Patent ID: 8256241
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: F04D,F24F

Abstract:
1. An air conditioner comprising: a body panel that is provided in a ceiling of a room air-conditioned by the air conditioner and that has a blowoff port for air from the inside of an air conditioner body; a side wall installed in an upright position, along the outer periphery of the body panel; an air conditioner top plate provided so as to cover a surface of the side wall opposed to the body panel; a body suction port formed in the side wall of the air conditioner body; a heat exchanger provided in the vicinity of the body suction port, inside the side wall; a fan motor fixed to the air conditioner top plate; a centrifugal fan having a convex-shaped boss part fixed to a rotation shaft of the fan motor, the centrifugal fan sucking the air sucked via the body suction port and the heat exchanger as a result of the rotation of the rotation shaft, and blowing off the air to the room; and a airflow guide plate that isolates an air flow on the suction side of the centrifugal fan from an air flow on the blowoff side thereof, and that guides a blowoff flow of the centrifugal fan to the blowoff port of the body panel, wherein the centrifugal fan comprises: