CN112460782B

CN112460782B - Protection part, panel assembly and air conditioner

Info

Publication number: CN112460782B
Application number: CN202011280384.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 招成炜; 李德清; 李军; 郑佳琪; 江键
Original assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Current assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Priority date: 2020-11-16
Filing date: 2020-11-16
Publication date: 2021-12-03
Anticipated expiration: 2040-11-16
Also published as: CN112460782A

Abstract

The application provides a protection piece, a panel assembly and an air conditioner. This protection part includes periphery shape and main part (1) of waiting to cooperate part shape looks adaptation, and the periphery of main part (1) is provided with joint limit (2) of inwards buckling, forms draw-in groove (3) between joint limit (2) and main part (1), and main part (1) is configured to treat the cooperation part outside through draw-in groove (3) joint, treats the cooperation part and protects. According to the protection piece of this application, can avoid the ornament to take place the obscission in the air conditioner transportation, guarantee the whole appearance quality of air conditioner.

Description

Protection part, panel assembly and air conditioner

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of air conditioning, in particular to a protection part, a panel assembly and an air conditioner.

Background

Most of the air conditioners on the market have uniform and slightly monotonous overall colors, so that parts of electroplated parts are usually adopted for decoration, such as decorative strips, decorative rings and the like. However, as the air conditioner industry is continuously developed, the novel appearance can catch the eyes of consumers, so that the air conditioner is more and more focused on the appearance design, is not limited to the traditional mode of improving the appearance quality by using a plated part, and can be added with more ornament elements. For the ornaments, because the ornaments are originally independent of the air conditioner shell and are mostly installed on the decorative bottom plate in a clamping way and the like, the ornaments are easy to fall off in the transportation process of the air conditioner, and the integral appearance quality of the air conditioner is influenced.

Disclosure of Invention

Therefore, the technical problem that this application will be solved lies in providing a protection piece, panel components and air conditioner, can avoid the ornament to take place the obscission in the air conditioner transportation, guarantees the whole appearance quality of air conditioner.

In order to solve the problem, the application provides a protection piece, including periphery shape and the main part of waiting to mate part shape looks adaptation, the periphery of main part is provided with the joint limit of inwards buckling, forms the draw-in groove between joint limit and the main part, and the main part is configured to treat the part of mating and protects through the draw-in groove joint in waiting to mate the part outside.

Preferably, the main body is an annular body, and the main body is matched with the clamping edge and wraps the periphery of the part to be matched.

Preferably, the clamping edge extends along the circumference of the body, the clamping edge being open at one side of the body.

Preferably, the clamping edges are multiple, and the clamping edges are arranged along the circumferential direction of the main body at intervals.

Preferably, one side of the main body is provided with a mounting opening, and the circumferential length of the mounting opening accounts for 1/4-2/5 of the whole outer circumferential length of the main body.

Preferably, the clamping structure formed by the clamping edge and the main body forms interference fit between the opening of the clamping groove and the part to be matched.

Preferably, the body is of disc-like configuration.

Preferably, the central region of the main body has a recessed region recessed toward the outside away from the catching edge.

Preferably, the clamping edge has a thickness in the radial direction that is thinner at the middle and thicker at the two sides.

Preferably, the guard is made of an elastic material.

Preferably, the shore hardness of the elastomeric material is 40 ° ± 5 °; and/or the elastic material is rubber.

Preferably, the guard is a transparent member.

According to another aspect of the present application, there is provided a panel assembly comprising an appearance panel and a decorative panel assembly, further comprising the above-mentioned guard, the part to be mated being the decorative panel assembly, the guard being mounted outside the decorative panel assembly.

Preferably, the decorative board subassembly includes ornament and decoration bottom plate, and the ornament is installed on decorating the bottom plate, decorates the bottom plate and fixes on the outward appearance panel, decorates the periphery of bottom plate and is located the draw-in groove, and the joint limit sets up the clearance department between decoration bottom plate and outward appearance panel.

Preferably, the surface shape of the clamping edge facing to one side of the appearance panel is matched with the appearance panel.

Preferably, when the middle region of the main body has a recessed region recessed toward the outside away from the clamping edge, the decoration includes a decoration plate body and a decoration, the decoration plate body is mounted on the decoration bottom plate, the decoration is mounted on the decoration plate body, and the decoration is located in the recessed region.

According to another aspect of the present application, there is provided an air conditioner including the above-described protection member or the above-described panel assembly.

