CN101105301A

CN101105301A - Air conditioner

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Publication number: CN101105301A
Application number: CNA2007100081742A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 权炳泰
Original assignee: LG Electronics Inc
Current assignee: LG Electronics Inc
Priority date: 2006-07-13
Filing date: 2007-01-26
Publication date: 2008-01-16
Anticipated expiration: 2027-01-26
Also published as: KR20080006761A; CN100532968C; KR101280367B1

Abstract

The present invention provides an air conditioner which includes a display unit, an air conditioner unit and a support saddle. The display unit includes a picture panel and an air conditioner unit which is connected with the display unit, wherein the air conditioner unit includes a fan which is used for one function selected from refrigerating and heating and an indoor heat exchanger. The support saddle supports the display unit and the air conditioner unit component.

Description

Air-conditioner

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of air-conditioner, especially relate to a kind of such air-conditioner, the display unit that wherein is used to show TV (TV) image integrally is connected with air-conditioning unit and is installed in bearing.

Background technology

Usually, air-conditioner comprises heater, cooler and air purifier.The device that installs an air-conditioner heats/cooled interior air or purify air, thus provide more comfortable indoor environment for the user.

Recently, air-conditioner wherein is equipped with thin turbofan, thereby has minimized the thickness of indoor unit self, so air-conditioner can be installed on the indoor wall with frame shape.

Simultaneously, the recent employing such as thin display unit such as liquid crystal (LC) panels replaces common cathode ray tube (CRT) display unit.

Herein, when the indoor unit of air-conditioner and display unit were installed in the independent space as independent product, they had occupied space very big in the interior space, thereby had reduced the utilization rate of the interior space.

And, utilize the demand of frame-type indoor unit front portion in many ways for the hope that satisfies the user and form gradually.

Summary of the invention

Therefore, the present invention aims to provide a kind of air-conditioner with image display function, and it can be avoided basically because the restriction and the defective of correlation technique produce one or more problems.

An object of the present invention is to provide a kind of air-conditioner with image display function, it can improve space availability ratio, and effectively utilizes the front portion of air-conditioner, and the demand realizes by display unit and air-conditioner integrally are shaped.

Another object of the present invention provides a kind of air-conditioner, thereby minimizes installing space by the indoor unit of air-conditioner and display unit are integrally made, and reduces production costs by common component.

Other advantage, purpose and a characteristics part of the present invention will be set forth in explanation subsequently, and remainder will more obviously maybe can be known by the practice of invention in examination subsequently for those skilled in the art.Purpose of the present invention and other advantage can realize and acquisition by the concrete structure of pointing out in written specification, claims and the accompanying drawing.

In order to realize these purposes and other advantages and, do and specialize and briefly description that a kind of air-conditioner that provides comprises: the display unit with image panel here here according to purpose of the present invention; Link to each other with display unit and have freeze and heat in one fan and the air-conditioning unit of indoor heat converter; And the bearing that is used to support display unit and air-conditioning unit assembly.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a kind of air-conditioner that provides here comprises: be used for the image panel of output image thereon; Be used to support the front panel of image panel; The base plate that links to each other with the front panel rear portion; Be arranged on the air-conditioning unit between front panel and the base plate, and it comprises fan and the heat exchanger that is used to freeze and one of heats; And the bearing that is used to support front panel and base plate connector.

Since such as the display unit of liquid crystal display (LCD) device and plasma display panel (PDP) and the air-conditioning unit that is used for room air is carried out air conditioning integrally be installed in air-conditioner, reduced the installing space of the interior space significantly.

According to correlation technique, display unit and indoor unit can be installed independently.On the other hand, according to air-conditioner of the present invention, air-conditioning unit and display unit integrally are shaped, and therefore can once finish installation process.

And according to air-conditioner of the present invention, the indoor unit with air-conditioning unit and unit of display is installed in the bearing, so the installation of air-conditioner and not only be confined to the wall of the interior space, but can be installed on all places.

And air-conditioner air-conditioning unit according to the present invention is installed in the bearing, and can be installed in the optional position according to user's demand, has therefore maximized the utilizable space of user.

And, because the casing of air-conditioner is fixedly mounted in the gripper shoe of bearing according to the present invention, indoor unit can be installed easily, and casing links to each other with gripper shoe, so strengthened the intensity of casing.

And,,, also can make the refrigerant pipe that exposes minimum even when the wall of the indoor unit and the interior space is spaced a predetermined distance from owing to be connected with each other by the seat tube that is installed in the bearing according to the air-conditioning unit and the outdoor unit of air-conditioner of the present invention.

And according to air-conditioner of the present invention, the cable of input electric power is installed in the bearing, and cable links to each other with the power supply unit of indoor unit, therefore makes cable reveal the part minimum to the indoor unit.

And, according to air-conditioner of the present invention, be used for indoor unit is connected by bearing with the cable that outdoor unit links to each other, make that so not only the cable that exposes is minimum, can also prevent to produce short circuit owing to cable exposes laterally.

And, because the installation of the mounting bar in being installed in indoor unit casing bearing/fixing back connection/fixing according to air-conditioner of the present invention, increased the connection power between bearing and the casing significantly.

And according to air-conditioner of the present invention, air purifier is installed in the bearing, and air purifier can be independent of indoor unit or operates simultaneously with indoor unit.

