of the driving shaft 40, by disposing the mounting hole 202 and the limit groove 204 correspondingly along the axial direction of the driving shaft 40, the mounting hole 202 is matched with the limit groove 204, so that the two ends of the driving shaft 40 can be supported by the first supporting structure 201 and the second supporting structure 203 respectively, the first supporting structure 201 and the second supporting structure 203 can prevent the driving shaft 40 and the water-beating wheel 30 from dropping towards the bottom wall of the water-receiving tray 10 together, so that the air conditioner 100 can assemble the driving member 50 with the driving shaft 40 again without removing the condenser 60.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2, the driving shaft 40 may be configured as a hollow shaft, that is, the driving shaft 40 has a through hole along the axial direction, the through hole may extend through the driving shaft 40, and the output end of the driving member 50 is installed in the driving shaft 40 to be fixedly connected with the driving shaft 40. Specifically, the output end of the driving element 50 may extend into the through hole from the opening of the through hole at the end of the driving shaft 40 to be fixedly connected with the driving shaft 40, and in some specific embodiments, the technical effect of fixedly connecting the output end of the driving element 50 with the driving shaft 40 may be achieved by interference fit between the output end of the driving element 50 and the driving shaft 40, so that the driving element 50 may drive the driving shaft 40 to rotate. The utility model discloses of course the utility model is not limited to this, for example driving piece 50's output can be provided with the spline, and drive shaft 40's through-hole can correspond the spline groove that is provided with the spline adaptation, through spline and the cooperation of pegging graft of spline groove, can realize driving piece 50's output and drive shaft 40 fixed connection's technological effect. Further, in some embodiments of the present invention, a coupling may be used to connect the output end of the driving member 50 and the driving shaft 40.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "clockwise", "counterclockwise", "axial", "radial", "circumferential", and the like, indicate the orientation or positional relationship based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more.

In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an illustrative embodiment," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples" or the like 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 present invention. 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 present invention 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 invention, the scope of which is defined by the claims and their equivalents.

Claims (11)

1. An air conditioner, comprising:

the water receiving tray is provided with a supporting structure;

the water pumping wheel is sleeved outside the driving shaft, and the driving shaft is arranged on the supporting structure so that the supporting structure supports the driving shaft;

the driving piece is suitable for being connected with the driving shaft to drive the water fetching wheel to rotate so as to spray liquid in the water receiving disc to the condenser of the air conditioner.

2. The air conditioner as claimed in claim 1, wherein the support structure includes a first support structure which is located on a side of the paddling wheel remote from the driving member and supports the driving shaft in an axial direction of the driving shaft.

3. The air conditioner of claim 2, wherein the first support structure defines a mounting hole into which the drive shaft is inserted.

4. The air conditioner of claim 2, wherein the first support structure is provided on an inner surface of the sidewall of the drip tray.

5. The air conditioner of claim 2, wherein the support structure further comprises: and the second supporting structure is positioned on one side of the water beating wheel close to the driving piece and supports the driving shaft along the axial direction of the driving shaft.

6. The air conditioner of claim 5, wherein the second support structure is provided with a limit groove at an end portion thereof adjacent to the driving shaft, and the driving shaft is mounted in the limit groove.

7. The air conditioner according to claim 5, wherein the first support structure is provided on an inner surface of a side wall of the water pan, a support wall is provided in the water pan and is disposed opposite to the side wall on which the first support structure is provided, a water-fetching space is formed between the support wall and the side wall, the water-fetching wheel is located in the water-fetching space, and the second support structure is provided on the support wall.

8. An air-conditioner according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the support structure is integrally formed with the water-tray.

9. An air conditioner according to any one of claims 1 to 7 wherein the drive shaft is rotatably mounted to the support structure.

10. The air conditioner according to claim 6, wherein the first support structure defines a mounting hole for mounting the driving shaft, and the mounting hole and the stopper groove are disposed correspondingly in an axial direction of the driving shaft.

11. The air conditioner as claimed in claim 6, wherein the driving shaft is constructed as a hollow shaft, and the output end of the driving member is installed in the driving shaft to be fixedly connected with the driving shaft.

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