ES2223303B1 - CLIMATE CONTROL TEAM. - Google Patents

Abstract

Air conditioning equipment with an evaporator through which an air current (X) is passed and in which condensation water is formed, and with a collector tank (21) located removable in the air conditioning equipment, and which collects the Condensation water flowing from the evaporator (7) in which a drip protection device (39) is provided that collects the condensation water when the collection tank (21) has been taken out of the air conditioning equipment.

Description

HVAC equipment

The invention relates to a team of air conditioning with an evaporator through which a air flow and in which condensation water is formed, which drips in a collection gutter that conducts water from condensation to a collecting tank. The collecting tank is removably located in the air conditioning equipment.

From WO 93/14353 a known portable dehumidifier of this species with a bottom plate horizontal on which an intermediate wall is arranged vertical. The dehumidifier carries a collecting tank for water of condensation, which can be removed from the dehumidifier to empty it When the collecting tank is removed, a system of command leaves the dehumidifier out of service.

The objective of the present invention is to present an air conditioning equipment in which it is collected in a way Condensation water safe.

The objective of the invention is solved by an air conditioning unit that presents the characteristics of the claim 1. According to the characterizing part of the claim 1, the air conditioning equipment has a system anti-drip protection, which collects water from condensation dripping from the collection gutter when he Collector tank has been taken out of the air conditioning equipment. This way you can be sure that even when you are removed the collecting tank will not distribute condensation water within the air conditioning equipment.

Protection device anti-drip can be conveniently arranged before the collecting tank, in the direction of dripping water of condensation. In this way, condensation water can be driving simply, by the effect of gravity, from the drip protection device to the tank manifold.

According to an advantageous embodiment the drip protection device may be arranged mobile between a first and a second position of job. In its first working position, the device drip protection collects water from condensation dripping from the evaporator. In the second position of work, the drip protection device is It can be advantageously emptied into the collection tank. This guarantees that the protection device anti-drip is completely empty when it comes back to put back in the first working position. In this way the drip protection device can collect a fairly large amount of condensation water without I got to overflow.

According to a special embodiment, the air conditioning equipment can have a drain pipe of the water through which the condensation water collected in the drip protection device is driven outside the air conditioning equipment. The user can choose so whether the condensation water is conducted from the device drip protection to the collecting tank or if You have to drive outside the air conditioning equipment. It is advantageous that the water drain pipe can be closed optionally by means of a closing element. In this case, the water of Condensation is conducted to the collecting tank.

It is especially advantageous that between evaporator and protection device anti-drip a collection channel is arranged of condensation water. Through the collection channel, the water condensation leads to the protection device anti-drip Therefore it is necessary that the drip protection device is extended by under the entire evaporator to collect the condensation water Let it drip.

Protection device anti-drip can advantageously present a manual drive section, by which they can be adjusted manually the working positions of the protection device anti-drip The user can choose therefore freely between the two working positions of the device drip protection

Protection device anti-drip may preferably be subject to Direct way to the condensation water collection channel. From this way, the protection device anti-drip can be easily aligned with a  exit hole of the collection channel, during the same manufacturing phase

For reasons of space it is especially convenient for the protection device anti-drip can be moved with one movement tilting between work positions. Through movement tilting, drip protection device you can change in a simple way, as for the technique of manufacturing, between their work positions. In this case, the water drainage duct can form one of the pivot axes of the drip protection device.

In another embodiment of the invention, the drip protection device can be placed automatically in its first working position when the collecting tank Correspondingly, when placing the deposit collector, the drip protection device is You can automatically put in your second work position, in which condensation water flows directly to the reservoir manifold.

In another embodiment of the invention, the drip protection device may be made as a closure plug, which seals one of the tracks of the condensation water to the collecting tank.

The attached figures describe a Example of embodiment of the invention. These can be seen:

Figure 1 in a perspective view, a team of air conditioning performed as a dehumidifier.

Figure 2 in a perspective view, a collection gutter, and

Figure 3 in a perspective view, a drip protection device.

