US 5,687,583 A · Air conditioner having opening/closing mechanism for air-flow direction changing blades

Abstract

An air conditioner including an air intake vent, an air blow-off vent for blowing off air which has been heat-exchanged, air-flow direction changing blades which are disposed at the air blow-off vent and serves to change the air-flow (blow-off air) direction, an opening portion through the outside air is supplied from the outside into a room, a closing member (damper) for selectively closing the opening portion, and an open/close operation member which is disposed in a gap between the air-flow direction changing blades and allows the closing member to selectively open or close the opening portion. When the outside air is supplied through the opening portion into the room, a finger is inserted into the gap to move the open/close operation member in a direction along the gap, whereby an outside air work can be simply performed without detaching the front panel from the air conditioner.

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Dependent claims

An air conditioner having a body, a front panel facing a room, plural air-flow direction changing blades provided at an opening of said front panel, and a path for supplying the outside air into said opening, including:

an open/close operation member which is provided to an operation portion of said body as to be manipulated through a gap between said air-flow direction changing blades from the room;
and
a closing member which is linked to said open/close operation member and serves to selectively open or close said path in accordance with an operation state of said open/close operation member.

An air conditioner in which an indoor-side air conditioning portion including an indoor heat exchanger for performing heat exchange with an indoor side air, an indoor air-blowing fan for blowing the air into a room and a front panel having plural air-flow direction changing blades which are provided at an air opening and an outdoor-side air conditioning portion including an outdoor heat exchanger for performing heat exchange with an outdoor side air, a compressor for compressing refrigerant and an outdoor air-blowing fan for blowing off the outdoor side air to said outdoor heat exchanger, are integrally fabricated in an outer case, and the indoor-side air conditioning portion and the outdoor-side air conditioning portion are separately sectioned by a partitioning plate, including:

an outside air supply opening portion which is provided to said partitioning plate and serves to supply the air of said outdoor-side air conditioning portion into said indoor-side air conditioning portion;
an open/close operation member which is provided to an operation portion of said indoor-side air conditioning portion so as to confront said air opening of said front panel and so as to be manipulated from a room to be air-conditioned, through a gap between said plural air-flow direction changing blades;
and
a closing member which is linked to said open/close operation member and serves to selectively open or close said outside air supply opening portion in accordance with an operation state of said open/close operation member.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Air conditioner having opening/closing mechanism for air-flow direction changing blades

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Air conditioner having opening/closing mechanism for air-flow direction changing blades

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