Patent ID: 7757749

Claim:
An air conditioner provided in a ceiling of an air conditioned room, comprising: a face panel including a panel main body including an alternating sequence of four side parts and four corner parts, main outlets disposed along each of the side parts, an inlet surrounded by all of the side parts, auxiliary outlets disposed at at least one of the four corner parts, and a panel lower surface part disposed on a lower surface of the panel main body such that the panel lower surface part surrounds the inlet and is surrounded by the auxiliary outlets disposed at at least one of the four corner parts; a box shaped casing main body having an open lower end, a drain pan attached to the lower end of the casing main body, the drain pan including an inlet hole arranged to communicate with the inlet of the face panel, main outlet holes arranged to communicate with the main outlets of the face panel, and auxiliary outlet holes arranged to communicate with the auxiliary outlets of the face panel, and horizontal flaps rotatably supported about longitudinal axes of the main outlets and configured to vary a wind direction of an air current blown out from each of the main outlets, the panel lower surface part having outer circumferential edge parts that are arranged to overlap with inlet side portions of the main outlets and the auxiliary outlets as viewed in a direction parallel to an airflow direction of airflow through the inlet hole, the outer circumferential edge parts overlapping with inlet side portions of the main outlets and the auxiliary outlets such that the outer circumferential edge parts define inner peripheral edges of the main outlets and the auxiliary outlets, each of the auxiliary outlets having a circumferential edge part formed so that air is blown out from each of the auxiliary outlets in a fixed direction.