KR101460716B1 - Stand type air conditioner - Google Patents

Abstract

[0001] The present invention relates to a stand type air conditioner, and more particularly, to a stand type air conditioner having a main body having an air inlet formed at a lower circumferential side thereof and an air outlet formed at an upper portion thereof, A foreign matter separating unit for separating the foreign matter filtered by the filter from the lower side, and a purifying unit disposed above the filter, thereby providing an advantage of reducing the cost of the product.

Base, air intake, filter, cleaning unit, horizontal movement

Description

Stand type air conditioner

The present invention relates to a stand-type air conditioner, and more particularly, to a stand-type air conditioner in which a filter for filtering out foreign matter in the air to be sucked is horizontally disposed at a position higher than an air inlet, The present invention relates to a stand type air conditioner which is configured to filter out foreign matters filtered by a filter, thereby reducing the cost of the product and simplifying the internal structure.

Generally, an air conditioner is a device for cooling and heating indoor air or purifying air using a refrigerating cycle of a refrigerant composed of a compressor, a condenser, an expansion device, and an evaporator in order to create a more comfortable indoor environment for a user. Respectively.

The separate type and the integral type are the same in function but the separate type indoor and outdoor units are connected to each other by a cooling / heat radiating device installed in the indoor unit, a heat radiating / cooling and compressing device installed in the outdoor unit, To integrate the functions of the house and to open a hole in the house or to hang the device on the window.

Such an air conditioner is provided with a filter for collecting foreign matter in the air to be sucked into the air conditioner in order to protect the parts in the air conditioner as well as to purify the air in the air conditioner.

Since the filter performs the filter function by collecting the foreign substances in the air sucked into the air conditioner as described above, the amount of the foreign substances collected in the filter increases with the use period of the filter, There is a fear that the air flow passing through the air conditioner is disturbed and the function of the air conditioner is lowered. Therefore, the filter provided in the air conditioner should be replaced occasionally or cleaned to remove foreign matter collected on the filter.

Conventionally, such a cleaning operation of the filter has been performed manually, for example, by the user manually removing the water from the outside and washing the water. Recently, however, the filter has been installed with a cleaning unit operated by a simple operation method of operating the remote control key or the like So that the convenience of the user is increased.

1 is a perspective view of a conventional stand-type air conditioner. 1, the stand type air conditioner according to the related art includes a base 10 disposed on one side of a room and a main body 5 including a cabinet 20 disposed on the upper side of the base 10 ). Air inlet ports 30 are formed at lower left and right sides of the cabinet 20 so that indoor air can be sucked into the cabinet 20, The air outlet 40 is formed at an upper portion and a lower portion of the cabinet 20 so as to discharge heat-exchanged air. The air outlet 40 may include an upper air outlet 42 formed in the upper surface of the cabinet 20. A suction panel 50 and a discharge panel 60 for selectively opening and closing the air inlet 30 and the air outlet 40 are provided in the air inlet 30 and the air outlet 40, . And a front panel 90 for opening and closing the internal space of the cabinet 20 is disposed by being pivoted on the front surface of the cabinet 20.

A filter 70 is disposed inside the air inlet 30 to filter out foreign substances in the air sucked into the cabinet 20 through the air inlet 30. Each of the filters 70 is provided with a foreign matter separation unit (not shown) for separating the foreign matter filtered by the filter 70 while moving up and down along the filter 70.

However, in the stand-type air conditioner according to the related art, the cleaning unit including the foreign matter separation unit must be provided for each of the filters 70 disposed on the left and right sides of the cabinet 20, There is a problem in that the cost of the apparatus increases.

The present invention is characterized in that one filter is horizontally disposed inside the main body which is higher than an air intake port where air is sucked into the inside of the main body and one cleaning unit filters the filter while moving along the one filter And to provide a stand type air conditioner capable of reducing the cost of a product by cleaning foreign matter.

A stand-type air conditioner according to the present invention includes: a main body having an air inlet formed at a lower circumferential side thereof and an air outlet formed at an upper portion thereof; A filter disposed in the main body so as to be spaced apart from the air inlet; An internal space formed in the main body and formed between the air inlet and the filter to suck outside air; A blower disposed in the main body and allowing air in the internal space to pass through the filter and move upward; And a foreign matter separation unit moved along the filter and separating foreign matter from the filter.

The stand type air conditioner according to the present invention comprises: a main body having an air inlet formed at a lower circumferential side thereof and an air outlet formed at an upper portion thereof; A filter disposed in the main body so as to be spaced apart from the air inlet; An internal space formed in the main body and formed between the air inlet and the filter to suck outside air; A blower disposed in the main body and allowing air in the internal space to pass through the filter and move upward; And a foreign matter separating unit moving along the filter and separating foreign matter from the filter, wherein the main body comprises: a base having a plurality of air inlets; And a cabinet disposed above the base, in which the filter is disposed, and in which the internal space is formed between the filter and the base, wherein the base includes: a suction unit in which foreign matter separated from the foreign matter separation unit is sucked; And a foreign matter collecting part connected to the suction unit and storing the foreign matter collected in the suction unit.

