Indoor unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9328938-B2
Application number	US-201314376289-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 1, 2013
Priority date	Feb 3, 2012
Publication date	May 3, 2016
Grant date	May 3, 2016

Abstract

Of four corner covers ( 40 ) in an indoor unit( 10 ), a horizontal length of an outer surface in a second corner cover ( 41 ) is the same as a horizontal length of an outer surface in a first corner cover( 41 ), a horizontal length of an outer surface in a third corner cover ( 43 ) and a horizontal length of an outer surface in a fourth corner cover ( 44 ) are the same and are smaller than the horizontal length of the outer surface of the first corner cover( 41 ). Opening dimensions (LA, LB, LC, LD) of four air outlet ports ( 14 ) in a horizontal direction are the same.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An indoor unit, comprising:
a casing having a rectangular shape in bottom plan view, and having air outlet ports for blowing out air laterally that are provided respectively in four sides thereof, and having four corner covers demarcating the air outlet ports, wherein the lengths of the four sides of the casing are the same; and
a heat exchanger disposed inside the casing, wherein
the four corner covers include:
a first corner cover disposed in a corner section where a piping space for refrigerant piping connected to the heat exchanger is provided;
a second corner cover positioned diagonally opposite the first corner cover;
a third corner cover positioned adjacently to the first corner cover; and
a fourth corner cover positioned diagonally opposite the third corner cover;

a total length in a horizontal plane of an outer surface of the second corner cover is the same as a total length in the horizontal plane of an outer surface of the first corner cover;
a total length in the horizontal plane of an outer surface in the third corner cover and a total length in the horizontal plane of an outer surface of the fourth corner cover are the same, and are smaller than the total length in the horizontal plane of the outer surface of the first corner cover;
opening dimensions of the four air outlet ports in a horizontal direction which are defined by the corner covers which are positioned on both sides of the air outlet port are the same; and
the outer surface of each of the first, second, third and fourth corner covers includes first and second side surfaces that extend in the horizontal plane toward respective ones of the adjacent corner covers, wherein a length in the horizontal plane of each of the first and second side surfaces is half of the total length in the horizontal plane of the outer surface of the respective corner cover.

2. The indoor unit according to claim 1 , wherein
the two air outlet ports situated at positions sandwiching the third corner cover are provided at positions displaced by the same dimension towards the third corner cover side with respect to the centers of the sides provided with those air outlet ports; and
the two air outlet ports situated at positions sandwiching the fourth corner cover are provided at positions displaced by the same dimension towards the fourth corner cover side with respect to the centers of the sides provided with those air outlet ports.

3. The indoor unit according to claim 1 , wherein the two air outlet ports situated at positions sandwiching each of the four corner covers are provided at positions which are the same distance from the each corner cover.

Assignees

• Daikin Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Michitsuji Yoshiharu
• Nouchi Yoshiteru
• Yokomizo Tsuyoshi
• Gotou Takashi
• Obata Yuuki

Classifications

• F24F1/0014 Primary

  having two or more outlet openings · CPC title

• F24F2001/0037

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F28D1/02

  with heat-exchange conduits immersed in the body of fluid · CPC title

• F24F13/00 Primary

  Details common to, or for air-conditioning, air-humidification, ventilation or use of air currents for screening · CPC title

• F24F1/0047

  mounted in the ceiling or at the ceiling · CPC title