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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1997
Hiroshi Sunahara, Fujinomiya, JP;
Yasunori Ichikawa, Fuji, JP;
Kenji Gajina, Fuji, JP;
Katsuaki Yamagishi, Yokohama, JP;
Yukio Kiguchi, Fuji, JP;
Masahiko Sasaki, Fuji, JP;
Hiroyuki Sugiyama, Fuji, JP;
Daisuke Saito, Numazu, JP;
Teturo Ozawa, Numazu, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An indoor unit of an air-conditioner having a unit body, provided on a rear of a ceiling, having an lower surface portion exposed indoor and an indoor heat exchanger and a blower in its exterior, a decorative panel, structured as the lower surface portion for the unit body, having an inlet port for guiding air in a room to the indoor heat exchanger, a filter fixing portion, structured as a part of the decorative panel, having a filter attached to a position opposite to the inlet port to be detachable, a support portion for supporting the filter fixing portion to be freely rotatable to the decorative panel, and an open/close driving mechanism for driving the filter fixing portion to be freely opened and closed against the decorative panel in a state that the support portion is used as a fulcrum, the mechanism for hanging the filter fixing portion from a ceiling surface when being opened to be moved.