Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Outdoor unit of air conditioner
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Application No.: US17040384Application Date: 2019-03-21
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Publication No.: US12085303B2Publication Date: 2024-09-10
- Inventor: Taejun Kim , Seokho Choi , Siyoung Oh
- Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
- Current Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: KED & ASSOCIATES, LLP
- Priority: KR 20180033373 2018.03.22
- International Application: PCT/KR2019/003327 2019.03.21
- International Announcement: WO2019/182387A 2019.09.26
- Date entered country: 2020-09-22
- Main IPC: F24F13/20
- IPC: F24F13/20 ; F24F1/16 ; F24F1/38 ; F24F1/56

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to an outdoor unit of an air conditioner. The outdoor unit of the air conditioner according to the present disclosure includes: a cabinet including perimeter surfaces disposed vertically in four directions, respectively, and an upper surface disposed on an upper side thereof that is perpendicular to each of the perimeter surfaces, with suction ports and a discharge port, the suction ports being formed in two surfaces that are formed in a first direction and a second direction opposite to each other and one surface that is formed in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, respectively, among the perimeter surfaces, and the discharge port being formed in the upper surface; a heat exchanger disposed inside the cabinet where the suction ports are formed to exchange heat between air introduced into the cabinet and a refrigerant; an air blowing fan disposed inside the cabinet where the discharge port is formed to allow the air that is heat-exchanged by the heat exchanger to flow toward the discharge port; and an orifice disposed along an outer circumference of the air blowing fan, while being spaced apart from the air blowing fan, to form a flow path of the air flowing by the air blowing fan, wherein the orifice includes: a narrowing portion into which the air flowing inside the cabinet is introduced, with the flow path therein having a cross-sectional area that decreases in an air flow direction; a maintaining portion disposed downstream of the narrowing portion, with the flow path therein having a cross-sectional area that is maintained in the air flow direction; and an expanding portion disposed downstream of the maintaining portion, with the flow path therein having a cross-sectional area that increases in the air flow direction, and the maintaining portion has a height that decreases from a fourth direction opposite to the third direction toward the third direction along a circumferential surface of the orifice.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210055017A1 OUTDOOR UNIT OF AIR CONDITIONER Public/Granted day:2021-02-25
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