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US 9,318,091 B2Granted
Air conditioner
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasukata Takeda, Masaki Ohtsuka
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Abstract
In an air conditioner, an air flow guide panel (20) and a speaker (21) are provided in a vicinity of an outlet (5). The air flow guide panel (20) is operable to form a duct-like outlet passage (10) in the vicinity of the outlet (5), and, in the duct-like outlet passage (10), a speaker (21) radiates a sound wave for canceling out operation noise including blower sound of a fan (7).
Claims6
An air conditioner to be used by being mounted on an indoor wall surface, comprising:
- a casing;
- an inlet provided to the casing, for introducing air in a room;
- an outlet provided to the casing, for delivering conditioned air, which is obtained by conditioning air introduced from the inlet, to the room;
- a blower for moving air from the inlet to the outlet;
- a blower passage communicating between the inlet and the outlet;
- a pivotable air flow guide panel provided in a vicinity of the outlet
- vertical louvers dividing the outlet into sections;
- and
- a plurality of speakers arranged at least one in each of the sections, each section being between two adjacent vertical louvers,
- wherein the air flow guide panel and the vertical louvers are operable to form a duct-like outlet passage serving as a one-dimensional sound field of sound from the speakers outside the outlet, and the speakers radiate a sound wave for canceling out operation noise including blower sound of the blower toward the duct-like outlet passage,
- wherein the each section have a width equal to or smaller than one-half of a wavelength of the sound wave radiated from the speakers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.