EP1471311B1 - Ceiling type air-conditioner - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- the present invention is about a ceiling type air-conditioner, suitable for being installed both on concrete walls and on the inspectable panels of a false ceiling.
- This kind of air-conditioning systems comprises a mainly parallelepipedal container, inserted upside down in said cavity, for instance by pressure insertion, a fan and a heat exchanger placed inside said container.
- the fan is closed at its bottom by a rim of substantially plane and square shape, having a central opening through which, in operation condition, passes the air taken from the room to be air-conditioned.
- the fan for example of centrifugal or axial kind, sucks up the air from the room below, subsequently sending it to the heat exchanger, for example of coil kind, where the thermal exchange with the fluid circulating therein, either refrigerant fluid or water, is performed.
- the heat exchanger being interposed between the fan and the container, usually surrounds the fan so that the thermal exchange is uniformly distributed around said fan.
- the processed air is driven by the fan to the internal wall of the container, being shaped in order to create an air flow delivery conduit to four opposite and parallel in pairs outlet holes, externally obtained near each lateral edge of the rim.
- Said outlet holes allow the return of the conditioned air to the room in which it has been sucked up, at the desired and proper temperature for air-conditioning the room.
- the air-conditioning system is completed by a grid and an air filter placed above the grid, both applied on the rim at the central opening, a tank for collecting the condensate produced by the heat exchanger, placed below it, and proper deflecting blades placed along each of the aforesaid outlet holes.
- These deflecting blades have the function of guiding the air flow direction inside the room according to the temperature of the air, set on the basis of the external and internal climatic conditions.
- the deflecting blades are oriented in a substantially vertical direction in winter, when the conveyance of hot air into the room is required, while they are oriented in a substantially horizontal direction in summer for sending cold air in the room.
- the prior art provides for outlet holes connected to the conditioned air delivery conduit according to different configurations.
- a first embodiment is shown in the US patent No. 5,577,958 , in which the conditioned air delivery conduit, placed between the heat exchanger and the internal side wall of the container, has a substantially constant cross section.
- the air is slightly deflected to the air-conditioner vertical axis direction immediately before entering in the outlet hole, which has a cross sectional curved profile in the opposite direction, that is according a diverging direction from said vertical axis.
- the conditioned air is forced to make two deflections in its way to the room below, with the outlet hole maintaining constant its cross section anyway, and consequently the air volume which flows therein from the air delivery conduit.
- the inconvenience of this embodiment is related to the fact that the air outgoing from the air-conditioner is merged with the incoming air sucked up by the fan because the conditioned air outlet holes are near to the air to be conditioned inlet holes, with evident disadvantages in terms of efficiency of the system.
- Each outlet hole is completely smooth and it is placed on the end of the conditioned air delivery conduit, so that said conditioned air is forced to make a single deflection, determined by the curved profile of the outlet hole, to a diverging direction from the vertical axis of the container.
- this kind of ceiling type air-conditioner has a limitation related to the fact that the air flow is not completely distributed in a uniform way in the room to be air-conditioned, although the outlet holes are fairly distributed on the rim.
- the object of the present invention is to overcome the aforesaid limitation.
- the air-conditioner of the invention allows to distribute the conditioned air in the rooms in a more uniform way with respect of the air-conditioners of known type.
- the invention maintains separate the outlet air flow from the inlet air flow in the air-conditioner, granting optimal use conditions and high efficiencies.
- the air-conditioner of the invention is shown in Figures 1 and 2, where it is generally indicated with numeral 1, in installation condition, mounted on the ceiling S.
- Figure 2 it is noticed in particular that it comprises a container 2, inserted in a cavity (not visible) made in the ceiling S according to a vertical axis Y, and an air-conditioning unit, generally indicated with numeral 3, which comprises a fan 4 and a heat exchanger 5.
- an air-conditioning unit generally indicated with numeral 3, which comprises a fan 4 and a heat exchanger 5.
