Air conditioner
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsJi Hyun JANG, Donghwal LEE, Bohee PARK, Sungho SEO, Hyunjin PARK
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Abstract
An air conditioner is provided, in which a control box is disposed at a boundary between an indoor main body configured to blow indoor air and an outdoor main body configured to blow outdoor air, and the outdoor air may be introduced into the control box. Accordingly, even if it rains, the air conditioner may prevent direct exposure of the control box and/or a heat sink of the control box to rainwater and facilitate heat dissipation of control components disposed in the control box configured to perform inverter control.
Claims20
An air conditioner, comprising:
- a base;
- a barrier assembly disposed on the base and comprising an evaporator fan configured to introduce air from a front and discharge the introduced air;
- an evaporator disposed in front of the barrier assembly;
- a shroud disposed behind the barrier assembly, spaced apart from the barrier assembly, and defining a shroud opening;
- a condenser disposed behind the shroud;
- a condenser fan disposed between the shroud opening and the condenser;
- a compressor connected to the evaporator and the condenser through a pipe;
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- a control box configured to control the compressor, wherein the control box is disposed at a side surface of the barrier assembly, has a first side surface spaced apart from a case in which the air conditioner is disposed, defines an air suction inlet through which air is suctioned into the control box on the first side surface thereof and an air discharge outlet through which the air inside the control box is discharged on a rear surface thereof.
An air conditioner, comprising:
- a case forming an outer appearance of the air conditioner;
- a base;
- a barrier assembly disposed on the base and comprising an evaporator fan configured to introduce air into the air conditioner and discharge the introduced air;
- an evaporator disposed at a first side of the barrier assembly;
- a shroud disposed at a second side of the barrier assembly, spaced apart from the barrier assembly, and defining a shroud opening;
- a condenser disposed adjacent to the shroud;
- a condenser fan disposed between the shroud opening and the condenser;
- a compressor connected to the evaporator and the condenser through a pipe;
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- a control box configured to control the compressor, wherein the control box is disposed at a side surface of the barrier assembly, has a first side surface spaced apart from the case, defines an air suction inlet through which air is suctioned into the control box on the first side surface thereof and an air discharge outlet through which the air inside the control box is discharged on a rear surface thereof, and comprises a heat sink disposed in a space between the air suction inlet and the air discharge outlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.