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Air conditioning apparatus for use in automobile

  • US 4,958,504 A
  • Filed: 06/16/1989
  • Issued: 09/25/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/17/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An air conditioning apparatus for an automobile, comprising:

  • an upper casing and a lower casing, said casings being assembled together and having a downstream end portion with a discharge port therein and an upstream end portion with an intake port therein;

    said lower casing having;

    a horizontal cross-flow fan rotatably mounted therein between the ends thereof and for rotation around a horizontal axis transversely of the direction from the intake port to the discharge port and for receiving air through a portion of the outer periphery thereof facing the upstream end portion and discharging the air, after it has passed through said fan, out of the other side of the fan,a lower diffuser extending from said fan to the discharge port,a first stabilizer provided below said fan and on the side thereof toward said lower diffuser,a second stabilizer provided below said fan and on the side thereof toward said upstream end portion, said first and second stabilizers defining between them a recessed portion open toward said fan;

    said upper casing having a downstream guide having a curved surface having a center of the radius of curvature to the side of said fan and extending from said fan toward said discharge port, andan upper diffuser forming a continuation of said downstream guide and extending on an extension line of said downstream guide to said discharge port and, together with said lower diffuser, defining a discharge passage from said fan to said discharge port which is gradually divergent toward said discharge port.

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