CN106765590B

CN106765590B - Air conditioner indoor unit and air conditioner

Info

Publication number: CN106765590B
Application number: CN201710036883.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 覃强
Original assignee: Midea Group Co Ltd; Midea Group Wuhan Refrigeration Equipment Co Ltd
Current assignee: Midea Group Co Ltd; Midea Group Wuhan Refrigeration Equipment Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-01-18
Filing date: 2017-01-18
Publication date: 2022-06-03
Anticipated expiration: 2037-01-18
Also published as: CN106765590A

Abstract

The invention discloses an air-conditioning indoor unit and an air conditioner, wherein the air-conditioning indoor unit comprises: the top plate is provided with an air inlet; the air inlet grille is arranged at the air inlet; a panel having a closed position closed relative to the top panel and an open position open relative to the top panel; a rotating assembly including a mounting member and a sliding arm; the mounting piece is fixed with the top plate and is provided with a sliding chute which is convex backwards from top to bottom and extends in an arc shape; the shape of the sliding arm is matched with that of the sliding groove, the first end of the sliding arm is connected with the face shell, and the second end of the sliding arm is positioned in the sliding groove; the sliding arm is slidably engaged with the sliding slot to rotate the face shell between the closed position and the open position. According to the technical scheme, the face shell capable of being opened in a rotating mode is used, so that the process that the air duct structure to be disassembled is exposed in the cleaning process of the air duct structure is simplified, and the convenience in cleaning the air duct structure is improved.

Description

Air conditioner indoor unit and air conditioner

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of air conditioners, in particular to an air conditioner indoor unit and an air conditioner.

Background

After the air conditioner indoor unit is used for a long time, dust is easily accumulated in the air duct structure, and the air quality of air supplied by the air conditioner indoor unit is reduced, so that the air duct structure needs to be cleaned frequently; usually, the holding intracavity of the casing of air conditioning indoor set is located to the wind channel structure, must demolish the face-piece that is located the holding chamber front portion, just can accomplish the dismantlement of wind channel structure, and among the prior art, the face-piece generally passes through buckle or screw lock with other parts of casing and attaches the connection, and it is more loaded down with trivial details with the installation process to dismantle, has increased wind channel structure and has dismantled and install the required time, has just also influenced wind channel structure abluent efficiency and convenience to a certain extent.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention mainly aims to provide an air conditioner indoor unit, and aims to solve the problem that a face shell is complex to disassemble when an air duct structure needs to be cleaned.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an indoor unit of an air conditioner, comprising:

the face frame comprises a top plate, and an air inlet is formed in the top plate;

the air inlet grille is arranged at the air inlet;

the panel is provided with a closed position closed relative to the panel frame and an open position opened relative to the panel frame;

a rotating assembly comprising a mounting member and a sliding arm; the mounting piece is fixed with the top plate and is provided with a sliding chute which is convex backwards from top to bottom and extends in an arc shape; the shape of the sliding arm is matched with that of the sliding groove, the first end of the sliding arm is connected with the face shell, and the second end of the sliding arm is positioned in the sliding groove; the sliding arm is slidably engaged with the sliding slot to rotate the face shell between the closed position and the open position.

Preferably, the mounting part comprises a mounting box with one open side and a mounting cover covering the open side of the mounting box; the sliding groove is formed between the mounting box and the mounting cover.

Preferably, the wall surface of the mounting box facing the mounting cover is provided with two parallel first convex ribs, the surface of the mounting box facing the mounting cover is provided with two second convex ribs corresponding to the two first convex ribs, and the two first convex ribs and the two second convex ribs are enclosed to form the sliding groove.

Preferably, a limiting portion is convexly arranged on the circumferential surface of the second end of the sliding arm, and a stopping portion stopping the limiting portion is convexly arranged on the wall surface of the sliding groove.

Preferably, the face frame is still including locating perpendicularly the fixed plate of roof left and right sides, the box bottom laminating of mounting box the medial surface of fixed plate is fixed.

Preferably, the sliding arm is detachably connected with the panel of the face shell.

