Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
454121000 | Condensation preventer (e.g., defroster, etc.) | 43 |
20090004960 | AUTOMOTIVE FRONT POST GARNISH WITH INTEGRAL DEFROSTER DUCT - A molded plastic garnish assembly ( | 01-01-2009 |
20090305623 | VENTILATION CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VENTILATION IN MOTOR VEHICLES - A ventilation controlling apparatus for feeding windshield defrost outlets and side window demist outlets in motor vehicles with one or more air passages and respective doors for each outlet. The apparatus supports a mode in which the demist door opens up to a predefined angle without the defrost door opening, too, with the predefined angle depending on the design of a cam attached to the demist door and a pin engaged with that cam and attached to the defrost door. | 12-10-2009 |
20100062702 | DEFROSTER NOZZLE - Provided is a defroster nozzle | 03-11-2010 |
20100167635 | Air conditioner for vehicle - In an air conditioning case of an air conditioner, an air mixing chamber, a warm-air bypass passage, a first warm-air passage and a second warm-air passage are provided. The warm-air bypass passage is located in a part of space, in which the air mixing chamber is provided, and the second warm-air passage is located at an opposite side of the first warm-air passage with respect to the air mixing chamber. The warm air flowing in the warm-air bypass passage makes a U-turn at the second warm-air passage and flows toward the air mixing chamber. Therefore, in the air mixing chamber, the cool air is inserted between the warm air from the first warm-air bypass passage and the warm air from the second warm-air passage, from two sides of the cool air. | 07-01-2010 |
20100210202 | INDEPENDENT DEFROSTER OUTLET TEMPERATURE AND AIR FLOW CONTROL SYSTEM - An HVAC system is provided and includes an evaporator for providing cold air and a heater core for providing hot air. A heater airflow path directs an airflow through a heater air outlet where a heater damper door controls the volume of the airflow through the heater air outlet. A defroster airflow path directs an airflow through a defroster air outlet and a defroster damper door controls the volume of the airflow through the defroster air outlet. The defroster damper door operates independently from the heater damper door. A separation channel is located between the heater airflow path and the defroster airflow path to separate the airflow of the heater airflow path from the airflow of the defroster airflow path. | 08-19-2010 |
20100304654 | INTEGRATED FRONT AND REAR HVAC SYSTEM - An HVAC system for a vehicle includes a housing, a front HVAC unit housed in the housing and having a front blower, a first airflow path, and a front air mix door, a rear HVAC unit housed in the housing and having a rear blower, a second airflow path, and a rear air mix door. The HVAC system further includes an evaporator having a first portion disposed in the first airflow path and a second portion disposed in the second airflow path, and a heating core having a first portion disposed in the first airflow path and a second portion disposed in the second airflow path. An airflow directional door is disposed between the first airflow path and the second airflow path to regulate airflow from the rear blower to the first airflow path. | 12-02-2010 |
20110009043 | VEHICULAR AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS - A vehicular air conditioning apparatus includes a casing constituted by respective air passages. The casing has a vent opening and a defroster opening at an upper portion thereof. The vent opening is disposed on a forward side of a vehicle with respect to the defroster opening. A pair of defroster ducts extend in lateral directions respectively from side portions of the defroster opening, and center vent ducts are disposed in a straight line fashion from the vent opening and oriented rearwardly of the vehicle between the pair of the defroster ducts. The center vent ducts open only in the vehicle compartment. In a bi-level mode, a third front passage on the downstream side of the evaporator extends upwardly in a straight line fashion. | 01-13-2011 |
20110021130 | AIR-CONDITIONER FOR VEHICLE - An air-conditioner for a vehicle, may include a casing having an upper outlet and a lower outlet, with an air flow space defined in the casing and including an upper space and a lower space to guide air to the upper outlet and/or the lower outlet, an evaporator installed in the casing and selectively communicating with the upper outlet through the upper space, and a distributing partition wall to partition the lower space into a receiving space to receive a heating member therein and selectively communicate with the upper space and at least a partitioned space to communicate the heating member with the lower outlet, thus guiding the air to a side portion of the casing. | 01-27-2011 |
20110105007 | VEHICLE HVAC TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM - A vehicle having an HVAC system with a particular ventilation housing design and method for making the same are described. The ventilation housing has a common mode door for defrost and floor panels and allows efficient use of components to provide effective operation in bi-level and other modes. In bi-level mode, the mode doors can be operated to form flow path such that floor outlet is virtually on the upstream side of the panel outlet. | 05-05-2011 |
20110111684 | BLOW DEVICE FOR REAR VIEW MIRROR OF A VEHICLE - A blow device for rear view mirror of a vehicle includes a control circuit ( | 05-12-2011 |