- Both the heat exchanger 5, of coil kind in this case, and the fan 4, for example of axial kind, are placed inside the container 2, with the heat exchanger 5 surrounding the fan 4, forming a central suction conduit, generally indicated with numeral 6, of the air A from the room to be air-conditioned, and a peripheral delivery conduit, generally indicated with numeral 7 and defined by the space comprised between the heat exchanger 5 and the wall 2a of the container 2, of the conditioned air A to the room to be air-conditioned.
- the air-conditioner 1 then comprises a covering rim 8 for the container 2, abutting against the ceiling S, provided with an inlet hole 9 of the air A coaxial with the central suction conduit 6 and preferably but not necessarily with four outlet holes, visible in Figure 1 and generally indicated with numerals 10, 11, 12, 13, each of them disposed on the end of the peripheral delivery conduit 7 of the air A.
- Each of the outlet holes 10, 11, 12, 13 is bounded by a couple of mutually facing longitudinal surfaces, one concave and the other convex, visible in Figure 2 for the outlet hole 12 only and indicated with numerals 12a and 12b, which send the conditioned air A in the direction diverging from the vertical axis Y.
- each concave longitudinal surface of the kind indicated with numeral 12a, comprises protuberances 14, better highlighted in Figure 1, fan-divergent to the room to be air-conditioned to mutually define directional conveying channels 15 of the conditioned air A.
- said protuberances could be present on some, for instance two or three, of the outlet holes only.
- protuberances could be placed along a portion of the length of each outlet hole only.
- the protuberances could be obtained on the convex longitudinal surface of each outlet hole instead of on the concave longitudinal surface.
- both the longitudinal surfaces of the outlet holes could have the aforesaid protuberances.
- the wall 2a of the container 2 has a connection curvature 2d between the bottom 2b and the side wall 2c, which is inclined so that the peripheral delivery conduit 7 has a width progressively increasing from the bottom 2b to each of the outlet holes 10, 11, 12, 13.
- the air-conditioner 1 comprises a grid 21 and a filter 22 of the air A to be air-conditioned, applied to the rim 8 at the inlet hole 9, with the filter 22 placed above the grid 21.
- the air-conditioner 1 of the invention is furthermore provided by a collecting sump 16, shown in Figure 2, placed below the heat exchanger 5 and used for containing the condensate produced during the thermal exchange between the air A and the thermal exchange fluid circulating in the heat exchanger 5.
- the convex longitudinal surface 12b has a mixtilinear profile formed by a curved portion 112b following the side wall 2c of the container 2 , a subsequent first rectilinear segment 212b inclined toward the ceiling S and joined to a second rectilinear segment 412b substantially parallel to the same ceiling S.
- an edge 312b on the external wall of the rim 8 is obtained, whose function, together with the second rectilinear segment 412b , is to avoid the conditioned air A outgoing from the air-conditioner 1 to be directly sent against the ceiling S, condition that causes the well known formation of evident stains on the same ceiling S.
- the air-conditioner 1 comprises four rotating blades 17, 18, 19, 20 each of them placed in the respective outlet hole 10, 11, 12, 13 parallel to the longitudinal surfaces which bound said outlet holes, mechanically or manually operable to deviate the outlet flow of the conditioned air A, as it will be better explained as follows.
- protuberances 14 are preferably but non necessarily symmetrically disposed with respect to the axis of symmetry Z of the outlet hole 12, perpendicular to the development direction X of the longitudinal surfaces 12a, 12b.
- each protuberance 14 comprises a linear portion 14a, disposed on the upper part 112a of the concave longitudinal surface 12a parallel to the axis of symmetry Z, and a portion 14b curved toward the corresponding side wall 12c, 12d of the outlet hole 12, placed on the end portion 212a of the concave longitudinal surface 12a, as it is evidenced in Figure 5.
- the fan 4 sucks up the air A from the room to be air-conditioned and sends it to the heat exchanger 5 , where the thermal exchange with the fluid circulating therein, for example refrigerant fluid of well known type or water, takes place.
- the fluid circulating therein for example refrigerant fluid of well known type or water
- the fan 4 subsequently drives the air A to the peripheral delivery conduit 7 which sends it to the outlet holes 10, 11, 12, 13 and then to the room below to be air-conditioned.
