Airvent assembly for a vehicle interior
AssigneeFaurecia India Private Limited
InventorsSachin Patil, Avinash Kadaganve
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Abstract
An airvent assembly for a vehicle interior. The airvent assembly has a vane, a first flap, a first lever, a second lever and a movable disk. The first and the second levers are connected to the vane and the first flap, respectively. The first and the second levers have a first and a second guiding path, respectively. The movable disk is configured with a first and a second guiding pin. Upon actuation of the movable disk, one of the first or the second guiding pin engages with and moves within the first or the second guiding path to move the vane or the first flap to change the direction of an airflow or to at least partially prevent the airflow.
Claims6
An airvent assembly for a vehicle interior, the airvent assembly comprising:
- a vane to change the direction of an airflow into the vehicle interior and a first flap to at least partially prevent the airflow into the vehicle interior;
- a first lever connected to the vane and a second lever connected to the first flap, the first lever having a first guiding path and the second lever having a second guiding path;
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- a movable disk having a first guiding pin and a second guiding pin, wherein the movable disk can be actuated so as to move the first guiding pin within the first guiding path of the first lever to move the vane to change the direction of the airflow into the vehicle interior and wherein the movable disk can also be actuated so as to move the second guiding pin within the second guiding path of the second lever to move the first flap to at least partially prevent the airflow into the vehicle interior;
- wherein a second flap is arranged adjacent to the first flap, and
- wherein an edge portion of the first flap and an edge portion of the second flap are configured with a first flap gear and a second flap gear respectively, the flap gears are directly connected to each other for rotating the first flap and the second flap in opposite directions to at least partially prevent the airflow and also to configure a shut-off position to completely prevent the airflow into the vehicle interior.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.