Specifically, because air-conditioning unit and air purifier can be operated individually or simultaneously according to the present invention, can more effectively carry out the heating/cooling and the air cleaning of the interior space.

And according to air-conditioner of the present invention, air purifier is installed in the bearing, therefore can more effectively collect/filter such as the foreign matters such as dust that accumulate on the indoor floor.

And according to air-conditioner of the present invention, the air purifier that is installed in the bearing is shared such as electric components such as indoor unit control module and operating units, has therefore reduced the part count that is used for air-conditioner significantly.

Should be appreciated that the present invention's generality explanation and detailed description hereinafter above is exemplary and illustrative, is intended to explain for claimed invention provides further.

Description of drawings

Accompanying drawing provides further to be understood the present invention, is a part of incorporating and form the application into.The present invention illustrate the specific embodiment with specification in order to illustrate principle of the present invention.In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 shows the block diagram that has the air-conditioner of image display function according to the present invention;

Fig. 2 shows the decomposition diagram of annexation between the display unit of formation air-conditioner according to the present invention and the air-conditioning unit;

Fig. 3 shows the integrally-built decomposition diagram of air-conditioner according to the present invention;

Fig. 4 shows the front view that the air-conditioning unit of removing display unit according to the present invention is mounted to bearing in the air-conditioner;

Fig. 5 shows the decomposition diagram that air-conditioner display unit according to the present invention links to each other with the air-conditioning unit front panel;

Fig. 6 shows the perspective view that is used to support according to the bearing outward appearance of air-conditioning unit of the present invention and display unit connector;

Fig. 7 shows the perspective view according to air-conditioner mode of operation of the present invention;

Fig. 8 shows the decomposition diagram that the connector according to second embodiment of the invention air-conditioning unit and display unit is connected with bearing;

Fig. 9 shows the decomposition diagram according to the air-conditioning unit of second embodiment of the invention and display unit connector;

Figure 10 shows the decomposition diagram according to air-conditioner front panel of the present invention;

Figure 11 shows the side cross-sectional view according to air-conditioner indoor unit of the present invention and bearing assembled state;

Figure 12 shows the perspective view according to air-conditioner mode of operation of the present invention;

Figure 13 shows the perspective view that has the air-conditioner of bearing according to third embodiment of the invention; And

Figure 14 shows the decomposition diagram that is arranged at the air purifier of bearing according to third embodiment of the invention.

The specific embodiment

To describe preferred embodiment of the present invention in detail below, example of the present invention be shown in the accompanying drawing.As much as possible, for same or analogous parts, use identical Reference numeral among all these figure.

Yet spirit of the present invention is not limited to preferred embodiment, falls into too in the middle of the spirit of the present invention by other parts being changed, increased and delete resulting other embodiment.

Fig. 1 shows the block diagram that has the air-conditioner of image display function according to the present invention.

Referring to Fig. 1, air-conditioner comprises the air-conditioning unit 100 that is used to heat or freezes and with air-conditioning unit 100 display unit 200 that comes output image is installed integrally.

Display unit 200 is arranged on the front side of air-conditioning unit 100, thereby makes air-conditioning unit 100 be exposed to user's part minimum.

Herein, the display unit 200 that is installed in the air-conditioner shows such as ionosphere wave TV (TV) image, satellite/terrestrial electric wave DMB (DMB) image and mobile thereon live images such as image.

And the air-conditioning unit 100 of air-conditioner comprises indoor unit and outdoor unit, and carries out and operate such as air conditionings such as refrigerating/heating, dehumidifying and air cleanings.

Air-conditioning unit 100 according to the present invention comprises the compressor 11 of compressed refrigerant, be used to carry out the outdoor heat converter 12 of heat exchange between outdoor air and cold-producing medium, be used for air is blown outdoor fan 13 to outdoor heat converter 12, be used for the condensating refrigerant of liquid state is injected into vaporific expansion valve 14, be used to carry out the indoor heat converter 50 of heat exchange between room air and the cold-producing medium, be used for air is blown to the indoor fan 30 of the indoor heat converter 50 and the room air that circulates, with sensor unit 15, wherein sensor unit 15 is used to detect the discharge pressure and the temperature of compressor 11, the temperature of indoor heat converter 50 or indoor heat converter 12, indoor temperature or outdoor temperature.

And display unit 200 of the present invention comprises that image panel 250, the audio output part 260 that is used for output sound that is used for display image thereon, the signal receiving part 210 that is used for received signal, the signal that is used for receiving convert the signal conversion part 220 of the signal that is suitable for image panel 250 or audio output part 260 to and be used for the storage part 270 of store various kinds of data.

At length, signal receiving part 210 is designed for by TV tuner and DMB emitter receiving frequency signals.And signal conversion part 220 is designed to decodable code and amplifies the signal that is received, and therefore can show the signal that receives on image panel 200.Signal conversion part 200 becomes data signal with the analog signal conversion that receives.And audio output part 260 is designed to the audio signal of the signal of signal conversion part 220 conversions is exported to the user.

Herein, display unit 200 is the image display devices that comprise flat display panel.The example of display unit 200 comprises liquid crystal display (LCD) TV and plasma display panel TV.Display unit 200 is connected with casing 20 by linkage unit 600 (Fig. 5).