- the air A absorbs heat from the thermal exchange fluid, brought to a proper temperature, of the heat exchanger 5 .
- the rotating blades 17, 18, 19, 20 are oriented downward, in a substantially vertical position so that the air A heated by the thermal exchange fluid is rapidly sent to the room below.
- the air A transfers instead the heat to the thermal exchange fluid of the heat exchanger 5 and the rotating blades 17, 18, 19, 20 are oriented according to a substantially horizontal position, so that the cold air A is sent to the room to be air-conditioned according to a direction which is not harmful and not causes physical inconveniences to the persons present in the room.
- the presence of the protuberances 14 on the concave longitudinal surface of each of the outlet holes 10, 11, 12, 13 allows to distribute in a more uniform way the conditioned air A in the room below with respect to the air-conditioners of the prior art.
- said protuberances form directional conveying channels 15 fan-divergent to the room to be air-conditioned so that the air is spread out in said room in a more homogeneous way.
- the particular configuration of the wall 2a of the container 2, inclined toward each of the outlet holes 10, 11, 12, 13 starting from the bottom 2b, allows to rapidly send the air A, just conditioned by the heat exchanger 5, to the room below thus increasing the efficiency of the air-conditioning system of the invention.
- modifications to the air-conditioner of the invention can be provided, consisting for instance in a different shape of the protuberances on the longitudinal surfaces delimiting each of the outlet holes obtained on the covering rim.
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- The present invention is about a ceiling type air-conditioner, suitable for being installed both on concrete walls and on the inspectable panels of a false ceiling.
- It is known that the air-conditioning systems mounted on the ceiling of rooms are disposed according to a vertical direction in a cavity made in the ceiling.
- This kind of air-conditioning systems comprises a mainly parallelepipedal container, inserted upside down in said cavity, for instance by pressure insertion, a fan and a heat exchanger placed inside said container.
- The fan is closed at its bottom by a rim of substantially plane and square shape, having a central opening through which, in operation condition, passes the air taken from the room to be air-conditioned.
- In fact the fan, for example of centrifugal or axial kind, sucks up the air from the room below, subsequently sending it to the heat exchanger, for example of coil kind, where the thermal exchange with the fluid circulating therein, either refrigerant fluid or water, is performed.
- The heat exchanger, being interposed between the fan and the container, usually surrounds the fan so that the thermal exchange is uniformly distributed around said fan.
- After the thermal exchange, the processed air is driven by the fan to the internal wall of the container, being shaped in order to create an air flow delivery conduit to four opposite and parallel in pairs outlet holes, externally obtained near each lateral edge of the rim.
- Said outlet holes allow the return of the conditioned air to the room in which it has been sucked up, at the desired and proper temperature for air-conditioning the room.
- The air-conditioning system is completed by a grid and an air filter placed above the grid, both applied on the rim at the central opening, a tank for collecting the condensate produced by the heat exchanger, placed below it, and proper deflecting blades placed along each of the aforesaid outlet holes.
- These deflecting blades have the function of guiding the air flow direction inside the room according to the temperature of the air, set on the basis of the external and internal climatic conditions.
- So, for example, the deflecting blades are oriented in a substantially vertical direction in winter, when the conveyance of hot air into the room is required, while they are oriented in a substantially horizontal direction in summer for sending cold air in the room.
- The prior art provides for outlet holes connected to the conditioned air delivery conduit according to different configurations.
- A first embodiment is shown in the
US patent No. 5,577,958 , in which the conditioned air delivery conduit, placed between the heat exchanger and the internal side wall of the container, has a substantially constant cross section. - The air is slightly deflected to the air-conditioner vertical axis direction immediately before entering in the outlet hole, which has a cross sectional curved profile in the opposite direction, that is according a diverging direction from said vertical axis.
- Therefore, the conditioned air is forced to make two deflections in its way to the room below, with the outlet hole maintaining constant its cross section anyway, and consequently the air volume which flows therein from the air delivery conduit.
