Air conditioning indoor unit and air conditioner
AssigneeDaikin Industries, Ltd.
InventorJunya Minami
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Abstract
An air conditioning indoor unit that blows air, which has exchanged heat with a refrigerant flowing through a heat exchanger, into an air conditioning target space, includes: a liquid refrigerant pipe and a gas refrigerant pipe that are connected to the heat exchanger; a casing that accommodates the heat exchanger and that has an opening communicating with the air conditioning target space; a first shutoff valve in the liquid refrigerant pipe; a second shutoff valve in the gas refrigerant pipe; and a partition wall that separates a first space from a second space in the casing. The first shutoff valve and the second shutoff valve are in the first space. The second space communicates with the air conditioning target space via the opening.
Claims11
An air conditioning indoor unit that blows air, which has exchanged heat with a refrigerant flowing through a heat exchanger, into an air conditioning target space, the air conditioning indoor unit comprising:
- a liquid refrigerant pipe and a gas refrigerant pipe that are connected to the heat exchanger;
- a casing that accommodates the heat exchanger and that has an opening communicating with the air conditioning target space;
- a first shutoff valve in the liquid refrigerant pipe;
- a second shutoff valve in the gas refrigerant pipe;
- and
- a partition wall that extends from a bottom plate of the casing to a top panel of the casing and divides a space inside the casing into a first space and a second space, wherein
- the first shutoff valve and the second shutoff valve are in the first space, and
- the second space communicates with the air conditioning target space via the opening.
An air conditioner comprising:
- an air conditioning indoor unit in an air conditioning target space;
- an air conditioning heat source unit connected to the air conditioning indoor unit via a liquid refrigerant pipe and a gas refrigerant pipe;
- and
- a shutoff valve device comprising a shutoff valve group disposed in an attic space above a ceiling of the air conditioning target space, wherein
- the shutoff valve group comprises:
- a first shutoff valve in the liquid refrigerant pipe;
- and
- a second shutoff valve in the gas refrigerant pipe,
- the shutoff valve device further comprises a casing that accommodates the shutoff valve group,
- the casing has an opening through which the liquid refrigerant pipe and the gas refrigerant pipe extend, and
- the shutoff valve device further comprises a heat insulating material that closes only a gap between the opening and the liquid refrigerant pipe and a gap between the opening and the gas refrigerant pipe.
An air conditioner comprising:
- a floor-type air conditioning indoor unit in an air conditioning target space;
- an air conditioning heat source unit connected to the floor-type air conditioning indoor unit via a liquid refrigerant pipe and a gas refrigerant pipe;
- and
- a shutoff valve device comprising a shutoff valve group disposed in an underfloor space that is between a floor of the air conditioning target space and a ceiling of a floor immediately below the floor of the air conditioning target space, wherein
- the shutoff valve group comprises one or both of:
- a first shutoff valve in the liquid refrigerant pipe;
- and
- a second shutoff valve in the gas refrigerant pipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.