Outdoor unit of airconditioner
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsWoong Sun, Jeonguk Koh, Jaechan Park, Kwangnam Shin, Seungjin Yun, Jaewook Lim
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Abstract
An outdoor unit of an air conditioner includes a housing including a base forming a bottom surface of the outdoor unit, a fan inside the housing to cause air to flow, a heat exchanger inside the housing to perform heat-exchange with the air caused to flow by the fan, a heater on the base, a drain plug mounted on, and penetrating, the base, and forming a drain hole through which water inside the housing is dischargeable to outside the housing, and a heat conduction plate in contact with the heater and accommodated inside the drain plug to transfer heat generated by the heater to the inside of the drain plug.
Claims14
An outdoor unit of an air conditioner, the outdoor unit comprising:
- a housing including a base forming a bottom surface of the outdoor unit;
- a fan inside the housing to cause air to flow;
- a heat exchanger inside the housing to perform heat-exchange with the air caused to flow by the fan;
- a heater on the base;
- a drain plug mounted on, and penetrating, the base, spaced apart from the heater, and forming a drain hole;
- and
- a heat conduction plate including:
- a support flange supported on, and in contact with, the heater;
- and
- a heating body extending from the support flange and inserted into the drain plug,
- so that the heat conduction plate transfers heat generated by the heater to inside of the drain plug,
- wherein the heating body includes an auxiliary drain portion accommodated in the drain hole so that water inside the housing is dischargeable through the auxiliary drain portion and the drain hole to outside of the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.