Air conditioner

An air conditioner having an interior divided into two chambers by a partitioning plate, one chamber housing therein a heat exchanger, a centrifugal type fan having a given diameter and given thickness, and a fan scroll for said fan, the other chamber having a motor arranged therein, said fan being rotatably supported on a shaft of said motor which extends through said partitioning plate such that an adjacent side of the fan is spaced a given distance from the heat exchanger, wherein

• the fan scroll has a scroll portion and a nose portion integral with said scroll portion, said scroll further defining a front portion having a vent opening nd an upper portion having a discharge opening, said openings merging to form a single continuous opening to said front and upper portions of said scroll,
• said scroll having a back portion opposite said front portion which is mounted on said partitioning plate,
• said vent opening and said discharge opening being larger than the diameter of said fan,
• the heat exchanger being spaced from the scroll a distance greater than the distance the motor shaft projects from the partitioning plate,
• the shaft projecting beyond said partitioning plate a distance less than the spacing between the adjacent side of the fan and the heat exchanger,
• a mounting plate having an intake hole mounted on the front portion of the scroll so that the intake hole registers with the vent opening, and
• a plate for covering a gap between the mounting plate and heat exchanger so as to bridge over an upper member of the heat exchanger and an upper portion of the mounting plate. PG,24