Indoor unit and air conditioner

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12516828-B2
Application number	US-202218725605-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 30, 2022
Priority date	Mar 30, 2022
Publication date	Jan 6, 2026
Grant date	Jan 6, 2026

Abstract

An aspect of an indoor unit according to the present disclosure is an indoor unit of an air conditioner, the indoor unit including: a heat exchanger; a cross-flow fan; a housing that includes a suction port and a blowout port and that accommodates the heat exchanger and the cross-flow fan therein; and a stabilizer that separates a suction flow path and a blowout flow path of the cross-flow fan from each other, in which the stabilizer includes a tongue portion that extends along an outer circumferential surface of the cross-flow fan and that has a facing surface facing the cross-flow fan, a first protrusion portion that protrudes from the facing surface toward the cross-flow fan, and a second protrusion portion that protrudes from the facing surface toward the cross-flow fan and that is located closer to a blowout flow path than the first protrusion portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . An indoor unit of an air conditioner, comprising:
a heat exchanger; a cross-flow fan that rotates around a rotation axis; a housing that includes a suction port and a blowout port and that accommodates the heat exchanger and the cross-flow fan therein; and a stabilizer that separates a suction flow path and a blowout flow path of the cross-flow fan from each other, wherein the stabilizer includes
a tongue portion that extends along an outer circumferential surface of the cross-flow fan and that has a facing surface facing the cross-flow fan,
a first protrusion portion that protrudes from the facing surface toward the cross-flow fan, and
a second protrusion portion that protrudes from the facing surface toward the cross-flow fan and that is located closer to the blowout flow path than the first protrusion portion,
the first protrusion portion has a first rectifying surface that faces the blowout flow path and that is inclined toward the suction flow path toward a tip side of the first protrusion portion, the second protrusion portion has a second rectifying surface that faces the blowout flow path and that is inclined toward the suction flow path toward a tip side of the second protrusion portion, the first rectifying surface and the second rectifying surface are each inclined toward the suction flow path at an acute inclination angle with respect to a radial direction of the rotation axis, a first gap between the first protrusion portion and the cross-flow fan is smaller than a second gap between the second protrusion portion and the cross-flow fan, and a difference between the first gap and the second gap is 0.5% or more of a diameter of the cross-flow fan.

2 . The indoor unit according to claim 1 , wherein,
as viewed in an axial direction of the cross-flow fan, when
an imaginary line connecting the rotation axis and a tip of the first protrusion portion is referred to as a first imaginary line,
an imaginary line connecting the rotation axis and a tip of the second protrusion portion is referred to as a second imaginary line, and
an imaginary line connecting the rotation axis and an end portion of the tongue portion closer to the blowout flow path is referred to as a third imaginary line,
a ratio of an angle between the first imaginary line and the second imaginary line to an angle between the first imaginary line and the third imaginary line is larger than 50%.

3 . The indoor unit according to claim 1 , wherein
the first rectifying surface has a first inclined portion and a second inclined portion located closer to the tip side of the first protrusion portion than the first inclined portion, and an inclination angle of the second inclined portion with respect to the radial direction is larger than an inclination angle of the first inclined portion with respect to the radial direction.

4 . The indoor unit according to claim 1 , wherein
the tongue portion and the first protrusion portion are plate-shaped, and the stabilizer has a recess portion that is surrounded by the tongue portion and the first protrusion portion and opens upward.

5 . The indoor unit according to claim 1 , wherein
the second protrusion portion is constituted by a flat rectifying surface facing the blowout flow path and a flat opposite side surface facing the suction flow path.

6 . The indoor unit according to claim 1 , wherein
the first protrusion portion and the second protrusion portion extend over an entire axial length of the cross-flow fan.

7 . An air conditioner comprising:
the indoor unit according to claim 1 ; and an outdoor unit.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Hagiwara Yusuke
• Tsuji Kenta
• Yoshida Takanori
• Ikeda Takashi

Classifications

• F24F2013/247

  Active noise-suppression · CPC title

• F24F2013/228

  Treatment of condensate, e.g. sterilising · CPC title

• F24F13/24

  Means for preventing or suppressing noise · CPC title

• F24F13/22

  Means for preventing condensation or evacuating condensate · CPC title

• F24F13/08

  Air-flow control members, e.g. louvres, grilles, flaps or guide plates (F24F7/013, F24F13/06 take precedence) · CPC title