Air conditioner

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12467657-B2
Application number	US-202418746597-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 18, 2024
Priority date	Oct 23, 2015
Publication date	Nov 11, 2025
Grant date	Nov 11, 2025

Abstract

In an air conditioner, a drain extraction unit and a refrigerant pipe connecting unit may be disposed in a blocking region in which a discharge port is not provided so that a size of the discharge port may be secured and the discharge port may be uniformly disposed, thereby generating uniform airflow in a room. In a lower housing formed in a circular shape, some of components inside an indoor unit of the air conditioner may be disposed in a protrusion portion that protrudes from the circular housing, thereby facilitating the installation of the air conditioner. A condensate water collecting space disposed outside the housing may be provided in a drain tray, thereby efficiently preventing a leakage due to condensate water generated outside the housing. The housing, the drain tray, and the cover member of the air conditioner may be coupled by a coupling member coupled outside.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An air conditioner comprising:
a housing having a cylindrical shape; a heat exchanger, arrangeable in the housing, the heat exchanger having a cylindrical shape corresponding to the cylindrical shape of the housing; a heat insulating material arrangeable between the heat exchanger and the housing in a radial direction of the housing, the heat insulating material having a cylindrical shape corresponding to the cylindrical shape of the housing; a drain tray arrangeable below the housing, the drain tray being injection-molded; and wherein the drain tray includes coupling ribs configured to protrude upward and to couple to the heat insulating material while the drain tray is arranged below the housing and the heat insulating material to thereby couple the heat insulating material, the housing, the drain tray to each other, and wherein the coupling ribs are injection-molded with the drain tray and extend along a circumferential direction of the heat insulating material to couple to the heat insulating material along the circumferential direction of the drain tray.

2 . The air conditioner of claim 1 , wherein the heat insulating material includes a cylindrical shape, and one of the coupling ribs is an inner rib configured to protrude upward to correspond to an inner circumferential surface of the heat insulating material.

3 . The air conditioner of claim 2 , wherein the inner rib is disposed inside another one of the coupling ribs along the radial direction of the drain tray.

4 . The air conditioner of claim 2 , wherein the inner rib extends along a circumferential direction of the drain tray.

5 . The air conditioner of claim 2 , wherein the heat insulating material is disposed between the inner rib and another one of the coupling ribs along the radial direction of the housing.

6 . The air conditioner of claim 1 , wherein the drain tray includes a drain portion configured to collect water condensed on the heat exchanger, the heat insulating material includes a cylindrical shape with an area along a circumferential direction of the heat insulating material, and the drain portion along the area.

7 . The air conditioner of claim 6 , wherein the drain tray includes a drain pump operable to drain water at the drain portion, and the drain pump is disposed in the area.

8 . The air conditioner of claim 7 , wherein the drain pump is disposed outside at least one of the coupling ribs along a radial direction of the drain tray.

9 . The air conditioner of claim 1 , further comprising a wire for electrically connecting with an electronic component for driving the air conditioner, and a wire insertion part configured to fix at least a portion of the wire to the housing along a circumferential direction of the housing, and
wherein the wire insertion part is disposed outside at least one of the coupling ribs along the radial direction of the housing.

10 . The air conditioner of claim 9 , wherein the wire insertion part is disposed outside the heat insulating material in the radial direction of the housing.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Dong Yoon
• Kim Do-Hoon
• Yoon Joon-Ho
• Lee Chul Ju
• Kim Jun Woo
• Lee Bu Youn
• Lee Jung Dae
• Cho Sung-June

Classifications

• F24F2221/28

  using the Coanda effect · CPC title

• F24F13/30

  Arrangement or mounting of heat-exchangers · CPC title

• F24F13/28

  Arrangement or mounting of filters · CPC title

• F24F13/24

  Means for preventing or suppressing noise · CPC title

• F24F13/22

  Means for preventing condensation or evacuating condensate · CPC title