Door for air conditioner in vehicle

• US 20090093207A1
• Filed: 10/03/2008
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hanon Systems (Hahn & Co. Auto Holdings Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hanon Systems (Hahn & Co. Auto Holdings Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Han, Seongseok, Park, Sangkyu
• Application Number:
  US12/286,963
• Publication Number:
  US 20090093207A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 454/155
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00678 the axis of rotation being in the door plane, e.g. butterfly doors
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 2001/007 Manufacturing or assembling
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 3/0085 Smell or pollution preventing arrangements B60H3/0007, B60H3/0071, B60H3/02, B60H3/06 take precedence

Abstract

The present invention relates to a door for an air conditioner in a vehicle, which includes a sheet member adapted to surround a door body, joining means for fixing both end portions of the sheet member to the door body, and support portions protrudingly formed on sides of the door body to form sheet member buffering spaces, thereby reducing material expenses and the entire manufacturing costs by reducing weight of the door, preventing a bad smell generated by inhabitation of molds by using the sheet member, preventing noise generated when the door is operated, and easily fixing the sheet member through a simple structure.

Claims

1. A door for an air conditioner in a vehicle, which is rotatably mounted inside an air-conditioning case to thereby adjust a degree of opening of a specific passageway inside the air-conditioning case, the door comprising:

a rotary shaft rotatably mounted inside the air-conditioning case;

a door body operated together with the rotary shaft to adjust the degree of opening of the specific passageway;

a sheet member mounted in such a way as to surround the door body, the sheet member being in close contact with projections formed inside the air-conditioning case; and

support portions protrudingly formed on sides of the door body to support the sheet member, the support portions forming sheet member buffering spaces on the sides of the door body corresponding to the projections of the air-conditioning case.

2. The door according to claim 1, wherein the support portions are formed along a circumference of some areas of the sheet member, which is in close contact with the projections of the air-conditioning case, in such a way that the areas of the sheet member are drawn into the buffering spaces.

3. The door according to claim 2, wherein the support portions support both sides of the drawn portions of the sheet member, which are drawn into the buffering spaces.

4. The door according to claim 1, wherein recesses are inwardly formed on both length-directional end portions of the door body to thereby prevent a collision between the door body and the projections of the air-conditioning case.

5. The door according to claim 1, wherein the support portions are formed along circumferential end portions of the door body.

6. The door according to claim 1, wherein the support portions are formed on both sides of the door body.

7. The door according to claim 1, wherein the door body includes a stopper formed between the support portions respectively supporting the both sides of the drawn portion of the sheet member to thereby prevent an excessive transformation of the sheet member.

8. The door according to claim 3, wherein the projections are formed on the inner face of the air-conditioning case in such a way as to be in perpendicular contact with the sheet member.

9. The door according to claim 1, wherein the projections are formed on the inner face of the air-conditioning case in such a way as to be in parallel face-to-face contact with the sheet member.

10. The door according to claim 1, wherein the door body includes a plurality of through holes.

11. The door according to claim 1, wherein the sheet member is made of fabric or film.

12. The door according to claim 1, wherein the sheet member contains an antibacterial material.

13. A door for an air conditioner in a vehicle, which is rotatably mounted inside an air-conditioning case to thereby adjust a degree of opening of a specific passageway inside the air-conditioning case, the door comprising:

a rotary shaft rotatably mounted inside the air-conditioning case;

a door body operated together with the rotary shaft to adjust the degree of opening of the specific passageway; and

a sheet member mounted in such a way as to surround the door body, the sheet member being in close contact with projections formed inside the air-conditioning case, both end portions of the sheet member being joined to the door body through joining means.

14. The door according to claim 13, wherein the joining means includes:

fixing pins protrudingly formed on one side of the rotary shaft; and

holes formed at both end portions of the sheet member in such a way as to be caught to the fixing pins.

15. The door according to claim 13, wherein the joining means includes:

fixing pins protrudingly formed on the door body; and

holes formed at both end portions of the sheet member in such a way as to be caught to the fixing pins.

16. The door according to claim 14, wherein the fixing pins are fused in a state where the holes of the sheet member are caught to the fixing pins.

17. The door according to claim 15, wherein the fixing pins are fused in a state where the holes of the sheet member are caught to the fixing pins.

18. The door according to claim 15, wherein the fixing pins are formed at locations, which are spaced apart from the projections at a predetermined interval, to prevent an interference with the projections of the air-conditioning case.