Indoor unit and air conditioner
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorShota Sugai
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Abstract
An indoor unit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, which is the indoor unit of an air conditioner, and is the indoor unit that is a wall-mounted type which is mounted on a wall that includes: a heat exchange device; a blower; a housing that has an intake port, and that houses the heat exchange device and the blower therein, and a filter that is disposed between the intake port and the heat exchange device, wherein the housing has an insertion port through which the filter is inserted, the insertion port opens to a front, and the filter is attached to the housing so as to be detachable from an outside of the housing via the insertion port.
Claims8
An indoor unit, which is the indoor unit of an air conditioner, and that is a wall-mounted type which is mounted on a wall, the indoor unit comprises:
- a heat exchange device;
- a blower;
- a housing that has an intake port, and that houses the heat exchange device and the blower therein, and
- a filter that is disposed between the intake port and the heat exchange device, wherein
- the housing has:
- an upper wall portion that is located at a top of the housing;
- an insertion port through which the filter is inserted, and that is formed in the upper wall portion, and
- a mounting portion that is provided on an edge portion of the insertion port in a front side;
- the intake port opens to the top and is formed on the upper wall portion,
- the insertion port opens to a front, and
- the filter has:
- a filter main body that is disposed between the intake port and the heat exchange device;
- a handle portion provided on a front end portion of the filter main body, and that is located in front of the insertion port, and
- the filter is attached to the housing so as to be detachable from an outside of the housing via the insertion port, and
- the handle portion has:
- at least a part of a cover wall portion that overlaps with the insertion port as seen from the front;
- a base portion mounted above the mounting portion, and
- a first protrusion which protrudes to a bottom from the base portion and is hooked onto the mounting portion from the rear, and
- a front surface of the cover wall portion is exposed to an outside of the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.