Simultaneously, air-conditioner be included as each parts power supply of air-conditioning unit 100 and display unit 200 power supply unit 300, be used for to the operating unit 400 of air-conditioning unit 100 and display unit 200 input operation orders and be used for according to the control module 500 of controlling air-conditioning unit 100 or display unit 200 operations by the operational order of operating unit 400 inputs.

At length, power supply unit 300 is designed to air-conditioning unit 100 or display unit 200 power supplies.In more detail, because the voltage that air-conditioning unit 100 and display unit 200 uses differs from one another, power supply unit 300 improves or reduces and is suitable for the voltage that applies to air-conditioning unit 100 or display unit 200.

For example, are situations of PDP plate at the image plate 250 of display unit 200, power supply unit 300 will carry out the required resetting voltage of discharge process, scanning voltage and keep voltage being delivered to the drive plate that constitutes control module 500 at PDP plate place.And, power supply unit 300 control be used to drive the required compressor 11 of air-conditioning unit 100 voltage, indoor/outdoor fan 13 and 30 electric moter voltage 32, be used to operate the required voltage of the required voltage of deliverying unit 90 and operation sensor unit 15 and expansion valve 14.

Operating unit 400 is designed to user's operational order to be inputed to air-conditioning unit 100 or display unit 200.According to present embodiment, operating unit 400 comprises the guidance panel 410 that is arranged at display unit 200 master machines, is provided with and can carries out the Digiplex 420 of radio communication and be used for the radio signal that Digiplex 420 produces is delivered to the acceptance division 430 of control module 500 as independent parts.

Fig. 2 shows the decomposition diagram of annexation between the display unit of formation air-conditioner according to the present invention and the air-conditioning unit, and Fig. 3 shows the integrally-built decomposition diagram of air-conditioner according to the present invention.

Referring to Fig. 2 and 3, air-conditioner comprises display unit 200, air-conditioning unit 100 and is used to support the bearing 800 of display unit 200 and air-conditioning unit 100 connectors as mentioned above.

At length, air-conditioning unit 100, be the indoor unit of air-conditioner, comprise the front panel 22 that constitutes outward appearance, casing 20 with base plate 24, be installed on the indoor fan 30 of casing 20 inside, be used for the suction air is directed to the orifice plate 40 of indoor fan 30, be arranged at the indoor heat converter 50 of heat exchange between the front side of orifice plate 40 and room air that is used to suck and cold-producing medium, be used to control the control cabinet 70 of air-conditioning unit 100 operations, be used to collect the drain pan 80 that the condensed water of condensation is gone up on indoor heat converter 50 surfaces, be used to filter the filter 60 that sucks the foreign matter that air contains on casing 20 front sides with being arranged on.At length, suction inlet 25 is formed on casing 20 inside, and filter 60 covers suction inlet 25.And front panel 22 connects and is fixed in base plate 24, and base plate 24 comprises a plurality of outlets 26.And base plate 24 comprises and is used for the deliverying unit 90 of opening/closing outlet 26 selectively.Deliverying unit 90 comprises blade 92 that is used for opening/closing outlet 26 and the drive motors (not shown) that is used for driven vane 92.

And indoor fan 30 is installed in the base plate 24.Indoor fan 30 is to be used for sucking in the axial direction the centrifugal fan that air is also discharged air diametrically.

And in order to prevent that discharging air when in the base plate 24 a plurality of fan being installed conflicts, the inside of base plate 24 is divided into two parts by dividing plate 24a.And air guiding element 24b is installed in the upper inside of base plate 24, is used for making by indoor fan 30 draining into the air diverts of upside and being led to the outlet 26 of sidepiece.

And pdp filter device 110 is installed in the front side of heat exchanger 50, is used for collecting dust or the foreign matter that contains by suction inlet 25 inhaled airs.

And pipe covers 21 and is installed in the bight of casing 20.Pipe covers 21 bights that are assembled to base plate 24, is used to constitute the part of air-conditioning unit 100 outward appearances.

Herein, pipe covers on the 21 not only angle that are formed in 20 4 angles of casing.In the present embodiment, pipe covers 21 and is installed on the angle of two bottoms of casing 20.And the external refrigerant pipe passes pipe and covers 21 and be directed to casing 20 inside.

Simultaneously, the display unit 200 that is installed in air-conditioning unit 100 front sides comprises the image panel 250 that is used for display image thereon and the housing 610 of installation diagram image panel 250 on it.

At length, guidance panel 410 and being used to receives the side that receiving-member 430 that Digiplex 420 sends signal is arranged on housing 610.Herein, guidance panel 410, Digiplex 420 and receiving-member 430 belong to operating unit 400 (Fig. 1).

In more detail, guidance panel 410 comprises the action button 411 that is used for opening/closing aircondition 100 and

display unit

200 and 412 and be used for Pop-up (popup) button 414 that opening/closing is presented at the duty of the air-conditioning unit 100 on the image panel 250.Certainly, Digiplex 420 comprises

action button

421 and 422 and Pop-up button 424.And the memory bank 612 that links to each other with external storage is installed on the opposite side of housing 610, and internal memory is installed in housing 610 inside.And memory bank 612 can insert multimedia card (MMC)/safe digital (SD) card, compact flash (CF), memory stick (MS) and xD picture card (xD).

