Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Yuto Takeuchi

Hidetaka Yamauchi

Toshiyuki Kubono

Tomoya Yanase

Kentaro Yonehara

Kazuho Ito

Kazuhiro Ooishi

Hiroshi Iwazaki

Kazuho Itou

Tatsuya Asanuma

Kenichi Unno

An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus has a fan guard covering an air outlet provided in a front panel. The air outlet is opened in a circular shape. The fan guard has a spiral wire formed in a spiral shape and having a hole in a center portion of the spiral wire, a center cap covering the hole, and an outer frame wire that is formed in an annular shape to surround an outer circumference of the spiral wire and in which one end portion and the other end portion at both ends of the annular shape are displaced from each other in a radial direction of the spiral wire and joined to each other at a position of an outer circumferential end portion of the spiral wire.

Outdoor unit for air-conditioning apparatus

An outdoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes a casing forming an outer shell, a terminal block disposed in the casing, a terminal block support element configured to support the terminal block, and an earth grounding plate sandwiched between the terminal block and the terminal block support element. An engaging portion to be engaged with the terminal block support element is provided in the earth grounding plate. A fixing element is provided to fasten the terminal block and the earth grounding plate engaged with the terminal block support element by the engaging portion together to the terminal block support element.

Outdoor unit of air-conditioning apparatus

[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.

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Yuto Takeuchi