Patent ID: 6319111
Filing Date: 2001-11-20
Classification: B60H

Abstract:
A heating and/or air conditioning apparatus for the cabin of a vehicle, comprisinga mixing chamber adapted to be supplied with processed air and in communication with a deicing outlet, ventilating outlet and a foot level outlet, together withdistribution means adapted to control the said outlets,wherein at least two outlets selected from the deicing outlet, ventilating outlet and foot level outlet are adjacent and are bounded by a common duct, andwherein the distribution means include at least two valves of the butterfly type which are mounted within the common duct, each valve having at least two pairs of vanes each of which controls one of the said air outlets,wherein the vanes of each said valve pivot about a different axis than the vanes of each of the other said valves,wherein one of the outlets selected from the ventilating outlet, the deicing outlet and the foot level outlet is divided into two parts, which occupy two side regions of the common duct and which flank the other one of the said outlets, which occupies a central region of the common duct, and wherein each of the valves has a pair of central vanes flanked by two pairs of said vanes.