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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2019
Denso Thermal Systems S.p.a., Turin, IT;
Claudio Ferrarese, Turin, IT;
Andrea Carbone, Turin, IT;
Denso Thermal Systems S.P.A., Turin, IT;
Abstract
Described herein is an air intake device for an air conditioning unit of a vehicle, the air intake device including a casing on which there are formed a fresh air inlet, a recirculation air inlet, and an air outlet adapted to be associated to an air inlet of a blower of the air conditioning unit, and a pair of drum flaps mounted to the casing and rotatable about a common rotation axis and movable between a fresh air extreme position and a recirculation extreme position. In the fresh air extreme position, the angular span of the recirculation air inlet is partially covered by one of the drum flaps and partially covered by the other of the drum flaps, and in the recirculation extreme position, the angular span of the fresh air inlet is completely covered by one of the drum flaps, the drum flaps overlapping each other.