And loudspeaker 616 is installed on the front side of bearing 800, and loudspeaker 616 links to each other with audio output, and audio output is the audio output part 260 of display unit 200, is used for exporting audio signal to the outside.

Hereinafter, with the operating process of describing in more detail according to the air-conditioning unit and the display unit of air-conditioner of the present invention.

When the user used Digiplex 420 or guidance panel 410 input operation orders, control module 500 was controlled in air-conditioning unit 100 and the display unit 200 operation of at least one according to the operational order of input.

Herein, when user's input is used to drive the operational order of air-conditioning unit 100, control module 500 detects the temperature of the pipe of the temperature of temperature, outdoor air of room airs and indoor heat converter 50, and the demand temperature of detected temperature and air-conditioning unit 100 is compared operating air conditioner unit 100.

At length, control module 500 operate compressor 11 are come compressed refrigerant.Compressed cold-producing medium is in outdoor heat converter 12 places condensation.Condensed refrigerant expands under low-temp low-pressure when flowing through expansion valve 14.The cold-producing medium that flows through expansion valve 14 evaporates by the heat that absorbs room air at indoor heat converter 50 places.The cold-producing medium of evaporation returns compressor 11.Herein, because room air is passed to cold-producing medium by indoor heat converter with heat, indoor temperature drops to design temperature.

And under the situation that display unit 200 is operated according to user's operational order, control module 500 comes operation display unit 200 according to user's operational order.Herein, by operational order being inputed to operating unit 400, the user can be with temperature and humidity in picture-in-picture form (a screenwithin a screen) display room.At length, control module 500 receives the signal that the sensor unit 15 by air-conditioning unit 100 sends, thus on image panel 250 temperature and humidity in the display room.

And, under the situation that air-conditioning unit 100 and display unit 200 are operated simultaneously, image display panel 250 shows the mode of operation of air-conditioning unit 100 and the image that receives by signal receiving part 210 with the picture-in-picture form, will be described in detail with reference to the attached drawings signal receiving part 210.

Fig. 4 shows the air-conditioning unit of removing display unit and is mounted to front view according to bearing in the air-conditioner of the present invention, and Fig. 5 shows the decomposition diagram that air-conditioner display unit according to the present invention links to each other with the air-conditioning unit front panel.

Referring to Figure 4 and 5, front panel 22 links to each other with base plate 24 front sides of air-conditioning unit 100, and filter 60 covers the suction inlet 25 that plate 22 inside in front form with preliminary dimension.And the various parts that are used for air conditioning are installed between front panel 22 and the base plate 24 (referring to Fig. 3).

And display unit 200 comprises housing 610 that use linkage unit 600 and casing 20 removably link to each other and the image panel 250 that is fixed on housing 610 inside.And the external input terminals 614 (for example, digital visual interface (DVI), RGB, assembly, S terminal, synthetic, optics, audio/video terminals and high resolution multimedia interface (HDMI)) that is used to receive external signal is installed in housing 610 inside.External input terminals 614 links to each other with signal conversion part 220.

And, at length, on housing 610 comprises the protecgulum 611 installed around image panel 250 leading edges and is positioned at protecgulum 611 rear sides and the front floor 613 that links to each other with protecgulum 611.

Herein, image panel 250 and be installed between protecgulum 611 and the front floor 613.Signal receiving part 210, signal conversion part 220 and control module 500 cover by front floor 613.

And the memory bank 612 that links to each other with external memory card (referring to Fig. 2 and 3) is installed in the housing 610, and internal memory is installed in housing 610 inside.Herein, external memory card and internal memory are corresponding to storage part shown in Figure 1 270.The installation site of depending on control module 500, memory bank 612 or external input terminals 614 can be installed in the casing 20 of air-conditioning unit 100.

And audio output part 260 is designed to the audio signal of the signal of signal conversion part 220 conversion is exported to the user as mentioned above.The loudspeaker 616 and the outside output (not shown) that are used for output audio signal are installed in bearing 800.

Simultaneously, display unit 200 uses linkage unit 600 to link to each other with front panel 22.At length, linkage unit 600 links to each other the housing 610 of display unit 200 with the front panel 22 of air-conditioning unit 100, is used for when replacing or cleaning and filtering 60, easily opening/closing or separation display unit 200.

In more detail, linkage unit 600 comprises respectively and housing 610 rear sides and front panel 22 hinged first connecting rod 620 and second connecting rods 630.And second connecting rod 630 is positioned under the first connecting rod 620, and its length is longer than first connecting rod 620.And according to present embodiment, both have the end that in the vertical direction is rotatably connected first connecting rod 620 and second connecting rod 630.

And, allow end of first and second connecting

rods

620 and 630 and

support

622 and 632 hinged

supports

622 and 632 to be formed on the rear side of housing 610.Allow first and second connecting rods 620 to be formed on the front side of front panel 22 with the

support

623 and 633 that support 623 links to each other with 633 with the other end of 630.And the other end of second connecting rod 630 is connecting movably along support 633 sliding types.Specifically, when display unit 200 was separated by air-conditioning unit 100, the other end of second connecting rod 630 was lifted and is separated by front panel 22 along support 633.

