Patent ID: 6343983
Filing Date: 2002-02-05
Classification: B60H

Abstract:
A ventilation box intended to be arranged in a motor vehicle and having a plurality of housing parts for guidance of fresh air out of surroundings or of surrounding air into a passenger compartment of the vehicle, wherein a first housing part of the plurality of housing parts has a configuration for emplacement approximately in the middle of the vehicle, and wherein a set of further ones of the housing parts have configurations for emplacement opposite a steering column of the motor vehicle with respect to the vehicle longitudinal axis, the respective configurations of the further ones of the housing parts enabling the set of the further ones of the housing parts to be fastened selectively in either a first arrangement of the further housing parts on both right and left sides of the first housing part or in a second arrangement, opposite to the first arrangement, wherein the further housing parts are located respectively on the left and the right sides of the first housing part relative to a direction of travel.