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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 07, 1997
Do-Yeon Kim, Euwang, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Abstract
An air conditioner, and more particularly to a discharge outlet opening and closing apparatus of an air conditioner for preventing foreign objects and the like from entering thereinto through a discharge outlet when the air conditioner is stopped of its operation, the apparatus adapted to be mounted with an open/close door for preventing foreign objects and the like from being infused through a discharge outlet opened at a front panel thereof at a predetermined size when the air conditioner is stopped of its operation, wherein the door is so disposed at the rear of the front panel for vertical movement as to rise up to an upper end of the discharge outlet according to a driving source and to move forward according to a second movement for closure of the discharge outlet and to thereby maintain a same flat surface as that of the front panel.