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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8141622 | Console air conditioner for vehicle A console air conditioner includes an evaporator, a heater, a face vent, a floor vent, and a vent door for controlling the opening degrees of the face vent and the floor vent and is installed in the console space between front seats of a vehicle. Both sides of the a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8118087 | Vehicle air conditioning device A vehicle air conditioning device having first and second fans for forcing air through a heat exchanger, and a fan controller for controlling an operation of the first and second fans. On receiving a signal indicating that the shutter is closed, the fan controller c... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8091623 | Air mixer vent The invention relates to an air mixer vent (5), designed in particular for a motor vehicle air conditioning system (1). Said vent comprises an air deflector element (15), which is located on the air mixer vent (5) and protrudes from a sur... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091622 | System and method for cooling engine room using blowing device The present relates to a system for cooling a vehicle engine compartment having a blowing device provided on a dash panel of a vehicle and configured to be able to send external air to the engine compartment and a cabin of the vehicle; a control unit to control the ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8082979 | System and method for environmental management of a vehicle A method for environmental management of a vehicle includes the steps of determining certain environmental conditions for the vehicle, and determining when it is desirable to defog the window based on the determined environmental conditions. A status of manual overr... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8074709 | Center mounting type air conditioner for vehicle The present invention relates to a center mounting type air conditioner for a vehicle, which can reduce size and noise of a blower, and enhance installation efficiency and reduce an installation space of the air conditioner installed in the vehicle. At least one byp... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8056617 | HVAC system for a work vehicle An HVAC system for work vehicle having an operator compartment for an operator is disclosed. The HVAC system includes a pressurizer blower and an air-conditioning system coupled to an electronic circuit. The electronic circuit is configured to reduce the output of t... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8051904 | Vehicular temperature control device The vehicular temperature control device includes an external housing, a pair of internal compartments and a mechanism in each compartment that allows the device to either cool off or warm up an interior area within a vehicle. One of the internal compartments includ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8047274 | Air conditioner for vehicle An air conditioner for a vehicle includes a main heater for heating air in a vehicle compartment using coolant of an engine of the vehicle as a heat source, and an auxiliary heater for heating air in the vehicle compartment using a heat source other than exhaust hea... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8042609 | Method and apparatus for improving vehicle fuel economy The present invention provides an apparatus for improving the fuel economy of a vehicle. The apparatus includes a transmission having a transmission sump that contains transmission fluid, and a heat exchanger disposed within said sump and at least partially submerge... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8025096 | Door actuating device for air conditioner of vehicle A door actuating device for an air conditioner of a vehicle can efficiently prevent separation of a link member after the link member is coupled to a rotating member when operating two doors simultaneously by using one door actuator, and the rotating member has a si... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7997331 | Air-conditioning system An air-conditioning system allows adjustment of the vented air temperature of a rear seat evaporator. An electronic control system judges whether the surface of the rear seat evaporator is frosting up when 1) a target blowing rate of the rear seat blower is lower th... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7992629 | Air conditioner for a vehicle having learing function and control method In an air amount control for controlling an air amount to be blown into a vehicle compartment, a water temperature control map in which the air amount is set based on a water temperature of cooling water for the vehicle is stored, and the air amount is determined ba... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7967063 | Air conditioning apparatus for vehicle An air conditioning apparatus has a cool-side door device and a heating-side door device between an evaporator and a heater core. The cool-side door device is configured to open and close a cool air passage through which a cool air generated by the evaporator flows.... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7931074 | Heat exchanger and air conditioner A heat exchanger includes tubes which are arranged in parallel and through which a fluid for heating air flows. Fins which are joined to the tubes. The tubes and the fins are arranged to form three or more heating parts and at least two bypass passages each of which... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931075 | Air conditioner In an air conditioner for a vehicle, a blower of a blower unit includes a double-axial motor having a rotation axis positioned approximately in a vehicle top-bottom direction, a pair of centrifugal fans located at two sides of the double-axial motor in an axial dire... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7900694 | Air conditioner for vehicle An air conditioner for a vehicle includes an air conditioner case having an evaporator and a heater core installed therein and having a blower installed at an inlet thereof; a movable filter moving between an air-filtering location and an air-non-filtering location ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7886814 | Vehicle air conditioner In an air conditioner constructed to pass an air introduced into an air conditioning unit through an evaporator and a heater core both arranged in the unit, cooler pipes for the evaporator and heater pipes for the heater core are arranged to extend from the same sid... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7857041 | Vehicle air conditioner with rotary door A rotary door for a vehicle air conditioner includes a rotation shaft, a door surface that is spaced from an axial line of the rotation shaft radially outside and is rotated integrally with the rotation shaft, and a seal portion provided at a peripheral end portion ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7832464 | Flexible HVAC module with add-on multi-zone sub-assembly An independent mixing valve sub-assembly which includes a casing defining a cold bias inlet, a hot bias inlet and a second zone inlet and a mechanism for mechanically attaching the casing to the housing of a HVAC module with the cold bias inlet, the hot bias inlet a... