Second generation grille panel household air conditioner

When household air conditioners became more and more popular, their appearance was also quietly changing. This change first began to sprout from the imported machine market.

In the 1980s, China's air-conditioning market was dominated by imported machines. Even in 1991-1995, imported machines still played a pivotal role. Imported machines played an enlightening role in the development of China's household air-conditioning industry. The production of many domestic brands was introduced. The accessories are assembled, and this enlightenment also includes changes to the appearance of indoor units of household air conditioners in China.

In the mid-1990s, a small indoor unit was introduced in the imported air conditioners represented by Mitsubishi Electric, Hitachi, Matsushita, etc. This type of indoor unit changed the image of the past, and the appearance was exquisite and clean, and the home environment Incorporating into one, it is deeply favored by consumers. With the popularization of such products by many air-conditioning factories in China, the second-generation grille panel air conditioners have dominated the air-conditioning market and are still popular today.

From the first generation grille panel to the second generation grille panel is an improvement in the appearance of household air conditioner products. This progress is not only reflected in the volume reduction, the appearance of the beautification, but also in the evaporation of the indoor unit. The change of the folding type and the improvement of the capacity of the air conditioner system. It can also be seen from this aspect that the change in the evaporator fold is a key factor in the transition of the two-generation grid panel. In the late 1990s, many companies invested a lot of manpower and resources in the research of evaporators. Midea also applied for a patent for a multi-fold evaporator in 1998. Many of its products use a four-fold evaporator, while another leading brand in the industry, Gree, generally uses a five-fold evaporator.

However, from the first generation grille panel to the second generation grille panel, there is no major change in the air intake mode, and the circulating air path of the front air inlet and the wind is still adopted. Of course, this is also a grille type. The reason why the panel is the root of the grille panel, the technical characteristics determine its appearance.

The advent of the era of light panels

Opened a new product color page for various factories in China in 2005, a new type of weathering paper. Compared with previous years, grille panels accounted for the mainstream, most brands launched the light panel series of air-conditioning products in 2005, such as Gree's Tianli series, Haier's high-efficiency oxygen bar series, Midea's Q2 series and V series.

This collective behavior of various manufacturers in the air-conditioning industry has pushed China's household air-conditioning products to the era of light panels.

The household air conditioner products of the light panel series did not appear for the first time in 2005. The brand that the domestic air conditioner manufacturers first introduced the light panel series products is TCL.

In 2001, TCL Air Conditioning launched its new "Little Wind Man" series of hang-ups for the year. This series of hang-ups will promote light panels and large circulation wind roads as selling points for the first time. The so-called large circulation airway means that the air inlet of the indoor unit is designed at the top of the machine, and the airflow under the upper air is used to increase the circulation radius of the airflow to form a large circulation airway, thereby enhancing indoor air convection and speeding up the heat exchange speed. .

In 2001, TCL Air Conditioning launched the earliest representative product of the light panel air conditioner "Xiaofengxia" series.

The large circulation wind road is a technical feature of the "Little Wind Man" series and an important selling point of the light panel products.

TCL's move did not receive positive response from the industry and the market in the past, but it provided a development idea for household air conditioner products. In the following years, some air conditioner factories have successively launched their own light panel series of air conditioners. The light panel air conditioners of LG, Samsung, Sharp, Midea, Chunlan, Yongle and other factories were listed in 2003. This phenomenon has intensified in the year and became a trend in 2005. From the perspective of new products introduced by various factories in 2006, light panel air conditioners have become a dominant factor.

Compared with the grille panel, the light panel product pays more attention to the stylish and modern appearance. The leap from the grille panel to the light panel is not only an improvement in appearance, but also a change in product technology. The upper air inlet and outlet of the light panel hangs to replace the original circulating air path under the front air inlet, and the side inlet or air inlet opening and closing design of the light panel cabinet is gradually coming out with the original traditional lower air. The circulating wind path of the wind jointly leads the design trend of the cabinet products.