US 12,405,014 B2
Outdoor unit of air conditioner
Junhee Kim, Seoul (KR); Siyoung Oh, Seoul (KR); Hyoungjune Kim, Seoul (KR); Siyoung Choi, Seoul (KR); Jonghae Lee, Seoul (KR); Gwansoo Lee, Seoul (KR); Kiyoon Park, Seoul (KR); Hyunwook Bae, Seoul (KR); and Taegyu Kim, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Nov. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/502,311.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2023-0086994 (KR), filed on Jul. 5, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0012459 A1, Jan. 9, 2025
Int. Cl. F24F 1/38 (2011.01); F04D 29/52 (2006.01); F04D 29/54 (2006.01); F24F 1/40 (2011.01)
CPC F24F 1/38 (2013.01) [F04D 29/526 (2013.01); F04D 29/541 (2013.01); F24F 1/40 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An outdoor unit of an air conditioner, comprising:
a base panel;
a front panel disposed at a front end of the base panel and having a through hole formed therein;
an orifice fitted to the through hole;
a fan disposed behind the through hole, wherein at least a portion of the fan is accommodated inside of the orifice; and
a heat exchanger disposed on an edge of a rear side of the base panel, wherein a frontward-to-backward width of a first side end of the orifice is less than a frontward-to-backward of a second side end of the orifice, wherein the heat exchanger comprises:
a first side that extends along a first side end of the base panel; and
a second side bent from a rear end of the second side and that extends along a rear end of the base panel, wherein the first side is shorter than the second side, wherein the first side end of the orifice is adjacent to the first side, wherein the frontward-to-backward width of the orifice increases linearly from the first side end of the orifice to a center of the orifice and is formed to extend parallel to a front surface of the orifice from the center of the orifice to the second side end of the orifice, wherein a fastening sleeve extends from an edge of the through hole of the front panel, wherein at least a portion of the fastening sleeve is bent toward a front side of the front panel, and wherein the outdoor unit further comprises:
misassembly prevention ribs formed at upper and lower ends of a back surface of the front panel, respectively; and
misassembly prevention grooves formed in upper and lower ends of the fastening sleeve, respectively, to accommodate the misassembly prevention ribs, wherein the misassembly prevention ribs and the misassembly prevention grooves are formed at points spaced to a first lateral side or a second lateral side with respect to a vertical line that passes through a center of the through hole.