- The inconvenience of this embodiment is related to the fact that the air outgoing from the air-conditioner is merged with the incoming air sucked up by the fan because the conditioned air outlet holes are near to the air to be conditioned inlet holes, with evident disadvantages in terms of efficiency of the system.
- This inconvenience was solved by another ceiling type air-conditioner of known type, object of the
EP patent application No. 0 926 451 , in which the delivery conduit, even placed between the heat exchanger and the internal side wall of the container, has a cross section which gradually increases from the bottom of the container to the outlet holes of the rim, in view of the inclination of the internal side wall of the container. - Each outlet hole is completely smooth and it is placed on the end of the conditioned air delivery conduit, so that said conditioned air is forced to make a single deflection, determined by the curved profile of the outlet hole, to a diverging direction from the vertical axis of the container.
- This allows to send the conditioned air in the room to be air-conditioned, being sufficiently separated from the air entering the air-conditioner.
- However, also this kind of ceiling type air-conditioner has a limitation related to the fact that the air flow is not completely distributed in a uniform way in the room to be air-conditioned, although the outlet holes are fairly distributed on the rim.
- The object of the present invention is to overcome the aforesaid limitation.
- In particular, it is an object of the present invention to provide for a ceiling type air-conditioner which allows to distribute more uniformly the conditioned air in the room below with respect to equivalent devices of known type.
- The above mentioned object is attained by a ceiling type air-conditioner the main features of which, are according to the contents of the main claim.
- Advantageously, the air-conditioner of the invention allows to distribute the conditioned air in the rooms in a more uniform way with respect of the air-conditioners of known type.
- More advantageously, the invention maintains separate the outlet air flow from the inlet air flow in the air-conditioner, granting optimal use conditions and high efficiencies.
- Further objects and characteristics will be better highlighted in the description of a preferred embodiment of the invention given in an explanatory but not limiting way, with reference to the figures of the annexed drawings, wherein:
- Figure 1 shows the air-conditioner of the invention installed on the ceiling;
- Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the air-conditioner of Figure 1;
- Figure 3 is an axonometric view of an enlarged detail of the air-conditioner of Figure 1;
- Figure 4 is a cross section of the detail of Figure 3; and
- Figure 5 shows an enlarged detail of Figure 4.
- The air-conditioner of the invention is shown in Figures 1 and 2, where it is generally indicated with numeral 1, in installation condition, mounted on the ceiling S.
- In Figure 2 it is noticed in particular that it comprises a container 2, inserted in a cavity (not visible) made in the ceiling S according to a vertical axis Y, and an air-conditioning unit, generally indicated with numeral 3, which comprises a fan 4 and a heat exchanger 5.
- Both the heat exchanger 5, of coil kind in this case, and the fan 4, for example of axial kind, are placed inside the container 2, with the heat exchanger 5 surrounding the fan 4, forming a central suction conduit, generally indicated with numeral 6, of the air A from the room to be air-conditioned, and a peripheral delivery conduit, generally indicated with numeral 7 and defined by the space comprised between the heat exchanger 5 and the wall 2a of the container 2, of the conditioned air A to the room to be air-conditioned.
- The air-conditioner 1 then comprises a covering rim 8 for the container 2, abutting against the ceiling S, provided with an inlet hole 9 of the air A coaxial with the central suction conduit 6 and preferably but not necessarily with four outlet holes, visible in Figure 1 and generally indicated with
numerals - Each of the
outlet holes outlet hole 12 only and indicated with numerals 12a and 12b, which send the conditioned air A in the direction diverging from the vertical axis Y. - According to the invention, the entire length L of each concave longitudinal surface, of the kind indicated with numeral 12a, comprises
protuberances 14, better highlighted in Figure 1, fan-divergent to the room to be air-conditioned to mutually definedirectional conveying channels 15 of the conditioned air A. - According to other embodiments of the air-conditioner of the invention, said protuberances could be present on some, for instance two or three, of the outlet holes only.
- It is evident as well that in further executive embodiments said protuberances could be placed along a portion of the length of each outlet hole only.
