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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 04, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael A Gavlak, Buffalo, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
62 81 ; 62133 ; 62182 ; 62244 ; 62278 ;
Abstract
A method of eliminating odor in a heat pump system of a vehicle includes the steps of detecting removal of the vehicle passengers and ignition key after use of the cooling mode or air conditioning of the passenger compartment heat exchanger, operating the blower, reversing the flow of refrigerant in the heat pump to place the passenger compartment heat exchanger in heating mode to remove latent moisture to eliminate odor therefrom.