Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an air cleaner. The air cleaner includes a main body, a panel configured to be movable with respect to the main body, a power transmission device connected to the panel, a vibration-preventing member connected to the power transmission device and including a vibration-preventing portion in contact with the power transmission device and a slip-preventing portion having a thickness thinner than the vibration-preventing portion, and a driving source connected to the vibration-preventing member.

Abstract: An air conditioner and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The air conditioner includes a compressor; an indoor fan configured to blow an indoor air; and a controller configured to change and control a revolutions per minute (RPM) of the indoor fan to a predetermined time when the compressor is off.

Abstract: An air conditioner and a control method thereof perform cooling through an outlet if room temperature or room humidity is high to reduce the room temperature or the room humidity, and closing the outlet to perform cooling at low velocity through an outlet hole if room temperature or room humidity reaches a predetermined value so that a user can little feel the wind velocity of cooling of the air conditioner, while maintaining indoor space at pleasant temperature or humidity. By performing cooling at low velocity through the outlet hole formed in the lower portion of the air conditioner, it is possible to cool the lower area of indoor space at pleasant temperature when a user is asleep.

Abstract: A dehumidifier according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a body; and a water container mounted at an upper side of the body, wherein the body includes a seating part arranged at an upper side thereof and on which the water container is seated and a hollow connection port protruding upward from the seating part, and the water container includes a connection hole into which the connection port is inserted and a valve which opens the connection hole as the water container is mounted on the body. The dehumidifier prevents condensed water in the water container from leaking through the connection hole in a state in which the water container is separated from the body.

Abstract: Disclosed is a humidifier and home appliance having a structure with an air inflow path formed in a water tank separately from a water supply inlet and configured to prevent noise due to air bubbles during water supply to a water reservoir from the water tank, and a structure configured to block the air inflow path in order to prevent water from flowing into the air inflow path during replenishment of water to the water tank.

Abstract: In an air-conditioning system, a gaseous refrigerant remaining in a reservoir can be discharged from the reservoir even when a cooling operation has started and the reservoir is being filled with a liquid refrigerant. Therefore, the reservoir can be filled with the liquid refrigerant at a faster speed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an air conditioner, and more particularly, to an air conditioner having an airflow guide to make the flow of discharged air uniform. An air conditioner comprising a housing having a suction port and a discharge port, a heat exchanger arranged inside the housing, a blower fan configured to suck in air through the suction port, force the air to be subject to heat exchange with the heat exchanger, and discharge the heat-exchanged air through the discharge port, a first blade pivotally arranged to open or close the discharge port and having a first face and a second face opposite of the first face, a first flow path formed between the discharge port and the first face, a second flow path formed between the discharge port and the second face, a second blade movably installed inside the housing and a third blade formed to protrude from the second blade to guide air to the first flow path and the second flow path.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an air conditioner. The air conditioner includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet, a blade having a plurality of discharge holes and provided to discharge air through the plurality of discharge holes, a first opening formed between one side of the blade near the inlet and the housing when the blade discharges air through the plurality of discharge holes, and a second opening formed between the housing and the other side opposite to the one side of the blade when the blade discharges air through the plurality of discharge holes.

Abstract: Disclosed are provided indoor unit of an air conditioner. A present invention is to provide an indoor unit of an air conditioner having an improved structure for preventing vibrations and noise of a blade due to vibrations of a motor when the blade rotates, and a blade unit applied to the indoor unit. The indoor unit of the air conditioner includes a main body including an outlet, and a blade unit configured to adjust a direction in which air discharged from the outlet is discharged, wherein the blade unit comprises, a blade coupled with the main body to be rotatable in the outlet, a motor including a rotation transfer member, and configured to generate a rotatory force that is transferred to the blade; and a buffer member made of a material having a restoring force, coupled with the blade at one end, and surrounding a part of the rotation transfer member.

Abstract: An outdoor unit of an air conditioner includes a cabinet including a first plate and a second plate, a blower disposed inside the cabinet, and a blower cover covering the blower and an upper side of the cabinet. The first plate includes a contact area in contact with the blower cover in an outward direction of the cabinet, and the second plate includes a first non-contact area that is not in contact with the blower cover in the outward direction of the cabinet. The blower cover is disposed on one of four plates of the cabinet to reduce the noise generated due to the vibration of the cabinet by reducing the vibration transmitted from the blower cover to the cabinet.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an air conditioner in which flow noise of a refrigerant is reduced. An air conditioner includes a compressor configured to compress a refrigerant, an outdoor heat exchanger in which the refrigerant exchanges heat with outside air, an expansion device configured to expand the refrigerant, an indoor heat exchanger in which the refrigerant exchanges heat with indoor air, and a muffler configured to reduce flow noise of the refrigerant flowing into the indoor heat exchanger, wherein the muffler includes a shell including a refrigerant inlet and a refrigerant outlet, a first baffle disposed at one side of an inner part of the shell and including a plurality of first holes, a plurality of pipes inserted into the plurality of first holes and serving as passages through which the refrigerant moves, and a second baffle disposed at the other side of the inner part of the shell and including a plurality of second holes through which the refrigerant passing through the pipe passes.

