Patent ID: 8001800

Claim:
An outdoor unit of an air conditioner, the outdoor unit comprising: a heat exchanger, a compressor, an electrical component box, a casing that houses the heat exchanger, the compressor, and the electrical component box and that has an opening adjacent to the electrical component box, and an opening cover which forms air circulation paths between the opening cover and side edges of the opening, which extends between part of the casing on upper end side of the opening and part of the casing on lower end side of the opening, and in which an interconnection path guiding from inside to outside of the casing interconnections connected to electrical components in the electrical component box is provided in lower end part thereof, wherein the opening cover comprises: fixed part that is fixed onto the outer side surface of the casing, step part that adjoins the fixed part and that extends from outside to inside of the casing in vicinity of a lower edge of the opening of the casing, flat part that adjoins the step part and that is placed inside the casing with respect to the opening of the casing, and bent part that adjoins the flat part and that is bent from the flat part so that extremity thereof comes into contact with the inner side surface of the casing in vicinity of an upper edge of the opening.