Heating ventilation and air-conditioning system with an intermediate door

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11718150-B2
Application number	US-202117331181-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 26, 2021
Priority date	May 26, 2021
Publication date	Aug 8, 2023
Grant date	Aug 8, 2023

Abstract

A HVAC system (100) includes a housing (10) with at least one first inlet (20) and at least one second inlet (30) formed thereon, at least one first door (20a), at least one second door (30a) and an intermediate door (40). The first inlet (20) and the second inlet (30) is for ingress of a first fluid stream and a second fluid stream inside the housing (10). The first door (20a) and the second door (30a) moves with respect to the first inlet (20) and the second inlet (30) respectively to define an open configuration, a closed configuration and a partially open configuration thereof. The intermediate door (40) is disposed between the first inlet (20) and the second inlet (30) and moves between a deployed and an un-deployed configuration to respectively disrupt and allow fluid flow there across. The intermediate door (40) is a sliding door.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system comprising:
a housing adapted to receive a heat exchanger therein;
at least one first inlet formed on the housing for ingress of a first stream of fluid inside the housing;
at least one second inlet formed in the housing for ingress of a second stream of fluid inside the housing;
at least one first door adapted to move with respect to the first inlet to define an open configuration, a closed configuration and a partially open configuration;
at least one second door adapted to move with respect to the second inlet to define an open configuration, a closed configuration, at least one partially open configuration; and
an intermediate door disposed between the first inlet and the second inlet and adapted to move between a deployed configuration and an un-deployed configuration,
wherein the intermediate door in the deployed configuration is adapted to disrupt fluid flow there across,
wherein the intermediate door in the deployed configuration thereof is in contact with the heat exchanger,
wherein the intermediate door in the un-deployed configuration thereof is disposed away from the heat exchanger, and
wherein the intermediate door is a sliding door.

2. The Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first door is in at least partially open configuration, the second door is in closed configuration and the intermediate door is in un-deployed configuration to define a variable ram air mode of operation.

3. The Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first door is in open configuration, the second door is in a first partially open configuration and the intermediate door is in deployed configuration to define a first partial re-circulation mode of operation.

4. The Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first door is in open configuration, the second door is in a second partially open configuration and the intermediate door is in deployed configuration to define a second partial re-circulation mode of operation.

5. The Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first door is in closed configuration, the second door is in open configuration and the intermediate door is in an un-deployed configuration to define a re-circulation air mode of operation.

6. The Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the intermediate door comprises a rack that engages with and is actuated by a pinion.

7. The Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the intermediate door moves orthogonally with respect to the heat exchanger disposed within the housing.

8. The Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first door is at least one of barrel type door and butterfly flap type of door.

9. The Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second door is at least one of barrel type door and butterfly flap type of door.

10. The Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the intermediate door comprises two portions and movable relative to each other, wherein at least one of the portions comprises a rack that engages with and is actuated by a corresponding separate pinion.

Assignees

• Valeo North America Inc

Inventors

• Buckman Earl
• Parikh Darshan
• Dagher Sally
• Marshall Steven
• Sikorski Richard

Classifications

• B60H1/00692 Primary

  Damper doors moved by translation, e.g. curtain doors · CPC title

• B60H1/00514

  Details of air conditioning housings · CPC title

• B60H1/00678

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

• B60H1/00028 Primary

  Constructional lay-out of the devices in the vehicle · CPC title

• B60H2001/00085

  of air intake · CPC title