Ventilation – Vehicle – Having inlet airway
Patent
1999-12-28
2000-11-14
Joyce, Harold
Ventilation
Vehicle
Having inlet airway
251901, 454324, B60H 134
Patent
active
061462659
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle air outlet assembly having a sliding shutoff door for blocking and unblocking air therethrough. The assembly includes a housing having a tubular form including inlet and outlet ends and defining an air passage between the ends. The shutoff door is movable between an open position along one side of the housing and a closed position across the inlet end of the housing to block air flowing through the housing. The door is made from a plurality of panels hingedly connected together. Followers such as pins are disposed along laterally opposite edges of the panels. Guides or tracks are formed on opposite sides of the housing and receive the pins for guiding sliding movement of the door between open and closed positions, respectively, unblocking and blocking the inlet end of the housing. Actuating means are connected with one of the door panels for sliding the door panels between the open and closed positions. The door uses less volume within the housing by sliding into one of the sides of the housing rather than rotating within the housing.
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Delphi Technologies Inc.
Joyce Harold
Marra Kathryn A.
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