Indoor unit for air conditioner
AssigneeHitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc.
InventorsFumihiro Kato, Naoki Muramatsu
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Abstract
An indoor unit of an air conditioner includes a guide member provided below an air discharge port of a blower fan and upstream of the heat exchanger. The guide member has a guide portion disposed to face an end surface upstream of the heat exchanger, and the guide portion is a plate body whose cross-section has a linear shape parallel to the end surface when cut along a plane including a rotation axis of the blower fan. Thus, provided is the indoor unit of the air conditioner capable of more uniformly guiding air from the blower fan in a height direction of the heat exchanger by the compact and inexpensive guide member.
Claims6
An indoor unit of an air conditioner comprising:
- a fan motor provided in a housing;
- a blower fan rotated by the fan motor;
- a heat exchanger enclosing a discharge direction of air from the blower fan;
- a drain pan disposed below the heat exchanger and receiving drain water;
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- a guide member provided below an air discharge port of the blower fan and upstream of the heat exchanger with respect to the discharge direction of air,
- wherein the guide member has a guide portion disposed to face an end surface of the heat exchanger that is on an upstream side of the heat exchanger, and
- wherein the guide portion of the guide member is an entirety of the guide member that is disposed above a highest top surface of the drain pan that is between the guide portion and the heat exchanger and the entirety of the guide portion has a linear cross-sectional shape parallel to the end surface when cut along a plane including a rotation axis of the blower fan.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.