Preferably, the panel is provided with a fixed buckle, the second end of the sliding arm is provided with a hollow insertion part, the insertion part faces the end face of the panel and is provided with a slot for inserting the fixed buckle, and an elastic clamping piece clamped with the fixed buckle is arranged in the slot.

Preferably, the sliding groove is arc-shaped, and an arc center angle of the sliding groove is larger than a rotation angle of the face shell between the closed position and the open position.

Preferably, in the up-down direction, the arc center of the chute is lower than the air inlet grille, the panel is horizontally arranged when the panel shell is in the open position, and the inner side surface of the panel is adjacent to the upper side surface of the air inlet grille.

The invention also provides an air conditioner, which comprises an air conditioner outdoor unit and an air conditioner indoor unit, wherein the air conditioner indoor unit comprises:

the air inlet grille is arranged at the air inlet;

a rotating assembly including a mounting member and a sliding arm; the mounting piece is fixed with the top plate and is provided with a sliding chute which is convex backwards from top to bottom and extends in an arc shape; the shape of the sliding arm is matched with that of the sliding groove, the first end of the sliding arm is connected with the face shell, and the second end of the sliding arm is positioned in the sliding groove; the sliding arm is slidably engaged with the sliding slot to rotate the face shell between the closed position and the open position.

According to the technical scheme, the rotating assembly is arranged between the face shell and the top plate of the face frame and comprises the sliding groove which extends in an arc shape and is convex from top to bottom and the sliding arm which is matched with the sliding groove to slide in the sliding groove, so that the face plate of the face shell can be opened in a rotating mode relative to the top plate under the guiding of the sliding arm, and the air duct structure is exposed for a user to detach.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the structures shown in the drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of an indoor unit of an air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the rotating assembly of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged schematic view at A in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is an exploded view of the rotating assembly of FIG. 2 from another perspective;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged schematic view at B in FIG. 4;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of the air conditioning indoor unit of fig. 1 from another view angle;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged schematic view at C of FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a schematic structural view of the front cover of FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 is an enlarged schematic view at D of FIG. 8;

fig. 10 is a front view of the air conditioning indoor unit of fig. 1;

FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view taken along line XI-XI in FIG. 10;

fig. 12 is an enlarged schematic view at E in fig. 11.

The reference numbers illustrate:

the implementation, functional features and advantages of the objects of the present invention will be further explained with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

It should be noted that, if directional indications (such as up, down, left, right, front, and back … …) are involved in the embodiment of the present invention, the directional indications are only used to explain the relative positional relationship between the components, the movement situation, and the like in a specific posture (as shown in the drawing), and if the specific posture is changed, the directional indications are changed accordingly.

In addition, if there is a description of "first", "second", etc. in an embodiment of the present invention, the description of "first", "second", etc. is for descriptive purposes only and is not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In addition, technical solutions between various embodiments may be combined with each other, but must be realized by a person skilled in the art, and when the technical solutions are contradictory or cannot be realized, such a combination should not be considered to exist, and is not within the protection scope of the present invention.

The invention provides an indoor unit of an air conditioner.

In an embodiment of the present invention, referring to fig. 1 and 2, the air conditioning indoor unit includes:

the face frame 1 comprises a top plate 11, and an air inlet is formed in the top plate 11;

the air inlet grille 2 is arranged at the air inlet;

the panel shell 3 comprises a panel 31 arranged at the front part of the air-conditioning indoor unit, and the panel 31 has a closed position closed relative to the panel frame 1 and an open position opened relative to the panel frame 1;

a rotating assembly 4 including a mounting member 41 and a slide arm 42; the mounting member 41 is fixed to the top plate 11, and the mounting member 41 is provided with a sliding groove 411 which is protruded from top to bottom in an arc shape and extends backwards; the shape of the sliding arm 42 is matched with that of the sliding groove 411, a first end of the sliding arm 42 is connected with the face shell 3, and a second end of the sliding arm is positioned in the sliding groove 411; the slide arm 42 is slidably engaged with the slide slot 411 to rotate the face housing 3 between the closed position and the open position.