Abstract: An air conditioner of the disclosure includes a compressor; an indoor heat exchanger temperature sensor configured to sense an indoor heat exchanger temperature; an indoor humidity sensor configured to sense indoor humidity; and a controller configured to calculate a dew point temperature using the humidity value detected by the indoor humidity sensor and an indoor set temperature, and control a frequency of the compressor based on the calculated dew point temperature and the indoor heat exchanger temperature.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an air conditioner and control method of determining duration to be maintained at a reference temperature of a mode change based on an outdoor temperature. The air conditioner includes a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an indoor heat exchanger, a four-way valve configured to guide refrigerant compressed in the compressor to either the outdoor heat exchanger or the indoor heat exchanger according to a cooling mode or a heating mode, and a controller configured to determine duration corresponding to a measured outdoor temperature, change the heating mode to the cooling mode when the measured indoor temperature is maintained at a first reference indoor temperature or greater for the determined duration, and change the cooling mode to the heating mode when a measured indoor temperature is maintained at a second reference indoor temperature or less for the determined duration.

Abstract: Disclosed is an air cleaner having independent fluid paths and a home appliance having the air cleaner. The air cleaner includes a front panel having a plurality of air inlets formed thereon for air to flow in from outside of the case, first and second blower devices arranged inside the case to allow air to flow in through the plurality of air inlets, first and second filter units arranged to filter the air flowing in by the first and second blower devices, a first outlet located on the case to release the air, a second outlet formed at a different location from that of the first outlet, a first fluid path formed between one of the plurality of air inlets and the first outlet; and a second fluid path formed between another of the plurality of air inlets and the second outlet.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes a main body, a blower fan disposed in the main body, a discharge panel including a main outlet configured to discharge air discharged from the blower fan and a plurality of fine outlets provided near the main outlet, an opening and closing member configured to move in forward and backward directions and open and close the main outlet, and a lighting apparatus disposed on a back surface of the opening and closing member and configured to emit light to a back side thereof. Since an area illuminated by the lighting apparatus is changed according to a position of the opening and closing member, a user intuitively identifies an operational state of the air conditioner.

Abstract: Disclosed is a humidifier and home appliance having a structure with an air inflow path formed in a water tank separately from a water supply inlet and configured to prevent noise due to air bubbles during water supply to a water reservoir from the water tank, and a structure configured to block the air inflow path in order to prevent water from flowing into the air inflow path during replenishment of water to the water tank.

Abstract: Disclosed is a plurality of guide blades configured to guide air discharged through a discharge port, and an air conditioner having the same. The guide blade includes an eddy induction groove that is concaved from at least one surface of the guide blade, and a plurality of protrusions each protruding from an inner surface of the eddy induction groove in the form of a polypyramid, to generate eddy currents of various directions, so that the guide blade may cope with air flow of various flow speeds and wind directions.

Abstract: Disclosed is a humidifier and home appliance having a structure with an air inflow path formed in a water tank separately from a water supply inlet and configured to prevent noise due to air bubbles during water supply to a water reservoir from the water tank, and a structure configured to block the air inflow path in order to prevent water from flowing into the air inflow path during replenishment of water to the water tank.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes a housing provided with a suction port and a discharge port elongated in one direction on the lateral side of the suction port, a main flow path configured to connect the suction port to the discharge port, a main fan provided in the main flow path to suck air via the suction port and to discharge the air via the discharge port, an auxiliary fan configured to suck the air around the discharge port to regulate the direction of the air which is discharged via the discharge port and an auxiliary flow path configured to guide the air sucked by the auxiliary fan. According to the air conditioner, it is possible to control the direction of the discharge airflow without a blade structure, increase the discharge amount, reduce the flow noise, and differentiate the design.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes a housing having a suction port and a discharge port, a main fan configured to draw air into the housing through the suction port and discharge air from the housing through the discharge port, an auxiliary fan configured to draw, into the housing, air discharged by the main fan and a controller configured to control a rotational speed of the auxiliary fan to change a direction in which air is discharged from the housing.