And housing 610 and front panel 22 are connected with each other with fit system.At length, hook 642 is formed on the rear side of housing 610, and is used for being formed on front panel 22 with the hook support 644 that fit system links to each other with hook 642.Therefore, when display unit 200 was connected to casing 20, the hook 642 of the housing 610 of display unit 200 linked to each other with hook support 644 in the mode that cooperates, and first connecting rod 620 hinges are connected to second connecting rod 630.And grid 650 is formed on the rear side of housing 610, is used to make housing 610 to separate with front panel 22 within a predetermined distance.

Fig. 6 shows the perspective view that is used to support according to the bearing outward appearance of air-conditioning unit of the present invention and display unit connector.

Referring to Fig. 6, bearing 800 according to the present invention comprises bedplate 802, stand upright on the post 804 on the bedplate 802 and be fixed on and be used for the gripper shoe 806 that the casing 20 with indoor unit is mounted thereon in the post 804.

At length, loudspeaker 616 is installed in respectively on the right side/left side of post 804, and links to each other with audio output, and audio output is an audio output part 260.And the seat tube 805 that links to each other with indoor heat converter 50 is installed in post 804 inside.

In more detail, seat tube 805 is arranged vertically along the length direction of post 804, and is linked to each other with the outdoor heat converter 12 that is installed on the outside.Therefore, the cold-producing medium that flows through indoor heat converter 50 inside flows through outdoor heat converter 12 by seat tube 805, thereby constitutes the circulation cycle of cold-producing medium.

Herein, seat tube 805 is installed in post 804 inside, thereby has prevented that seat tube 805 from revealing to the outside, and seat tube 805 links to each other with the tube connector of indoor heat converter 50 by the connecting portion 805a that is installed in the upper end.

Specifically, the connecting portion 805a of seat tube 805 is outstanding by the upper surface of post 804, and when casing 20 was installed, it inserted the inside of casing 20, rather than revealed to the outside.

And the lower end of seat tube 805 extends the rear portion of post 804, and links to each other with outdoor unit.Herein, in the situation of erection support 800 not, indoor heat converter 50 directly links to each other with outdoor unit.

And the cable 808 that links to each other with outdoor unit is outstanding by the upper end of the post 804 that seat tube 805 wherein is installed.The electric current that the electric power of the outdoor fan 13 of compressor 11 or outdoor unit is supplied with by cable 808 is controlled.And control signal is passed to compressor 11 or outdoor fan 13 by cable.

Specifically, connector 808a is installed in an end of cable 808, thereby makes cable and the control cable be used for indoor unit is connected to outdoor unit can be connected to control module 500 easily.

Therefore, according to air-conditioner of the present invention, not only refrigerant pipe connects by the bearing 800 that indoor unit is installed on it, and owing to by cable 808 indoor unit and outdoor unit are connected with each other, makes that the inconvenience that produces when cable and pipe are installed is minimum.

Simultaneously, gripper shoe 806 comprises back plate 806a that is fixed in the base plate 24 and the subplate 806b that is fixed in the post 804.And back plate 806a is positioned on the rear side of base plate 24, and connects and be fixed to base plate 24.A plurality of connecting hole 806c that are used for linking to each other with base plate 24 are formed on back plate 806a.

Herein, the rear side and the downside of gripper shoe 806 support machine casing 20, and crooked so that casing 20 to be installed thereon.Cable 808 and seat tube 805 pass gripper shoe 806 and project upwards.

And gripper shoe 806 connects and is fixed to post 804, is used to support the connector of display unit 200 and air-conditioning unit 100.

Fig. 7 shows the perspective view according to air-conditioner mode of operation of the present invention.

Referring to Fig. 7, when air-conditioning unit 100 operations, indoor fan 30 is driven.When indoor fan 30 was driven, room air cycled through casing 20.

At length, room air sucks by the suction inlet 25 that is formed in the front panel 22, and discharges by the outlet 26 of base plate 24.

Specifically, owing to be formed in the front panel 22 according to present embodiment suction inlet 25, room air is inhaled into the housing 610 of display unit 200 and the space between the front panel 22, flows through filter 60 then, flow to indoor fan 30 again.

Simultaneously, each deliverying unit 90 that is installed in the outlet 26 is controlled by control module 500.Only when air-conditioning unit 100 operations, outlet 26 is opened in blade 92 rotations.

Herein, in the operating period of air-conditioning unit 100, suck front panel 22 and the air in 610 spaces of housing and the back side contacts of display unit 200, and flow to suction inlet 25.Therefore, suck the heating part of air cooling display unit 200.

At length, suck the rear side of air contact display unit 200, thus the heat that absorption image panel 250 and electric component distribute.The air that temperature raises by absorbing heat is cooled when flowing through air-conditioning unit 100 indoor heat converters 50.Be expelled back into the interior space by the air that cools off through indoor heat converter 50 by outlet 26.

Therefore, when air-conditioning unit 100 and display unit 200 were operated simultaneously, even under hot environment, the temperature of display unit 200 can not raise yet.That is to say, suck the air be used to cool off the interior space and also cool off display unit 200.

On the other hand, in the situation of heat-production functions operation, the room air of suction at first absorbs heat by display unit 200, and therefore the air through indoor heat converter 50 is heated rapidly, has strengthened the thermal efficiency like this.

And because air-conditioning unit 100 is positioned on the rear side of display unit 200, what can make air-conditioning unit 100 exposes the area minimum to the user.