Specifically, the air-conditioning indoor unit further comprises a back frame arranged at the rear part of the air-conditioning indoor unit, the top end of the back frame is connected to the face frame 1, and a heat exchanger 5 and an air duct structure 6 which are positioned in an accommodating cavity formed by the back frame (not shown), the face frame 1 and the face shell 3 in an enclosing mode; in addition, the face shell 3 also comprises an arc-shaped plate 34, a horizontal plate 33 and two side plates 32; when closed position, panel 31 is located the place ahead of heat exchanger 5 and wind channel structure 6, and arc 34 connects in the bottom of panel 31 and is the arc extension of forward convexity from top to bottom, and horizontal plate 33 connects in the bottom of arc 34 and is the level setting, and the both sides of panel 31 are located to both sides board 32 branch, and the left and right sides edge of connecting panel 31, arc 34 and horizontal plate 33 respectively is "L type" setting.

In this embodiment, two rotating assemblies 4 are provided and are respectively arranged on two sides of the air inlet grille 2; in addition, the first ends of the two sliding arms 42 are respectively connected to the left and right ends of the panel 31 to maintain the stability of the panel 31 during the rotation process, but the first ends of the sliding arms 42 may also be respectively connected to the two side plates 32 in other embodiments.

It can be understood that, in the closed position, the front side, the lower side, the left side and the right side of the air duct structure 6 are integrally formed by the face shell 3, and when the sliding arm 42 slides in the sliding slot 411 and moves along the arc track relative to the face frame 1, the face shell 3 is guided to rotate upwards to be opened, and the open position is reached, and the front side, the lower side, the left side and the right side of the air duct structure 6 are avoided, so that the air duct structure 6 can be detached.

According to the technical scheme, the rotating assembly 4 is arranged between the face shell 3 and the top plate 11 of the face frame 1, the rotating assembly 4 comprises the sliding groove 411 which is in an arc shape and extends from top to bottom and the sliding arm 42 which is matched with the sliding groove 411 in a sliding mode, so that the face plate 31 of the face shell 3 can be opened in a rotating mode relative to the top plate 11 under the guiding of the sliding arm 42, and the air duct structure 6 is exposed for a user to detach.

Further, referring to fig. 2 to 5, the mounting member 41 includes a mounting box 412 with one side open and a mounting cover 413 covering the opening of the mounting box 412; the slide slot 411 is formed between the mounting box 412 and the mounting cover 413.

Specifically, the front end of the mounting box 412 is further provided with a sliding opening for the sliding arm 42 to enter and exit in the sliding slot 411; in this embodiment, the inner wall of the mounting box 412 facing the mounting cover 413 is provided with a plurality of screw holes, the surface of the mounting cover 413 is provided with a plurality of screw holes corresponding to the screw holes, and the screw penetrates through each corresponding screw hole and screw hole, so as to realize the fixed connection between the mounting box 412 and the mounting cover 413.

It will be appreciated that the mounting member 41 is provided in two parts which are removable to facilitate mounting and removal of the slide arm 42 from the mounting member 41. It should be noted that the present invention is not limited thereto, and in other embodiments, the mounting member 41 may also be integrally disposed; in addition, the slide slot 411 may also be formed on the outer surface of the mounting member 41.

Furthermore, two parallel first ribs 412a are disposed on the wall surface of the mounting box 412 facing the mounting cover 413, two second ribs 413a corresponding to the two first ribs 412a are disposed on the surface of the mounting cover 413 facing the mounting box 412, and the two first ribs 412a and the two second ribs 413a enclose to form the sliding slot 411.

Specifically, the two first ribs 412a extend from the top end of the mounting box 412 in an arc shape protruding rearward toward the sliding opening, similarly, the two second ribs 413a are disposed corresponding to the extending direction of the first ribs 412a, and when the mounting box 412 is covered by the mounting cover 413, the two second ribs 413a abut against the two first ribs 412a to form the sliding groove 411.

