Apparatus for redirecting wind and air conditioner having the same

Abstract

An air conditioner, especially to an apparatus for redirecting wind in an indoor unit of the air conditioner is disclosed. A scroll guide provided so as to form an air duct at the circumference of a centrifugal fan for sucking and discharging the interior air so that the interior air can pass through a heat exchanger is installed in a rotation controllable state. Wind direction patterns can be regulated in various states by rotating the scroll guide by a predetermined angle and converting the setting position of an air discharge opening according to the operation mode. The degree of freedom relative to wind redirection of the discharge air can be improved by a variable air duct and the product efficiency and the reliability can be improved through improvement of the wind amount efficiency and reduction of noise.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to an air conditioner, and more particularly to an apparatus for redirecting wind in an air conditioner for selectively converting and guiding the discharge direction of the conditioned air by a variable air duct. [0003] 2. Description of the Related Art [0004] Recently, as desires for pursuing a comfortable environment for an office space as well as a living space have increased, air conditioners such as cooling and heat units have been widely used. [0005] The air conditioner mainly performs cooling and heating functions for maintaining the optimum temperature and humidity according to the seasonal climatic condition and interior environment. Especially, many researches and developments have been attempted for improving the energy consumption efficiency as well as for enlarging, high-grading, and systemizing cooling air conditioners. [0006] The air conditioner, as well known, includes ...

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Benefits of technology

[0017] Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems occurring in the fixed air duct structure of the conventional air conditioner, and an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for redirecting wind in an air conditioner having an improved degree of freedom to the redirection of wind of the discharged air by using a variable air duct.

[0018] It is another object of the present invention to provide an air conditioner including the apparatus for redirecting wind for achieving the above-mentioned object.

Problems solved by technology

Thus, since the redirection of the wind by the selection of the operation of a user is impossible and various patterns of wind redirecting functions cannot be realized, there is a limit in optimizing the cooling function and efficiency.

Further, since the discharged cool air interrupted from being discharged outside of the cabinet 10 by the louver 11b and the vane 11c controlled to be closed for wind redirection interferes the cool air discharged outside the cabinet 10 through a normal open path, the wind state becomes unstable, thereby lowering the wind amount efficiency and the cooling function.

Furthermore, in the conventional air conditioner, the practical restriction in which the louver 11b and the vane 11c are designed so as to have an open angle of about 120 degrees due to the designing and manufacturing technologies limits the opening degree.

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