Patent ID: 6942563
Filing Date: 2005-09-13
Classification: B60H,F24F

Abstract:
1. An air-guiding appliance for the directionally defined introduction of air supplied on the rear side of the appliance into a space, in particular the interior of a vehicle, comprising: a housing; at least one duct through which air is supplied to the housing, an air-guiding device at an open end of the housing and having recesses on a front side of the air guiding device and defining a direction of the air flowing out into the space; means for setting the direction of the air-guiding device and means for setting a quantity of the air flowing into the space, said means including: a jet pipe displaced in a first direction no further than the end of the housing and counter direction to the direction of the supplied air; wherein the jet pipe is arranged in at least one of the housing and the duct; the jet pipe comprising an air outlet opening substantially smaller in size than a cross sectional surface of the air-guiding device; in a retracted position of the jet pipe, the air emerges from the air-guiding device with a diffused outflow profile; and in the extended position of the jet pipe, the air outlet opening of said jet pipe is brought within proximity to the inside of the air-guiding device wherein the air emerges with a focused outflow profile.