US 11,668,473 B2
Air conditioner
Sung Jae Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Jin Gyun Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Young Tae Song, Suwon-si (KR); Hae Gyun Shin, Suwon-si (KR); Chang Sik Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Chang Woo Jung, Suwon-si (KR); Seo Young Cho, Suwon-si (KR); and Sung Hyun Chun, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Sep. 20, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/577,450.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0113748 (KR), filed on Sep. 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0096207 A1, Mar. 26, 2020
Int. Cl. F24F 1/029 (2019.01); F24F 1/0284 (2019.01); F24F 1/0323 (2019.01); F24F 1/035 (2019.01); F24F 13/20 (2006.01); F24F 13/08 (2006.01); F24F 13/30 (2006.01); F24F 13/28 (2006.01)
CPC F24F 1/029 (2019.02) [F24F 1/0284 (2019.02); F24F 1/035 (2019.02); F24F 1/0323 (2019.02); F24F 13/084 (2013.01); F24F 13/20 (2013.01); F24F 13/28 (2013.01); F24F 13/30 (2013.01); F24F 2013/205 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An air conditioner comprising: a housing having a front panel with an outlet formed therein, and a rear panel with an inlet formed therein; a heat exchanger positioned inside the housing; a fan positioned inside the housing to correspond to a position of the inlet along a front-rear direction of the housing; a filter assembly located at an exterior of the housing and provided to be couplable to and decouplable from the rear panel and configured to filter out foreign materials from air entering the housing and cover the inlet when the filter assembly is coupled to the rear panel, wherein the heat exchanger, the fan, and the filter assembly are sequentially arranged along the front-rear direction of the housing, a rear surface of the air conditioner is formed by a rear surface of the rear panel and a rear surface of the filter assembly at an upper portion of the rear surface of the rear panel, the fan is decouplable from the housing through the inlet along the front-rear direction of the housing by decoupling the filter assembly at the upper portion of the rear surface of the rear panel.