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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2013
Filed:
May. 22, 2007
Kimio Sakakibara, Nishio, JP;
Kimio Sakakibara, Nishio, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
An air outlet structure for an air conditioner, which can provide a sufficient volume and speed of air conditioning airflow, which has excellent directivity, and which has a thin air outlet directed to the interior of a vehicle. In the air outlet structure () for an air conditioner, a movable flow path member () provided in a case () can be deformed to a triangle and to a pentagon according to operation of a left-right adjustment knob (), and this changes the shape of a flow path in the case (). Accordingly, the flow path in the case () does not require fins for changing the direction of the left and right. As a result, the flow path in the case () can have a sufficient effective cross-sectional area to provide a sufficient volume and speed of air conditioning airflow. Further, changing the shape of the flow path itself within the case () enables control of the direction of air conditioning airflow from an air outlet (), and as a result, air conditioning airflow having excellent directivity can be obtained. Also, since the flow in the case () has the sufficient effective cross-sectional area, the air outlet () for the vehicle interior is thinner in the vertical or left-right direction of the vehicle.