It can be understood that the manner of forming the sliding slot 411 by providing the first rib 412a and the second rib 413a is simple and convenient, and the structural stability of the formed sliding slot 411 is strong. It should be noted that, the design is not limited thereto, in other embodiments, a first arc-shaped groove is concavely disposed on the wall surface of the mounting box 412 facing the mounting cover 413, a second arc-shaped groove corresponding to the first arc-shaped groove is concavely disposed on the surface of the mounting box 413 facing the mounting box 412, and the first arc-shaped groove and the second arc-shaped groove form the sliding groove 411.

Further, a limiting portion 421 is convexly provided on a circumferential surface of the second end of the sliding arm 42, and a stopping portion 411a for stopping the limiting portion 421 is convexly provided on a wall surface of the sliding slot 411.

In this embodiment, the limiting portion 421 is a limiting block protruding from the left and right sides of the second end of the sliding arm 42, and the stopping portion 411a is a stopping plate disposed at the edge of the sliding opening of the sliding slot 411; of course, the invention is not limited to this, and in other embodiments, the limiting portion 421 may also be a limiting protrusion protruding from the peripheral surface of the second end of the sliding arm 42, and the stopping portion 411a is a stopping flange protruding from the wall surface of the sliding slot 411.

It can be understood that, with such an arrangement, when the second end of the sliding arm 42 slides to the sliding opening, the stop plate blocks the limiting block, so as to effectively prevent the sliding arm 42 from sliding out of the sliding slot 411 through the sliding opening, which results in the failure of the sliding connection between the two.

Further, referring to fig. 6 and 7, the face frame 1 further includes fixing plates 12 vertically provided on both left and right sides of the top plate 11, and the mounting box 412 is fixed by being attached to inner side surfaces of the fixing plates 12.

In this embodiment, the surface of the mounting cover 413 deviating from the mounting box 412 is connected to the left and right ends of the air inlet grille 2; it can be understood that, so set up, the installation of mounting box 412 is more firm and be difficult for receiving the external world and collide with, has improved rotating assembly 4's structural stability and safety in utilization.

Further, the slide arm 42 is detachably connected to the face plate 31 of the face case 3.

It will be appreciated that the arrangement is such that the slider arms 42 can be removed from the face housing 3, facilitating replacement and cleaning of the slider arms 42 should the slider arms 42 become damaged or dirty. The connection between the sliding arm 42 and the panel 31 of the face housing 3 is achieved, for example, but not limited to, by means of a snap, screw lock, or the like.

Further, referring to fig. 8 and 9, a fixing buckle 311 is disposed on the panel 31, referring to fig. 3 and 5, a hollow insertion portion 422 is disposed at the second end of the sliding arm 42, a slot 422a for inserting the fixing buckle 311 is disposed on an end surface of the insertion portion 422 facing the panel 31, and an elastic clamping member 423 clamped with the fixing buckle 311 is disposed in the slot 422 a.

In this embodiment, the outer wall surface of the insertion part 422 is provided with a semi-surrounding channel 422b penetrating through the insertion slot 422a, the channel 422b surrounds to form an elastic arm 423a of the elastic clamping piece 423, and the outer side of the elastic clamping piece 423 is provided with a handle 423 c.

Specifically, the elastic arm 423a is provided with a buckle part 423b protruding inward toward the insertion slot 422a, and the circumferential surface of the fixing buckle 311 is provided with a buckle slot 311a in a concave manner; during installation, the fixed buckle 311 is inserted into the insertion slot 422a, and the free end of the fixed buckle 311 passes over the buckling part 423b of the elastic arm 423a, so that the buckling part 423b of the elastic arm 423a is buckled with the buckling slot 311a of the fixed buckle 311, and during disassembly, the elastic arm 423a can be deformed outwards only by pulling the handle 423c outside the elastic buckling piece 423a outwards, and the buckling part 423b moves outwards under the guidance of the elastic arm 423a and is separated from the buckling slot 311a, thereby completing tripping.

It can be understood that the snap connection is a detachable connection mode widely applied in the prior art, has a simple structure and is convenient to connect, and the snap connection can effectively improve the convenience of detachment between the sliding arm 42 and the panel 31 in the embodiment.

