US 11,971,070 B2
Indoor unit for an air conditioner
Junseok Bae, Seoul (KR); Sunggyu Choi, Seoul (KR); Kangyoung Kim, Seoul (KR); and Seongkuk Mun, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Appl. No. 16/980,818
Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
PCT Filed Mar. 15, 2019, PCT No. PCT/KR2019/003023
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 14, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/177415, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0030777 (KR), filed on Mar. 16, 2018; and application No. 10-2019-0024963 (KR), filed on Mar. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0088075 A1, Mar. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. F25D 23/00 (2006.01); F16C 17/03 (2006.01); F24F 1/0087 (2019.01)
CPC F16C 17/03 (2013.01) [F24F 1/0087 (2019.02); F25D 23/006 (2013.01); F16C 2362/52 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An indoor unit for an air conditioner, comprising:
a cabinet assembly including a base;
a water tank disposed at an upper side of the base;
a tilting journal disposed between the base and the water tank to support the water tank, and to provide a tilt axis of the water tank when the water tank tilts;
a supply tilt cover at which the water tank is detachably held, which supports a lower side of the water tank, and which is supported by the tilting journal;
a tilt move gear to support the supply tilt cover and to move a rear of the supply tilt cover in an up-down direction;
a tilt drive gear assembly engaged with the tilt move gear to supply a driving force to the tilt move gear and move the tilt move gear in the up-down direction; and
a tilt motor to supply the driving force to the tilt drive gear assembly,
wherein on the basis of operation of the tilt drive gear assembly, the tilt move gear moves in the up-down direction, and on the basis of the up-down movement of the tilt move gear, the water tank tilts in a front-rear direction with respect to the tilting journal.