US 11,732,906 B2
Air conditioner
Do Hoon Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Kyoung Rock Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Jong Youb Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Jung Ho Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Je Myung Moon, Hwaseong-si (KR); Jae Hyoung Sim, Suwon-si (KR); Joon Ho Yoon, Suwon-si (KR); Bu Youn Lee, Hwaseong-si (KR); Jung Dae Lee, Seongnam-si (KR); and Bum Jang, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Oct. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/514,299.
Application 17/514,299 is a continuation of application No. 16/215,993, filed on Dec. 11, 2018, granted, now 11,255,552.
Application 16/215,993 is a continuation of application No. 15/770,388, granted, now 10,969,122, previously published as PCT/KR2016/011199, filed on Oct. 6, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2015-0148299 (KR), filed on Oct. 23, 2015; application No. 10-2015-0165717 (KR), filed on Nov. 25, 2015; application No. 10-2015-0165807 (KR), filed on Nov. 25, 2015; application No. 10-2015-0165887 (KR), filed on Nov. 25, 2015; application No. 10-2015-0165895 (KR), filed on Nov. 25, 2015; and application No. 10-2016-0007061 (KR), filed on Jan. 20, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0049858 A1, Feb. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. F24F 1/48 (2011.01); F24F 13/20 (2006.01); F24F 13/12 (2006.01); F24F 1/0011 (2019.01); F24F 13/10 (2006.01); F24F 11/79 (2018.01); F24F 13/08 (2006.01); F24F 1/0073 (2019.01); F24F 13/14 (2006.01); F24F 1/0047 (2019.01); F24F 11/00 (2018.01)
CPC F24F 1/48 (2013.01) [F24F 1/0011 (2013.01); F24F 1/0047 (2019.02); F24F 1/0073 (2019.02); F24F 11/79 (2018.01); F24F 13/08 (2013.01); F24F 13/10 (2013.01); F24F 13/12 (2013.01); F24F 13/14 (2013.01); F24F 13/20 (2013.01); F24F 11/00 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An air conditioner that is mountable on a ceiling, the air conditioner comprising:
a first guide surface and a second guide surface respectively forming an inner circumference and an outer circumference of a ring-shaped lower portion of a discharge flow passage through which air is dischargeable to outside of the air conditioner; and
an airflow control guide unit configured to linearly move between a first position and a second position, wherein
the airflow control guide unit is around the second guide surface so as to be outside of the second guide surface in a radial direction of the lower portion of the discharge flow passage in both the first position and the second position,
when the airflow control guide unit is in the first position and the air conditioner is mounted on the ceiling, air discharged through the lower portion of the discharge flow passage does not collide with the airflow control guide unit, to thereby be discharged to the outside of the air conditioner in a first direction, and
when the airflow control guide unit is in the second position and the air conditioner is mounted on the ceiling, air discharged through the lower portion of the discharge flow passage collides with the airflow control guide unit, to thereby be discharged to the outside of the air conditioner in a second direction guided downward more than the first direction.