HVAC temperature control bypass throttle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10220668-B2
Application number	US-201414463334-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 19, 2014
Priority date	Oct 8, 2013
Publication date	Mar 5, 2019
Grant date	Mar 5, 2019

Abstract

The present teachings provide for an HVAC assembly. A first flue can be configured to fluidly couple a first heat exchanger to a mixing flue. A second flue can be configured to fluidly couple a second heat exchanger to the mixing flue. A door can inhibit fluid communication through the second flue when in a first position. The door can inhibit fluid communication through the first flue when in a second position. The door can permit fluid communication through the first and second flues when in a third position. The third flue can be configured to fluidly couple the first heat exchanger to a portion of the second flue downstream of the second heat exchanger and upstream of the mixing flue when the door is in the third position.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (“HVAC”) assembly comprising:
a mixing flue;
a first flue configured to fluidly couple a first heat exchanger to the mixing flue;
a second flue configured to fluidly couple a second heat exchanger to the mixing flue;
a first door configured to move between a first, a second, and a third position, the first door inhibiting fluid communication through the second flue when the first door is in the first position, the first door inhibiting fluid communication through the first flue when the first door is in the second position, the first door permitting fluid communication through the first and second flues when the first door is in the third position;
a second door, the second door configured to inhibit fluid communication between the second flue and the mixing flue when the first door is in the first position, and to permit fluid communication between the second flue and the mixing flue when the first door is in the second and third positions;
a third flue configured to fluidly couple the first heat exchanger to a portion of the second flue downstream of the second heat exchanger and upstream of the mixing flue when the first door is in the third position;
a throttle member, the first door configured to move to a fourth position wherein the first door permits fluid communication through the first and second flues, the throttle member inhibiting fluid communication through the third flue when the first door is in the fourth position and permitting fluid communication through the third flue when the first door is in the third position; and
a pivot member configured to pivot about an axis, the first door being coupled to the pivot member for common rotation with the pivot member, the first door being rotatable between the first, second, third, and fourth positions, and the throttle member being coupled to the pivot member for common rotation with the pivot member;
wherein the throttle member extends axially along the pivot member a length less than an axial width of the third flue.

2. The HVAC assembly of claim 1 , wherein the second door extends into the second flue in an upstream direction when the first door is in the third position to direct air from the third flue in an upstream direction relative to the second flue.

3. The HVAC assembly of claim 2 , wherein the first and second doors are coupled for common rotation about an axis.

Assignees

• Denso Int America Inc
• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Mazzocco Nicholas
• Okray Daniel
• Rosenburg Ryan

Classifications

• B60H1/00678 Primary

  the axis of rotation being in the door plane, e.g. butterfly doors · CPC title

• B60H2001/00092

  of air deflecting or air directing means inside the device · CPC title

• B60H2001/00707

  Details of pivots of damper doors · CPC title

• B60H2001/00721

  Air deflecting or air directing means · CPC title

• B60H1/00057 Primary

  the air being heated and cooled simultaneously, e.g. using parallel heat exchangers · CPC title