20120184196 | DEFROSTER OUTLET - A defroster outlet includes: a defroster outlet part that is disposed in an instrument panel of a vehicle and that has an opening formed along a front windshield; a plurality of fins that are bridged in the opening along a front-rear direction of the vehicle, which serve as guides for sending defroster wind toward an inner surface of the front windshield, and each having a light-emitting portion formed in at least a part of the top end thereof; and a reflecting part that is disposed in the vicinity of the opening and that reflects light from the light-emitting portion to cause a driver and a passenger to see the reflected light. | 07-19-2012 |
20130231036 | AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM FOR MOTOR VEHICLES - An air conditioning system for motor vehicles includes an air conditioner case, a cold air path through which a cold air flows, a warm air path through which a warm air flows, a temperature control door arranged to swing between the cold air path and the warm air path so as to control an opening degree of the cold air path and an opening degree of the warm air path, a defrost vent arranged to discharge the cold air and the warm air toward an upper region of a vehicle room, a bypass duct arranged to bypass a part of the warm air toward the defrost vent, the bypass duct including an inlet aligned with the warm air path and an outlet aligned with the defrost vent, and a cold air introducing portion arranged in at least one of the inlet and the outlet of the bypass duct. | 09-05-2013 |
20140273788 | ANTI-FOGGING SYSTEM FOR SINGLE ENGINE AIRCRAFT - Anti-fogging systems for air-cooled, piston powered single engine aircraft which effectively prevent windshields from fogging during cold weather by directing a forceful stream of unheated, ambient air in a direction which intercepts exhaled air from an aircraft occupant to impede the moist exhaled air from directly reaching the windshield and condensing on the windshield. The disclosed systems keep the windshield of a small air-cooled, piston powered single engine aircraft from fogging while permitting a pilot to perform his pre-flight preparation, taxi and takeoff in cold climates. | 09-18-2014 |
20140342650 | VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONER - A vehicle air conditioner | 11-20-2014 |
454123000 | Air directed at window exterior | 1 |
20090017743 | WINDSHIELD SAVER - An air flow device for generating an air flow | 01-15-2009 |
454124000 | Side or rear window | 2 |
20110165831 | AIR-BLOWING DEVICE FOR AUTOMOBILE BACK WINDSCREEN - An air-blowing device for automobile back windscreen ( | 07-07-2011 |
20150353053 | DEVICE FOR AIR-CONDITIONING A VEHICLE COMPRISING A DEFROSTING PIPE NETWORK - A vehicle air-conditioning device, including: a defrosting pipe network which includes; a duct for defrosting an air-conditioning apparatus, a first duct connected to the defrosting duct and corresponding to a windshield defrosting strip, a second duct connected to the defrosting duct and corresponding to two side defrosting vents. The defrosting duct includes three different adjacent openings of two side openings and a central opening. The central opening is connected to an inlet of the second duct and located to a rear of the side openings along the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The first duct includes two different inlets, each respectively connected to a side opening. | 12-10-2015 |
454126000 | Having means for combining heated and unheated air | 5 |
20090023374 | Air passage opening and closing device - An air passage opening and closing device includes a case forming an opening portion, a sliding door, and a gear mechanism. The case has a case-side seal surface at two edges of the opening portion in a width direction of a door body of the sliding door, on which a first plate surface of the door body abuts. The gear mechanism includes a driven side gear molded integrally with the door body using resin. The driven side gear protrudes from a second plate surface of the door body on a side opposite to the first plate surface, and extends in parallel with a movement direction of the sliding door, at two edge portions of the second plate surface in the width direction. In addition, the driven side gear has a hollow space opened toward a direction parallel to the width direction. | 01-22-2009 |
20120252342 | Air Mixing And Distribution Apparatus And Vehicle Heating Or Air-Conditioning System - The invention relates to an air mixing and distribution apparatus ( | 10-04-2012 |
20140087646 | VEHICULAR AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS - A vehicle air conditioning apparatus includes a case having a defrosting air outlet, a face air outlet and a foot air outlet, a mixing zone provided on a downstream side of a cold air flow path and a warm air flow path within the case and in which cold air and warm air are merged, and a face air outlet door which opens and closes the face air outlet. The face air outlet has a constantly open portion not closed by the face air outlet door. In the mixing zone, there is provided an air guide which has a warm air leading path guiding part of the warm air toward the defrosting air outlet preferentially. The air guide includes a guide wall forming the warm air leading path and having a warm air outlet which causes part of the warm air to flow toward the constantly open portion. | 03-27-2014 |