And in the situation of the operation of display unit only, when only being when constituting indoor fan 30 in the parts of air-conditioning unit 100 and operating by control module 500, the heating part of display unit 200 cools off by the air that air-conditioning unit 100 moves.Therefore, the cooler that is installed in the display unit 200 is optional, therefore can simplify the parts of display unit 200.

Fig. 8 shows the decomposition diagram of the connector of the air-conditioning unit that links to each other with bearing according to second embodiment of the invention and display unit, Fig. 9 shows the decomposition diagram according to the connector of the display unit of second embodiment of the invention and air-conditioning unit, Figure 10 shows the decomposition diagram according to air-conditioner front panel of the present invention, Figure 11 shows indoor unit and side cross-sectional view according to the assembled state of air-conditioner bearing of the present invention, and Figure 12 shows the perspective view according to the mode of operation of air-conditioner of the present invention.

Referring to Fig. 8 to 12, the indoor unit outward appearance with housing 610 among first embodiment and casing 20 is simplified with the casing 20 that comprises front panel 22 and base plate 24.And second embodiment of the invention is characterised in that suction inlet 25 is formed on the rear side of base plate 24, and

outlet

26 and 27 is formed on the front side of front panel 22.Display unit 200 is integrally formed in the front panel 22.The front panel that display unit 200 wherein is installed and base plate 24 hinge each other are connected.

At length, air-conditioner according to the present invention comprises the connector and the bearing 800 that is used for the support and connection body of display unit 200 and air-conditioning unit 100.

In more detail, air-conditioning unit 100 comprises casing 20, be arranged on loudspeaker 616, indoor fan 30, orifice plate 40, the indoor heat converter 50 on casing 20 both sides and be installed in the drain pan 80 of casing 20 inside, and wherein casing 20 comprises front panel 22 that display unit 200 is installed on it and the base plate 24 that is assembled to front panel 22 rear sides.

And front panel 22 and base plate 24 are fixed to one another, therefore indoor heat converter 50, orifice plate 40 and indoor fan 30 are installed in inside.

Herein, the image panel 250 of formation display unit 200 is installed in the front side of front panel 22.A plurality of

outlets

26 and 27 are formed on the part between the marginal portion of the marginal portion of image panel 250 and front panel 22.And, the inside of image panel 250 recessed front panels 22, so the front side of image panel 250 and front panel 22 forms same level.

And the suction inlet 25 that is used to suck room air is formed on the rear side of base plate 24.At length, rearwardly projecting projection 29 is formed on the rear side of base plate 24.Suction inlet 25 is formed in the middle of the whole area or a part of projection 29.And filter is arranged at the front side of suction inlet 25, is used to purify the room air of suction.

And, audio output 618, be used to receive the external input terminals 614 (for example, digital visual interface (DVI), RGB, assembly, S terminal, synthetic, optics, audio/video terminals and high resolution multimedia interface (HDMI)) of external signal and be arranged on the side at base plate 24 rear sides corresponding to the connecting hole 241 that is formed on connecting hole 806c in bearing 800 gripper shoes 806.And the memory bank 612 that is used to receive external memory card is arranged on the transverse edge of base plate 24.

And two indoor fans 30 are arranged on casing 20 inside, and indoor fan 30 is centrifugal fans.Each indoor fan 30 comprises fan 32 and is used for the motor 34 of drive fan 32.

Simultaneously,

outlet

26 and 27 is respectively formed at an anterior left side/right side and the last/downside of front panel 22.And dividing plate 20a is formed on the back center portion of front panel 22, is used to prevent that the air that indoor fan 30 is discharged from conflicting.The outlet 26 that is formed at front panel 22 with 27 be used to guide the passing away 36 of discharging air and link to each other, thereby the air that will discharge in a circumferential direction is discharged to the front side.

Herein, front panel 22 comprises the protecgulum 21 that image panel 250 is installed on it and has the passing away 36 that is positioned at protecgulum 21 rear sides and be used to guide the inner panel 23 that indoor fan 30 is discharged air.

At length, protecgulum 21 comprises hole and

outlet

26 and 27 of installation diagram image panel 250.And inner panel 23 comprises drive motors installation portion, dividing plate 20a and passing away 36.

Therefore, discharge in a circumferential direction by indoor fan 30 inhaled airs, and along being formed on the

outlet

26 and 27 that passing away 36 in the inner panel 23 drains into protecgulum 21.

Herein, passing away 36 is with the predetermined curvature bending, is used for air is directed to the front side by the inner edge of front panel 22.

And the deliverying unit 90 (referring to Figure 10) that is used for opening/

closing outlet

26 and 27 is installed in outlet 26 and 27.Deliverying unit 90 comprises the blade 92 that is used for opening/closing outlet 26 and is used to operate the operating electrical machines 94 of blade 92.Herein, according to present embodiment, deliverying unit 90 is installed on the inner panel 23, and only blade 92 is exposed to

outlet

26 and 27.

Simultaneously, orifice plate 40 is installed between base plate 24 and the indoor fan 30, is used for suction inlet 25 inhaled airs are directed to fan 32.And heat exchanger 50 is installed between base plate 24 and the orifice plate 40, and is fixed to orifice plate 40.

