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US 10,981,430 B2Granted
Roof-type air conditioner for vehicles and method of controlling the same
AssigneesHyundai Mortor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorSeong-Bin Jeong
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Abstract
A roof-type air conditioner for vehicles may include an evaporator to discharge cold air to the internal of a vehicle, and a conveying unit to move the evaporator in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle on a ceiling of the vehicle such that the evaporator is disposed to the ceiling of the internal of the vehicle and positioned to a region required for cooling.
Claims11
A roof-type air conditioner for a vehicle, the roof-type air conditioner comprising:
- an evaporator to discharge cooled air to an internal of the vehicle;
- and
- a conveying unit to selectively move the evaporator in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle on a ceiling of the vehicle such that the evaporator mounted to the ceiling of the internal of the vehicle is selectively mountable to a region required for cooling,
- wherein the conveying unit includes:
- a frame having rails mounted in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle;
- a drive actuator;
- a plate slidably mounted on the rails to be movable in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle on the rails, the evaporator being mounted on the plate;
- and
- a conveying device for sliding the plate by operation of the drive actuator, and wherein the conveying device includes:
- a drive gear rotated by the drive actuator;
- and
- a wire, wherein a first end portion of the wire is connected to the plate and a second end portion of the wire is engaged to the drive gear.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.