Back to results
US 10,589,601 B2Granted
Air register with folding vanes and cooperating wall flaps
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsJorge Araujo Nieto, Alfredo Pérez Montiel, Gustavo Llamas Maldonado
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An air register includes a support, at least one folding vane connected to the support by a first pivot and a flap connected to the support by a second pivot. A method of distributing air from an air register is also provided.
Claims11
An air register, comprising:
- a support;
- at least one folding vane connected to said support by a first pivot;
- a flap connected to said support by a second pivot;
- and
- a linkage connecting said at least one folding vane with said flap to coordinate movement of said at least one folding vane and said flap wherein (a) said linkage is an articulated linkage including a first link connected to said at least one folding vane by a first pivot joint, a second link connected to said flap by a second pivot joint and a third pivot joint connecting said first link to said second link;
- (b) said first pivot defines a first pivot axis and said second pivot defines a second pivot axis where said first pivot axis is parallel to said second pivot axis;
- (c) said at last one folding vane has a vane body including a first section, a second section and a hinge joint connecting said first section and said second section;
- (d) said hinge joint defines a hinge axis and said hinge axis is parallel to said first pivot axis and said second pivot axis;
- (e) said second section includes opposed guide pins and said support includes opposed arcuate guide tracks, said opposed guide pins sliding in said opposed arcuate guide tracks;
- and (f) said second section includes opposed guide pins and said support includes opposed arcuate guide tracks, said opposed guide pins sliding in said opposed arcuate guide tracks.
7 more elements
A method of distributing air from an air register, comprising:
- pivoting a folding vane about a first pivot axis;
- pivoting a wall flap about a second pivot axis;
- folding said folding vane about a hinge axis;
- and
- displacing said hinge axis about said first pivot axis when pivoting said folding vane about said first pivot axis.
2 more elements
An air register, comprising:
- a support, wherein said support includes opposed arcuate hinge tracks;
- at least one folding vane connected to said support by a first pivot, wherein said at least one folding vane has a vane body including a first section, a second section and a hinge joint connecting said first section and said second section, wherein said hinge joint includes opposed hinge pins sliding in said opposed arcuate hinge tracks;
- and
- a flap connected to said support by a second pivot.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.