B60H1/00678

Apparatus and method for sanitizing a vehicle inferior

A motor vehicle includes a passenger space and a HVAC system. The HVAC system includes a heater, an air conditioner, and ducts configured to heat and/or cool air to the passenger space. The HVAC system is configured to increase humidity of air while the air is flowing through the HVAC system, and to introduce a sanitizing agent into air while the air is flowing through the HVAC system. A controller is configured to actuate the HVAC system to circulate humidified air containing the sanitizing agent through the passenger space to neutralize pathogens that may be present in the passenger space.

Heating ventilation and air-conditioning system with an intermediate door

A HVAC system (100) includes a housing (10) with at least one first inlet (20) and at least one second inlet (30) formed thereon, at least one first door (20a), at least one second door (30a) and an intermediate door (40). The first inlet (20) and the second inlet (30) is for ingress of a first fluid stream and a second fluid stream inside the housing (10). The first door (20a) and the second door (30a) moves with respect to the first inlet (20) and the second inlet (30) respectively to define an open configuration, a closed configuration and a partially open configuration thereof. The intermediate door (40) is disposed between the first inlet (20) and the second inlet (30) and moves between a deployed and an un-deployed configuration to respectively disrupt and allow fluid flow there across. The intermediate door (40) is a sliding door.

Air Outlet, Heater or Air Conditioning Unit With Such an Air Outlet, Recreational Vehicle With an Air Outlet, Heater and/or Air Conditioning Unit and Methods for Attaching, Operating and Converting an Air Outlet
20220009306 · 2022-01-13 ·

An air outlet, in particular for heaters or air conditioning units for recreational vehicles like campers or caravans, having a main housing, a flap suitable to seal the air flow channel in the main housing and a coupling mechanism. The main housing forms an air flow channel and the coupling mechanism couples the flap to the main housing in a movable manner such that the flap can be moved with respect to the main housing between a closed state, in which the flap seals the air flow channel, and an opened state, in which the flap does not seal the air flow channel. The coupling mechanism is configured such that the flap conducts a rotating and sliding movement with respect to the main housing when being moved between the closed state and the opened state.

FLAP STOPPER FOR A ROTATABLE FLAP
20220001719 · 2022-01-06 ·

A flap stopper for a rotatable flap for controlling an air flow may include a round bearing support disc, a round stopper support disc, stop elements, and connecting ribs. The stopper support disc may be spaced apart from the bearing support disc in an axial direction. The stop elements may be arranged on the stopper support disc. The connecting ribs may be arranged between the bearing support disc and the stopper support disc. The bearing support disc, the stopper support disc, the stop elements, and the connecting ribs may be formed as an integral plastic injection-molded part.

Closable air vent
11214125 · 2022-01-04 · ·

A closable air vent may be bonded to a laminated or tempered windshield used on UTV or other types of vehicles. The air vent may include a vent body with a flap opening and a bond channel, a flap pivotably secured in the flap opening on a flap pivot, and an actuator coupled with the flap via a roll pin and displaceable between a flap closed position and a flap open position. In the flap closed position, the roll pin is disposed on one side of the flap pivot, and in the flap open position, the roll pin is disposed on an opposite side of the flap pivot.

Cabin
11780286 · 2023-10-10 · ·

To improve a view of a side area from a cabin, the cabin mounted on a machine body includes a hollow rear pillar located on a rear portion of a side surface of the cabin. The rear pillar includes an interior opening through which an interior of the rear pillar is communicated with an interior of the cabin, and an exterior opening through which the interior of the rear pillar is communicated with an exterior of the cabin.

Apparatus and method for controlling the distribution of air in an HVAC system

An air distribution plenum for controlling air flow in a vehicle HVAC system includes an air inlet and first and second air outlets. A movable member substantially blocks the first and second air outlets when in a first position, blocks only the first air outlet in a second position, blocks only the second air outlet in a third position, and permits air to flow through both the first and second air outlets when in a fourth position.

SHUT-OFF FLAP AND CORRESPONDING HEATING, VENTILATION AND/OR AIR CONDITIONING INSTALLATION

The present invention relates to a damper door (1) having an axis of rotation (3), a first face (5), and a second face opposite the first face (5), said first (5) and second faces of the damper door (1) defining a plane, said damper door (1) comprising: • a rotation shaft (9) projecting from each side of the plane defined by the first (5) and second faces of the damper door (1), and • at least one side wall (11) having a flat surface arranged radially with respect to the rotation shaft (9), characterised in that the rotation shaft (9) has, in the plane of the at least one side wall (11), a semi-elliptical shape (13) extending over the side wall (11) and comprising a large diameter (G1) coinciding with the axis of rotation (3) of the damper door (1) and a small radius (P1) parallel to the plane of the at least one side wall (11).

Motor vehicle air conditioning unit

A motor vehicle air conditioning unit, having a housing with at least one air channel arranged therein and with at least one heat exchanger for conditioning the air in the at least one air channel, the housing having at least one first air outlet and one second air outlet, a first air outlet channel being assigned to the first air outlet and conducting air to the first air outlet, and a second air outlet channel being assigned to the second air outlet and conducting air to the second air outlet, a first vane valve and a second vane valve being provided. The first vane valve assigned to the first air outlet channel, and the second vane valve assigned to the second air outlet channel, the first vane valve and the second vane valve being rotatably fixedly connected to a shaft and being rotatable by an actuator driving the shaft.

AIR CONDITIONING FUNCTION-EQUIPPED CONSOLE DEVICE AND AIR CONDITIONING DUCT DEVICE
20220314748 · 2022-10-06 ·

A duct body F30 having a straight tubular shape is provided to a duct F3 of an air conditioning function-equipped console device F1, a fin member F35 provided inside the duct body F30 faces a front blowout port F33 of the duct body F30, fin bodies F36 of the fin member F35 are arranged in an axial direction of the duct body F30, and projected areas of the respective fin bodies F36 when projected in the axial direction increase from the fin body F36 on an inflow port F31 side toward the fin body F36 on a rear blowout port F32 side. Alternatively, a damper S4 is disposed on a far side of a blowout port S2 of a duct S3 in an air conditioning duct device S1, an operation portion S5 connected to the damper S4 and partially exposed in a vehicle compartment S95 is provided, the blowout port S2 has a long shape, and at least a part of the operation portion S5 is located on an outer side in a short-side direction with respect to the blowout port S2.