Patent ID: 7658085

Claim:
A monolithic air conditioner comprising: a cabinet of which a part placed in an indoor space is defined as a front part and another part placed in an outdoor space is defined as a rear part; a first heat exchanger mounted on a front-inner portion of the cabinet, the first heat exchanger contacting indoor air in both cooling and heating modes; a first guide member located at an end of the front part of the cabinet, the first guide member having a front grille to allow indoor air to be introduced into the air conditioner, an air outlet to allow indoor air having exchanged heat by passing through the first heat exchanger to be discharged into the indoor space; a second heat exchanger mounted on a rear-inner portion of the cabinet and spaced away from a sidewall of the cabinet to define an outdoor air intake, the second heat exchanger contacting outdoor air in both the cooling and heating modes; a second guide member located at an end of the rear part of the cabinet, the second guide member comprising: a mounting section mounting the second guide member to the second heat exchanger, an inclined section extending from the mounting section at a predetermined inclined angle to prevent the outdoor air discharged after passing through the second heat exchanger from being mixed and re-introduced into the cabinet, and guide sections formed by bending upper and lower edges of the inclined section; and a fan assembly disposed between the second heat exchanger and the first heat exchanger, wherein the cabinet is configured in such a manner that outdoor air is parallelly introduced and exhausted in a front-to-rear direction of the air conditioner, and wherein the inclined section is inclined in a direction that the outdoor air can be exhausted in a direction away from the outdoor air intake.