HOUSING FOR ENCLOSING INSTRUMENTS AND THE LIKE TO BE MOUNTED ON FRONT INSTRUMENT PANEL OF COMPARTMENT OF AUTOMOBILE

• US 3,635,305 A
• Filed: 12/11/1969
• Issued: 01/18/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Katuhiro Yamanaka, Koiti Yamakita, Ryozo Takaki, Takeshi Kunishi, Yoshihiro Kawade
• Original Assignee: Katuhiro Yamanaka, Koiti Yamakita, Ryozo Takaki, Takeshi Kunishi, Yoshihiro Kawade
• Inventors: Kunishi, Takeshi, Kawade, Yoshihiro, Yamakita, Koiti, Takaki, Ryozo, Yamanaka, Katuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Betts, Kenneth H.
• Application Number:
  US04/884,271
• Time in Patent Office: 768 Days
• Field of Search: 180/90 280/15B 98/2 317/101,99,100 312/7,223
• US Class Current: 180/90
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/81 Fastening of instruments, e.g. to dashboard
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/50 Instruments characterised by their means of attachment to or integration in the vehicle B60K35/231 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10

Abstract

A housing for enclosing instruments, such as meters, gages, a radio, control units for an air-conditioning system, etc. and the like in the partitioned chambers integrally formed with the main body of the housing made of a synthetic resin. The housing further includes an air duct integrally formed therewith and made of a foamed synthetic resin so as to have a spongelike structure, and a plurality of electric conductors embedded in the walls of the main body for electrically connecting said instruments and the like with the exterior and with each other.

Claims

1. A housing for enclosing instruments such as meters, a radio, control units for an air-conditioning system, and the like to be mounted on a front instrument panel in the compartment of an automobile, comprising a box-shaped body made of a synthetic resin and having a plurality of chambers in which said instruments and the like are to be enclosed, and an air duct integrally molded with said box-shaped body for said air-condition system;

said air duct being made of a foamed resin and having a spongelike structure.

2. A housing as set forth in claim 1 wherein electric conductors for wiring are embedded in the walls of said chambers enclosing the instruments and the like which require the electrical connections.