KR100554592B1 - Air conditioner - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide an air conditioner that can easily clean a heat exchanger.

It is provided in the main body case which accommodates a heat exchanger and a blower, the intake opening part 57 provided in the intake side main body case of the said heat exchanger, the panel attached so that this intake opening 57 may be covered, and the intake opening 57 In the air conditioner provided with the air cleaner 19 which becomes a thing, the said panel was detachably attached to the main body case, and the air cleaner 19 was detachably attached to the intake opening 57. As shown in FIG.

An air conditioner having an intake opening and a main body case accommodating a heat exchanger and a blower, and a panel 3 which covers the intake opening 57 of the main body case and is detachably installed between the panel and the heat exchanger. It is provided with the air cleaner 19 provided and detachably installed covering the intake opening 57, This air cleaner 19 has the storage frame 19b which accommodates the air cleaning filter 19a, This storage frame The corner of 19b is supported by the engaging portion 66 provided at the corner of the intake opening 57.

Description

Air conditioner {AIR CONDITIONER}

The present invention relates to a structure of an air cleaner installed in an air conditioner.

The present invention relates to a structure that facilitates the cleaning of the interior of an indoor unit of an air conditioner.

Generally, the indoor unit of the air conditioner provided with the main body case which has an intake opening part in the front surface and an upper surface, the heat exchanger and a blower accommodated in this main body case, and the front panel attached to this main body case is known. The blower is disposed at an approximately central portion of the main body case, and the heat exchanger is disposed along the opening for intake, and the suction side of the heat exchanger is provided with an air filter and an air cleaning filter. And these filters prevent the dust in air from penetrating into an indoor unit (for example, refer patent document 1).

By the way, in this kind of indoor unit, the fine dust which cannot be captured by the said filter goods penetrates inside, and may adhere to the refrigerant pipe or fin of a heat exchanger. In recent years, it is required to make it possible to easily clean the dust attached to the heat exchanger, and the front panel is detachably installed (or opened and closed) with respect to the main body case, and the front panel has been removed (or When opened, it is generally configured such that one side of the heat exchanger is exposed through the intake opening.

The cleaning agent is sprayed on the exposed surface of the heat exchanger or the suction nozzles of the vacuum cleaners are faced to each other.

[Patent Document 1]

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-132371

However, in the conventional configuration, even when the front panel is removed (or opened) and the filters are removed, a storage frame for storing the air clean filter is fixedly installed in the intake opening of the main body case. There has been a problem that it is difficult to clean the heat exchanger by being fixed.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an air conditioner that can solve the problem of the conventional technology described above and can easily clean the heat exchanger.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention described in claim 1 includes: a main body case housing a heat exchanger and a blower, an intake opening provided in an intake side main body case of the heat exchanger, a panel attached to cover the intake opening, An air conditioner having an air cleaner provided in an intake opening, wherein the panel is detachably installed in the main body case, and an air cleaner is detachably installed in the intake opening.

In the invention according to claim 2, in the air conditioner according to claim 1, the air purifier has a storage frame for storing an air cleaning filter, is provided with projection members on both sides of the storage frame, and the engaging portion for sandwiching the projection member. It is provided in the intake opening part, It is characterized by the above-mentioned.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention described in claim 3 includes an air conditioner having an intake opening and a main body case accommodating a heat exchanger and a blower, and a panel which covers the intake opening of the main body case and is detachably installed. An air purifier disposed between the panel and the heat exchanger, the air purifier being detachably installed to cover the intake opening, the air purifier having an accommodating frame accommodating an air purifying filter, and an edge of the accommodating frame is formed at the edge of the intake opening. It is characterized by supporting by the coupling portion installed in the corner.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Hereinafter, one Embodiment of this invention is described with reference to attached drawing. The separate type air conditioner is constituted by an outdoor unit installed outdoors, and an indoor unit connected to the outdoor unit by a coolant tube and installed indoors, and refrigerant is circulated between the outdoor unit and the indoor unit to control air in the room.

