JP2010048502A - Indoor unit for air conditioner - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an indoor unit for an air conditioner, improved in design and low in cost. <P>SOLUTION: An indoor unit body in the indoor unit for the air conditioner includes a plurality of moving devices respectively provided near the right and left ends in the width direction to move a decorative panel in a longitudinal direction by an arm member. The decorative panel is composed of a component formed of translucent resin or translucent coating of transparent resin, and mounted to the moving devices through a plurality of longitudinal fixtures joined in close contact with the rear face near the right and left ends in the width direction and having the height dimension approximately equal to or slightly smaller than the decorative panel. The fixture includes, on the rear face side, an arm fixing part 25a to which an arm member tip part of the moving device is joined. The front face side of the fixture is directly joined to the rear face of the decorative panel 5, and the edge part, located inside the decorative panel, of the fixture is bent in circular arc or inclined sectional shape. The fixture is gradually separated from the rear face of the decorative panel 5 toward the edge part. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an indoor unit of an air conditioner, and more particularly to an indoor unit of an air conditioner having an improved decorative panel mounting structure.

  Recently, in order to display a display device such as a light emitting element disposed in a main body through a decorative panel surface only during light emission, a front panel of an indoor unit is made translucent.

  Such a translucent front panel is attached to the unit body using an attachment portion. However, when the transparency of the front panel is increased, the attachment portion provided on the back surface of the front panel is visually recognized, and the design is impaired.

  Therefore, the mounting portion is provided integrally with the design panel on the back side of the design panel so that the mounting portion is attached to the main body, the design layer is provided on the back side surface of the design panel, and at least the color is added to the design layer. And the concealment process for concealing an attachment part is given to the design panel at least in the part which opposes an attachment part among the surfaces of the front side (for example, refer patent document 1).

However, since the indoor unit described in Patent Document 1 performs a concealing process for concealing the attachment portion, the manufacturing process becomes complicated and expensive.
JP 2005-98682 A

  The present invention has been made in consideration of the above-described circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide an inexpensive indoor unit for an air conditioner with improved design.

  In order to achieve the above-described object, an indoor unit of an air conditioner according to the present invention configures a part of the appearance of an indoor unit body by closing a suction port formed on a front surface, and In an indoor unit of an air conditioner including a decorative panel that protrudes forward so as to have a gap, a plurality of units provided in the indoor unit main body near the left and right end portions in the width direction are moved in the front-rear direction by arm members. The decorative panel is composed of a translucent resin or a part translucently coated with a transparent resin, and is closely adhered to the back surface near the left and right end portions in the width direction, and the height dimension is The fixing device is attached to the moving device via a plurality of fixing devices that are substantially the same as or slightly smaller than the decorative panel. A fixing part is provided, the front side is directly joined to the back side of the decorative panel, and the end edge part on the inner side of the decorative panel of the fixing tool is formed by bending the cross-sectional shape into an arc shape or an inclined shape, and as the end part approaches It is characterized by being configured to gradually move away from the back surface of the decorative panel.

  According to the indoor unit of an air conditioner according to the present invention, it is possible to improve the design and provide an inexpensive indoor unit of an air conditioner.

  An indoor unit of an air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an indoor unit of an air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the indoor unit, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the vicinity of a fixture of the indoor unit. is there.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the indoor unit 1 of the air conditioner of the present embodiment includes an indoor unit main body 2 that constitutes a casing, and the indoor unit main body 2 is a front panel that constitutes the outline of the indoor unit 1. 3 and a rear body 4 for arranging and storing parts.

  A decorative panel 5 forming a movable panel movable in the front-rear direction is provided on the front surface of the front panel 3 so as to be movable back and forth. A front suction port 6 is opened on the back side of the decorative panel 5. On the upper surface of the front panel 3, an upper surface suction port 8 into which the upper surface grill 7 is fitted is opened. A blower outlet 10 having a louver 9 that adjusts the blowing direction in the vertical direction and the left-right direction is opened in the lower front portion of the front panel 3.

  Further, in the indoor unit body 2, an air filter 12 and an electric dust collector 13 that are appropriately cleaned by the filter cleaning unit 11 are arranged in an air passage communicating with the front suction port 6 and the upper suction port 8. An indoor heat exchanger 14 formed in an inverted V shape is disposed leeward of the electric dust collector 13.