The application provides a protection piece, including the periphery shape with treat the main part of cooperation part shape looks adaptation, the periphery of main part is provided with the joint limit of inwards buckling, forms the draw-in groove between joint limit and the main part, the main part is configured to treat the cooperation part through the draw-in groove joint in treating the cooperation part outside and protects. This protection part can set up in the outside of waiting to mate the part through the mode of joint, can utilize the main part to treat that the part that cooperates forms the protection, and the joint structure that utilizes main part and joint limit to form will be waited to mate the part chucking on mounting structure, in the transportation, can guarantee to wait to mate the part such as cooperation intensity and the structural stability of ornament on mounting structure, avoid the ornament to take place phenomenons such as droing in the air conditioner transportation, guarantee the whole appearance quality of air conditioner.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a protective shield according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic side view of a protective shield according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a protective shield according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view of a trim panel assembly according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is an exploded view of a trim panel assembly according to one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a guard and trim plate assembly engagement configuration according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of the assembly of a guard and trim plate assembly according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a protective shield according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view of a mating structure of a guard and trim panel assembly according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 is an exploded view of a panel assembly according to one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 11 is a schematic longitudinal cross-sectional structural view of a panel assembly according to one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 12 is an enlarged schematic view of FIG. 11 at L;

FIG. 13 is a cross-sectional structural schematic view of a panel assembly according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 14 is an enlarged schematic view of fig. 13 at Q.

The reference numerals are represented as:

1. a main body; 2. clamping and connecting edges; 3. a card slot; 4. an installation opening; 5. a recessed region; 6. an appearance panel; 7. decorating the bottom plate; 8. a decorative plate body; 9. and (7) a decorative piece.

Detailed Description

With reference to fig. 1 to 14, according to an embodiment of the present application, the protection component includes a main body 1 having an outer peripheral shape adapted to a shape of a part to be mated, a clamping edge 2 bent inward is disposed on a periphery of the main body 1, a clamping groove 3 is formed between the clamping edge 2 and the main body 1, and the main body 1 is configured to be clamped outside the part to be mated through the clamping groove 3 to protect the part to be mated.

This protection part can set up in the outside of treating the fitting part through the mode of joint, can utilize main part 1 to treat the fitting part and form the protection, the joint structure that utilizes main part 1 and joint limit 2 to form will treat the fitting part chucking on mounting structure, in the transportation, can guarantee to treat fitting part such as ornament cooperation intensity and structural stability on mounting structure, avoid the ornament to take place phenomenons such as droing in the air conditioner transportation, guarantee the whole appearance quality of air conditioner.

In one embodiment, the main body 1 is a ring body, and the main body 1 and the clamping edge 2 are matched and wrapped on the periphery of a part to be matched. In this embodiment, the main body 1 is a hollow annular structure, so that only the edge of the part to be fitted is wrapped, and the part to be fitted can be retained on the mounting structure by fitting the clamping edge 2, thereby preventing the part to be fitted from falling off. The main body 1 is of an annular structure, and a middle area can be left free, so that the middle area becomes an avoiding space, and when the parts to be matched have a middle protruding structure, the parts can be wrapped in the protection piece and fixed by the protection piece.

In addition, in order to guarantee the protection effect of protection piece to waiting to mate the part, the main part 1 of protection piece highly is higher than the maximum height of waiting to mate the part, make to wait to keep apart through main part 1 between the structure in mate part and the outside, the structure in the outside can receive the hindrance of main part 1, can't reach and wait to mate part position department, thereby treat that the part of cooperating forms effective protection, prevent to take place to wait to mate part surface frosting, the coating drops scheduling problem, effectively guaranteed the appearance quality who waits to mate the part, the whole appearance quality of air conditioner has been guaranteed, because it appears unusually to wait to mate the part such as decorative board subassembly and lead to producing bad experience when avoiding the user to purchase the product.

In one embodiment, the clamping edge 2 extends along the circumferential direction of the main body 1, and the clamping edge 2 is opened at one side of the main body 1, so that when the protection piece is sleeved on the outer side of the part to be matched, the protection piece can be installed or disassembled through the opening, thereby facilitating the installation and the disassembly of the protection piece, improving the assembly and disassembly efficiency and reducing the assembly and disassembly difficulty.

In addition, the protection part is directly sleeved on the outer side of the part to be matched, and when the part to be matched is the decorative plate component, the protection part is also positioned at a position where the front end of the machine body is obviously visible, so that after a user purchases a product, the installation position of the protection part can be visually seen, the protection part can be easily detached from the part to be matched, and the use of the whole machine cannot be influenced.

In one embodiment, joint limit 2 is a plurality of, and a plurality of joint limits 2 set up along the circumference interval of main part 1, can make joint limit 2 form multistage formula structure along circumference, breaks off between the adjacent joint limit 2 for every joint limit 2 homoenergetic forms independent structure, can operate alone, is convenient for more realize the protection piece and is waiting to cooperate the installation and the dismantlement on the part.

