Ceiling grille for rooftop air conditioner unit
AssigneeCarrier Corporation
InventorsYoung Kill Ahn, Jeong-Un Lyu, Jong-Ho Kim
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Abstract
A ceiling grille for directing conditioned air from an air conditioning unit mounted upon the roof of a motor vehicle wherein comfort air is delivered into a plenum located inside the vehicle. The plenum has front and rear deflector vanes rotatably mounted therein for directing comfort air into the passenger compartment. Each vane has a rocker arm that is connected through suitable linkage to a cam follower. Each cam follower, in turn, rides on the cam face of a motor driven cam. The profile of the cam face is contoured to position the two vanes to control the direction of comfort air flow into the passenger compartment.
Claims6
A ceiling mounted grille for a motor vehicle for directing conditioned air from an air conditioning unit mounted upon the roof of the vehicle into the passenger compartment of the vehicle, wherein said grille includes
- a plenum for receiving conditioned air for the air conditioning unit, said plenum having a front wall, a rear wall and opposed side walls,
- a front deflector vane rotatably mounted in the front wall of said plenum,
- a rear deflector vane rotatably mounted in the rear wall of the plenum,
- a first rocker arm connected to the front deflector vane and a second rocker arm connected to said rear deflector vane, said rocker arm being arranged to rotate said deflector vanes between an open position and a closed position,
- a cam having a profiled camming face thereon,
- a first cam follower arranged to ride in contact with said camming face and a second cam follower also arranged to ride in contact with said camming face,
- means for connecting said first rocker arm to said cam follower and said second rocker arm to said second cam follower for selectively positioning the deflection vane in response to the positioning of the cam, and
- drive means for positioning said cam.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.