Air-distribution system for the dashboard of a motor vehicle and the dashboard of a motor vehicle comprising said system
AssigneeC.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni
InventorsFrancesco Butera, Marco Biasiotto, Stefano Alacqua
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Abstract
An air-distribution system for the dashboard of a motor vehicle comprises a plurality of auxiliary ducts that branch off in parallel from a manifold. Associated to each auxiliary duct is an additional and independent unit for regulating the flow rate and/or the temperature of the air flow that traverses the respective auxiliary duct. Each auxiliary duct branches off into a number of terminal ducts and is provided with means for the distribution of the air to the terminal ducts, which are preferably of the type comprising means of deviation of the air by the Coanda effect.
Claims13
An air-distribution system for a dashboard of a motor vehicle, comprising a main duct designed to receive a flow of air from a source of conditioned air, and a plurality of auxiliary ducts that branch off from the main duct and terminate in air-outflow openings provided on the dashboard,
- said system being wherein:
- said main duct gives out into a manifold or rail, from which there branch off a number of auxiliary ducts;
- each of the auxiliary ducts that branch off from the manifold branches off into a number of terminal ducts, which give out into respective outflow openings of the dashboard;
- associated to each of the auxiliary ducts there is an air-distribution device for distributing the air flow that traverses the auxiliary duct among the terminal ducts that branch off therefrom, and wherein the air-distribution device associated to each auxiliary duct comprises means for deflecting the flow of air by the Coanda effect;
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- associated to each of said auxiliary ducts is an independent additional unit for regulating at least one characteristic of the flow of air that traverses the auxiliary duct.
A dashboard for a motor vehicle, wherein the dashboard comprises an air-distribution system comprising a main duct designed to receive a flow of air from a source of conditioned air, and a plurality of auxiliary ducts that branch off from the main duct and terminate in air-outflow openings provided on the dashboard,
- said system being wherein:
- said main duct gives out into a manifold or rail, from which there branch off a number of auxiliary ducts;
- each of the auxiliary ducts that branch off from the manifold branches off into a number of terminal ducts, which give out into respective outflow openings of the dashboard;
- associated to each of the auxiliary ducts there is an air-distribution device for distributing the air flow that traverses the auxiliary duct among the terminal ducts that branch off therefrom, and wherein the air-distribution device associated to each auxiliary duct comprises means for deflecting the flow of air by the Coanda effect;
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- associated to each of said auxiliary ducts is an independent additional unit for regulating at least one characteristic of the flow of air that traverses the auxiliary duct.
A motor vehicle comprising an air-distribution system, wherein the air-distribution system comprises a main duct designed to receive a flow of air from a source of conditioned air, and a plurality of auxiliary ducts that branch off from the main duct and terminate in air-outflow openings provided on a dashboard,
- said system being wherein:
- said main duct gives out into a manifold or rail, from which there branch off a number of auxiliary ducts;
- each of the auxiliary ducts that branch off from the manifold branches off into a number of terminal ducts, which give out into respective outflow openings of the dashboard;
- associated to each of the auxiliary ducts there is an air-distribution device for distributing the air flow that traverses the auxiliary duct among the terminal ducts that branch off therefrom, and wherein the air-distribution device associated to each auxiliary duct comprises means for deflecting the flow of air by the Coanda effect;
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- associated to each of said auxiliary ducts is an independent additional unit for regulating at least one characteristic of the flow of air that traverses the auxiliary duct.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.