B60H1/3407

Rear seat climate control
11529843 · 2022-12-20 · ·

A vehicle includes a front-row occupant support and a rear-row occupant support. The front-row occupant support includes a climate-control system arranged in the front-row occupant support. The climate control system is configured to provide a conditioned airflow moving from the front-row occupant support toward a rear-row occupant region between the front-row occupant support and the rear-row occupant support.

Air Conditioning Device for Vehicle
20220371407 · 2022-11-24 ·

The present disclosure provides an air conditioning device for a vehicle. The air conditioning device includes an air conditioning unit disposed in at least one of front or rear of the vehicle. The air conditioning device further includes a duct unit blowing air of the air conditioning unit into an interior and extending inside of at least one of a front pillar or a rear pillar. The air conditioning device further includes a vent unit communicating with the duct unit through a connecting duct and selectively opening and closing a discharge path of at least one of a main path, a first path, or a second path so as to discharge the blown air to a side of a roof frame.

Expanding metal with loops in different shapes

A method for producing an expanded metal, the method including producing a sheet of the expanded sheet metal by introducing openings through one expansion blade wherein all the openings are configured as diamond shaped loops without a material loss and defined by a loop width, a loop length and a loop shape; and forming the diamond shaped loops respectively by four linear bars that are defined by a bar width and a bar thickness wherein two of the four linear bars are respectively connected at four nodes; arranging plural of the diamond shaped loops in columns adjacent to one another and in rows adjacent to one another; and forming first columns of first diamond shaped loops different from second columns of diamond shaped second loops in a loop width or in a loop length respectively measured from a node center to a node center.

Vehicle instrument panel structure
11506889 · 2022-11-22 · ·

A vehicle instrument panel structure including: a head-up display device that is provided within an instrument panel positioned at a front section of a vehicle cabin and that displays information by projecting light onto a windshield; a defroster that is provided within the instrument panel so as to be disposed alongside the head-up display device in a vehicle width direction, and that conveys air toward the windshield; a guide section that is provided at an upper face of the instrument panel so as to be disposed between the head-up display device and the defroster, and that has a cross-section profile as sectioned along the vehicle width direction profiled so as to cause airflow from the defroster to cling to a surface of the guide section such that the airflow is blown toward an area of the windshield in which information is displayed by the head-up display device.

AIR CIRCULATION SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE
20220363108 · 2022-11-17 ·

An air circulation system configured to mount within a B-pillar, C-pillar, other pillar, or interior trim or cross trims through an air channel of a vehicle. The air circulation system includes a scroll within the pillar, which defines an inlet configured to receive inlet air from a vehicle cabin at the pillar. A fan within the pillar is configured to circulate the inlet air within the scroll. An elongated throat extending from the scroll is configured to receive forced air from the scroll. The throat defines a length and an outlet extending along the length, wherein the outlet delivers the forced air into the vehicle cabin from the pillar in an air stream. The outlet is configured such that the forced air delivered from the outlet creates a Coandă effect that attracts air in the vehicle cabin to move in the direction of the air stream.

Air-conditioning unit
11613155 · 2023-03-28 · ·

An air-conditioning unit includes an air-conditioning case including an opening through which air flows, a cooler disposed in the air-conditioning case to cool air flowing to the opening, a heater disposed in the air-conditioning case to heat air flowing to the opening, and an adjusting member disposed to cover the opening and adjusting airflow passing through the opening. The adjusting member is produced separately from the air-conditioning case and includes a first region and a second region. The second region includes a high resistance member giving higher resistance to the airflow than the first region. The first region includes a low resistance member giving lower resistance to the airflow than the second region. The low resistance member is a partition dividing the first region into plural air passing parts through which air flows. The high resistance member is a plate member including a part to interfere the airflow.

HEADLINER AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
20230131606 · 2023-04-27 ·

Provided is a headliner air distribution system. The system includes a headliner assembly having a lower perforated sheet that is stationary, and an upper perforated sheet that is moveable relative to the first perforated sheet. The headliner assembly is supported upon an underside surface of a vehicle roof by a pair of bracket rails. The arrangement of the bracket rails serves to place the headliner assembly in spaced-apart relationship relative to the underside surface of the vehicle roof, to establish a plenum for receiving HVAC air. The spatial arrangement of the upper perforated sheet relative to the lower perforated sheet is used to control the passage of HVAC air from the plenum through the headliner assembly into the passenger compartment.

Roof Lining System for Motor Vehicles with Air Conditioning Function, and Motor Vehicle Comprising Roof Lining System
20230076580 · 2023-03-09 ·

A roof lining system for motor vehicles, has an air supply connection for connecting the roof lining system to an air conditioning unit of the motor vehicle and at least one outflow device which is in fluid connection with the air supply connection. The outflow device has a central outflow region and a peripheral outflow region, which each have at least one separate air supply channel. Each outflow device has at least two flow actuators, with a first flow actuator being assigned to the central outflow region and a second flow actuator being assigned to the peripheral outflow region. The first flow actuator is arranged in the air supply channel of the central outflow region, and the second flow actuator is arranged in the air supply channel of the peripheral outflow region, and in that the peripheral outflow region at least partially surrounds the central outflow region.

Headliner System for a Motor Vehicle
20230108324 · 2023-04-06 ·

The invention relates to a headliner system for a motor vehicle, said headliner system comprising at least one air supply connection for connecting the headliner system to an air conditioning and ventilation system of the motor vehicle, and at least one outflow device which is fluidically connected to the at least one air supply connection, wherein at least one outflow device has at least two outflow segments, wherein one outflow segment is designed to deliver a designated air volume flow to the passenger compartment, wherein a first outflow segment surrounds a second outflow segment at least in part, and wherein at least one outflow device is designed such that it can be displaced in at least one axis of the outflow device.

Vehicle instrument panel structure
11648820 · 2023-05-16 · ·

A vehicle instrument panel structure is provided including a blower outlet and a guide member. The blower outlet is provided between a meter section on an instrument panel provided at a front section of a vehicle cabin and an interior member of a vehicle door, and is capable of blowing an airflow substantially toward a vehicle rear side. The guide member is provided at the vehicle rear side of the blower outlet so as to block the blower outlet from view of an occupant sitting in a vehicle seat provided inside the vehicle cabin, and extends at an angle toward the vehicle rear side on progression from a location corresponding to the blower outlet toward a vehicle width direction outer side.