20160068039 | VEHICLE AIR-CONDITIONING DEVICE - A vehicle air-conditioning device includes an inside/outside air case that selectively sends outside air, which is air outside of a vehicle, and inside air, which is air that circulates inside the vehicle, into a blower casing. An opening end surface of the inside/outside air case that is connected to an additional duct includes a sealing surface. The sealing surface includes a recessed portion, into which a protruding portion is fitted, formed in an end portion of the additional duct. Accordingly, it is possible to directly connect the inside/outside air case to the vehicle outside-air inlet without using the additional duct. Conversely, the vehicle outside-air inlet and the inside/outside air case can be connected to each other via the additional duct when the additional duct is used. | 03-10-2016 |
20160159193 | CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM - A climate control system having a housing with an air inlet, a cooling element for providing cooled air, a heating element located downstream of the cooling element, a cold air duct for directing cooled air located downstream, a bypass duct for directing cooled air located downstream of the cooling element, a hot air duct for directing heated air, a first mixing chamber for mixing cooled air from the cold air duct and heated air from the hot air duct into blended air, a second mixing chamber located downstream of the bypass duct and downstream of the first mixing chamber for mixing cooled air from the bypass duct and blended air from the first mixing chamber, an air outlet located downstream of the second mixing chamber for delivering air to a passenger compartment, and an air deflector device is located downstream of the bypass duct. | 06-09-2016 |
454127000 | Having dashboard air distributor (e.g., for windshield, etc.) | 21 |
20090117841 | Air conditioner for vehicle - In a vehicle air conditioner, first and second downstream side passages are provided in an air conditioning case to guide air to a defroster opening and a foot opening, respectively. A switching door is capable of switching between a partition position for partitioning the first downstream side passage and the second downstream side passage from each other, and a communication position for establishing communication between the first downstream side passage and the second downstream side passage. An air outlet mode switching device is capable of switching between a foot mode and a foot/defroster mode. In the foot mode, the air outlet mode switching device causes both the foot door and defroster door to be opened and causes the first switching door to be set at the partition position. Therefore, it is possible to prevent a problem due to an air outlet mode door with a small opening degree. | 05-07-2009 |
20100035533 | AIR CONDITIONING DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE COMPRISING A NETWORK OF DE-ICING DUCTS - A distribution housing including an upstream portion and a widened downstream portion along the transverse axis relative to the upstream portion, in which an air inlet formed in the upstream portion is adapted to correspond to an outlet of an air conditioning apparatus, first and second outlets formed in the downstream portion are respectively adapted to correspond with a duct network for distributing blown air towards a de-icing board and side louvers, first pipes connect the inlet to the first outlets and extend between separation walls of the ducts and side walls of the housing, and a second pipe connects the inlet to the second outlet and extends at least partially between the duct separation walls. The second pipe opens, on the air inlet side, at the center of the air inlet, and the first pipes open on both sides of the first pipe. The housing has a different profile along the plane between the first and second pipes. | 02-11-2010 |
20100178861 | VEHICULAR AIR CONDITIONER - Defroster ducts ( | 07-15-2010 |
20110244777 | WINDSHIELD DE-ICING DUCT SYSTEM - An air duct system may employ an HVAC case having an exit air duct and a return air duct, a windshield with an interior surface, an approximately vertical duct, and a horizontal duct. Ducts mount to the windshield and each define an interior passageway with the interior surface of the windshield and a second, return air, passageway. The interior passageway may receive air from the exit air duct and the second passageway may return air to the return air duct. End chambers of each duct reverse air direction 180 degrees. Air of each interior passageway may warm an adjacent area of the windshield that forms part of each interior passageway and a windshield wiper. The first air duct interior passageway may warm a windshield area coincident with a maximum non-park wiper position and the second air duct interior passageway may warm a windshield area coincident with a wiper park position. | 10-06-2011 |
20130023192 | VEHICLE INSTRUMENT PANEL - Condensation is suppressed from developing on a front face of an instrument panel main body. A instrument panel of the present invention is configured including: an instrument panel main body formed with a center air conditioning outlet and a center defroster outlet; a first panel that is joined to the instrument panel main body and is formed with a top side wall section that configures the vehicle top-bottom direction top side of a center air conditioning duct and a first wall section that configures part of a center defroster duct; and a second panel that is joined to the instrument panel main body and is formed with a bottom side wall section that configures the center air conditioning duct in combination with the top side wall section and a second wall section that configures the center defroster duct in combination with the first wall section. | 01-24-2013 |
