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US 12,558,944 B2Granted
Vehicle air conditioner having photocatalyst module
AssigneeHanon Systems
InventorsJae Ho Kim, Ji-Yong Park, Tae Yong Park, Su Jin Woo, Sung Je Lee
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a vehicle air conditioner, and more particularly, to a vehicle air conditioner having a photocatalyst module, which provides an optimal design location or a mounting structure in which the photocatalyst module is mounted on an upper surface of a duct, the upper surface of the duct has a predetermined inclination with respect to a floor surface, and the photocatalyst module is mounted on a left/right independent air conditioner.
Claims15
A vehicle air conditioner comprising:
- a duct configured to connect a blower unit, which introduces inside air and outside air, and an air conditioning unit, which exchanges heat with the introduced inside and outside air, so that the air flows between the blower unit and the air conditioning unit;
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- a photocatalyst module comprising a module casing, a body disposed at a lower side in the module casing and having a light source therein, and a carrier disposed below the body and configured to generate superoxide radicals by generating a photocatalytic reaction by using light emitted from the light source,
- wherein the duct has a photocatalyst module mounting part having a hollow shape therein so that the carrier of the photocatalyst module passes through the photocatalyst module mounting part,
- wherein the photocatalyst module mounting part is provided on an upper outer wall of the duct,
- wherein the duct has a fastener disposed at the periphery of the photocatalyst module mounting part and configured to fasten the photocatalyst module onto the duct,
- wherein an upper surface of the fastener is provided in parallel with a floor surface,
- wherein the module casing has a tilting bracket provided at a position corresponding to the fastener and having a fastening hole through which the tilting bracket is bound with the fastener,
- wherein the tilting bracket is provided in parallel with the floor surface,
- wherein the tilting bracket is obliquely provided to have a predetermined angle with respect to the body and thus be parallel to the floor surface, and
- wherein the floor surface references a surface parallel to a horizontal surface perpendicular to a direction in which the vehicle air conditioner stands when the vehicle air conditioner stands.
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A vehicle air conditioner comprising:
- a duct configured to connect a blower unit, which introduces inside air and outside air, and an air conditioning unit, which exchanges heat with the introduced inside and outside air, so that the air flows between the blower unit and the air conditioning unit;
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- a photocatalyst module comprising a module casing, a body disposed at a lower side in the module casing and having a light source therein, and a carrier disposed below the body and configured to generate superoxide radicals by generating a photocatalytic reaction by using light emitted from the light source,
- an additional casing provided to surround at least a part of an upper surface of the photocatalyst module and configured to fix the photocatalyst module to the duct so that the photocatalyst module is in contact with the duct,
- wherein the duct has a photocatalyst module mounting part having a hollow shape therein so that the carrier of the photocatalyst module passes through the photocatalyst module mounting part,
- wherein the photocatalyst module mounting part is provided on an upper outer wall of the duct,
- wherein the duct has a fastener disposed at the periphery of the photocatalyst module mounting part and configured to fasten the photocatalyst module onto the duct,
- wherein an upper surface of the fastener is provided in parallel with a floor surface,
- wherein the additional casing has an additional bracket provided at a position corresponding to the fastener and having a fastening hole through which the additional bracket is bound with the fastener,
- wherein the additional bracket is provided in parallel with the floor surface,
- wherein the additional bracket of the additional casing is bound with the fastener to fix and mount the photocatalyst module to an upper surface of the duct,
- wherein the module casing has a horizontal bracket provided in parallel with the body of the photocatalyst module,
- wherein the additional casing has an additional joint capable of being coupled to the horizontal bracket, and
- wherein the additional joint is coupled to the horizontal bracket at the same time when the additional bracket of the additional casing is bound with the fastener.
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A vehicle air conditioner comprising:
- a duct configured to connect a blower unit, which introduces inside air and outside air, and an air conditioning unit, which exchanges heat with the introduced inside and outside air, so that the air flows between the blower unit and the air conditioning unit;
- and
- a photocatalyst module comprising a module casing, a body disposed at a lower side in the module casing and having a light source therein, and a carrier disposed below the body and configured to generate superoxide radicals by generating a photocatalytic reaction by using light emitted from the light source,
- wherein the duct has a photocatalyst module mounting part having a hollow shape therein so that the carrier of the photocatalyst module passes through the photocatalyst module mounting part,
- wherein the photocatalyst module mounting part is provided on an upper outer wall of the duct,
- wherein the duct has a fastener disposed at the periphery of the photocatalyst module mounting part and configured to fasten the photocatalyst module onto the duct,
- wherein an upper surface of the fastener is provided in parallel with a floor surface, and
- wherein the fastener is provided in the form of a pipe having an upper surface parallel to the floor surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.