Pneumatically actuated louver for air conditioner unit
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsSainath Akella, Nitinkumar Hulsure
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Abstract
An air conditioner unit includes a blower fan. The blower fan includes a blade assembly and a motor connected to the blade assembly. The air conditioner unit also includes an inlet grille upstream of the blower fan and an outlet grille downstream of the blower fan. The air conditioner unit further includes an automatic louver assembly operatively connected to the outlet grille whereby air flowing through the outlet grille is directed in a first direction when the automatic louver assembly is in a first position and the air flowing through the outlet grille is directed in a second direction when the automatic louver assembly is in a second position.
Claims16
An air conditioner unit defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the vertical direction, the lateral direction, and the transverse direction being mutually perpendicular, the air conditioner unit comprising:
- an inlet grille and an outlet grille providing fluid communication between an indoor portion of the air conditioner and an ambient environment;
- a blower fan positioned in the indoor portion of the air conditioner unit, the blower fan operable to urge air into the indoor portion of the air conditioner unit through the inlet grille and to urge air out of the indoor portion of the air conditioner unit through the outlet grille;
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- an automatic louver assembly operatively connected to the outlet grille and movable along the lateral direction between a first position and a second position, the automatic louver assembly configured to direct the air out of the indoor portion of the air conditioner unit through the outlet grille in a first direction when the automatic louver assembly is in the first position and to direct the air out of the indoor portion of the air conditioner unit through the outlet grille in a second direction when the automatic louver assembly is in the second position, wherein the automatic louver assembly comprises a first cup which is concave in a first lateral orientation and a second cup which is concave in a second lateral orientation opposite the first lateral orientation, and wherein the automatic louver assembly is movable from a neutral position to the first position by directing a fluid flow to impinge on the first cup along the first lateral orientation and the automatic louver assembly is movable from the neutral position to the second position by directing the fluid flow to impinge on the second cup along the second lateral orientation.
An air conditioner unit comprising:
- a blower fan, the blower fan comprising a blade assembly and a motor connected to the blade assembly;
- an inlet grille upstream of the blower fan;
- an outlet grille downstream of the blower fan;
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- an automatic louver assembly operatively connected to the outlet grille whereby air flowing through the outlet grille is directed in a first direction when the automatic louver assembly is in a first position and the air flowing through the outlet grille is directed in a second direction when the automatic louver assembly is in a second position wherein the air conditioner unit defines a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the vertical direction, the lateral direction, and the transverse direction being mutually perpendicular, wherein the outlet grille extends generally along the lateral direction, and wherein the automatic louver assembly comprises a louver, the louver disposed at a first angle oblique to the lateral direction when the automatic louver assembly is in the first position and the louver disposed at a second angle which is different from the first angle and oblique to the lateral direction when the automatic louver assembly is in the second position, wherein the automatic louver assembly comprises a first cup which is concave in a first lateral orientation and a second cup which is concave in a second lateral orientation opposite the first lateral orientation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.