Samsung patents air conditioner blade with sliding guide rail
Samsung has been granted a patent for an air conditioner design featuring a specific mechanism for the internal blade that controls airflow. The blade includes a guide rail that slides along a protrusion on the main body, allowing the blade to rotate smoothly to adjust the direction of the air.
In the filing’s own words
An air conditioner including a main body including a first side, a second side opposite to the first side, an outlet between the first and second side, and a guide protrusion on the outlet; and a blade to open and close the outlet, the blade including a blade body extending from the first side to the second side of the main body when the outlet is closed by the blade, and a guide rail on a top surface of the blade body facing the outlet. The blade is configured so that the blade body is rotatable relative to the outlet to adjust a direction of air from the outlet, and the guide rail is supported by the guide protrusion to be slidable to guide at least one of a translational or a rotational movement of the blade body with respect to the main body during rotation of the blade body.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An air conditioner, comprising: a main body including: a first side, a second side opposite to the first side, an outlet between the first side and the second side, and a guide protrusion on the outlet; and a blade configured to open and close the outlet, the blade including: a blade body extending from the first side to the second side of the main body when the outlet is closed by the blade, and a guide rail on a top surface of the blade body facing the outlet, wherein the blade is configured so that: the blade body is rotatable relative to the outlet to adjust a direction of flow of air discharged from the outlet, and the guide rail is supported by the guide protrusion so as to be slidable to guide at least one of a translational movement or a rotational movement of the blade body with respect to the main body during rotation of the blade body.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- Air conditioner
- Patent number
- US12753947B2
- Application number
- 18377002
- Filed
- Oct 5, 2023
- Granted
- Oct 6, 2026
- Inventors
- 7
- Claims
- 15
Classified under
F24F 13/1486 Mechanical engineeringF24F 1/0011 Mechanical engineeringF24F 13/1426 Mechanical engineeringF24F 1/0047 Mechanical engineeringF24F 2013/1433 Mechanical engineeringMore from Samsung in Other
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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