Air conditioner
AssigneeDaikin Industries, Ltd.
InventorsKen Satou, Tomohiko Sakamaki
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Abstract
An air conditioner includes: a heat exchanger; a refrigerant flow divider causes a liquid refrigerant to be divided and to flow to the heat exchanger; and a case that includes a bottom plate, and accommodates the heat exchanger and the refrigerant flow divider. A first drain unit having a first opening for drainage is disposed on the bottom plate. The refrigerant flow divider includes: a flow divider body including a branching flow path; and refrigerant tubes that project downward from a lower surface of the flow divider body and then bend upward to connect to the heat exchanger at a position above the lower surface. All of the refrigerant tubes have lowermost ends that overlap with the first drain unit when viewed in a vertical direction.
Claims9
An air conditioner comprising:
- a heat exchanger;
- a refrigerant flow divider causes a liquid refrigerant to be divided and to flow to the heat exchanger;
- and
- a case that:
- comprises a bottom plate;
- and
- accommodates the heat exchanger and the refrigerant flow divider, wherein
- a first drain unit having a first opening for drainage is disposed on the bottom plate,
- the refrigerant flow divider comprises:
- a flow divider body comprising a branching flow path;
- and
- refrigerant tubes that:
- project downward from a lower surface of the flow divider body and then bend upward to connect to the heat exchanger at a position above the lower surface,
- all of the refrigerant tubes have lowermost ends that are entirely within the first opening when viewed in a vertical direction,
- the first opening and the lowermost ends are opposite to each other in the vertical direction,
- a second drain unit having a second opening for drainage is disposed on the bottom plate,
- one or more of the refrigerant tubes each comprise between a corresponding lowermost end and the heat exchanger:
- a first slant portion slant with respect to a horizontal direction;
- and
- a second slant portion bent from an end portion of the first slant portion and that is angled differently from the first slant portion, wherein
- the second slant portion is slant with respect to the horizontal direction, in which a first end portion of the second slant portion that is adjacent to the first slant portion is lower than a second end portion of the second slant portion,
- a boundary of the first slant portion and the second slant portion overlaps with the second drain unit when viewed in a vertical direction,
- the boundary is entirely within the second opening when viewed in the vertical direction,
- the second opening and the boundary are opposite to each other in the vertical direction, and
- the boundary is higher than the corresponding lowermost end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.