Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Shanghai Jiaotong University

Hideshi Tanaka

Hironobu Teraoka

Satoshi Nakai

Yoshinori Kagawa

Kouzou Yoshinaga

Kaname Maruyama

Jie Tian

Masafumi Uda

You Li

Kazuhiro Matsumoto

Masahito Higashida

Zuozhou Chen

Kazuya Nishimura

Shimei Tei

Hirohiko Matsushita

Tadashi Ohnishi

Hua Ouyang

Kazuya Haraguchi

Fumito Fujioka

This indoor unit of an air conditioner includes an indoor unit main body having an inlet and an outlet; a heat exchanger; and a cross-flow fan configured to blow out air, which has undergone heat exchange by the heat exchanger. The cross-flow fan has a blow-out flow path that is configured such that a cross-sectional area gradually increases downward, with the blow-out flow path guiding blown-out air to the outlet. When a distance in the lower wall from an intersection, where a tangent inscribing a tongue of the cross-flow fan orthogonally intersects the lower wall, to a lower end of the indoor unit main body is referred to as distance L, a ratio (L/D) of the distance L to outer diameter D of an impeller of the cross-flow fan is less than 0.05. At least part of the blow-out flow path is formed to project out of the outlet at least when air conditioning operation is performed.

Indoor unit of air conditioner

A cross flow fan includes a support plate and an impeller with a plurality of blades disposed on the support plate at predetermined intervals. On each blade, a radius of a pressure surface arc is greater than a radius of a suction surface arc, a radius of an inner peripheral side arc is greater than a radius of an outer peripheral side arc, and a region of maximum thickness is located 40% to 60% from the inner peripheral side arc in the lengthwise direction. The blades are disposed such that the inner peripheral side arcs are positioned on an inner peripheral side of the support plate and the outer peripheral side arcs are positioned on an outer peripheral side of the support plate. A flow path width between the plurality of blades gradually decreases from the inner peripheral side toward the outer peripheral side of the support plate.

Cross flow fan

A cross-flow fan includes a disc-shaped or circular annular support plate, plural blades extending in a lengthwise direction from the support plate, and an auxiliary ring. The auxiliary ring has a ring portion that is positioned on a lengthwise direction intermediate section of the plural blades and is disposed on an outside of outer ends of the plural blades, and plural connection portions that extend from the ring portion as far as spaces between adjacent blades of the plural blades and are joined to the blades in the spaces between adjacent blades.

Cross-flow fan

An impeller of a blower is disposed with circular support plates that are made of a resin and rotate about an axis of rotation and a plurality of blades that are made of a resin. The blades are disposed on outer peripheral portions of the circular support plates so as to be parallel to an axis of rotation, and serrated shapes are formed on the blades by cutting out blade tips at plural places. Additionally, a step is formed in a blade face of each of the blades at a position a predetermined distance from the blade tip where the serrated shape is formed.

Impeller of multiblade blower and method of manufacuturing the same

An impeller is provided for a blower having a blade (), a plurality of notches () provided at predetermined intervals on a side edge of the blade (), and a plurality of smooth portions () each provided between a pair of the notches (). Since a transverse vortex discharged from the side edge of the blade (), and on a large scale, is organized by vertical vortexes formed in the notches () on a small scale so as to be segmented into stable transverse vortexes, it becomes possible to reduce aerodynamic noise.

Impeller for blower and air conditioner having the same

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Kusatsu, Japan

Hideshi Tanaka