Air vent device for vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsYu Mi Kim, Sang Ku Hur, Jae Geun Jeong, Eung Young Kim
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Abstract
An air vent device for a vehicle includes a main vent and an auxiliary vent divided by a partition wall and combined in a single air duct, a plurality of horizontal wings mounted at positions behind the main vent and the auxiliary vent, and an air volume control wing included in the plurality of horizontal wings for distributing an air volume discharged into an interior of the vehicle through the main vent and an air volume discharged into the interior of the vehicle through the auxiliary vent. The air vent device is capable of securing an interior discharge air volume, adjusting a wind direction, securing an air duct installation space, and re-distributing a leakage amount of air.
Claims11
An air vent device for a vehicle, comprising:
- an air duct being a single passage where air flows;
- a partition wall mounted on an air discharge portion of the air duct and configured to divide the air discharge portion into a main vent and an auxiliary vent;
- a plurality of horizontal wings disposed upstream of the partition wall with respect to a flow path of the air in an interior of the air duct, the plurality of horizontal wings being vertically pivotable together due to manipulation of a main knob and configured to adjust a vertical wind direction of air;
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- an air volume control wing included in the plurality of horizontal wings and configured to distribute an air volume discharged into an interior of the vehicle through the main vent and an air volume discharged into the interior of the vehicle through the auxiliary vent,
- wherein the air volume control wing includes a flat wing arranged parallel to other horizontal wings of the plurality of horizontal wings, and a guide wing bent downward to extend from a rear end portion of the flat wing at a predetermined angle,
- wherein the partition wall is mounted to be closer to the auxiliary vent than the main vent in the air discharge portion of the air duct such that a size of the main vent is formed to be larger than that of the auxiliary vent, and a distance between a distal rear end of the guide wing and a top of the air duct is greater than a distance between the distal rear end of the guide wing and a bottom of the air duct, and
- wherein the guide wing partially blocks air flow through the auxiliary vent when the horizontal wings are rotated in a first direction, and the guide wing is disposed substantially parallel with the air duct and above the partition wall when the horizontal wings are fully rotated in a second direction, the second direction being opposite to the first direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.