Ventilation nozzle

• US 7,288,023 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2005
• Issued: 10/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fischer Automotive Systems GmbH & Co., KG
• Original Assignee: Fischer Automotive Systems GmbH & Co., KG
• Inventors: Leopold, Gunter
• Primary Examiner(s): Rinehart; Kenneth
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kosanovic; Helena
• Application Number:
  US11/108,955
• Publication Number:
  US 20050239390A1
• Time in Patent Office: 924 Days
• Field of Search: 454/152, 239390-395, 239 34- 60
• US Class Current: 454/152
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/3442 the frame being spherical

Abstract

A ventilation nozzle for installation in a motor vehicle has a housing, a spherically shaped nozzle head provided with outflow openings, means for rotatably and pivotally mounting the nozzle head in the housing, the mounting means having a spring element.

Claims

1. A ventilation nozzle for installation in a motor vehicle, comprising a housing;

a spherically shaped nozzle head provided with outflow openings rotatably and pivotably mounted in said housing; and

a valve, wherein said nozzle head is movable as a whole between an opening position in which it opens the ventilation nozzle and a closing position in which it closes said ventilation nozzle, and said valve is formed such that opening and closing of the ventilation nozzle takes place by movements of the nozzle head as a whole into said opening position and into said closing position correspondingly exclusively by a linear displacement of the nozzle head as a whole relative to the housing between said positions.

2. A ventilation nozzle as defined in claim 1, further comprising a mounting element, wherein the mounting element has a spring element.

3. A ventilation nozzle as defined in claim 2, wherein said housing has a collar which forms an abutment for said spring element.

4. A ventilation nozzle as defined in claim 2, wherein said spring element is configured as a ring having spring arms.

5. A ventilation nozzle as defined in claim 4, wherein said nozzle head has a number of holding depressions, in which said spring arms engage in an open state.

6. A ventilation nozzle as defined in claim 1, wherein said nozzle head has an inflow opening, said valve being formed by a holding groove provided on said nozzle head, in which said spring element engages in a closed position, and by a closing element which corresponds geometrically to an inflow opening of said nozzle head.

7. A ventilation nozzle as defined in claim 5, wherein said spring element and said closing element are integral with one another and together form a one-piece element.

8. A ventilation nozzle as defined in claim 1, wherein said nozzle head has air-guiding elements.

9. A ventilation nozzle as defined in claim 1, wherein said housing has an axis, wherein said valve is formed so that the exclusively linear displacement of the nozzle head as a whole relative to the housing takes place exclusively an axial direction of said housing.