Heating and/or air conditioning device for a vehicle passenger compartment with improved air mixing
AssigneeValeo Climatisation
InventorJean-Yves Queinnec
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Abstract
A heating and/or air conditioning device for a vehicle passenger compartment comprising an air mixing chamber adapted to be supplied with treated air by communicating with a defrost outlet, a ventilating outlet and an outlet for the feet. The defrost outlet and the ventilating outlet are adjacent and defined by a common duct, and said outlets are controlled by two throttle valve-type flaps housed in the common duct and comprising each at least a first couple of wings controlling the defrost outlet and at least a second couple of wings controlling the ventilating outlet, the two flaps being mounted pivoting about parallel axes between an aerating position and a defrosting position.
Claims11
A heating and/or air conditioning apparatus for the cabin of a vehicle, comprising
- a mixing chamber adapted to be supplied with processed air and in communication with a deicing outlet, ventilating outlet and a foot level outlet, together with
- distribution means adapted to control the said outlets,
- wherein at least two outlets selected from the deicing outlet, ventilating outlet and foot level outlet are adjacent and are bounded by a common duct, and
- wherein the distribution means include at least two valves of the butterfly type which are mounted within the common duct, each valve having at least two pairs of vanes each of which controls one of the said air outlets,
- wherein the vanes of each said valve pivot about a different axis than the vanes of each of the other said valves,
- wherein one of the outlets selected from the ventilating outlet, the deicing outlet and the foot level outlet is divided into two parts, which occupy two side regions of the common duct and which flank the other one of the said outlets, which occupies a central region of the common duct, and wherein each of the valves has a pair of central vanes flanked by two pairs of said vanes.
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