20130045670 | AIR CONDITIONER FOR VEHICLE - The present invention relates to an air conditioner for a vehicle that includes: a mode door having a thin plate member, solidly operating inside an air-conditioning case to control the degree of opening of a defrost vent, a face vent and floor vents, and a gear shaft, engaged with the thin plate member for its operating; and constant discharging means disposed at a rail portion of the thin plate member and at a guide part of an air-conditioning case overlapped with the rail portion, so that air of a fixed quantity is discharged to side vents of the face vent, thereby providing a simple structure and reducing manufacturing costs because the gear holes of the rail portion and the cut portions of the guide portion serve as the constant discharging means, without a need for additional structure to constantly discharge air toward the side vent. | 02-21-2013 |
20130183894 | ANTI-FOGGING AND AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE, DEHUMIDIFYING UNIT, DEHUMIDIFYING CASSETTE, AND DEHUMIDIFYING MEMBER - Provided is an anti-fog and HVAC system ( | 07-18-2013 |
20130196586 | WINDSHIELD DEFROST/DEMIST FLOW SUCTION CONTROL - A vehicle's front windshield's defrost airflow control system regulates the pattern of defrost airflow over the front windshield, and partially directs the defrost air towards rear portions of the vehicle. A number of suction ports provided over the front windshield's periphery, suck the defrost air discharged over the front windshield. A conduit communicates directs the sucked defrost air over the top of the front side glass, the rear side glass, and the rear windshield of the vehicle. A suction blower positioned within the conduit, enables suction of the defrost air through the suction ports, and guides the sucked air through a number of discharge ports mounted over the front side glass, the rear side glass and the rear windshield. The system enables defrost effect over the side glass and the rear windshield of the vehicle, and prevents penetration of defrost air into the eyes of the front occupant. | 08-01-2013 |
20140045416 | ARRANGEMENT OF AIR OUTLETS ON A MOTOR VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING UNIT - An arrangement of air outlets on a motor vehicle air conditioning unit, wherein side window outlets, side occupant air outlets, and center occupant or additional vent air outlets are configured as pairs and the side occupant air outlets and the center occupant or additional vent air outlets are arranged in one tier, wherein from outside to inside are, first, the center occupant or additional vent air outlets and then the side occupant air outlets. | 02-13-2014 |
20140087647 | Windscreen Air Distribution System - Vehicle cab windscreen air distribution system for a windscreen ( | 03-27-2014 |
20140134937 | AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLES - An air conditioning apparatus includes an air conditioning housing and a mode door. The air conditioning housing has a discharge chamber through which conditioned air is discharged out of the air conditioning housing. The discharge chamber includes a defrost vent, a main vent, floor vents and a rear seat vent. The floor vents are formed on opposite sides of a rear portion of the air conditioning housing. The rear seat vent is formed between the floor vents. The mode door has a front opening hole which is formed in a front portion of the mode door, a pair of main opening holes which are formed in a rear portion of the mode door at positions spaced apart from each other, and a rear-end opening hole which is formed behind a first portion provided between the main opening holes. | 05-15-2014 |
20140194047 | AIR CONDITIONER FOR VEHICLE - An air conditioner for a vehicle, including: an air conditioning case including a rear console vent through which introduced air is discharged toward a rear console, a defrost vent through which air is discharged toward a front window, a face vent through which air is discharged in a direction of a front passenger, and a foot vent through which air is discharged in a foot direction of front and rear seats; a door unit including a defrost door, a face door, and a foot door that are rotatably disposed in the air conditioning case and adjust a degree of openness of each of the defrost vent, the face vent, and the foot vent; and a door driving unit that individually drives and controls the defrost door, the face door, and the foot door and establishes an air conditioning mode. | 07-10-2014 |
20140213165 | MOTOR VEHICLE DEFROST SYSTEM - A defrost system for a motor vehicle is disclosed, the defrost system including ducting in fluid communication with a top of a windshield of the motor vehicle and/or at least one side of the windshield of the motor vehicle. In certain embodiments, the ducting has at least a portion disposed in an A-pillar of the motor vehicle, and in other embodiments the ducting has at least a portion disposed in a B-pillar of the motor vehicle. | 07-31-2014 |
20150343995 | OVAL DEFROST OUTLET COMBINED WITH COLD AIR BYPASS CHANNEL - A housing including at least one flow path in fluid communication with a mixing chamber, a windshield air outlet, a windshield air flap, a dashboard air outlet, and a dashboard air flap. A bypass is in fluid communication with the dashboard outlet and configured to conduct a cool air flow around the at least one flow path and the mixing chamber. A flow conduit extends from the mixing chamber to the windshield air outlet. The flow conduit is constructed as one part and comprises a wall enclosing a circumference thereof. The flow conduit extends through the bypass, wherein the warm air flow is separated from a warm air flow through the flow conduit by the wall of the flow conduit. The bypass is formed in a bipartite manner around the flow conduit. | 12-03-2015 |
