Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Thomas Pacher

Günther Krämer

Michael Demerath

Manfred Groben

Sabine Steinbeiss

Joachim Pestke

Marek Prodélal

Air vent for a vehicle, including a housing with an inlet opening and an outlet opening, and an air duct for air flowing from the inlet opening to the outlet opening in a main flow direction. A slat assembly is arranged in the air duct and has a plurality of air-guiding slats that are pivotable together with respect to the main flow direction, and designed to divert the air flow from the main flow direction in an open position of the slat assembly and to interrupt the air flow in a closed position of the slat assembly. The air-guiding slats, in the closed position, are braced relative to one another and each of them takes up its end position, and at least some of the air-guiding slats reach their respective end position in succession during an adjustment of the slat assembly from the open position to the closed position.

Air vent for a vehicle

An operator element for an air vent of a vehicle, wherein the operator element is slidably or rotatably mounted relative to a carrier element, and wherein the operator element is associated with a friction brake having an elastically deformable friction body, which elastically springingly pushes against the operator element and/or the carrier element, such that the friction brake moves the operator element relative to the carrier via friction. The friction body is aligned at least in regions in the longitudinal direction of the movement path of the operator element and has at least in regions a cross-section with an at least substantially star-shaped, in particular X-shaped or Y-shaped, cross-sectional surface or a polygonal cross-sectional surface having at least three corners or a cross-sectional surface having circumferentially distributed tooth regions.

Operating element for an air vent of a vehicle and air vent with a corresponding operating element

A fork () for an operating element in an air outlet has a first bearing journal () at a first end () and a second bearing journal () at a second end (). At least one spring arm () is provided between the first bearing journal () and the second bearing journal (), it being possible for the spacing of the outer ends () of the bearing journals () to be reduced by way of said at least one spring arm (). Furthermore, an operating element and a method for fastening an operating element are provided.

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Sembach, Germany

Thomas Pacher