Daimler Chrysler Ag

Daimler-benz Ag

Manfred Weindorf

Klaus Arold

Dieter Heinle

Markus Schoellhorn

A ventilation system for the interior of a vehicle includes a housing comprising an air inlet; a first air outlet; and a second air outlet, which is arranged directly in front of the first air outlet; and a swivel flap arranged in the area of the air outlets. The second air outlet is arranged in a plane that is oriented at a right angle with respect to the plane of the first air outlet. For achieving an air deflection with a simultaneous air distribution within a narrow space, the housing has a third air outlet which is situated in a plane orthogonal to the planes of the other air outlets.

Ventilation device

A heating or air conditioning unit for the interior of vehicles with air outlets, which are disposed in the center plane of the interior of the vehicle, particularly in the dashboard and which include at least one centrally disposed center vent and two side vents, and with a control unit with adjusting elements for influencing the air emerging from the air outlets is provided. For the purpose of adjusting the division of air between the at least one center vent and the two side vents in the driver's side and the front seat passenger's side of the interior of the vehicle from the driver's seat, two air ducts, each leading to one of the side vents, branch off from the air duct leading to the at least one center vent and, at each branching site, an air splitter is disposed, which is controlled from an air distribution adjusting element, which is disposed in a control panel of the control unit, which is usually placed centrally in the dashboard in the interior of the vehicle.

Heating or air conditioning unit

An air conditioner for vehicles has a housing and has an evaporator and a heat exchanger which, viewed in the air flow direction, are successively arranged in the housing at a distance from one another and enclose a housing section between one another whose bottom is approximately V-shaped. A warm air flap is swivellably arranged in the housing section for controlling the air supply to the heat exchanger. For achieving a very good air approach flow to the heat exchanger in all swivelling positions of the warm air flap and a sufficiently good water precipitation from the moisture-laden air flow, the arrangement of the swivel axis extending at a parallel distance from the forward and the rearward transverse flap edge is such that, in one swivelling end position of the warm air flap, the rearward flap edge rests on the bottom and the forward flap edge rests on the front edge of the heat exchanger, and, in the other swivelling end position, the rearward flap edge is swivelled in front of the air passage surface of the heat exchanger and the forward flap edge is situated approximately in a horizontal plane extending through the swivel axis.

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Vaihingen, Germany

Manfred Weindorf