In Figure 1 a air dehumidifier with a housing 1 indicated with line of strokes and points. An interior space of the housing 1 is subdivided by a vertical intermediate wall 3 in a section of anterior space 4 and a section of posterior space 5. In the anterior space section 4 is an evaporator 7 and a capacitor 9, indicated with dashed line and dots. He evaporator 7 and condenser 9 are directly located one behind the other, supported by a horizontal mounting plate 11. The mounting plate 11 is hooked approximately midway on the intermediate wall 3. Under mounting plate 11 is find a space for the compressor, with a compressor 13. The compressor 13 is conventionally connected to the evaporator 7 and the condenser 9 by means of coolant lines not represented and together with them a circuit of essentially closed refrigerant. The compressor 13 and the wall intermediate 3 are mounted on a bottom tray 15 of the air dehumidifier On the underside of the bucket of the bottom 15 wheels 16 are fixed.

In the rear space section 5 of the space inside the housing there is a blower 17 mounted on the wall intermediate 3. Blower 17 is in fluid communication with the anterior space section 4, through an air passage 19 in the intermediate wall 3. During the operation of the dehumidifier of air is therefore conducted a stream of air X, through of an air inlet, not drawn, in housing 1, first to through the evacuator 7 and then through the condenser 9. Through an air outlet formed in the housing 1, no drawn, blower 17 expels dehumidified air out of the housing 1.

Under the blower 17 is a reservoir collector 21 supported on the bottom tray 15. On its walls lateral, the collecting tank 21 has recesses 23 that They constitute the handles for the user. The collection tank 21  can therefore be removed from the air dehumidifier in the direction of arrow Y. An upper face of the collecting tank 21 it's open.

The collecting tank 21 carries on a wall lateral a water inlet 26, open upwards. The entrance of water 26 penetrates the corresponding recess 27 of the wall intermediate 3. Water inlet 26 of collecting tank 21 is arranged below and exactly in front of an exit hole 29 of the mounting plate 11. According to Figures 1 and 2, the Mounting plate 11 carries a raised peripheral side edge 31. At the bottom of the tray of the mounting plate 11 is formed a recess 31 as a gutter, which runs tilted in the direction towards the exit hole 29.

The mounting plate 11 represented in the Figures 1 and 2 is made as an injected piece of plastic, on whose underside are support sections formed 35, 37. Support sections 35, 37 hold a bucket of Pickup 39, which serves as a protection device anti-drip The collection tray 39 is arranged tilting between the outlet hole 29 of the mounting plate 11 and the water inlet 26 of the collecting tank 39. For support tilting, the collection tray 39 has some stumps of axial steering support, 41, 43. These are subject to the corresponding support sections 35, 37 and can swing around the axis of rotation S. The support dies 41, 43 are formed on the side walls 42 of the collection tray 39, axially opposite.

One of the support dies 43 extends outside of the housing 1 through a hole in the housing, which is not represented. The support stump 43 is provided at its end free of a drive disk 45, which allows tipping manual of the collection tray 39. The opposite support stump 41 located inside the housing is made with the corresponding turn stops 47. Turn stops 47 can fit into the corresponding interlocking housings 49 in the support section 37. In this way, the collection tray 39 it can be rotated 180 ° by means of the drive disc 45. The stump of support 43 extending outside the housing 1, is made as a hollow cylinder and in combination with an outlet hole of the condensation water 51, made in a side wall 42 of the collection tray 39. The support stump 43 therefore forms a water drainage pipe through which water from Condensation is conducted outside the collection bucket. At free end of the support stump 43 a tube of sewer system.

During the operation of the dehumidifier of air, blower 17 drives the air stream X through the evaporator 7, which cools the air stream X. In this way, the water from the air stream X is condensed in the evaporator 7, with which dehumidifies the air flow X. Then it is it passes the air stream X through the condenser 9, where It warms up again. The air stream X is then ejected outside the housing of the dehumidifier 1 by means of the blower 17. Condensation water dripping from evaporator 7 is collected by means of the channel-shaped recess 33, on the mounting plate 11 and leads to the water outlet orifice 29.

In Figure 1, the collection tray 39 is represented in your first work position 1, in which your face upper open is oriented towards the exit hole of the water 29 of the mounting plate 11. In this case, the water from condensation drips from the water outlet hole 29 of the mounting plate 11 to collection tray 39 until it is totally full. When the collection tray 39 is fully full, condensation water overflows and continues to drip into the collecting tank 21, which is in the drip direction directly below the collection tray 39.