  The indoor heat exchanger 14 has a front heat exchanger 14a through which air to be conditioned sucked from the front suction port 6 and the upper surface suction port 8 passes, and after air to be conditioned sucked mainly from the upper surface suction port 8 passes through the indoor heat exchanger 14. It is comprised from the side heat exchanger 14b.

  Further, an indoor blower 16 driven by a motor (not shown) is disposed below the indoor heat exchanger 14 in the air passage 15 between the indoor heat exchanger 14 and the outlet 10.

  The decorative panel 5 is made of a semi-transparent synthetic resin or a flat plate member that is curved in an arc shape and is made of a transparent synthetic resin.

  Therefore, in FIG. 1, the decorative panel 5 is exemplarily made transparent so that components arranged inside the indoor unit body 2, for example, the electric dust collector 13 can be visually recognized. The interior of the indoor unit body 2 cannot be visually recognized through the.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, the decorative panel 5 is attached with a moving device consisting of a pair of right and left moving mechanisms 22 and a left moving mechanism 23 having substantially the same structure for moving the decorative panel 5 forward and backward. 3 shows the right side moving mechanism 22 and FIG. 2 shows the left side moving mechanism 23.

  This moving device is not shown when viewed from the front of the indoor unit body 2 shown in FIG. 1, but the right moving mechanism 22 is installed near the right end of the front surface, and the left moving mechanism 23 is installed near the left end. The right side moving mechanism 22 and the left side moving mechanism 23 are configured to be operated in conjunction with each other.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 to 3, the right side moving mechanism 22 and the left side moving mechanism 23 include a right side driving movement mechanism 22a, a left side driving movement mechanism 23a, a right side driven movement mechanism 22b, and a left side driven movement mechanism 23b, respectively. Both drive movement mechanisms 22a and 23a are comprised by the substantially square-shaped arm member bent by the motor (not shown), and the structure by which the expansion-contraction of the front-back direction is performed by bending this arm member. It has become.

  On the other hand, the two driven moving mechanisms 22b and 23b are constituted by substantially U-shaped arm members which are held by springs (not shown) and bent in conjunction with the two drive moving mechanisms 22a and 23a. Is configured to be expanded and contracted in the front-rear direction.

  Therefore, the right and left movement mechanisms 22 and 23 are expanded and contracted in the front-rear direction by bending the arm members of the drive movement mechanisms 22a and 23a and the driven movement mechanisms 22b and 23b.

  A right fixture 24 is attached to the front end of the right moving mechanism 22 and joined to the rear side of the right side when viewed from the front side of the decorative panel 5. The front side of the decorative panel 5 is attached to the front end of the left moving mechanism 23. The left side fixing tool 25 joined to the left side portion rear surface as viewed from the side is attached.

  The right side fixing tool 24 and the left side fixing tool 25 are formed by molding resin, and are in close contact with and joined to the back surface near the left and right end portions in the width direction of the decorative panel 5, and the height dimension is substantially equal to the decorative panel 5. It has a slightly smaller vertically long shape, the front side has a plane shape substantially the same as the back side shape of the decorative panel 5, and arm fixing portions 24 a and 25 a to which the tip of the arm member of the moving device is joined on the back side. The inner edge portions 24e, 25e facing the right fixing tool 24 and the left fixing tool 25 are bent in a circular arc shape or an inclined shape, and the decorative panel is arranged toward the edge edges 24e, 25e. 5 is configured so as to be gradually separated from the back surface.

  The decorative panel 5 has a structure in which a right fixture 24 and a left fixture 25 are directly joined to the back surface in advance. In addition, this joining is performed using an engaging means such as a screw, or joining using an engaging material formed on both sides, or using an engaging means formed on both.

  The decorative panel 5 is attached to the right side moving mechanism 22 and the left side moving mechanism 23 by attaching the arm fixing parts 24a and 25a standing on the back surfaces of the right fixing tool 24 and the left fixing tool 25 to the arm fixing parts 24a. , 25a are fitted into the vertically movable right side moving mechanism fixing member 22c and the left side moving mechanism fixing member 23c formed at the front ends of the respective arm members that are fitted into the concave portions of 25a and locked.

  FIG. 4 is a view as seen from the back side of the decorative panel 5 and shows a state in which the right fixture 24 and the left fixture 25 are joined to the back of the decorative panel 5. FIG. 5 shows a joined state of the left-side fixing tool 25 along the line AA in FIG.

