US 11,698,234 B2
Distributor, heat exchanger unit and air conditioner
Sangmu Lee, Kanagawa (JP); Hyun Young Kim, Kanagawa (JP); Masaki Saito, Kanagawa (JP); Masatoshi Takahashi, Kanagawa (JP); Takeshi Takahara, Kanagawa (JP); Kangtae Seo, Suwon-si (KR); Kazushige Tajima, Kanagawa (JP); Ryo Inoha, Kanagawa (JP); and Tsutomu Shimizu, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co.. Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Mar. 6, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/811,949.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-040907 (JP), filed on Mar. 6, 2019; application No. 2019-170882 (JP), filed on Sep. 19, 2019; application No. 2019-170883 (JP), filed on Sep. 19, 2019; application No. 2020-001877 (JP), filed on Jan. 9, 2020; and application No. 10-2020-0020791 (KR), filed on Feb. 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2020/0284533 A1, Sep. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. F28F 9/02 (2006.01); F24F 13/30 (2006.01)
CPC F28F 9/0275 (2013.01) [F24F 13/30 (2013.01); F28F 2009/0295 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An air conditioner comprising:
a distributor configured to distribute a fluid passing inside of the distributor; and
a heat exchanger including a plurality of refrigerant pipes in which the fluid distributed by the distributor flows, the heat exchanger configured to exchange heat with air,
wherein the distributor comprises:
a main pipe;
a partition defining a plurality of distribution paths separated from each other in the main pipe, the plurality of distribution paths including a first distribution path and a second distribution path being different from the first distribution path;
a first branched pipe inserted into the first distribution path as much as a first insertion length, the first branched pipe connected to a first refrigerant pipe in a first portion of the heat exchanger;
a second branched pipe inserted into the first distribution path as much as a second insertion length longer than the first insertion length, the second branched pipe connected to a second refrigerant pipe in a second portion of the heat exchanger; and
a third branched pipe inserted into the second distribution path as much as the second insertion length of the second branched pipe inserted into the first distribution path, and
wherein a flow velocity of air exchanging heat at the first portion of the heat exchanger is faster than a flow velocity of air exchanging heat at the second portion of the heat exchanger.