1 is a side cross-sectional view of an indoor unit of an air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view of FIG. The indoor unit 10 includes a main body case 1, a front panel 3 and a ceiling panel 5 attached to the main body case 1. The front panel 3 has a front inlet port 4, and the ceiling panel 5 has an upper surface inlet port 6.

The main body case 1 is formed horizontally long using a plastic material or the like, and a cross flow fan (blower) 9 extending in the longitudinal direction is provided at an approximately center position in the main body case 1, and the cross flow is provided. A heat exchanger 7 is arranged between the fan 9, the front inlet port 4, and the upper surface inlet port 6.

The heat exchanger 7 is composed of three blocks, and is formed in a roughly “ku” shape and a “Λ” shape so as to surround the cross flow fan 9 from the side, so that the heat exchange efficiency does not decrease even if the indoor unit is downsized. It is supposed to be.

At the lower end of the heat exchanger 7, a drain pan 11 for receiving water condensed by the heat exchanger 7 and dripped therein is provided, and the drain pan 11 is fixed to the main body case 1.

The lower end of the main body case 1 is provided with a blowout opening 12 for blowing air-conditioned air into the room, and the blowout opening 12 has a plurality of vertical blades 13a and 13a for setting the left and right directions of the air to be blown out. ... is installed.

In addition, the main body case 1 is composed of a frame 15 covering the rear portion and a grill 17 attached to the front of the frame 15. 3 is a perspective view showing a frame, FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a grill, and FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a state where the air cleaner is removed from the grill.

3 and 4, the grill 17 includes two frame portions 51 at the rear, two left and right side plates 52 and 53, and two front plates between the two side plates 52 and 53 in front. The horizontal plates 54 and 55 and the two horizontal plates 54 and 55 and the vertical ribs 56 vertically extending from the center of the grill 17 to the upper part of the frame part 51 are integrated. It is molded into an enemy. The upper surface intake opening 57 is formed in the portion surrounded by the upper horizontal plate 54, both side plates 52 and 53 and the frame part 51, and the upper and lower horizontal plates 54 and 55 and both side plates 52, The front air intake opening 58 is formed in the part enclosed by 53, and these upper surface and the front air intake openings 57 and 58 are divided into two at right and left by the longitudinal rib 56. As shown in FIG. The above-described outlet 12 is formed at a portion of the lower portion of the grill 17 surrounded by the lower horizontal plate 55 and the frame portion 51.

In FIG. 5, two air cleaners 19 are provided on the upper and left intake openings 57 on the left and right sides. The air purifier 19 is comprised from the air purifier filter 19a and the storage frame 19b which accommodates this air purifier filter 19a, and is being fixed to the accommodating part 61 of the upper surface intake opening 57. As shown in FIG.

The storage frame 19b is provided with a lattice 62 in a horizontally long rectangular frame, and two projection members 63 and 63 are provided on both left and right sides of the storage frame 19b, respectively, and the storage frame 19b is provided. In the upper center of the handle 64 is installed. The accommodating part 61 is inclined backward, and the coupling part which consists of the support plate 66b which supports the said projection member 63 from the back and the hook 66a which presses from the front in the left and right corners of this accommodating part 61 ( 66 is installed, the lower side of the receiving frame (19b) is supported on the upper edge of the horizontal plate 54 and the projection member 63 is supported by the engaging portion 66 and fixed.

Then, the storage frame 19b is fixed to the storage portion 61 by inserting and sliding the storage frame 19b from the oblique rear upper side of the storage portion 61. Moreover, when removing the storage frame 19b from the accommodating part 61, the handle 64 can be grasped and the storage frame 19b can be slid upward and inclined.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the front panel and the ceiling panel from the front, and Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the front panel 3 and the ceiling panel 5 from the back side. An intake grating 31 extending in the width direction is formed at approximately the center of the front panel 3, and a front side air filter 33 that is horizontally long and narrow is attached to the rear surface side of the intake grating 31. . This front face part air filter 33 is separably latched by the back locking part 35 of the front face panel 3. As shown in FIG. The front panel 3 is supported with a horizontal blade 13b for setting the direction of the air to be blown out.

The ceiling panel 5 constitutes its own filter. That is, the ceiling surface panel 5 is comprised by integrating a mesh-shaped filter material in the filter frame 45 which has the some vertical rib 41 for reinforcement, and the some horizontal rib 43 for reinforcement.

In addition, these front panel 3 and the ceiling panel 5 are superimposed on the grill 17 and attached. When the front panel 3 and the ceiling panel 5 are stacked, the front panel 3 is held by both hands from the front side, and the ceiling panel 5 is the ceiling surface portion 17C of the grill 17 (Fig. 4) The front panel 3 is conveyed to the position of riding, and the front panel 3 is press-fitted to the grill 17 side from there. Then, a pair of convex portions 3A (FIG. 7) formed on the back side of the front panel 3 are engaged by the locking portion 17D (FIG. 4) of the grill 17, and then the front panel ( The front panel 3 and the ceiling panel 5 are stacked on the grill 17 by sliding a latch mechanism (not shown) provided at the lower edge portion of 3). The front panel 3 and the ceiling panel 5 are fixed to the grill 17 by fitting the lower edges of the front panel 3 to the lower ends of the grill 17. In this structure, the front panel 3 and the ceiling panel 5 are integrally connected, and are detachably attached to the grill 17 (body case 1) in this integrated state.

In this way, the front panel 3 and the ceiling panel 5 can be easily removed from the grill 17, and the storage frame 19b of the air cleaning filter 19a is detached from the grill 17. Since the heat exchanger 7 disposed behind the upper surface intake opening 57 can be greatly exposed, the heat exchanger 7 can be easily cleaned (or cleaned). In addition, the storage frame 19b can be taken to another place and can be cleaned easily.

In this way, the front panel 3 and the ceiling panel 5 can be easily detached from the grill 17, and the upper air intake opening 57 is removed by removing the air cleaner 19 from the grill 17. Since it is open | released, one surface of the intake side of the heat exchanger 7 can be largely exposed easily. Thereby, the suction nozzle of a vacuum cleaner etc. become easy to use, and cleaning (or washing | cleaning) of the heat exchanger 7 can be performed easily.

As mentioned above, although this invention was demonstrated based on one Embodiment, it is clear that this invention is not limited to this.

Although the air cleaner 19 is provided in the upper surface intake opening part 57 in this embodiment, you may provide it in the front intake opening part 58. As shown in FIG.

As described above, since the air conditioner of the present invention is provided with a detachable front panel and a storage frame of the air cleaner is detachably attached to the main body case, the air conditioner of the main body case is removed by removing the front panel and the storage frame. One surface of the heat exchanger is greatly exposed from the opening, and the heat exchanger can be cleaned very easily.

1 is a side cross-sectional view of an indoor unit of an air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of Figure 1;

3 is a perspective view showing a frame and the component parts housed in the frame;

4 is a perspective view showing a grill;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing a state where the air cleaner is removed from the grill.

6 is a perspective view of the front panel and the ceiling panel viewed from the front;

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the front panel and the ceiling panel viewed from the back side;

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

1: body case

3: front panel

4: front intake port

5: ceiling panel

6: top surface air intake

7: heat exchanger

9: cross flow fan (blower)

10: indoor unit

11: drain pan

12: outlet

13a: longitudinal blade

13b: horizontal blade

15: frame

17: grill

19: Air Purifier

19a: Air Clean Filter

19b: storage frame

33: air filter

51: frame part

52, 53: side plate

54, 55 horizontal plates

56: vertical plate

57: top intake opening

58: front intake opening

61: receiver

63: protrusion member

64: handle

66: coupling part

Claims (3)

delete delete In the air conditioner which has an intake opening and a main body case which accommodates a heat exchanger and a blower, and the panel which covers the intake opening of this main body case, and is detachably installed, An air purifier disposed between the panel and the heat exchanger, the air purifier being detachably installed to cover the intake opening, the air purifier having an accommodating frame accommodating an air purifying filter, and an edge of the accommodating frame is formed at the edge of the intake opening. Air conditioner, characterized in that supported by the coupling portion installed in the corner.