Patent ID: 9702588
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: F24F,F24H,Y02B

Claim:
1. An air conditioning apparatus, comprising: a casing having an intake port and a blow-out port; a partition member dividing an interior of the casing into a heat exchanger compartment located on an intake port side and a fan compartment located on a blow-out port side, the partition member having a fan entrance, the fan entrance being bored in opposition to the blow-out port and making the heat exchanger compartment and the fan compartment communicate with each other; a heat exchanger mounted in the heat exchanger compartment; a centrifugal fan including a bladed wheel having a plurality of rearward blades and being configured to suck air existing in the heat exchanger compartment into the fan compartment through the fan entrance, with the bladed wheel being mounted in the fan compartment such that a rotary shaft of the bladed wheel is oriented along a first axial direction perpendicular to a second lateral direction along which the partition member extends; a heat sink configured and arranged to cool an electric component, the heat sink being mounted in a blow-out port non-opposed space, the blow-out port non-opposed space being a region not opposed to the blow-out port within a fan downwind space, the fan downwind space being located on a downwind side of the bladed wheel within the fan compartment; and a blow-out port non-opposed surface part forming the blow-out port non-opposed space and being opposed to the fan entrance in a position on the downwind side of the bladed wheel, the rotary shaft of the bladed wheel being disposed in a position adjacent to a bladed wheel nearby lateral part, the bladed wheel nearby lateral part being one of multiple lateral parts of the casing that are disposed along the first axial direction, the blow-out port being at least partially disposed in a position adjacent to a blow-out port nearby lateral part, the blow-out port nearby lateral part being another one of the multiple lateral parts of the casing and being opposed to the bladed wheel nearby lateral part, the blow-out port non-opposed surface part forming a slope slanting so as to be extending gradually away from the bladed wheel from a region adjacent to the fan entrance to a region adjacent to the blow-out port, and the heat sink being disposed on the slope.