Further, referring to fig. 10 to 12, the sliding slot 411 is arc-shaped, and an arc center angle of the sliding slot 411 is larger than a rotation angle of the face housing 3 between the closed position and the open position.

Specifically, the second end of the sliding arm 42 starts to slide from the starting end of the sliding slot 411 departing from the sliding port, the arc center angle of the sliding slot 411 is α, and the rotation angle of the face shell 3 between the closed position and the open position is β; it will be appreciated that the limit α is greater than β, and that the sliding arm 42 has an overlapping support with the sliding slot 411 when the panel 31 is in the closed position, so as to prevent the sliding arm 42 from self-disengaging from the sliding slot 411.

Further, in the up-down direction, the arc center of the sliding slot 411 is lower than the air-inlet grille 2, when the panel shell 3 is at the open position, the panel 31 is horizontally arranged, and the inner side surface of the panel 31 is adjacent to the upper side surface of the air-inlet grille 2.

Specifically, in the up-down direction, the distance between the inner side surface of the panel 31 and the upper side surface of the air-inlet grille 2 is H; it can be understood, so set up, panel 31 rotates when arriving the open position, is the level setting, can effectively reduce H's size, considers that air conditioning indoor set generally sets up in the eminence of wall, is close to the ceiling setting, reduces the size of H and can avoid taking place to collide with between panel 31 and the ceiling better.

The present invention further provides an air conditioner, which includes an outdoor unit and an indoor unit, and the specific structure of the indoor unit of the air conditioner refers to the above embodiments.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all modifications and equivalents of the present invention, which are made by the contents of the present specification and the accompanying drawings, or directly/indirectly applied to other related technical fields, are included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. An indoor unit of an air conditioner, comprising:

the air inlet grille is arranged at the air inlet;

a rotating assembly comprising a mounting member and a sliding arm; the mounting piece is fixed with the top plate and is provided with a sliding chute which is convex backwards from top to bottom and extends in an arc shape; the shape of the sliding arm is matched with that of the sliding groove, the first end of the sliding arm is connected with the face shell, and the second end of the sliding arm is positioned in the sliding groove; the sliding arm is in sliding fit with the sliding groove so as to enable the face shell to rotate between the closed position and the open position; the sliding groove is arc-shaped, and the arc center angle of the sliding groove is larger than the rotation angle of the face shell between the closed position and the open position; in the up-down direction, the arc center of spout is less than air-inlet grille, the face-piece is in when the open position, the panel is the level setting, just the medial surface of panel is close to air-inlet grille's last side.

2. The indoor unit of an air conditioner according to claim 1, wherein the installation member includes a mounting box having an opening at one side and a mounting cover covering the opening of the mounting box; the sliding groove is formed between the mounting box and the mounting cover.

3. An indoor unit of an air conditioner as claimed in claim 2, wherein the wall of the mounting box facing the mounting cover is provided with two parallel first ribs, the surface of the mounting cover facing the mounting box is provided with two second ribs corresponding to the two first ribs, and the two first ribs and the two second ribs surround to form the sliding groove.

4. The indoor unit of claim 3, wherein a stopper is protruded from a circumferential surface of the second end of the sliding arm, and a stopper stopping the stopper is protruded from a wall surface of the sliding groove.

5. The indoor unit of claim 2, wherein the face frame further comprises fixing plates vertically disposed at left and right sides of the top plate, and a bottom of the mounting box is fixed to an inner side of the fixing plates.

6. The indoor unit of claim 1, wherein the sliding arm is detachably coupled to the panel of the cabinet.

7. The indoor unit of air conditioner as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the panel is provided with a fixing buckle, the second end of the sliding arm is provided with a hollow insertion part, the end surface of the insertion part facing the panel is provided with a slot for inserting the fixing buckle, and the slot is provided with an elastic clamping piece for clamping the fixing buckle.

8. An air conditioner characterized by comprising an outdoor unit of the air conditioner and the indoor unit of the air conditioner as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 7.