Lg Electronics Inc.

Gwansoo Lee

Junhee Kim

Siyoung Choi

Hyunwook Bae

Kiyoon Park

Jonghae Lee

Hyoungjune Kim

Taegyu Kim

Siyoung Oh

An outdoor unit of an air conditioner includes a base panel having first inlet and outlet holes; a compressor; a tank storing water exchanging heat with refrigerant discharged from the compressor; a pump supplying the water to the tank; a vertical panel having second inlet and outlet holes; a deaerator removing gas contained in the heat-exchanged water flowing from the tank; and pipes connected to the tank, the pump, and the deaerator, the pipes including a first pipe connected to an inlet of the pump; a second pipe connecting an outlet of the pump and the tank; a third pipe connecting that tank and an inlet of the deaerator; and a fourth pipe connected to an outlet of the deaerator; and the first pipe and the fourth being connectable to the inlet and outlet holes of either the vertical panel or the base panel.

Outdoor unit of air conditioner

An outdoor unit of an air conditioner may include a base panel, a front panel disposed on a front end of the base panel and having a through hole formed therein, an orifice fitted to the through hole, a fan disposed behind the through hole and having at least a portion accommodated inside of the orifice, and a heat exchanger disposed on or at an edge of a rear side of the base panel. A frontward-to-backward width of a first side end of the orifice may be less than a frontward-to-backward of a second side end of the orifice.

An outdoor unit of an air conditioner may include a case that forms an outside air inlet; a barrier that partitions an inside of the case into a heat exchange space and an electric space; a heat exchanger disposed in the heat exchange space; a fan disposed in the heat exchange space; a compressor disposed in the electric space; and a control box assembly disposed in the electric space. The control box assembly may include a control box connected to the outside air inlet and having electric components disposed therein; and a heat dissipation duct connected to an inside of the control box and that extends from one side of the control box to the barrier. The air introduced through the outside air inlet may be discharged to the heat exchange space after passing through the control box and the heat dissipation duct.

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Seoul, South Korea

Gwansoo Lee