Abstract: A coil component that can stabilize the position of a coil while relaxing the stress between coil wiring and a magnetic layer includes an element body and a coil in the element body. The element body has magnetic layers laminated in a first direction. The coil has pieces of coil wiring laminated in the first direction. The pieces extend along a plane orthogonal to the first direction. Each of the pieces of coil wiring has two faces on both sides in the first direction and two side faces on both sides in a direction orthogonal to the first direction, in a section orthogonal to an extending direction of each of the pieces. The two faces and one side face among the two side faces form a gap with the magnetic layer, and the other side face among the two side faces is in contact with the magnetic layer.

Abstract: An indoor unit is equipped with a housing having an inlet opening and an outlet opening, a propeller fan disposed in an air passage interconnecting the inlet opening and the outlet opening, a heat exchanger disposed downstream from the propeller fan, and a lateral airflow direction changing plate that is disposed downstream from the heat exchanger and that changes an airflow direction laterally. The heat exchanger is a fin-and-tube type heat exchanger equipped with a plurality of fins and a plurality of heat transfer tubes passing through the fins. The lateral airflow direction plate has slits in an airflow downstream region that is downstream from the heat transfer tubes.

Abstract: An indoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes a plurality of axial-flow fans arranged side by side in a horizontal direction below an air inlet. Further, the indoor unit includes a plurality of filters provided to the air inlet so as to be arranged side by side. A cleaning mechanism and a dust box are further provided to the air inlet. Further, the dust box is arranged at a position between adjacent filters and adjacent axial-flow fans.

Abstract: An indoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes a cartridge provided to an air inlet so as to be freely mountable and dismountable. The cartridge accommodates a filter so as to be freely movable in a fore-and-aft direction and has an opening port formed in one end portion in the fore-and-aft direction. A dust box is provided on a side of the end portion of the cartridge. The dust box includes a cleaning mechanism configured to clean the filter and a dust collecting portion configured to collect dust.

Abstract: An indoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes a cartridge provided to an air inlet so as to be freely mountable and dismountable. The cartridge accommodates a filter so as to be freely movable in a right-and-left direction and has an opening port formed in one end portion in the right-and-left direction. A dust box is provided on a side of the end portion of the cartridge. The dust box includes a cleaning mechanism configured to clean the filter and a dust collecting portion configured to collect dust.

Abstract: A housing cover provided on a housing section of an indoor unit of an air conditioning apparatus, the indoor unit including a casing, and the housing section provided on a bottom portion of the casing and having a remote control receiving section for receiving an infrared signal from a remote control and a temperature detection sensor for contactlessly detecting a surface temperature of an object in a room, the housing cover comprising a light transmissive surface inclined diagonally downward from a front and a sensor opening port formed behind the light transmissive surface, wherein the light transmissive surface is formed in front of the remote control receiving section to be opposed to and be parallel to the remote control receiving section, and the sensor opening port is formed such that the temperature detection sensor protrudes from the opening port.

Abstract: An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes a fan unit having an axial fan and a motor that drives the axial fan. The indoor unit also includes a pair of support arms on a back plate constituting a back surface of a casing. The fan unit is supported by the pair of support arms from the below.

Abstract: A multilayer coil component including an element assembly that includes an insulator portion and a coil embedded in the insulator portion and composed of a plurality of coil conductors electrically connected to each other, an extension portion disposed at each end portion of the coil, and an outer electrode disposed on the surface of the insulator portion and electrically connected to the extension portion. The thickness of the coil conductor in the extension portion of the coil is about 1.05 times or more and 2.0 times or less (i.e., from about 1.05 times to 2.0 times) the thickness of the coil conductor in a winding portion of the coil.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus indoor unit includes: a plastic design panel that includes a front panel part having a rectangular shape in front view and a flange part projecting toward a back surface from one longitudinal edge of the front panel part; and a reinforcement member that has a shape extending in the longitudinal direction of the front panel part across a middle part of the design panel and is fixed to the design panel so as to be in contact with a back surface of the front panel part and an inner surface of the flange part.

Abstract: An indoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus: a display panel arranged on a front surface side; a display device, which includes a light-emitting device that is allowed to control turning on and turning off, and is arranged so as to be opposed to a back surface of the display panel; and an icon, which is formed on a surface of the display panel, and is configured to notify predetermined information. The icon includes a light blocking layer that is printed with ink that blocks transmission of light, and is visually recognized by radiating light emitted from the light-emitting device from an inner side of the indoor unit.

Abstract: An indoor unit includes axial-flow fans, which are provided on downstream of an air inlet. Further, a plurality of first bars are provided to the air inlet. In plan view, leading edge portions of blades of the axial-flow fan are inclined in a direction of rotation of the axial-flow fan from a rotary shaft side of the axial-flow fan to an outer peripheral side. Further, in plan view, the plurality of the first bars are inclined in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the axial-flow fan from the rotary shaft side of the axial-flow fan to the outer peripheral side.