  In addition, since the joining state and end edge part shape of the right side fixing tool 24 are the same as the end edge part shape of the left side fixing tool 25, it demonstrates taking the left side fixing tool 25 as an example.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the end edge portion 25 e of the left side fixing tool 25 is formed in an arc shape, and in a state where the decorative panel 5 is attached to the left side fixing tool 25, it is gradually separated from the back surface of the decorative panel 5.

  Instead of forming the end edge portion 25e in an arc shape, as shown in FIG. 6, the end edge portion 25f of the left side fixing tool 25 is formed in an inclined shape so as to gradually move away from the back surface of the decorative panel 5. You may do it.

  The edge portion 25e of the left side fixing tool 25 is formed in an arc shape, and forms a shape that gradually separates from the back surface of the decorative panel 5 in a state where the decorative panel 5 is attached to the left side fixing tool 25. Thus, no shadow is visually recognized at the position p facing the edge 25e, and the design is improved.

  In addition, when the edge part 25e is not formed in circular arc shape, a black shadow is visually recognized in the position facing the edge part 25e.

  Further, by simply forming the edge portions 24e and 25e of the both-side fixtures 24 and 25 in a circular arc shape, unlike the conventional case, it is not necessary to perform a concealing process and the cost is reduced.

  Reference numeral 26 in FIG. 3 denotes a display device attached to the right fixture 24 with an attachment hole, and the display content is visually recognized through the translucent decorative panel 5 (FIG. 1).

  According to the indoor unit of the air conditioner of the present embodiment, the design is improved and an inexpensive air conditioner indoor unit is realized.

The perspective view which shows the external appearance of the indoor unit of the air conditioner which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. The longitudinal cross-sectional view which shows the internal structure of the indoor unit of the air conditioner which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. The perspective view of one fixture periphery part of the indoor unit of the air conditioner which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. The conceptual diagram seen from the back side of the decorative panel which shows the attachment state of the decorative panel used for the indoor unit of the air conditioner which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention, and a fixing tool. Sectional drawing of the AA part in FIG. 4 which shows the attachment state of the decorative panel used for the indoor unit of the air conditioner which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention, and one fixing tool. Sectional drawing of the AA part in FIG. 4 which shows the attachment state of the decorative panel used for the indoor unit of the air conditioner which concerns on other embodiment of this invention, and one fixing tool.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Indoor unit 2 Indoor unit main body 3 Front panel 4 Rear main body 5 Decorative panel 6 Front suction port 7 Upper surface grill 8 Upper surface suction port 9 Louver 10 Outlet 11 Filter cleaning unit 12 Air filter 13 Electric dust collector 14 Indoor heat exchanger 14a Front heat exchanger 14b Rear heat exchanger 15 Air passage 16 Indoor fan 22 Right side moving mechanism 22a Right side driving moving mechanism 22b Right side driven moving mechanism 22c Right side moving mechanism fixing member 23 Left side moving mechanism 23a Left side driving moving mechanism 23b Left side driven moving mechanism 23c Left side moving mechanism fixing member 24 Right side fixing tool 24a Arm fixing part 24e End edge part 25 Left side fixing tool 25a Arm fixing part 25e End edge part 25f End edge part 26 Display device

Claims (1)

In an indoor unit of an air conditioner having a decorative panel protruding forward so as to form a part of the appearance of an indoor unit main body by closing a suction port formed on a front surface and having a gap with the suction port during air conditioning operation ,
The indoor unit main body includes a plurality of moving devices that are provided near the left and right ends in the width direction and move the decorative panel in the front-rear direction by an arm member,
The decorative panel is composed of a translucent resin or a transparent resin-coated part, and is closely adhered to the back surface near the left and right end portions in the width direction, and the height dimension is substantially the same as or slightly different from the decorative panel. It is attached to the moving device via a plurality of fixtures constituting a small vertically long shape,
The fixing device includes an arm fixing portion to which a front end portion of the arm member of the moving device is bonded on the back surface side, the front surface side is directly bonded to the back surface of the decorative panel, and the edge portion inside the decorative panel of the fixing device is An indoor unit of an air conditioner, characterized in that the cross-sectional shape is bent in an arc shape or an inclined shape, and is gradually separated from the back surface of the decorative panel toward the edge.

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