Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Hiroshi Iwazaki

Toshiyuki Kubono

Tomoya Yanase

Hidetaka Yamauchi

Kazuhiro Ooishi

Kazuho Itou

Hiroyuki Jinnai

Yuto Takeuchi

Hironori Nagai

An outdoor unit is an outdoor unit to which a refrigerant pipe used to circulate refrigerant between an indoor unit and the outdoor unit, the outdoor unit including a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger. The outdoor unit includes: a rectangular bottom panel disposed below the compressor and the outdoor heat exchanger, the rectangular bottom panel supporting the compressor and the outdoor heat exchanger; a peripheral panel disposed on a peripheral portion of the bottom panel and positioned upright on the bottom panel; a fixing panel disposed at a corner portion of the bottom panel to be located at an inner side of the peripheral panel and positioned upright on the bottom panel; and a valve which is fixed to the fixing panel and to which the refrigerant pipe is connected.

Outdoor unit

An outdoor unit for an air conditioner, comprising: a heat exchanger disposed inside a housing; and a bottom plate of the housing, including, a bottom plate portion, a flange formed by upwardly folding back an edge of the bottom plate portion, a drainage hole penetrating the bottom plate portion and configured to discharge water, a plurality of mounting bases protruding upwardly from the bottom plate portion and supporting a lower end of the heat exchanger by upper surfaces thereof, and a drainage conduit provided in contact with the mounting bases and inclining downward toward the drainage hole, wherein a portion of the bottom plate portion positioned between at least one of the plurality of the mounting bases and the flange includes an inclined portion which is inclined toward the drainage conduit in a longitudinal direction of the flange.

Outdoor unit for air conditioner

[Object] To prevent a fastening member such as a bolt from being exposed from a bottom plate when a heater is fixed to the bottom plate using a heater fixture. [Solution] An outdoor unitof an air-conditioning apparatus includes a bottom plate, a heat exchangermounted on the bottom plate, and a fansending air to the heat exchanger. The outdoor unitincludes a heaterprovided on the bottom platea fan retaining portion, mounted on the bottom plate, for retaining the fanand a heater fixture, mounted on the fan retaining portion, for fixing the heaterby pressing the heateragainst the bottom platefrom above.

Outdoor unit of air-conditioning apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Iwazaki