Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Shigeji Takumi

Toshimitu Watanabe

Masayuki Sakai

Choichi Suzuki

Tetsurou Otani

Kazutoshi Minami

An apparatus for cooling an intercooler of a motor vehicle, which is located adjacent to a negative boundary pressure area of the vehicle, comprising an electrically driven fan which introduces cold air to the intercooler, a sensor for sensing the speed of the vehicle, and a unit for controlling the fan in response to the speed of the vehicle. The fan is rotated in a direction in which the outside air can be introduced into the vehicle only when the vehicle speed is lower than a predetermined value.

Apparatus for cooling an intercooler

A vehicle which incorporates an air treatment unit mounted underneath the front instrument panel. A hollow center console box extends along the center of the floor of the vehicle passenger compartment in the longitudinal direction. An opening at the front end of the console box is connected to an air outlet of the air treatment unit, and an opening at the rear end of the console box opens towards a space defined underneath the front seating assembly of the vehicle between it and the floor. Thus treated air is led from the air treatment unit through the hollow console box and is emitted towards the space under the front seating assembly so as to pass therefrom into the rear seating space behind the front seating assembly, and there is no risk that the feet of a person seated on the front seating assembly obstruct this flow of treated air to the space underneath the front seating assembly.

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Shigeji Takumi