Air vent for a vehicle
AssigneeMotherson Innovations Company Limited
InventorsRomeo Wieczorek, Torsten Weingärtner
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Abstract
An air vent for a vehicle includes a housing with an air inlet, an air outlet, and an air channel between the air inlet and the air outlet; at least one rigid air directing body arranged within the air channel; and an actuator arranged within the housing in order to act on the rigid air-directing body to determine a direction of an air stream exiting the air outlet, where the actuator includes a shape memory alloy element, and the rigid air-directing body is pivotably arranged within the housing by being affixed to a first axis which runs parallel to a second axis to which the actuator is affixed to be pivotably arranged within the housing.
Claims8
An air vent for a vehicle, comprising
- a housing with an air inlet, an air outlet, and an air channel between the air inlet and the air outlet;
- at least one rigid air directing body arranged within the air channel;
- and
- an actuator, separate from the at least one rigid air directing body, and arranged within the housing in order to act on the rigid air-directing body to determine a direction of an air stream exiting the air outlet,
- wherein the actuator comprises a shape memory alloy element, and
- the rigid air-directing body is pivotably arranged within the housing by being affixed to a first axis which runs parallel to a second axis to which the actuator is affixed to be pivotably arranged within the housing;
- wherein the actuator comprises a transmission element affixed to the second axis and pivotable around the second axis by the shape memory alloy element, and
- wherein the transmission element comprises a convex surface engaging with a complementary concave surface of the rigid air-directing body.
A vehicle comprising an air vent, the air vent comprising
- a housing with an air inlet, an air outlet, and an air channel between the air inlet and the air outlet;
- at least one rigid air directing body arranged within the air channel;
- and
- an actuator, separate from the at least one rigid air directing body, and arranged within the housing in order to act on the rigid air-directing body to determine a direction of an air stream exiting the air outlet,
- wherein the actuator comprises a shape memory alloy element, and
- the rigid air-directing body is pivotably arranged within the housing by being affixed to a first axis which runs parallel to a second axis to which the actuator is affixed to be pivotably arranged within the housing;
- wherein the actuator comprises a transmission element affixed to the second axis and pivotable around the second axis by the shape memory alloy element, and
- wherein the transmission element comprises a convex surface engaging with a complementary concave surface of the rigid air-directing body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.