Air conditioner for vehicle
AssigneeHanon Systems
InventorsJong Min Lee, Jae Woo Ko, Young Keun Kim
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an air conditioner for a vehicle, which can prevent misassembly of doors and prevent damage of gears when one rack gear operates two sliding doors and increase the degree of mounting freedom of actuating means. The air conditioner for a vehicle, which includes an air-conditioning case having a heat exchanger, and a door disposed inside the air-conditioning case and sliding to adjust the degree of opening of an air passageway, includes: shafts having a first gear part geared with gear teeth formed on the door. One or more misassembly preventing parts are formed on the shafts and the first gear part.
Claims8
An air conditioner for a vehicle, comprising:
- an air-conditioning case having a heat exchanger, and a first door and a second door disposed inside the air-conditioning case and configured to slidingly adjust a degree of opening of an air passageway,
- a first shaft having a first gear part geared with gear teeth formed on the first door,
- a second shaft having a second gear part geared with gear teeth formed on the second door,
- a rack gear for connecting and interlocking the first shaft and the second shaft,
- wherein the first gear part comprises an first operation gear part engaged with the gear teeth of the first door and a misassembly preventing part comprising a first changing part which is thicker than the first operation gear part and a concave groove dented in an axial direction from the first changing part such that a protrusion formed on the door is inserted into the concave groove,
- wherein a nonoperation part having a thickness greater than that of the first operation gear part is caught by the gear teeth of the first door to limit sliding and becomes a starting point of sliding,
- wherein the nonoperation part is formed on an opposite side of the first gear part from the misassembly preventing part, and
- wherein the protrusion formed on the first door is thicker than the gear teeth of the first door.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.