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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2004
Filed:
May. 01, 2000
Klaus Arold, Sindelfingen, DE;
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
An air-conditioning system for a passenger cell of a vehicle includes an evaporator, for cooling an air stream, arranged in succession with a heat exchanger for heating the air stream. The heat exchanger has a heating medium flowing through it permanently. At least one air-mixing space is directly adjacent to the heat exchanger and has a warm-air inlet, covering at least part of the air outlet surface of the heat exchanger, and a cold-air inlet, forming the mouth of a cold-air duct bypassing the heat exchanger. Control members set the opening cross sections of the inlets. For the purpose of a substantial reduction in cold-air heating in the “maximum cooling” operating mode by the heat exchanger through which the heating medium flows permanently, an air-guide flap pivotable into two pivoting end positions is arranged at the inlet of the cold-air duct on the air inlet side of the heat exchanger, in such a way that, in this operating mode, the said air-guide flap covers a part region of the air inlet surface of the heat exchanger and performs an air-guide function for guiding the cold-air stream towards the cold-air duct inlet.