One side of main part 1 is provided with installation opening 4, and installation opening 4's circumferential length accounts for 1/4 ~ 2/5 of the whole outer peripheral edge length of main part 1, can be so that the guard piece can be when the suit is treating the cooperation part outside, has sufficient cooperation length, plays good fixed action to treating the cooperation part, when installing or dismantling simultaneously, can have sufficient opening width, is convenient for carry out the installation and the dismantlement operation of guard piece.

The installation opening 4 that the protection piece lower extreme set up is in order that the more convenient messenger of ability waits to cooperate the part such as decorative board subassembly card to enter corresponding installation trench, is provided with three joint limit 2 on the protection piece, forms two disconnection structures between three joint limit 2, can make three joint limit 2 departments free activity like this, three joint limit 2 departments have all set up local area of reducing thin, combine the elastic property of protection piece simultaneously, thereby three joint limit 2 can realize toward turning over the deformation and enlarge the opening outward.

When the protection piece is installed, the clamping edges 2 on the left side and the right side are turned outwards to enlarge the opening, and the protection piece is clamped into the decorative plate assembly from the lower end due to the fact that the lower end is the opening side, the decorative plate assembly is clamped into the clamping groove 3 on the inner side of the clamping edge 2 on the upper end, and then the decorative plate assembly is clamped into the clamping grooves 3 on the clamping edges 2 on the left side and the right side. The two are not fixed by screws or double-sided adhesive tapes, and only the three clamping edges 2 need to be clamped in place, so that the mounting mode is simple.

The clamping structure that joint limit 2 and main part 1 formed forms interference fit between the opening part of draw-in groove 3 and the part of waiting to cooperate, can make joint limit 2 treat the part of waiting to cooperate and apply sufficient clamping force for the part of waiting to cooperate can be in the clamping under the clamping effect of joint limit 2 and main part 1 on mounting structure, form stable mounting structure.

In one embodiment, the main body 1 is a disc-shaped structure, and the shape of the disc-shaped structure is matched with that of the part to be matched, so that the matching relationship between the main body 1 and the part to be matched can be ensured. The main part 1 of disc structure can treat the cooperation part and form comprehensive parcel design, provides furthest's protective area for treating the cooperation part, treats the cooperation part and forms more effective protection.

The middle area of the main body 1 is provided with a sunken area 5 sunken towards the outer side far away from the clamping edge 2, and for the parts to be matched, if the appearance structure is not a plane structure but a three-dimensional structure, the thickness of the main body 1 is too large, the depth of an inner cavity is too large, the material is wasted, and the fixing effect of the protection piece on the parts to be matched is also influenced. In the embodiment, the concave region 5 is formed in the middle region of the main body 1 corresponding to the three-dimensional convex region of the part to be fitted, and the three-dimensional convex region can be accommodated by using the concave region 5, so that the part to be fitted can be smoothly accommodated in the protection piece on the basis of ensuring the fixing effect of the protection piece on the part to be fitted without modifying the peripheral structure of the main body 1.

The thickness on joint limit 2 along radial direction is middle thin both sides thick to can form local area of reducing at the radial middle zone on joint limit 2, can strengthen the deformability on joint limit 2, make things convenient for joint limit 2 to turn up the deformation, and then conveniently realize the installation of protection piece on treating the fitting part and dismantle the operation.

In one embodiment, the protection part is made of elastic material, the elastic deformation capability of the protection part can be utilized to improve the fixing effect of the protection part on the parts to be matched, and meanwhile, the mounting and dismounting operation of the protection part can be facilitated. Due to the elasticity of the protective element, the protective element can be torn off the decorative plate component directly after the user unpacks the protective element.

In one embodiment, the elastic material has a shore hardness of 40 ° ± 5 °, so that the elastic properties of the protection element can be effectively ensured.

The elastic material is rubber, and specifically, nitrile rubber.

In one embodiment, the protection member is a transparent member, so that the protection member does not need to be detached from the parts to be matched after the air conditioner is transported, and the appearance performance of the air conditioner is not affected.

Referring to fig. 1 to 14 in combination, according to an embodiment of the present application, the panel assembly includes the appearance panel 6 and the decorative plate assembly, and further includes the above-described guard member, the to-be-fitted part is the decorative plate assembly, and the guard member is installed outside the decorative plate assembly.