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7828050 | Vehicle seat air-conditioner and vehicle temperature controller A vehicle seat air-conditioner includes a seat on which an occupant sits, a seat temperature adjustment device that adjusts the temperature of a conditioned gas, a blower that supplies the conditioned gas to the seat, a seat covering layer provided on a surface of t... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7823631 | Constructional unit for a heat exchanging device A constructional unit for a heat exchanging device that includes at least one housing in which a gaseous medium is at least partially guided on a predetermined path, an inlet device for the gaseous medium, at least one first heat exchanging device, at least one seco... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7819178 | Vehicle air conditioner with flow diverting means A vehicular air conditioner includes a housing having a rear seat discharge passage for supplying mixed air to rear seats in a vehicle and a plurality of dividing ribs disposed in a face outlet which is open upwardly in the housing. Each of the dividing ribs has a c... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7806172 | Vehicle air conditioner An air-outlet mode selecting device includes first and second rotary doors. Each of the first and second rotary doors has rotary shafts separated from each other in an axial direction of the rotary shafts, an outer peripheral door surface that is provided at a posit... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7798207 | Air conditioner with guide structure for vehicles Cooled air introduced from an evaporator through a first passage in a housing is divided into laminar flows by a guide structure disposed on an air mixing door. The direction of flow of the cooled air is changed upwardly by guide walls of the guide structure and is ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7793711 | Vehicle air conditioner A vehicle air conditioner includes an air-conditioning ECU. The air-conditioning ECU performs a cooling mode operation in which air is cooled by an interior heat exchanger in a cooling refrigeration cycle. The air-conditioning ECU performs a heating mode operation, ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7779900 | Air conditioner for vehicle use Both an air mixing door (9) for the cold air for adjusting a passage area of the cold air passage (6); and an air mixing door (10) for the hot air for adjusting a passage area of the hot air passage (7) are composed of a sliding door for ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7775268 | Vehicle cooling system A vehicle cooling system comprises a vehicle unit, a heat exchanger, a cooling fan, a coolant pump, a three-way valve, and a control unit. The heat exchanger is arranged in the coolant route to selectively receive a coolant from the coolant outlet of the vehicle uni... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7726391 | Air conditioner for vehicle A vehicle air conditioner casing has defrost, face, and front seat floor vents variably communicating with a mixing chamber. Air passageways in the casing include an evaporator and heater core. A rear seat console vent communicates with a warm air passageway includi... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7699096 | Air conditioner for vehicle use The first cold air flow door 26 and the first hot air flow door 24 for adjusting the blowout air temperature are arranged in the first air passage, and the second cold air flow door 27 and the second hot air flow door 25 for adjusting the... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7681630 | HVAC system for a work vehicle An HVAC system for work vehicle having an operator compartment for an operator is disclosed. The HVAC system includes a pressurizer blower and an air-conditioning system coupled to an electronic circuit. The electronic circuit is configured to reduce the output of t... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7669647 | Air conditioning apparatus An air conditioning system for cooling or heating an air, and for feeding the heated or cooled air to predetermined portions is characterized by comprising: a first circulating circuit for circulating a first heating medium; a second circulating circuit for circulat... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7654312 | Heating and/or cooling system for a motor vehicle The invention relates to a heating and/or cooling system (2) for a motor vehicle with a combustion engine (4) and a catalytic converter (8) arranged in the exhaust gas path (6) of the combustion engine (4), comprising a burner (... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7610954 | Cooling system, control method of the same, and motor vehicle The technique of the invention determines whether input data for driving and controlling a cooling fan have any abnormality (steps S100 and S110), sets an actual drive level F* of the cooling fan to a high level (Hi) in the event of detection of any ab... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7607474 | Air-conditioning apparatus for vehicle An air-conditioning apparatus for a vehicle, in which a temperature in a vehicle interior is automatically adjusted under a stable driving mode in which a difference between the temperature in the vehicle interior and a set temperature is lesser than a predetermined... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7604045 | Air conditioner for vehicle Provided is an air conditioner for a vehicle, including a blower unit that blows air, an air conditioning case including an evaporator and a heater core, which are sequentially disposed in an airflow path, and an air inlet path that allows air to flow to an evaporat... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7600561 | Method for air conditioning a motor vehicle A method for air conditioning a motor vehicle, in which, in a heating mode, the passenger compartment of the motor vehicle is heated via a passenger compartment heat exchanger (5) through heat pump operation of a refrigerating circuit (1). To prevent f... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7581584 | Air conditioning seat device An air conditioning seat device includes an air blower, and a dehumidifier for dehumidifying the air sent from the air blower owing to adsorption, and blows out the dehumidified air to holes provided on a skin of a seat through an air duct. In this makeup, the sweat... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7578341 | Air conditioning system for motor vehicle A control unit for an air conditioning system for a motor vehicle calculates a target blowing air temperature based on a temperature of a passenger's clothing detected by a no contact temperature sensor. An air conditioning operation is performed based on the calcul... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7562698 | Vehicular air-conditioning system An air-conditioning system for a vehicle having an engine adapted to stop idling on predetermined stop conditions of the vehicle, which system comprises an electric motor for driving a refrigerant compressor when the engine idling is stopped, motor speed control mea... | 07/21/2009 |