- According to a further executive embodiment of the invention, the protuberances could be obtained on the convex longitudinal surface of each outlet hole instead of on the concave longitudinal surface.
- Furthermore, in another executive embodiment both the longitudinal surfaces of the outlet holes could have the aforesaid protuberances.
- With reference to the embodiment described hereby, in particular in Figure 2, the wall 2a of the container 2 has a connection curvature 2d between the bottom 2b and the side wall 2c, which is inclined so that the peripheral delivery conduit 7 has a width progressively increasing from the bottom 2b to each of the
outlet holes - Also in Figures 1 and 2 is shown that the air-conditioner 1 comprises a
grid 21 and afilter 22 of the air A to be air-conditioned, applied to the rim 8 at the inlet hole 9, with thefilter 22 placed above thegrid 21. - The air-conditioner 1 of the invention is furthermore provided by a collecting sump 16, shown in Figure 2, placed below the heat exchanger 5 and used for containing the condensate produced during the thermal exchange between the air A and the thermal exchange fluid circulating in the heat exchanger 5.
- In Figure 2 it is clearly shown that the convex longitudinal surface 12b has a mixtilinear profile formed by a curved portion 112b following the side wall 2c of the container 2, a subsequent first
rectilinear segment 212b inclined toward the ceiling S and joined to a secondrectilinear segment 412b substantially parallel to the same ceiling S. - With this constructive measure, an edge 312b on the external wall of the rim 8 is obtained, whose function, together with the second
rectilinear segment 412b, is to avoid the conditioned air A outgoing from the air-conditioner 1 to be directly sent against the ceiling S, condition that causes the well known formation of evident stains on the same ceiling S. - In the aforesaid Figures, more particularly in Figure 3, it is shown that the air-conditioner 1 comprises four
rotating blades respective outlet hole - As to the
protuberances 14, in Figure 4 it is evidenced that they are preferably but non necessarily symmetrically disposed with respect to the axis of symmetry Z of theoutlet hole 12, perpendicular to the development direction X of the longitudinal surfaces 12a, 12b. - According to the preferred embodiment of the invention described hereby, each
protuberance 14 comprises a linear portion 14a, disposed on the upper part 112a of the concave longitudinal surface 12a parallel to the axis of symmetry Z, and a portion 14b curved toward thecorresponding side wall 12c, 12d of theoutlet hole 12, placed on theend portion 212a of the concave longitudinal surface 12a, as it is evidenced in Figure 5. - It is evident that what previously explained about the
outlet hole 12 is valid for theother outlet holes - Operatively, the fan 4 sucks up the air A from the room to be air-conditioned and sends it to the heat exchanger 5, where the thermal exchange with the fluid circulating therein, for example refrigerant fluid of well known type or water, takes place.
- The fan 4 subsequently drives the air A to the peripheral delivery conduit 7 which sends it to the
outlet holes - In winter, the air A absorbs heat from the thermal exchange fluid, brought to a proper temperature, of the heat exchanger 5.
- In this case, the
rotating blades - In summer, the air A transfers instead the heat to the thermal exchange fluid of the heat exchanger 5 and the
rotating blades - In any case, the presence of the
protuberances 14 on the concave longitudinal surface of each of theoutlet holes - In fact, said protuberances form
directional conveying channels 15 fan-divergent to the room to be air-conditioned so that the air is spread out in said room in a more homogeneous way. - This is of not negligible importance especially in summer, when the cold conditioned air has not to cause particular physical inconveniences to the persons, at the same time having the function of making more pleasant and comfortable their stay in the rooms.
- The particular configuration of the wall 2a of the container 2, inclined toward each of the
outlet holes - On the basis of this disclosure, it is thus evident that the ceiling type air-conditioner of the invention achieves the object and realizes the previously mentioned advantages.
- In the executive step, modifications to the air-conditioner of the invention can be provided, consisting for instance in a different shape of the protuberances on the longitudinal surfaces delimiting each of the outlet holes obtained on the covering rim.
