Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle air-conditioning unit
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Application No.: US14418522Application Date: 2013-04-24
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Publication No.: US09931907B2Publication Date: 2018-04-03
- Inventor: Yutaka Shichiken , Daisuke Araki , Takao Koike
- Applicant: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Kumagaya-Shi
- Assignee: VALEO JAPAN CO. LTD.
- Current Assignee: VALEO JAPAN CO. LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kumagaya-Shi
- Agency: Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC
- Priority: JP2012-171644 20120802
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/061971 WO 20130424
- International Announcement: WO2014/020957 WO 20140206
- Main IPC: B60H1/00
- IPC: B60H1/00 ; F25D21/00

Abstract:
To provide a vehicle air-conditioning unit that increases a volume of airflow delivered from a side vent opening in a foot mode, to effectively prevent fogging of windowpanes on right and left end sides. An air passage has: a first passage that guides hot air to a center vent opening, a side vent opening, and a defrost opening; and a second passage that is branched from the first passage and guides the hot air to a foot opening. A first door is arranged at a branched position of the air passage to the second passage, and a second door is arranged between the center vent opening and the defrost opening. In a foot mode, the first door closes the first passage and opens a first supply passage, the first supply passage communicates between the first and second passages, the second door closes the center vent opening and forms a second supply passage on an upstream side of the side vent opening, and the second supply passage communicates between an extending direction of the first supply passage and the side vent opening.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150306935A1 Vehicle Air-Conditioning Unit Public/Granted day:2015-10-29
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