A low-profile ventilation system is provided for a motor vehicle. That low-profile ventilation system includes an inlet duct having an inlet-free top wall, a sidewall and a bottom wall. A recirculating air inlet is provided in the sidewall. A fresh air inlet is also provided in the sidewall. A related method of providing a low-profile ventilation system is also provided. The method includes providing an inlet duct with an inlet-free top wall and both a fresh air inlet and a recirculating air inlet, wherein the recirculating air inlet has first and second laterally opposing openings in a sidewall of the inlet duct.

A register faces a specific seat and feeds air to the specific seat. An hypothetical reference line is defined that extends in the front-back direction of the specific seat through the center in the width direction of the specific seat. In comparison between a first bezel side wall and a second bezel side wall, the second bezel side wall is positioned closer to the reference line than the first bezel side wall. A second duct side wall is bent such that a downstream side of the second duct side wall is positioned farther in the width direction from the reference line than an upstream side of the second duct side wall.

Embodiments and examples are disclosed for placement configurations of HVAC units for electric vehicles. For one embodiment, a vehicle includes a front compartment, a cabin compartment, a vehicle body, and a HVAC unit. The front compartment is at a front end of the vehicle. The cabin compartment is at a center of the vehicle to contain passengers. The body of the vehicle contains a dashwall separating the front compartment from the cabin compartment. The heat ventilation air conditioning (HVAC) unit is situated in the front compartment, separated from the cabin compartment by the dashwall, where the HVAC unit provides heat, ventilation, and air conditioning to the user in the cabin compartment.

Cooling module including a housing configured to accept a tangential-flow turbomachine having a turbine with at least one stage of blades forming a hollow cylinder, the turbomachine also having a motor configured to drive the rotation of the turbine, the motor including a stator and a rotor mounted with the ability to rotate about the stator. The stator of the motor is secured to the housing in such a way that the blades of the turbine are arranged circumferentially around the rotor of the motor, and in that the at least one stage of blades of the turbine is mechanically connected to the rotor of the motor so as to be driven in rotation thereby.

A fluid connection for a vehicle includes a container selectively coupled with a compartment of the vehicle. The container includes at least one passage in fluid communication with an interior of the container. At least one port is disposed on the compartment and in fluid communication with a climate control system in the vehicle. The at least one passage is in fluid communication with the at least one port when the container is coupled with the compartment. The at least one port has an elongated cross-sectional area at a connection interface between the at least one port and the at least one passage.

A fluid connection for a vehicle includes a duct extending from a compartment wall of the vehicle. The duct defines a first channel and a second channel each in fluid communication with a climate control system of the vehicle. A container is selectively coupled with the duct and defines a receptacle configured to receive the duct to provide fluid communication between an interior of the container and the climate control system. At least one first aperture and at least one second aperture are each formed on the duct. The at least one first aperture fluidly interposes the interior and the first channel and the at least one second aperture fluidly interposes the interior and the second channel when the container is coupled with the duct.

A vehicle has a drive motor and a refrigerant circuit. The refrigerant circuit includes, when viewed in the direction of flow of the refrigerant, a compressor, a gas cooler or condenser, an expansion device and an evaporator. The refrigerant circuit has a first shut-off element which is arranged outside of an area arranged between the drive motor and the evaporator.

A hush panel assembly includes an upper section, a lower section secured to the upper section and an airflow pathway. That airflow pathway is defined between the upper section and the lower section. In addition, the lower section is made from an air permeable material through which air is distributed to a footwell of a motor vehicle.

An air conditioning device for a vehicle includes a first flow path through which air subject to dehumidification flows, a second flow path through which air for recovery flows, a desiccant part and a controller. The desiccant part is fluidly communicated with the first and second flow paths, and configured to adsorb moisture contained in the air subject to dehumidification, and to discharge the moisture to the air for recovery. The controller is configured to control an air volume of the air subject to dehumidification and an air volume of the air for recovery so that the air volume of the air for recovery is less than the air volume of the air subject to dehumidification, after the air volume of the air for recovery reaches a prescribed air volume for achieving a target dehumidification amount of the air subject to dehumidification.

An air conditioning device for a vehicle includes a seat air conditioning unit that blows out air from a front side of a seat and an interior air conditioning unit that blows out air whose temperature has been adjusted by a cooling heat exchanger and a heating heat exchanger toward the vehicle interior space. The air conditioning device for a vehicle includes a first duct member for guiding the air flowing between the cooling heat exchanger and the heating heat exchanger in the interior air conditioning unit to the seat air conditioning unit. The air conditioning device for a vehicle further includes a second duct member for guiding the air higher in temperature than the air flowing between the cooling heat exchanger and the heating heat exchanger to the seat air conditioning unit.