Patent ID: 8157627

Claim:
A passenger compartment ( 2 ) of a road vehicle and comprising: a windscreen ( 3 ); a dashboard ( 4 ), in turn comprising a substantially vertical front surface ( 5 ) supporting instruments ( 6 ), and a substantially horizontal top surface ( 7 ) bounded on one side by the front surface ( 5 ) and on the opposite side by the windscreen ( 3 ); and an air conditioning system ( 1 ) comprising: a number of air outlets ( 10 ) inside the passenger compartment ( 2 ); an air processing unit ( 9 ) connected to the air outlets ( 10 ) to process the air subsequently fed into the passenger compartment ( 2 ) through the air outlets ( 10 ); a first upper air outlet ( 10 a ), which comes out through the top surface ( 7 ) of the dashboard ( 4 ), close to the windscreen ( 3 ), extends substantially along the whole of the top surface ( 7 ) of the dashboard ( 4 ), and is directed towards the passenger compartment ( 2 ) to direct airflow tangent to the top surface ( 7 ) of the dashboard ( 4 ) and over the top surface ( 7 ); a second upper air outlet ( 10 b ), which comes out through the top surface ( 7 ) of the dashboard ( 4 ), close to the windscreen ( 3 ), is located between the windscreen ( 3 ) and the first upper air outlet ( 10 a ), extends substantially along the whole of the top surface ( 7 ) of the dashboard ( 4 ), and is directed towards the windscreen ( 3 ) to direct airflow over the windscreen ( 3 ); and a third upper air outlet ( 10 c ), which comes out through the top surface ( 7 ) of the dashboard ( 4 ), close to the windscreen ( 3 ), is located between the windscreen ( 3 ) and the second upper air outlet ( 10 b ), extends substantially along the whole of the top surface ( 7 ) of the dashboard ( 4 ), and is directed towards the windscreen ( 3 ) to direct airflow over the windscreen ( 3 ); the second upper air outlet having a larger airflow section than the first upper air outlet and a larger airflow section than the third upper air outlet the first, second and third upper air outlets being connected to the air processing unit by a common feed line, a movable baffle movable between an open position allowing airflow through the first upper air outlet, and a closed position preventing airflow through the first upper air outlet; and wherein the movable baffle is U-shaped, and comprises two flat portions connected by a curved portion; in the open position, the movable baffle being positioned with a first flat portion inside the common feed line and parallel to the common feed line, and with a second flat portion outside the common feed line and parallel to the top surface of the dashboard.