Discharging unit and air conditioning equipment having the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10113753-B2
Application number	US-201514923224-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 26, 2015
Priority date	Nov 27, 2014
Publication date	Oct 30, 2018
Grant date	Oct 30, 2018

Abstract

A discharging unit and air conditioning equipment having the discharging unit are provided. The air conditioning equipment includes a main body including a housing that houses a heat exchanger and a blowing fan and an inlet and an outlet formed in an outer surface of the housing, wherein interior air flows into the inlet and the air exchanged with heat is discharged through the outlet. The air conditioning equipment also includes a discharging part including an end detachably combined with the outlet. The discharging part includes a plurality of discharging units configured to adjust a discharging velocity and discharging direction of the discharged air and to be connected to one another so as to be made into a module.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. Air conditioning equipment comprising:
a main body comprising a housing that includes a heat exchanger and a blowing fan, and an inlet and an outlet formed in an outer surface of the housing, wherein air flows into the inlet, and the air exchanged with heat is discharged through the outlet; and
a discharging part comprising an end detachably combined with the outlet, wherein the discharging part comprises a plurality of discharging units configured to adjust a discharging velocity and discharging direction of the discharged air and to be connected to one another so as to be made into a module, wherein the discharging units comprise:
main ducts configured to be connected to the main body and comprising outer surfaces in which openings are formed; and
diffusers configured to be combined with the outer surfaces of the main ducts so as to rotate on the outer surfaces of the main ducts, wherein the diffusers are configured to rotate in one direction or a reverse direction to adjust opened degrees of the openings.

2. The air conditioning equipment of claim 1 , wherein the main ducts comprise connection parts configured to be formed at both ends of each of the main ducts so as to enable the plurality of discharging units to be connected to one another through the connection parts.

3. The air conditioning equipment of claim 1 , wherein the diffusers comprise closing parts configured to be formed at some parts of the diffusers so as to close the openings and connection parts configured to be formed at other parts of the diffusers so as to be connected to the openings, wherein the closing parts and the connection parts are formed along circumferences of the diffusers.

4. The air conditioning equipment of claim 3 , wherein the connection parts comprise at least two or more discharging holes having different areas.

5. The air conditioning equipment of claim 4 , wherein areas of the at least two or more discharging holes are set by distances between first and second guide ribs formed at both ends of the diffusers.

6. The air conditioning equipment of claim 1 , wherein the diffusers of the discharging units have different sizes.

7. The air conditioning equipment of claim 6 , wherein as the diffusers of the discharging units become far away from the outlet, the diffusers of the discharging units are gradually arranged based on size beginning either with a diffuser having a largest size or with the diffuser having a smallest size.

8. The air conditioning equipment of claim 1 , wherein the discharging part further comprises a cover configured to be detachably combined with another end of the discharging part.

9. The air conditioning equipment of claim 8 , wherein the cover comprises:
a case comprising at least one opening and closing hole; and
a shutter part configured to be rotatably combined with the case in order to open and close the at least one opening and closing hole.

10. The air conditioning equipment of claim 1 , wherein the discharging part further comprises an adaptor configured to be disposed between the outlet and an end of the discharging part so as to be connected to the discharging part.

11. The air conditioning equipment of claim 10 , wherein the adaptor divides a flow path of air discharged from the outlet into two or more flow paths, wherein a plurality of discharging parts are disposed to be respectively connected to the two or more flow paths.

12. The air conditioning equipment of claim 1 , wherein at least one or more outlets are formed in an upper surface or a side of the main body, wherein a plurality of discharging parts are disposed so as to correspond to a number of outlets.

13. The air conditioning equipment of claim 1 , wherein the discharging units further comprise filters configured to be disposed in the discharging units.

14. The air conditioning equipment of claim 1 , wherein the main body further comprises a humidifying unit configured to adjust humidity, wherein the humidifying unit comprises:
a water supply unit configured to be disposed on an upper surface of the main body;
a humidifying part configured to be disposed in the main body so as to convert water supplied to the water supply unit into fine water particles; and
a nozzle configured to spout the fine water particles.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Choi Sun-Muk
• Kim Sang-Hak
• Kim Jung-Ho

Classifications

• F24F1/0007

  Indoor units, e.g. fan coil units (self-contained units F24F1/02) · CPC title

• F24F2001/004

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F24F13/082

  Grilles, registers or guards · CPC title

• F24F13/065

  formed as cylindrical or spherical bodies which are rotatable · CPC title

• F24F11/79 Primary

  for controlling the direction of the supplied air · CPC title