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The stand-type air conditioner according to the present invention effectively filters out foreign substances in the air sucked through the air inlet using one filter, removes foreign matters from the air sucked into the single cleaned And the cost of the product can be greatly reduced by providing the unit.

In addition, by providing one filter and one cleaning unit, it is possible to simplify the internal space of the cabinet.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of a stand-type air conditioner according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of the stand type air conditioner 100 according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state in which the front panel 190 shown in FIG. 2 is opened. For convenience of explanation, the arrow X shown in Fig. 2 is referred to as the front-rear direction of the air conditioner 100, the arrow Y indicates the left-right direction of the air conditioner 100, The vertical direction will be described.

2 and 3, the stand type air conditioner 100 according to the present invention includes a main body 105 having an air inlet 130 formed at a lower circumferential side thereof and an air outlet 140 formed at an upper portion thereof, . More specifically, the main body 105 includes a base 110 disposed on one side of the cabinet and a cabinet 120 disposed on the base 110 in the Z direction. An internal space of a predetermined size is formed inside the cabinet 120 so that the heat exchanging part can be embedded therein.

The heat exchanging part may include a blower 170 for providing a suction force for sucking indoor air into the internal space of the cabinet 120 and for providing a toe output so that the heat-exchanged air is again discharged to the indoor side. The blower 170 is installed at a lower middle portion of the inner space of the cabinet 120. A heat exchanger (not shown) for heat-exchanging the air sucked by the blower 170 is disposed at an upper middle portion of the internal space of the cabinet 120. The air outlet 140 is formed in the upper part of the cabinet 120 to discharge the heat exchanger through the heat exchanger. The air outlet 140 may include an upper air outlet 142 formed at an upper surface of the cabinet 120. The air discharge opening 140 may be provided with a discharge panel 160 that can open and close the air discharge opening 140 by a simple operation of the user.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the base 110 shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Fig. Referring to FIG. 4, the base 110 provides a space for installing the cabinet 120, and includes a control unit (not shown) for controlling electrical components of the air conditioner 100, May be disposed.

The base 110 includes a lower plate 111 forming a bottom surface and a plurality of vertical plates 112 formed perpendicularly to the lower plate 111 . The air inlet 130 may be formed in at least one of the plurality of vertical plates 112. The cabinet 120 may be installed on the upper side of the vertical plate 112 so that the cabinet 120 may be installed on the upper portion of the base 110. [ Shielding portions 113 having a height corresponding to the height of the upper end of the vertical plates 112 may be disposed to shield the lower plate 111.

A filter 200 is horizontally disposed in the inner space of the cabinet 120 to vertically divide the inner space of the cabinet 120. The filter 200 filters foreign substances in the air sucked into the internal space of the cabinet 120 through the air inlet 130. The filter 200 may be seated on the filter support means 220 installed in the internal space of the cabinet 120. The filter 200 may be disposed at a position higher than the air inlet 130. More specifically, the filter 200 may be disposed in the interior space of the cabinet 120 at a corresponding height between the blower 170 and the air inlet 130.

5 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line A-A in Fig. 3 and 5, the filter 200 is seated on the filter supporting means 220 disposed in the inner space of the main body 105. The filter support means 220 may be formed so that a plurality of filters 200 are partitioned and seated. The filter support means 220 guides the horizontal movement of the foreign matter separating unit 300 which is one of the cleaning units to be described later disposed on the bottom of the filter 200 while seating the filter 200 . In addition, the filter support means 220 supports the filter 200 at a position higher than the air inlet 130.

A foreign matter separating unit 300 disposed in contact with the lower surface of the filter 200 and moving in the horizontal direction under the guidance of the filter supporting means 220 is disposed below the filter supporting means 220. The foreign matter separation unit 300 is disposed to be in contact with the lower surface of the filter 200, thereby separating the foreign matter filtered by the filter 200 during horizontal movement.

The foreign matter separating unit 300 communicates with a suction unit 400 for sucking foreign matter separated from the filter 200 through a connection hose 350. However, it is not absolutely necessary that the foreign matter separation unit 300 is always configured to communicate with the suction unit 400 by the connection hose 350. That is, the foreign matter separating unit 300 is installed to be horizontally moved by the guide of the filter supporting means 220, and the foreign matter separating unit 300 is arranged at a certain set point on one side of the filter supporting means 220 And may be configured to communicate with the suction unit 400 when moved. At this time, the suction unit 400 need not always operate unnecessarily, and may be configured to be operated only at the moment when the suction unit 400 is in communication with the foreign matter separation unit 300.