In one embodiment, the decorative plate assembly comprises an ornament and a decorative bottom plate 7, the ornament is installed on the decorative bottom plate 7, the decorative bottom plate 7 is fixed on the appearance panel 6, the periphery of the decorative bottom plate 7 is positioned in the clamping groove 3, the clamping edge 2 is arranged at the gap between the decorative bottom plate 7 and the appearance panel 6, so that the decorative plate assembly can be separated from other parts such as the appearance panel by using a protection piece, and the clamping edge 2 is of an elastic structure, so that elastic contact can be formed between the decorative plate assembly and the parts on two sides, and appearance abnormity caused by rigid contact between the parts of the air conditioner is avoided.

The surperficial shape of joint limit 2 towards one side of outward appearance panel 6 and outward appearance panel 6 looks adaptation can guarantee after the assembly that the joint limit is laminated between 2 and the outward appearance panel 6 mutually, and interference fit between one side of joint limit 2 orientation decorative base plate 7 and the decorative base plate 7 can guarantee to assemble after the guard piece all the time and laminate between the decorative plate subassembly to the guard action to the decorative plate subassembly has been guaranteed.

When the middle region of the main body 1 has the recessed region 5 recessed toward the outside away from the chuck edge 2, the ornament includes the decorative plate body 8 and the decorative piece 9, the decorative plate body 8 is mounted on the decorative base plate 7, the decorative piece 9 is mounted on the decorative plate body 8, and the decorative piece 9 is located in the recessed region 5.

According to an embodiment of the present application, an air conditioner includes the above-described protection member or the above-described panel assembly.

It is readily understood by a person skilled in the art that the advantageous ways described above can be freely combined, superimposed without conflict.

The present invention is not intended to be limited to the particular embodiments shown and described, but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features herein disclosed. The foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present application, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, several modifications and variations can be made without departing from the technical principle of the present application, and these modifications and variations should also be considered as the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A panel assembly comprises an appearance panel (6), a decorative plate assembly and a protection piece, wherein the protection piece comprises a main body (1) with the outer periphery shape matched with the shape of a part to be matched, a clamping edge (2) bent inwards is arranged on the periphery of the main body (1), a clamping groove (3) is formed between the clamping edge (2) and the main body (1), the main body (1) is configured to be clamped outside the part to be matched through the clamping groove (3) to protect the part to be matched, the part to be matched is the decorative plate assembly, and the protection piece is installed outside the decorative plate assembly; the decorative board subassembly includes ornament and decorative bottom plate (7), the ornament is installed decorative bottom plate (7) are last, decorative bottom plate (7) are fixed on outward appearance panel (6), the periphery of decorative bottom plate (7) is located in draw-in groove (3), joint limit (2) set up decorative bottom plate (7) with clearance department between outward appearance panel (6).

2. The panel assembly according to claim 1, characterized in that the main body (1) is an annular body, and the main body (1) and the clamping edge (2) are matched and wrapped on the periphery of the parts to be matched.

3. The panel unit according to claim 1, characterised in that the snap edge (2) extends in the circumferential direction of the main body (1), the snap edge (2) being open on one side of the main body (1).

4. The panel assembly according to claim 1, wherein the snap-in edge (2) is plural, and the snap-in edges (2) are provided at intervals in a circumferential direction of the main body (1).

5. A panel assembly according to claim 4, characterised in that one side of the main body (1) is provided with a mounting opening (4), the circumferential length of the mounting opening (4) being 1/4-2/5 of the entire outer circumferential length of the main body (1).

6. The panel assembly according to claim 1, wherein the clamping structure formed by the clamping edge (2) and the main body (1) forms an interference fit between the opening of the clamping groove (3) and the part to be matched.

7. The panel unit according to claim 1, characterised in that the body (1) is of disc-like construction.

8. The panel unit according to claim 7, characterised in that the central region of the main body (1) has a recessed region (5) which is recessed towards the outside remote from the snap-in edge (2).

9. The panel unit according to any one of claims 1 to 8, characterised in that the thickness of the snap edge (2) in the radial direction is thinner in the middle and thicker in the two sides.

10. The panel assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the guard is made of an elastic material.

11. The panel assembly of claim 10, wherein the elastomeric material has a shore hardness of 40 ° ± 5 °; and/or the elastic material is rubber.

12. The panel assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the guard is a transparent piece.

13. The panel unit according to claim 1, characterised in that the surface shape of the side of the snap edge (2) facing the appearance panel (6) is adapted to the appearance panel (6).

14. The panel assembly according to claim 1, wherein when the central region of the main body (1) has a recessed region (5) recessed toward the outside away from the catching edge (2), the ornament includes an ornamental plate body (8) and an ornamental piece (9), the ornamental plate body (8) is mounted on the ornamental base plate (7), the ornamental piece (9) is mounted on the ornamental plate body (8), and the ornamental piece (9) is located in the recessed region (5).

15. An air conditioner characterized by comprising the panel assembly of any one of claims 1 to 14.