Patent ID: 8956107
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: F24F

Abstract:
1. An air conditioner, comprising: a housing accommodating therein an air delivery fan and having a discharge opening from which an airflow generated by the air delivery fan is blown out; and a fan guard assembly disposed between the air delivery fan and the discharge opening in the housing, wherein the fan guard assembly includes: first members which are provided at intervals along the length of the discharge opening, the first members including a pair of outer first members and at least two intervening first members that are provided between the pair of outer first members along the length of the discharge opening, and each of the first members having integrally formed protruding portions protruding in such a manner as to form retaining grooves, and second members held in the retaining grooves of the first members; each of the second members is retained only by a set of retaining grooves comprising one retaining groove of each of the first members such that, along an uninterrupted portion of the length of the discharge opening between the pair of outer first members, each of the second members is retained only by the retaining grooves of the respective intervening first members, which are in the same set of retaining grooves for retaining the same one of the second members, and which are open in the same direction, and the protruding portions protrude in such a manner that, in a side view, each protruding portion intersects each respective rectilinear line that passes a center point of the second member at the corresponding retaining groove and each point along an edge of the discharge opening.