The suction unit 400 may be disposed on the lower plate 111 of the base 110 corresponding to the lower side of the filter 200 although not shown in the figure. The suction unit 400 is configured to communicate with the material collecting unit 500 in which the foreign substance separated by the foreign substance separating unit 300 is finally collected so that the foreign substance is sucked from the foreign substance separating unit 300 At the same time, the foreign substance collecting unit 500 collects foreign substances inhaled. The foreign matter collecting unit 500 may be disposed on the lower plate 111 of the base 110 corresponding to one side of the suction unit 400.

As described above, the filter 200 functions to filter relatively large foreign substances in the air sucked through the air inlet 130. However, fine dust or the like having small size can easily pass through the filter 200, and in particular, the filter 200 may have a problem that bacteria such as fine dust pass through without filtration. In general, the air conditioner 100 changes the indoor temperature to a comfortable temperature desired by the user according to the setting of the user. In addition, the air conditioner 100 also functions to purify the indoor air. The air conditioner 100 separately collects fine dust, It is necessary to improve the function of the air conditioner 100 to purify the air. Therefore, in the embodiment of the present invention, the fine dust that can pass through the filter 200, or the fine dust that can pass through the filter 200 (i.e., A purification unit 600 may be disposed to remove harmful components such as bacteria and the like, and may comprise a combination of a plurality of filters such as a heparin filter or an antibacterial filter.

The stand type air conditioner 100 according to the present invention may be configured such that one filter 200 or one purifier unit 600 is horizontally disposed in the internal space of the cabinet 120, Since only one foreign substance separating unit 300, a suction unit 400, a foreign substance collecting unit 500 and a connecting hose 350 for communicating the respective components are provided for cleaning the filter 200, Thereby significantly reducing the cost of the system. Although the internal structure of the cabinet 120 is somewhat complicated as a structure for automatically cleaning the filter using a cleaning unit in the related art, the embodiment of the present invention actually has a structure of the cleaning unit on the side of the air inlet 130 So that it is possible to simplify the structure that has been conventionally complicated.

In the foregoing, a preferred embodiment of the stand-type air conditioner according to the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, it is to be understood that the embodiments of the present invention are not necessarily limited to the above-described embodiments, and that various modifications and other embodiments falling within the scope of the present invention are possible by those skilled in the art Of course. Accordingly, the true scope of the invention should be determined by the following claims.

1 is a perspective view of a conventional stand-type air conditioner,

2 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of the stand type air conditioner according to the present invention,

3 is a perspective view showing a state in which the front panel shown in FIG. 2 is opened,

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the base shown in Figs. 2 and 3,

5 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line A-A in Fig.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Fig.

100: air conditioner 105: main body

110: base 111: lower plate part

112: vertical plate 113: shielding part

120: cabinet 130: air inlet

140: air outlet 142: upper air outlet

160: Discharge panel 190: Front panel

200: filter 220: filter support means

300: Foreign matter separation unit 400: Suction unit

500: foreign matter collecting unit 600: purifying unit

Claims (5)

An air inlet formed at one side of the lower circumference and an air outlet formed at the upper side; A filter disposed in the main body so as to be spaced apart from the air inlet; An internal space formed in the main body and formed between the air inlet and the filter to suck outside air; A blower disposed in the main body and allowing air in the internal space to pass through the filter and move upward; And a foreign matter separation unit moved along the filter and separating foreign matter from the filter. The method according to claim 1, The main body includes: A base on which the air inlet is formed; And a cabinet disposed above the base, in which the filter is disposed, and the internal space is formed between the filter and the base. The method of claim 2, Wherein the plurality of air inlets are formed in the base, and the air sucked through the plurality of air inlets is introduced into the inner space and then passes through the filter. The method of claim 2, In the base, A suction unit in which foreign matter separated from the foreign matter separation unit is sucked; And And a foreign matter collecting part connected to the suction unit and storing the foreign matter collected by the suction unit. An air inlet formed at one side of the lower circumference and an air outlet formed at the upper side; A filter disposed in the main body so as to be spaced apart from the air inlet; An internal space formed in the main body and formed between the air inlet and the filter to suck outside air; A blower disposed in the main body and allowing air in the internal space to pass through the filter and move upward; And a foreign matter separation unit moved along the filter and separating foreign matter from the filter, The main body includes: A base having a plurality of air inlets; And a cabinet disposed above the base and in which the filter is disposed and in which the internal space is formed between the filter and the base, In the base, A suction unit in which foreign matter separated from the foreign matter separation unit is sucked; And a foreign matter collecting part connected to the suction unit and storing a foreign matter collected in the suction unit.

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