US 11,971,178 B2
Indoor unit of an air conditioner
Sunggyu Choi, Seoul (KR); Kangyoung Kim, Seoul (KR); Junseok Bae, Seoul (KR); Seongkuk Mun, Seoul (KR); Heejun Cheon, Seoul (KR); and Nahee Kim, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Appl. No. 16/981,248
Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
PCT Filed Mar. 15, 2019, PCT No. PCT/KR2019/003020
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 15, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/177413, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0030777 (KR), filed on Mar. 16, 2018; and application No. 10-2019-0024951 (KR), filed on Mar. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0025599 A1, Jan. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. F24F 1/00 (2019.01); F24F 1/0011 (2019.01); F24F 1/005 (2019.01); F24F 1/0087 (2019.01); F24F 8/80 (2021.01)
CPC F24F 1/0011 (2013.01) [F24F 1/005 (2019.02); F24F 1/0087 (2019.02); F24F 8/80 (2021.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An indoor unit of an air conditioner, comprising:
a cabinet assembly;
a door assembly disposed at a front of the cabinet assembly to cover the front of the cabinet assembly;
a fixed plate fixed to the cabinet assembly and disposed between the door assembly and the cabinet assembly; and
a door assembly moving part disposed between the door assembly and the fixed plate to move the door assembly in a left-right direction with respect to the cabinet assembly,
wherein when seen from the front of the cabinet assembly, the fixed plate is fixed eccentric in a direction where the door assembly moves such that when the door assembly moves, a center line of the door assembly remains within a left-right width of the fixed plate.