- All the described and cited embodiments, but not shown in the annexed drawings, should be intended as protected by the present patent if they fall in scope of protection of the following claims.
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- A ceiling (S) type air-conditioner (1) comprising:- a container (2) inserted in a cavity made in said ceiling (S) according to a vertical axis (Y);- an air-conditioning unit (3) comprising a fan (4) and a heat exchanger (5), both placed in said container (2), where they form a central suction conduit (6) of the air (A) from the room to be air-conditioned and a peripheral delivery conduit (7) of said conditioned air (A) to said room to be air-conditioned;- a covering rim (8) of said container (2), abutting against said ceiling (S), provided with an inlet hole (9) of said air (A) coaxial with said central suction conduit (6), and at least an outlet hole (10, 11, 12, 13), disposed on the end of said peripheral delivery conduit (7), bounded by two mutually facing longitudinal surfaces (12a, 12b), one concave and the other convex, able to send said conditioned air (A) in the direction diverging from said vertical axis (Y),characterized in that at least one of said longitudinal surfaces (12a, 12b) comprises many protuberances (14), fan-divergent to said room to be air-conditioned, equally spaced one from another in such a way to define a plurality of directional conveying channels (15) of said conditioned air (A).
- The air-conditioner (1) according to claim 1), characterized in that said protuberances (14) are provided along said longitudinal concave surface (12a) of said outlet hole (10, 11, 12, 13).
- The air-conditioner (1) according to claim 1), characterized in that said protuberances are provided along said longitudinal concave surface and said convex surface of said outlet hole.
- The air-conditioner (1) according to claim 1), characterized in that said protuberances (14) are disposed symmetrically with respect to the axis of symmetry (Z) of said outlet hole (10, 11, 12, 13), perpendicular to the development direction (X) of said longitudinal surfaces (12a. 12b).
- The air-conditioner (1) according to claim 4), characterized in that each of said protuberances (14) comprises a linear portion (14a), disposed on the upper part (112a) of said concave longitudinal surface (12a) parallel to said axis of symmetry (Z), and a portion (14b) curved toward the side wall (12c, 12d) of said outlet hole (10, 11, 12, 13), placed on the end portion (212a) of said concave longitudinal surface (12a).
- The air-conditioner (1) according to claim 1), characterized in that said peripheral delivery conduit (7) is defined by the space comprised between said heat exchanger (5) and the wall (2a) of said container (2).
- The air-conditioner (1) according to claim 6), characterized in that said wall (2a) of said container (2) has a connection curvature (2d) between the bottom (2b) and the side wall (2c).
- The air-conditioner (1) according to claim 7), characterized in that said side wall (2c) is inclined so that said peripheral delivery conduit (7) has a width progressively increasing from said bottom (2b) to said outlet hole (10, 11, 12, 13) of said rim (8).
- The air-conditioner (1) according to claim 1), characterized in that said heat exchanger (5) surrounds said fan (4).
- The air-conditioner (1) according to claim 1), characterized by comprising a collecting sump (16) placed below said heat exchanger (5) for containing the condensate produced during the thermal exchange between said air (A) and the thermal exchange fluid circulating in said heat exchanger (5).
- The air-conditioner (1) according to claim 1), characterized by comprising a rotating blade (17, 18, 19, 20) placed in said outlet hole (10. 11, 12, 13) parallel to said longitudinal surfaces (12a, 12b) suitable for deviating the outlet flow of said conditioned air (A).
- The air-conditioner (1) according to claim 1), characterized by comprising a grid (21) applied to said inlet hole (9) of said rim (8).
- The air-conditioner (1) according to claim 1), characterized by comprising a filter (22) of said air (A) to be air-conditioned applied to said inlet hole (9) of said rim (8).
- The air-conditioner (1) according to claim 7), characterized in that said convex longitudinal surface (12b) has, in its longitudinal section, a mixtilinear profile formed by a curved portion (112b) following said side wall (2c) of said container (2), a subsequent first rectilinear segment (212b) inclined toward said ceiling (S) and joined to a second rectilinear segment (412b) substantially parallel to said ceiling (S).
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