Air conditioning indoor unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9234671-B2
Application number	US-201214345780-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 5, 2012
Priority date	Sep 30, 2011
Publication date	Jan 12, 2016
Grant date	Jan 12, 2016

Abstract

An air conditioning indoor unit includes a movable first air direction adjustment plate that changes an up and down direction of the outlet air, a second air direction adjustment plate disposed adjacent to the air outlet, and a control unit that controls postures of the first and second adjustment plates. The second adjustment plate has at least a front end portion housed in an indoor unit front portion outside a blowing path when housed. In a Coanda effect utilization mode the control unit controls the postures of the first and second adjustment plates such that the second adjustment plate is spaced apart from the indoor unit front portion and a height position of a rear end portion is lower than when operation is stopped, and the adjustment plates form a predetermined angle to change the outlet air to a Coanda air flow along an undersurface of the second adjustment plate.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An air conditioning indoor unit having a Coanda effect utilization mode that utilizes the Coanda effect, which is a phenomenon where, if there is a wall surface near a flow of a gas, the gas tends to flow in a direction along the wall surface even if the direction of the flow and a direction of the wall surface are different, to guide, in a predetermined direction, a flow of outlet air blown out from an air outlet, the air conditioning indoor unit comprising:
an indoor unit front portion disposed outside a blowing path;
a movable first air direction adjustment plate configured to change an up and down direction of the outlet air;
a second air direction adjustment plate disposed adjacent to the air outlet, the second air direction adjustment plate including a front end portion and an outside surface, and
when the second air direction adjustment plate is housed in the indoor unit front portion, the front end portion is housed in the indoor unit front portion, and the outside surface is outside the blowing path;
a control unit configured to control postures of the first air direction adjustment plate and the second air direction adjustment plate; and
a scroll configured to guide air-conditioned air to the air outlet,
in the Coanda effect utilization mode, the control unit controlling the postures of the first air direction adjustment plate and the second air direction adjustment plate in such a way that
the second air direction adjustment plate assumes a posture in which the second air direction adjustment plate is spaced apart from the indoor unit front portion, and inside the blowing path, the outside surface is inside the blowing path, and a height position of a rear end portion of the second air direction adjustment plate is lower than when operation is stopped and
the second air direction adjustment plate and the first air direction adjustment plate form a predetermined angle,
when the second air direction adjustment plate and the first air direction adjustment plate form the predetermined angle, the second air direction adjustment plate and the first air direction adjustment plate generate an obliquely upward Coanda air flow along an undersurface of the second air direction adjustment plate because of the Coanda effect, and
the predetermined angle formed by the postures of the first air direction adjustment plate and the second air adjustment plate generates the obliquely upward Coanda air flow

the first air direction adjustment plate having an inside arcuate surface,
the second air direction adjustment plate having an outside arcuate surface, and
when the control unit executes the Coanda effect utilization mode, the first air direction adjustment plate and the second air direction adjustment plate assume postures that satisfy a condition where an internal angle formed by a tangent to a terminal end portion of the scroll and a tangent to a front end of the outside arcuate surface of the second air direction adjustment plate is greater than an internal angle formed by the tangent to the terminal end portion of the scroll and a tangent to a front end of the inside arcuate surface of the first air direction adjustment plate.

2. The air conditioning indoor unit according to claim 1 , wherein
in the Coanda effect utilization mode, a front end portion of the second air direction adjustment plate points frontward and upward from a horizontal.

3. The air conditioning indoor unit according to claim 2 , wherein
in the Coanda effect utilization mode, the front end portion of the second air direction adjustment plate is positioned higher than the air outlet.

4. The air conditioning indoor unit according to claim 1 , wherein
in the Coanda effect utilization mode, the front end portion of the second air direction adjustment plate projects outward from the air outlet.

5. The air conditioning indoor unit according to claim 1 , wherein
the second air direction adjustment plate rotates about a predetermined rotating shaft, and
the rotating shaft is disposed at a location spaced from the blowing path.

6. The air conditioning indoor unit according to claim 1 , wherein
the control unit has a downward blowing mode in which front ends of the first air direction adjustment plate and the second air direction adjustment plate are pointed frontward and downward to guide the outlet air downward.

7. The air conditioning indoor unit according to claim 1 , wherein
a posture of the indoor unit front portion when operation is stopped and during operation is the same.

8. The air conditioning indoor unit according to claim 1 , wherein
in the Coanda effect utilization mode, a rear end of the second air direction adjustment plate enters a traveling path of the outlet air.

9. The air conditioning indoor unit according to claim 1 , wherein
the second air direction adjustment plate is fixed to a rotable arm at the rear end portion of the second air direction adjustment plate.

Assignees

• Yasutomi Masanao
• Okamoto Takahiro
• Kamada Masashi
• Teraoka Hironobu
• Okuda Noriyuki
• Daikin Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Yasutomi Masanao
• Okamoto Takahiro
• Kamada Masashi
• Teraoka Hironobu
• Okuda Noriyuki

Classifications

• F15C4/00

  Circuit elements characterised by their special functions · CPC title

• Y10T137/2202

  By movable element · CPC title

• F24F13/14

  built up of tilting members, e.g. louvre · CPC title

• F24F1/0057

  mounted in or on a wall · CPC title

• F24F11/79

  for controlling the direction of the supplied air · CPC title