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Outdoor unit for air conditioning device

Granted 3 Nov 2015 · 4 office actions

Assignee: Daikin Industries

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Inventors: Hiroshi Fuchikami, Shigeki Kamitani, Fumiaki Koike, Mikio Kagawa · Examiner: Cheryl J Tyler · AU 3744 · TC 3700

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Abstract

An outdoor unit for an air conditioning device includes an outdoor unit main body, a heat exchanger, a fan provided in an upper part of the outdoor unit main body, the fan blowing out the air taken in from a side surface of the outdoor unit main body upward, a ventilating member surrounding an outer circumference of the fan and forming a blow-out port, and an electric component unit accommodated in the outdoor unit main body and arranged in an opening portion between one side end portion and the other side end portion of the heat exchanger, wherein the electric component unit is provided so as to cross over a lower end of the ventilating member in the up and down direction, and on the upper side than the lower end of the ventilating member, the electric component unit is arranged on the horizontally outer side than the ventilating member.

Claims

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Classifications

6 codes
IPC · International Patent Classification
Section F — Mechanical engineering; lighting; heating; weapons
  • F25B1/00
  • F24F1/38
  • F24F1/24
  • F24F1/22
  • F25B13/00
  • F25D17/06

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Pendency
3.1 y
1,131 days filing → grant
Office actions
2
non-final + final
Responses
3
no RCE
Examiner
Cheryl J Tyler
art unit 3744 · TC 3700
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related publicationUS 20140326437 A16 Nov 2014

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