20150353052 | DEFROSTER NOZZLE WITH NET OVER OUTLET - A defroster nozzle assembly includes a nozzle body defining a conduit and an outlet in communication with the conduit and having a length and a width. A net of a polymeric material extends over the length and width of the outlet and is bonded directly to a portion of the nozzle body adjacent the outlet. | 12-10-2015 |
20160039389 | AIR BLOWING DEVICE - An air blowing device includes a duct having an air path inside and an air outlet that blows air, and an air flow deflection member provided in the duct. The air path has one side path on one side and other side path on the other side, between which the air flow deflection member is located in the duct. The air flow deflection member is able to switch between a first state in which a high-speed air flow is provided in the one side path and a low-speed air flow is provided in the other side path by reducing a sectional area ratio of the one side path to be smaller than a sectional area ratio of the other side path and a second state in which an air flow differing from that of the first state is provided in the duct. A portion of the duct on the one side and adjacent to the air outlet has a guide wall to curve the high-speed air flow from the one side path along a wall surface of the guide wall. | 02-11-2016 |
20160039390 | DEFROSTER AND A VEHICLE HAVING THE SAME - A defroster and a vehicle are provided. The defroster includes: a housing defining an air outlet; a heating device disposed in the housing; an air blower defining a blowing outlet and disposed in the housing; and an air duct defining a duct inlet and a duct outlet, the air duct being disposed between the blowing outlet and the heating device so that air blown out from the blower outlet enters the air duct via the duct inlet and goes out of the air duct via the duct outlet, then passes through the heating device to exchange heat with the heating device, and is discharged out of the housing via the air outlet, wherein an area of the duct inlet is different from that of the duct outlet. | 02-11-2016 |
20160075309 | AIR BLOWING DEVICE - Air blowing device including: an air inlet: an airflow path configured to allow air introduced from the air inlet to flow therethrough; and an air outlet configured to blow out the air flowing in the airflow path. In this air blowing device, the airflow path includes a helical flow path that is a helical airflow path extending as separating from the air inlet. Further, the helical flow path includes an opening formed in an outer circumferential surface of the helical flow path. Further, the opening is connected to the air outlet through a discharge path configured to guide the air passing through the opening to the air outlet. In addition, the discharge path is formed to extend from the opening in a forward direction of a turning direction of the air flowing in the helical flow path. | 03-17-2016 |
20160075310 | FRONT DEFROSTER NOZZLE DEVICE - A defrosting performance identical to that in a conventional front defroster nozzle device is exhibited by a simpler structure even in the case of decreasing the overall length of a front defroster nozzle device in the direction of vehicle width. A current of air from a front blow-opening formed on the same side as a windshield is mainly sent to the left and right end portions of the windshield and a current of air from a rear blow-opening adjacent to the front blow-opening and formed further inside the vehicle interior than the front blow-opening is mainly sent to the central portion of the windshield. Accordingly, currents of air are inhibited from interfering with each other. | 03-17-2016 |
20160107612 | FRONT DEFROSTER NOZZLE APPARATUS - A front defroster nozzle apparatus includes a retainer, and a guide fin. The retainer includes an inlet opening, an outlet port, and a retainer base. The retainer base is branched into two forked elements (i.e., first and second branches having a first outlet opening and a first inlet end and a second outlet opening and a second inlet end, respectively). The outlet port involving the first and second outlet openings has an outlet width of 400 mm or less that is larger than an opening width of the inlet opening. The first and second outlet openings have first and second opening widths being larger than first and second opening widths of the first and second inlet ends. The retainer base includes a throttled portion whose flow-passage cross-sectional area accounts for from 80% or less to 60% or more of a flow-passage cross-sectional area of the inlet opening. | 04-21-2016 |
20160121852 | DEFROSTER STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE - A defroster structure for a vehicle includes a duct guiding conditioned air sent out of an air conditioning unit to an outlet. The outlet is provided at a center of an upper surface of an instrument panel in a vehicle width direction along a lower end of a windshield. The duct includes an upstream portion, a downstream portion, and a curved portion curved and connecting the upstream and downstream portions together. An air passage in the duct has a partition dividing the air passage in a vehicle longitudinal direction into central and side air supply passages, which distribute air to a center and right and left sides of the windshield in the vehicle width direction. The partition extends from a point upstream of the curved portion of the duct to the downstream portion. | 05-05-2016 |