The collection tank 21 must be removed periodically dehumidifier to empty it, mainly If you work on a permanent basis. Before taking out the deposit collector 21 outside the dehumidifier, the user can first rotate the collection bowl 39 ° 180 °, using the disc drive 45, to a second working position II indicated in Figure 1 with dashed line and dots. In the second position Working II, the condensation water collected in the bucket of Pickup 39 is poured into the collecting tank 21. This ensures that when you put the collection tray 39 back into the First work position 1, be completely emptied.

When removing the collecting tank 21, the Dehumidifier automatically goes out of service. But for a certain time after the stop, it will continue condensing a part of the water from the air in the evaporator 17, and it will be led through the channel-shaped recess 33 towards the outlet hole 29 of the mounting plate 11.

When the collection tank 21 is removed, prevents condensation water from dripping from: the orifice output 29 to bottom tray 15, as follows. He user rotates the collection tray 39 of the second position of work II to the first work position I. In the first working position I, the condensation water drips directly to the collection tray 39, without reaching the bottom plate 15. Only in the case that, when the collecting tank is removed 21, the collection bowl 39 becomes overflowing, the water from condensation that overflows is collected in the bottom bucket 15. By placing the collecting tank 21 in the dehumidifier you can turn the collection tray 39 to the second working position, to empty it

As shown in Figure 1, the duct exit formed by the support stump 43 is closed by a sealing element 53. When removing the sealing element 53, the condensation water accumulated in the collection bowl 39 is you can take out the dehumidifier through the duct exit 43, without condensation water reaching the tank collector 21.

In an alternative embodiment, the collecting tank 21 may have a drag section that it can act together with the collection tray 39 in the form next. When removing the collecting tank 21, the drag section of the collection tank 21 makes contact with the collection tray 39. In this way, the drag section moves the collection tray 39 automatically to the first working position I. To the conversely, when placing the collection tank 21 in the dehumidifier, the drag section moves the collection bowl 39 automatically to your second work position II in which the collection tray 39 is automatically emptied into the tank collector 21.

Claims (13)

1. Air conditioning equipment with an evaporator (7), through which an air current (X) passes and in which condensation water is formed, the condensation water being conducted by means of a collection device (33) to a collecting tank (21), located removable in the air conditioning equipment, characterized in that the air conditioning equipment has a drip protection device (39) that collects the condensation water when the collecting tank (21) is taken out of the equipment of air conditioning. 2. Air conditioning equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that the drip protection device (39) in the working position (II) conducts the collected condensation water to the collection tank (21). 3. Air conditioning equipment according to one of claims 1 or 2, characterized in that the air conditioning equipment has a drain line (43) that conducts the condensation water collected by the drip protection device (39) out of the air conditioning equipment. air conditioning. 4. Air conditioning equipment according to claim 3, characterized in that the air conditioning equipment has a sealing element (53) for opening or closing the drain line (43). 5. Air conditioning equipment according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the drip protection device (39) is located in front of the collecting tank (21), in the direction of dripping. 6. Air conditioning equipment according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the drip protection device (39) is made as a collection tray to collect the condensation water. 7. Air conditioning equipment according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the drip protection device (39) has an operating section (45) to be able to manually adjust the working positions. 8. Air conditioning equipment according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the drip protection device (39) is secured in the collection channel (33). 9. Air conditioning equipment according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the drip protection device (39) is pivotally supported between the working positions (I, II). 10. Air conditioning equipment according to claim 9, characterized in that the drain line (43) of the drip protection device (39) forms a rotation axis (S) of the drip protection device (39). 11. Air conditioning equipment according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the drip protection device (39) is automatically placed in a first working position (I) to collect the condensation water, when the collecting tank is removed ( twenty-one). 12. Air conditioning equipment according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the drip protection device (39) is automatically placed in a second working position (II) to conduct the condensation water to the collecting tank (21), when the collecting tank (21) is placed in the air conditioning equipment. 13. Air conditioning equipment according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the drip protection device (39) is made as a closure plug that seals one of the condensation water pathways to the collecting tank.