Air-conditioning equipment for vehicles

• US 6,179,708 B1
• Filed: 12/22/1999
• Issued: 01/30/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Japan Climate Systems Corporation (Visteon Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Japan Climate Systems Corporation (Visteon Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Kazuhiro, Hakata, Toshiki, Otani, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Joyce, Harold
• Application Number:
  US09/469,780
• Time in Patent Office: 405 Days
• Field of Search: 454/136, 454/137, 454/153, 454/285
• US Class Current: 454/153
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00371 for vehicles carrying large numbers of passengers, e.g. buses
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00457 Ventilation unit, e.g. combined with a radiator control systems for ventilators B60H1/00828
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00471 The ventilator being of the radial type, i.e. with radial expulsion of the air
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 17/04 of transverse-flow type
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/422 Discharge tongues F04D17/04 takes precedence

Abstract

In a casing 11, a rear guide 23 is formed above a cylindrical impeller 13 and a stabilizer 24 is formed below the impeller. A minimum gap dimension between the cylindrical impeller 13 and the stabilizer 24 on the outlet port 17 side has a value of 14% to 24% of the outer diameter of the cylindrical impeller 13. An angle between a straight line connecting the center of rotation of the cylindrical impeller 13 and a minimum gap position on the outlet port 17 side of the stabilizer 24 and the horizontal plane has a value of 38° to 43°. A minimum gap dimension between the cylindrical impeller 13 and the stabilizer 24 on the inlet port 16 side has a value of not smaller than 7% of the outer diameter of the cylindrical impeller 13. An angle between a straight line connecting the center of rotation of the cylindrical impeller 13 and a minimum gap position on the inlet port 16 side of the stabilizer 24 and the vertical plane has a value of 11° to 15°.

Further, the cylindrical impeller 13 is arranged horizontally perpendicularly to the direction in which the inlet port 16 and the outlet port 17 are connected in the casing 11, the rear guide 23 is formed above the cylindrical impeller 13 and the stabilizer 24 is formed below the impeller. A portion on the outlet port side of at least one of the rear guide and the stabilizer is provided by a diffuser which can change the direction of air blow by pivoting around pivot axes 25a and 26a.

Claims

1. Air-conditioning equipment for vehicles, of which casing having an inlet port and an outlet port that are arranged in positions approximately opposite from each other is internally provided with a cylindrical impeller arranged horizontally perpendicularly to a direction in which the inlet port and the outlet port are connected, a rear guide formed above the cylindrical impeller and a stabilizer formed below the cylindrical impeller, wherein

a portion on the outlet port side of at least one of said rear guide and said stabilizer is provided by a diffuser which can change a direction of air blow by pivoting around a pivot axis.

2. The air-conditioning equipment for vehicles according to claim 1, wherein

said diffuser is formed so that it is interlocked with both the rear guide and the stabilizer.

3. The air-conditioning equipment for vehicles according to claim 1, wherein

said diffuser can change the direction of air blow by pivoting automatically according to an air blow mode.

4. The air-conditioning equipment for vehicles according to claim 1, wherein

said diffuser is formed as divided into two or more parts in a lengthwise direction, and at least diffusers arranged parallel in the lengthwise direction can pivot independently of each other around respective pivot axes.

5. The air-conditioning equipment for vehicles according to claim 1, wherein

said diffuser is formed so that it is interlocked with both the rear guide and the stabilizer, and

said diffuser can change the direction of air blow by pivoting automatically according to an air blow mode.

6. The air-conditioning equipment for vehicles according to claim 1, wherein

said diffuser is formed so that it is interlocked with both the rear guide and the stabilizer, and

said diffuser is formed as divided into two or more parts in a lengthwise direction, and at least diffusers arranged parallel in the lengthwise direction can pivot independently of each other around respective pivot axes.

7. The air-conditioning equipment for vehicles according to claim 1, wherein

said diffuser can change the direction of air blow by pivoting automatically according to an air blow mode, and

said diffuser is formed as divided into two or more parts in a lengthwise direction, and at least diffusers arranged parallel in the lengthwise direction can pivot independently of each other around respective pivot axes.

8. The air-conditioning equipment for vehicles according to claim 1, wherein

said diffuser is formed so that it is interlocked with both the rear guide and the stabilizer,

said diffuser can change the direction of air blow by pivoting automatically according to an air blow mode, and

said diffuser is formed as divided into two or more parts in a lengthwise direction, and at least diffusers arranged parallel in the lengthwise direction can pivot independently of each other around respective pivot axes.