Back to results
US 12,372,253 B2Granted
Indoor unit of an air conditioner
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsJunseok Bae, Kangyoung Kim, Hakjae Kim, Eunsun Lee, Taeyun Lee
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A door cover assembly closes a front discharge port when a fan assembly is not operated and allows the door cover assembly to move out of the front discharge port, and the front discharge port opens when the fan assembly is operated, and a fan housing assembly can protrude out of a door assembly by means of an actuator when the front discharge port is opened.
Claims18
An indoor unit of an air conditioner, comprising:
- a case defining a suction inlet and a discharge outlet to communicate an inner space of the case with an indoor space;
- a fan housing disposed in the case and comprising a fan to flow air, the fan housing including a rear fan housing and a front fan housing, the fan disposed in front of the rear fan housing and the front fan housing disposed in front of the fan;
- an actuator to move the fan housing towards the discharge outlet;
- a grill tiltably disposed in front of the front fan housing, and movable to have at least a portion thereof out of the discharge outlet based on an operation of the actuator and guide air expelled by the fan outside the discharge outlet;
- and at least a portion of a steering assembly disposed between the front fan housing and the grill to push or pull the grill to tilt the grill, the steering assembly configured to tilt the grill with respect to the front of the front fan housing, the steering assembly including:
- a joint assembly coupled to the grill to provide a tilting center axis, a steering base disposed at the fan housing and disposed at a rear side of the grill, wherein the joint assembly is rotatably assembled to each of the steering base and the grill, a first steering assembly disposed at the steering base or a structure of the fan housing, rotatably assembled to the grill, and to push or pull a first position of the grill and to tilt the grill with respect to the joint assembly;
- and a second steering assembly disposed at the steering base or a structure of the fan housing, rotatably assembled to the grill, and to push or pull a second position of the grill, that is different from the first position, and tilt the grill with respect to the joint assembly, wherein the actuator is configured to move the fan housing linearly forward in order for the grill to be in a projection state in which a front end of the grill protrudes forward from a front surface of the case through the discharge outlet and move the fan housing linearly rearward in order for the grill to be in a state in which the front end of the grill is disposed in the case.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.