And, with a side that is installed in heat exchanger 50 from the continuous tube connector 52 of refrigerant pipe (not shown) of outside installation.Tube connector 52 bendings, thereby through the cross side and the downside of over-heat-exchanger 50.And the element 40a that is used to separate crooked tube connector 52 is outstanding by orifice plate 40.

Herein, therefore the area of heat exchanger 50 utilizes and can carry out exchange heat effectively by suction inlet 25 flow air greater than the area of suction inlet 25.And the drain pan 80 that is used to store or discharge the condensed water that is produced by heat exchanger 50 is installed in heat exchanger 50 downsides.Drain pan 80 supports the lower end of heat exchanger 50, and is fixed in the orifice plate 40.

Simultaneously, first hinge mount 660 is formed on a side of front panel 22, and is installed on the side of base plate 24 with first hinge mount, 660 hinged second hinge mounts 670.Therefore, the front panel 22 that image panel 250 is installed on it can rotate around the edge on base plate 24 1 sides.And user or technical staff can check the inside of indoor unit by opening front panel 22.

Simultaneously, identical among bearing 800 and first embodiment, it comprises bedplate 802, by the upright post of bedplate 802 be fixed in the post 804 and be installed in gripper shoe 806 on the indoor unit casing 20.

And the base plate 24 of gripper shoe 806 and casing 20 is connected to each other.According to present embodiment, gripper shoe 806 approaches that projection 29 connects and is fixing, is used for the intensity of reinforcing soleplate 24.

And subplate 806b comprises the hold-down bars 809 that is inserted and secured in the casing 20.At length, hold-down bars 809 is shaped with certain-length on the longitudinal direction of casing 20, and is shaped with certain-length in the horizontal direction.

And hold-down bars 809 can be inserted and secured in base plate 24 or the front panel 22.According to present embodiment, hold-down bars 809 insertions are formed on the installing hole 809a (Figure 11) between base plate 24 and front panel 22 lower ends and are fixed in the base plate 24.

Therefore, when indoor unit was installed, the base plate 24 of casing 20 was fixed on the back plate 806a of gripper shoe 806, and simultaneously, hold-down bars 809 is fixed on the front side of base plate 24, is used for strengthening significantly connection power and the crooked rigidity of opposing between bearing 800 and the casing 20.

And after inserting installing hole 809a, hold-down bars 809 uses bolt or screw (referring to Figure 11) to connect/be fixed on the base plate 24.

In having the air-conditioner of said structure, suck the air that is formed on base plate 24 rear side suction inlets 25 and drain into front panel 22 front sides by the outlet 36 that is formed in the inner panel 23.

Figure 13 shows the perspective view that has according to the air-conditioner of the bearing of third embodiment of the invention, and Figure 14 shows the decomposition diagram that is arranged at according to the air purifier of the bearing of third embodiment of the invention.

The air purifier in the bearing 800 that is installed in second embodiment, the 3rd embodiment is identical with second embodiment.

Referring to Figure 13 and 14, suction inlet 811 and outlet 812 are formed in the post 804 of bearing 800.Post 804 inside are equipped with and purify fan 810, be used for collecting such as the pdp filter device 820 by purifying foreign matter such as the contained dust of fan 810 inhaled airs and be used for filtering by purifying the screening and filtering device (filtration filter) 830 of smell, harmful bacteria or foreign matter that fan 810 inhaled airs contain.

At length, post 804 comprise connect and be fixed in gripper shoe 806 and the bedplate 802 cylinder 815 and with the cylinder 815 front sides post lid 816 that is used to form air entry spaced a predetermined distance from.

Herein, suction inlet 811 is formed at the front side of cylinder 815, is used to pass air into post 804 inside.Outlet 812 is formed on the both sides of cylinder 815.And the hold-down bars that certain second embodiment proposes can be side-prominent on cylinder 815.Room air sucks by the space that the edge along post lid 816 forms.Pdp filter device 820 is installed in the rear portion of post lid 816.

Pdp filter device 820 comprises the filter housings 821 that is fixed in the cylinder 815 and is assembled to the dust collect plant 822 that filter housings 821 is used to collect the contained foreign matter of air.

At length, filter housings 821 is configured as the box-like shape of front openings, is used to hold dust collect plant 822, and can cover the whole of the suction inlet 811 that is formed in the cylinder 815.Therefore, flow through filter housings 821, and flow to purification fan 810 by suction inlet 811 inhaled airs.

Specifically, screening and filtering device 830 is installed in filter housings 821 inside, is used to filter by the interior space flow to the air that purifies fan 810.And, be used for being installed in filter housings 821 to the cable 823 and the connector 824 of dust collect plant 822 power supplies.

At length, dust collect plant 822 comprises sparking electrode housing 825 that sparking electrode is installed and the anti-sparking electrode housing 826 that anti-sparking electrode is installed.(+) electric current inputs to sparking electrode, and (-) electric current inputs to anti-sparking electrode.

And, purify fan 830 and comprise the centrifugal fan 832 and the motor 834 that is used for rotary and centrifugal type fan 832 that is used for air is sucked central part.Motor 834 is fixed in the cylinder 815.

Simultaneously, when purifying fan 830 operations, room air removes dust and is cleaned when flowing through pdp filter device 820 and screening and filtering device 830, flow to centrifugal fan 832 then.And, discharge in a circumferential direction by centrifugal fan 832 rotation inhaled airs.Then, the air of being discharged by centrifugal fan 832 is expelled back into the interior space by outlet 812.