Abstract: A fan includes an impeller including a boss that is a rotation center, and a plurality of blades that are provided on an outer peripheral surface of the boss; a motor and a motor fixing portion rotationally driving the impeller; a housing accommodating the impeller; a plurality of stationary blades disposed downstream of the impeller and connecting the motor fixing and the housing; and a connecting portion disposed between the housing and a rotation axis of the impeller, and extending in a rotation direction of the impeller and connecting the plurality of stationary blades. The connecting portion has a recessed portion for passing wind that flows in a radial direction of the impeller.

Abstract: Provided is an indoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus including: a sensor box accommodating a sensor configured to detect light; a gearbox configured to hold the sensor box so as to be rotatable, and to be moved along a first axis together with the sensor box; a first motor configured to apply a force causing the sensor box to rotate; a second motor configured to apply a force causing the gearbox to move along the first axis; and a shaft inserted through the gearbox to be rotated by receiving the force from the first motor, in which, in the gearbox, the shaft is inserted, and the gear is accommodated so that a rotational force transmitted from the shaft is transmitted to the sensor box, the gear being movable along the first axis.

Abstract: In an indoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus, a filter, a cleaning mechanism configured to clean the filter, and a dust box are provided to an air inlet. Further, the dust box is provided so as to be freely mountable into and dismountable from a casing in a fore-and-aft direction.

Abstract: An indoor unit for an air-conditioning unit that can prevent dew condensation on an air-flow-direction control plate in a vicinity of a heat exchanger, and includes a casing, an air inlet on the casing, an air outlet opening in a bottom surface of the casing, a heat exchanger in an air passage extending from the air inlet to the air outlet, a fan on a windward side of the heat exchanger in the air passage, and an air -flow-direction control plate in the air passage between the heat exchanger and the air outlet. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of heat exchanger blocks arranged in a front-and-rear direction of the casing, and includes a refrigerant inlet through which refrigerant flows into the heat exchanger, and a refrigerant outlet through which the refrigerant flows out of the heat exchanger.

Abstract: An indoor unit includes, in an airflow path, an axial fan, an indoor heat exchanger having a W-shape in side view, and a forward drain pan and a rearward drain each disposed below the corresponding valley portion of the indoor heat exchanger. The airflow path is divided into a first airflow path, a second airflow path, and a third airflow path. The indoor unit includes an up/down airflow direction flap disposed at the air outlet. The up/down airflow direction flap includes a rearward up/down airflow direction flap disposed under the second airflow path and the third airflow path, and a forward up/down airflow direction flap disposed forward of the rearward up/down airflow direction flap and under the first airflow path.

Abstract: A coil component includes an element and a coil that is provided inside the element and that is spirally wound. The coil includes a plurality of coil conductor layers and an extended conductor layer, which are laminated in a first direction. The extended conductor layer overlaps a side gap portion, which is situated on an outer side of a region of the element that is surrounded by the coil conductor layers, and extends so as to reach an outer surface of the element. The element includes a first stress relaxation layer that contacts the coil conductor layers, and a second stress relaxation layer that, while extending along the extended conductor layer, contacts a coil-conductor-layer side of the extended conductor layer, and is positioned inside the side gap portion without reaching the outer surface of the element.

Abstract: An indoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes: a display panel arranged on a front surface side; a display device, which includes a light-emitting device that is allowed to control turning on and turning off, and is arranged so as to be opposed to a back surface of the display panel; and an icon, which is formed on a surface of the display panel, and is configured to notify predetermined information. The icon includes a light blocking layer that is printed with ink that blocks transmission of light, and is visually recognized by radiating light emitted from the light-emitting device from an inner side of the indoor unit.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of bent parts where a direction of slope of the heat exchanger changes from an upward direction to a downward direction or from a downward direction to an upward direction. The plurality of bent parts is provided on each of a side of an air inlet and a side of an air outlet. The heat exchanger is provided such that all of the plurality of bent parts is visible when the heat exchanger is seen from a front side of a casing. Drain pans are provided below each of the plurality of bent parts that are on the side of the air outlet.

Abstract: A multilayer inductor manufacturing method includes stacking a first coil conductor layer on a first magnetic layer; stacking a first burn-away material on side surfaces of the first coil conductor layer; stacking a second magnetic layer on the first burn-away material and first magnetic layer; stacking a second burn-away material on the second magnetic layer laterally outside an upper surface of the first coil conductor layer; stacking a second coil conductor layer on the upper surface of the first coil conductor layer and second burn-away material; stacking a third burn-away material on side surfaces and an upper surface of the second coil conductor layer; stacking a third magnetic layer on side surfaces of the third burn-away material and the second magnetic layer; stacking a fourth magnetic layer on the third burn-away material and the third magnetic layer; and burning away the first, second, and third burn-away materials via firing.