Patent ID: 7037187

Claim:
A system for the distribution of air to a row of seats in a passenger compartment of a means of transport or in a room of a building, comprising: a main duct extending along the row of seats and having a plurality of outlets distributed along the duct; and control means associated to each outlet for control of the passage of air through it, wherein said control means associated to each outlet are designed to control the air flow through the outlet by means of the Coanda effect, wherein the control means associated to each outlet comprise a mobile element having a first operative position, in which the air flow of the main duct is deviated towards the outlet, and a second operative position, in which said outlet is masked with respect to the air flow of the main duct, wherein the main duct extends longitudinally in the passenger compartment or in the room and extends orthogonally to a transverse arrangement of seat rows, and wherein the main duct comprises said outlets that are longitudinally aligned along the duct and each such outlet is provided with a device that exploits the Coanda effect.