Air conditioner
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsAjiki Tomohito, Shinji Goto
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is an air conditioner capable of guiding air in a desired direction with an adjusted speed without marring the appearance to solve the above-described problems. An air conditioner comprising a ceiling-embedded type indoor unit configured to discharge air into an indoor room through an air outlet simultaneously sucking indoor air through an air inlet, wherein a air conditioner comprises, a main flap configured to guide a direction of air discharged from a air outlet in a preset direction, and a sub-flap configured to guide the direction of air between the main flap and the sub-flap in the preset direction, wherein a length of a main flap in a direction where air flows is longer than that of the sub-flap in the direction where air flows.
Claims11
An air conditioner comprising:
- an indoor unit that is mountable on a ceiling, the indoor unit including:
- a panel having an air inlet in a central portion of the panel and an air outlet along a side of the panel;
- a main flap that is rotatable about a first rotation shaft;
- a sub-flap that is rotatable about a second rotation shaft;
- a gear that is rotatable by a common motor, the gear including a first extended portion extending from the gear beyond an outer circumference of the gear in a first radial direction of the gear, and a second extended portion extending from the gear beyond the outer circumference of the gear in a second radial direction of the gear;
- and
- a link engaged with the second extended portion and the sub-flap,
- wherein
- the main flap and the sub-flap are configured to guide air discharged from the air outlet in a direction determined by a position of the main flap and a position of the sub-flap, and
- the main flap and the sub-flap have a state in which, via rotation of the gear by the common motor,
- the main flap rotates about the first rotation shaft according to a force received by the main flap via the first extended portion, to change the position of the main flap, and
- the sub-flap rotates about the second rotation shaft according to a force received by the sub-flap via the second extended portion and the link while the main flap is rotating about the first rotation shaft, to change the position of the sub-flap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.