Herein, the air cleaning unit that is installed in the bearing 800 is controlled by control module 500, and receives user's operational order by operating unit 400.And air cleaning unit is independent of air-conditioning unit 100 and display unit 200 is operated.

That is to say that even when air-conditioning unit 100 and display unit 200 are not operated, the air cleaning unit that is installed in the bearing 800 also can be operated independently by operating unit 400.And, when air cleaning unit and air-conditioning unit 100 are operated simultaneously, can more effectively heat/cool off and purify the air of a room.

Specifically, because air cleaning unit is installed in the bearing 800, can reduce installing space significantly.

And, because air cleaning unit controls by the control module of indoor unit, with the control of air cleaning unit and operate relevant electric component can be shared, and be used to receive the operating unit 400 of operational order also can be shared.

Because the remaining structure of the 3rd embodiment is identical with second embodiment, will omit detailed description thereof.

Those of ordinary skills obviously can carry out various modifications and variation to the present invention.Therefore various modifications and variations of the present invention are contained by the appended content that gets claims and equivalent thereof.

Claims

1. air-conditioner comprises:

Display unit with image panel;

Link to each other with display unit and have freeze and heat in one fan and the air-conditioning unit of indoor heat converter; And

Be used to support the bearing of the assembly of display unit and air-conditioning unit.

2. air-conditioner according to claim 1 also comprises the pipe that is arranged on bearing inside, and the cold-producing medium that is used to carry out between indoor heat converter and the outdoor heat converter circulates.

3. air-conditioner according to claim 1, wherein bearing comprises bedplate that is loaded on mounting plane and the post that is stretched out and supported display unit and air-conditioning unit assembly by base plate.

4. air-conditioner according to claim 3 also comprises the gripper shoe of inserting between display unit and air-conditioning unit assembly and the post.

5. air-conditioner according to claim 3 also comprise by an outstanding hold-down bars in the upper surface of the upper surface of post and gripper shoe, and hold-down bars is inserted and secured on the inside of display unit and air-conditioning unit assembly.

6. air-conditioner according to claim 4, wherein gripper shoe supports the downside and the rear side of display unit and air-conditioning unit assembly.

7. air-conditioner according to claim 1 also comprises the air cleaning unit that is arranged on bearing inside.

8. air-conditioner according to claim 7, the suction inlet that wherein is used for room air is sucked air cleaning unit is formed on a side of bearing, and is used for the outlet that the air by air cleaning unit drains into the interior space is formed on the opposite side of bearing.

9. air-conditioner according to claim 7, wherein air cleaning unit is independent of display unit or air-conditioning unit operation.

10. air-conditioner according to claim 1 also comprises the loudspeaker that is arranged on display unit or bearing one side.

11. air-conditioner according to claim 1, wherein room air is sucked into the compartment between display unit and the air-conditioning unit or the rear side of air-conditioning unit.

12. air-conditioner according to claim 1, wherein the room air that sucks by fan is expelled to the front surface or the side of display unit.

13. air-conditioner according to claim 1, wherein display unit can rotate around the edge on air-conditioning unit one side.

14. an air-conditioner comprises:

Be used for the image panel of output image thereon;

Be used to support the front panel of image panel;

The base plate that links to each other with the front panel rear portion;

Be arranged on the air-conditioning unit between front panel and the base plate, and it comprises fan and the heat exchanger that is used to freeze and one of heats; And

Be used to support the bearing of front panel and base plate connector.

15. air-conditioner according to claim 14 also comprises the housing that is connected with image panel on it, this housing links to each other with front panel, has preset distance between them.

16. air-conditioner according to claim 14, wherein bearing comprises:

Be loaded on the bedplate on the mounting plane;

The post that vertically stretches out by bedplate; And

The gripper shoe that links to each other with the upper surface level of post.

17. air-conditioner according to claim 16, wherein gripper shoe comprises:

Be used to support the subplate of front panel and base plate downside; And

Be used to support the back plate of base plate rear side.

18. air-conditioner according to claim 17 also comprises:

By subplate outstanding and stretch out stretch out rod; And

Be formed in front panel and the base plate downside one and be used to hold the hole of stretching out rod.

19. air-conditioner according to claim 16 also comprises the air cleaning unit that is arranged on post inside, wherein suction inlet is formed on the front side of post, and outlet is formed at least one lateral sides of post.

20. air-conditioner according to claim 19, wherein air cleaning unit comprises:

The filter assemblies that has in pdp filter device and the screening and filtering device at least one; And

Be used to suck and the fan of room air.

21. air-conditioner according to claim 19, the front side of its center pillar cover by post and cover, and post lid links to each other with post, have preset distance between them.

22. air-conditioner according to claim 19, wherein one or the independently operation of air cleaning unit in image panel and air-conditioning unit.

23. air-conditioner according to claim 14 also comprises the seat tube that extends through bearing inside, and it has an end that links to each other with the refrigerant pipe of heat exchanger and the other end that links to each other with outdoor unit.

24. air-conditioner according to claim 14 wherein is used for stretching into bearing inside to the cable of a power supply of image panel and air-conditioning unit.