Air-guiding nozzle
AssigneeVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
InventorSönke Driller
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Abstract
An air-guiding nozzle has a fixed slat and several parallel pivoting slats. The fixed slat is configured to supply air to a vehicle side window and the pivoting slats are configured to blow air onto a person in the interior of the vehicle. When the pivoting slats are pivoted to their full extent, several of them close the discharge region that blows air onto a person in the interior of the vehicle and at least one of the pivoting slats interacts with the fixed slat such that the discharge region which supplies air to the vehicle side window is enlarged. This allows a compact construction of the air-guiding nozzle, which makes it particularly suitable for integration into the region of the B-pillar above the door ledge of a motor vehicle.
Claims11
An air-guiding nozzle for defrosting a vehicle side window and ventilating a vehicle interior, comprising:
- an air outlet duct having an air outlet;
- at least one fixed slat disposed at said air outlet, said at least one fixed slat being configured to define a first discharge region for directing an air flow to a vehicle side window;
- a plurality of pivoting slats disposed at said air outlet, said pivoting slats being spaced apart from one another and being disposed substantially parallel to one another, said pivoting slats defining respective longitudinal axes and being simultaneously pivotable about said respective longitudinal axes;
- said pivoting slats being configured to define a second discharge region for directing an air flow toward a passenger area;
- said pivoting slats being dimensioned and disposed such that given ones of said pivoting slats, when in a maximum pivoting position, close said air outlet duct at said second discharge region;
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- at least one of said pivoting slats, when being in a maximum pivoting position, interacting with said at least one fixed slat such that said first discharge region is enlarged.
In combination with a B-pillar configuration having an opening formed therein and a vehicle side window adjacent to the opening, an air-guiding configuration, comprising:
- an air-guiding nozzle mounted in the opening in the B-pillar configuration, said air-guiding nozzle including:
- an air outlet duct having an air outlet;
- at least one fixed slat disposed at said air outlet, said at least one fixed slat being configured to define a first discharge region for directing an air flow to the vehicle side window;
- a plurality of pivoting slats disposed at said air outlet, said pivoting slats being spaced apart from one another and being disposed substantially parallel to one another, said pivoting slats defining respective longitudinal axes and being simultaneously pivotable about said respective longitudinal axes, said pivoting slats and said at least one fixed slat extending substantially vertically;
- said pivoting slats being configured to define a second discharge region for directing an air flow toward a passenger area;
- said pivoting slats being dimensioned and disposed such that given ones of said pivoting slats, when in a maximum pivoting position, close said air outlet duct at said second discharge region;
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- at least one of said pivoting slats, when being in a maximum pivoting position, interacting with said at least one fixed slat such that said first discharge region is enlarged.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.