Ceiling-type air conditioner
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Solution Overview
Problem
The outdoor unit of air conditioners faces challenges in pipe fastening due to interference from adjacent service valves and components, making the piping work cumbersome and prone to foreign object entry.
Innovation Solution
A bracket structure is designed with overlapping upper and lower plates to secure a working space for pipe fastening and block external objects, featuring service valves mounted on the plates to facilitate secure mounting on the outdoor unit's housing, reducing interference and ensuring a broader effective work radius.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a bracket structure is used to mount service valves on the outdoor unit, then the service valves can be securely connected to internal piping, but interference from adjacent components makes pipe fastening work difficult and reduces the effective working space
Solution Approach 1:
The service valves are arranged in a vertical direction rather than horizontal arrangement, utilizing the vertical dimension to create sufficient horizontal working space. This dimensional reorganization allows pipe fastening operations to be performed without interference from adjacent components while maintaining secure connections.
Solution Approach 2:
The bracket structure is divided into multiple plates (first plate, second plate, third plate) with service valves mounted on different plates at different heights. This segmentation allows each service valve to have its own dedicated working space, eliminating interference between adjacent valves during pipe fastening operations.
2Ease of manufacture
If service valves are mounted on the outdoor unit housing, then piping connections can be established, but foreign objects can enter from the outside to the inside during installation and operation
Solution Approach 1:
The service valves are mounted on the outer surface of the housing, with the valve bodies nested within or integrated with the housing structure. This nesting arrangement allows external piping connections while the housing structure itself acts as a barrier preventing foreign objects from entering the internal space.
Solution Approach 2:
The bracket structure serves as an intermediary component between the external piping and internal system. It provides a mounting platform for service valves on the outer surface while the housing and bracket together form a protective barrier that prevents foreign object entry during installation and operation.
Data Source
AI summary
Various embodiments disclosed herein relate to a bracket structure for fastening pipes in an outdoor unit of an air conditioner. To this end, the outdoor unit of the air conditioner may include: a bracket configured by fastening a right-side part of an upper plate and a left-side part of a lower plate so that the surfaces thereof partially overlap, wherein one or a plurality of first service valves are mounted on the right-side part of the upper plate and one or a plurality of second service valves are mounted on the left-side part of the lower plate; and a housing configured so that the bracket is fastened to the lower end of one surface.