Automobile ventilator

• US 4,593,609 A
• Filed: 09/05/1985
• Issued: 06/10/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Nagatomo, Hideaki, Yasuda, Mitsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Joyce, Harold
• Application Number:
  US06/772,788
• Time in Patent Office: 278 Days
• Field of Search: 98/2, 98/2.01, 98/2.11
• US Class Current: 454/75
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00471 The ventilator being of the radial type, i.e. with radial expulsion of the air
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00778 the input being a stationary vehicle position, e.g. parking or stopping
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/244 located in the rear area

Abstract

An automobile ventilator which is a conventional ventilating device and a conventional air cleaning device combined into one. The ventilator structure has an air blowing passage opening into a passenger room of the vehicle. Through the air blowing passage comes out air blown by an impeller provided at the passage. There are further two passages to guide air to the impeller; one is a ventilation passage communicating outside the vehicle body while the other is a circulation passage opening into the passenger room. A damper is provided between the two passages in hinge fashion to selectively close either one of the two passages. This damper is controlled by manipulating the ignition switch such that the ventilation passage is closed on engine start whereas the circulation passage is closed when the engine is stopped. The impeller is driven alternately by first and second drive circuits. The first drive circuit is placed in an operative condition when the ignition switch is thrown to ON position whereas the second drive circuit is placed in an operative condition when the ignition switch is thrown to OFF position.

Claims

1. An automobile ventilator comprising

a first passage section formed within a vehicle body, said first passage section including an air blowing passage in communication with a passenger room;

a second passage section formed within the vehicle body and in communication with said first passage section, said second passage section having a ventilating passage in communication outside the vehicle body and a circulation passage in communication with the passenger room and having an air cleaning device therein;

an impeller provided between said first passage section and said second passage section to blow air into the passenger room through said air blowing passage;

damper means provided between said impeller and said second passage section, said damper means being adapted to selectively close either one of the ventilation passage and the circulation passage;

a damper drive circuit having therein a power source, damper drive means and an ignition switch between the power source and the damper drive means, said damper drive circuit being adapted to actuate the damper drive means when said ignition switch is thrown to ON position such that the damper closes the ventilation passage and when said ignition switch is thrown to OFF position such that the damper closes the circulation passage;

a first impeller drive circuit branched off from the damper drive circuit to drive the impeller, said first impeller drive circuit having a cleaning device switch therein;

a second impeller drive circuit provided parallel to said first impeller drive circuit to drive the impeller, said second impeller drive circuit having a ventilation unit switch therein;

switch means provided in said second impeller drive circuit, said switch means being interlocked with said ignition switch to perform ON and OFF operations opposite to the ignition switch.

2. An automobile ventilator according to claim 1, wherein said damper drive means includes a solenoid, said damper being connected to a link mechanism adapted to be normally maintained away from said solenoid to close the circulation passage and attracted thereto on energization of the solenoid to close the ventilation passage.

3. An automobile ventilator according to claim 1, wherein said damper drive means includes an engine, a negative pressure tube connected to said engine, an actuator to operate according to negative pressure, said damper being connected to a link mechanism connected to said actuator adapted to be normally pulled away from the actuator to close the circulation passage and be attracted by the actuator theretoward upon engine start to close the ventilation passage.

4. An automobile ventilator according to claim 1, wherein said switch means includes a normally-closed interlocking relay adapted to be opened when the ignition switch is thrown to ON-position.

5. An automobile ventilator according to claim 1, wherein said air cleaning device includes an electrostatic filter therein.