Air-direction adjusting apparatus for air-conditioning equipment

• US 5,833,532 A
• Filed: 05/07/1997
• Issued: 11/10/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation), Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshida, Takayuki, Koizumi, Hideaki, Yamamoto, Kaoru, Sano, Hiromi, Sakuma, Kiyoshi, Kotoh, Satoru, Unno, Kenichi, Matsushita, Kunio, Aoki, Katuyuki, Suzuki, Shin'ichi, Oguma, Tomoko
• Primary Examiner(s): Joyce, Harold
• Application Number:
  US08/852,453
• Time in Patent Office: 552 Days
• Field of Search: 454/155, 454/202, 454/313, 454/315, 454/320, 454/321
• US Class Current: 454/320
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 1/165 with a plurality of closure members
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 1/00 Room units for air-conditioning, e.g. separate or self-contained units or units receiving primary air from a central station
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/075 having parallel rods or lamellae directing the outflow, e.g. the rods or lamellae being individually adjustable F24F13/072 takes precedence

Abstract

In an apparatus in which a blow-out nozzle is provided at a lower end of an air course formed in the inside of a body of the air-conditioning equipment and blown air passed through the air course is blown out of a blow-outlet while guided in the left/right direction by a plurality of parallel guide vanes pivotally held by the blow-out nozzle, wherein each vane has a C-shaped annular pivotal bearing and a sleeve fitted into the bearing, a shaft extending from an inner wall of the nozzle being inserted into the sleeve, the shaft having claws which project from the upper end portion of the shaft so as to retain the sleeve.

Claims

1. A mechanism for controlling the flow of air from an air-conditioning unit, comprising:

a plurality of guide vanes located within an air outlet of said air-conditioning unit, said plurality of guide vanes engaging in rotational movement to adjust a direction of said flow of air;

pivotal bearings located at edge portions on one side of each of said plurality of guide vanes;

sleeves fitted over said pivotal bearings to hold said pivotal bearings in place; and

shafts inserted within said sleeves and connected to an inner wall of said air-conditioning unit.

2. An air-direction adjusting apparatus in an air-conditioning equipment, which comprises guide vanes which are disposed in a blow-outlet and which make rotational movement to thereby change the air direction, wherein each vane has a C-shaped annular pivotal bearing and a sleeve fitted into the bearing so as to be held by the bearing, a shaft extending from an inner wall of the blow-outlet being inserted into the sleeve, the shaft having claws which project from the upper end portion of the shaft so as to retain the sleeve.

3. Apparatus as claimed in claim 2, in which there is a guide vane of a first type at one end of a set of the guide vanes, a guide vane of a second type at the other end, and guide vanes of a third type intermediate the two end guide vanes, there being non-sliding connections between the two end guide vanes and a link connecting all the guide vanes of the set.

4. Apparatus as claimed in claim 3, in which each intermediate guide vane has a slot in which a shaft on the link is received to connect the guide vane to the link.

5. Apparatus as claimed in claim 4, in which one shaft on the link is received in a bearing portion of one of the intermediate guide vanes.