Ventilation system

• US 5,167,574 A
• Filed: 03/04/1991
• Issued: 12/01/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Company Limited (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Company Limited (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Miyano, Tetsuya, Menjo, Yoshihiro, Ikeda, Kazutoshi, Ichioka, Tetsumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Joyce, Harold
• Application Number:
  US07/663,622
• Time in Patent Office: 638 Days
• Field of Search: 98/2.18, 98/DIG. 8, 137/855, 137/512.1, 137/843, 251/65
• US Class Current: 454/164
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00664 Construction or arrangement of damper doors control systems or circuits for damper doors B60H1/00835
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/249 using one-way valves
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/1406 characterised by sealing means
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/1413 using more than one tilting member, e.g. with several pivoting blades F24F13/15 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/1426 characterised by actuating means
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2013/148 with magnets
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 454/904 Magnetic means to hold a damper closed
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/7839 Dividing and recombining in a single flow path

Abstract

A ventilation system for ventilating the inside of a compartment such as the compartment of an automobile or the room of a building. The ventilation system prevents the contaminated outside air from flowing back into the inside of the compartment from an inside air outlet by magnetically attracting a mouth frame, which is composed of the inside air outlet and a peripheral edge, and a one-way valve for opening the inside air outlet only at the time of releasing the inside air of the compartment to the outside.

Claims

1. A ventilation system comprising:

a mouth frame including an inside air outlet for releasing the inside air of a compartment to the outside;

a high-molecular material containing magnetically attractive powder forming at least the peripheral edge of said inside air outlet; and

a one-way valve for closing said inside air outlet at times other than the time of releasing the inside air of the compartment to the outside, and for opening said inside air outlet only in the releasing direction at the time of releasing the inside air of said compartment to the outside,

said one-way valve including permanent magnet means for attracting said magnetically attractive powder of said inside air outlet, permitting said peripheral edge to abut a portion of said one-way valve.

2. A ventilation system according to claim 1, wherein the magnetically attractive powder of said mouth frame and the permanent magnet means of said one-way valve have their magnetically attracting force set to 0.2 to 10 g/cm².

3. A ventilation system according to claim 1, wherein the permanent magnet material of said one-way valve is a high-molecular means containing permanent magnet powder.

4. A ventilation system according to claim 1, wherein said high-molecular material contains permanent magnetic powder.