Arrangement in a ventilation system for a vehicle

• US 4,319,519 A
• Filed: 04/10/1979
• Issued: 03/16/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Saab-Scania Aktiebolag
• Original Assignee: Saab-Scania Aktiebolag
• Inventors: Parsson, Nils O.
• Primary Examiner(s): King, Lloyd L.
• Application Number:
  US06/028,699
• Time in Patent Office: 1,071 Days
• Field of Search: 98/2.11, 62/298, 62/299, 62/239, 62/427
• US Class Current: 454/158
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00007 Combined heating, ventilating, or cooling devices control systems or mechanisms B60H1/00642
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 2003/065 Details for holding filter elements in position
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 3/0616 with provisions for replacing the filter element
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 3/0658 Filter elements specially adapted for their arrangement in vehicles B60H3/0608 takes precedence

Abstract

A ventilation system for a vehicle is provided with a ventilation housing through which air from an outer air intake is fed to at least one air outlet opening in the vehicle passenger compartment. In the ventilation housing there is a fan which, when energized acts on the airflow through the ventilation housing. The ventilation housing is provided with an opening which allows insertion, in the transverse direction of a passage in the housing, of a filter unit, which can comprise a filter insert in a cassette and/or an evaporator in a cooling system.

Claims

1. An arrangement in a ventilation system for a vehicle passenger compartment, comprising a ventilation housing mounted transverse at the forward part of the passenger compartment and formed with a through passage for leading air from an outer air intake to at least one air outlet opening out in the vehicle passenger compartment, a fan for acting on the air flow through said passage, said housing having at least one opening, an insert unit inserted into said opening so as to extend transverse of the through passage, the insert having portions engaging with portions of the ventilating housing, and means fastening some of the engaged portions of the housing and unit to each other so as to mount the unit on the housing, the unit being an air filter in a cassette or an evaporator for an air cooling system.

2. An arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the part of the evaporator intended to be inserted in the passage in the ventilation housing has the same form and dimensions as the cassette with the filter insert.

3. An arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein the cassette has a parallel epipedic form with perforations formed in the walls for allowing air through in the flow direction.

4. An arrangement as claimed in claim 3 wherein the cassette accommodates at least one exchangeable filter shaped as a parallel epipede.

5. An arrangement as claimed in claim 4, wherein the filter is formed from glass fibre material and has a diminishing porosity in the flow direction.

6. An arrangement as claimed in claim 4 or 5, wherein the cassette is arranged to suit the opening on the ventilation housing with sealing abutment against the defining walls for the through passage formed in the ventilation housing.