Seat air conditioning device for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018201089-A1
Application number	US-201615744321-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 9, 2016
Priority date	Oct 1, 2015
Publication date	Jul 19, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

A seat air conditioning device for a vehicle includes: an inflow space formation part that forms an inflow space; and a blower having a suction part in which an air suction port is defined to communicate with the inflow space, and a blower fan that draws air from the inflow space through the air suction port to send the air into a seat. The inflow space formation part has a space communication hole that causes the inflow space and a space of the vehicle interior to communicate with each other. An opening-and-closing door disposed in the inflow space formation space closes the space communication hole from an inner side of the inflow space formation part, and is moved for opening the space communication hole by an air pressure difference defined by subtracting an air pressure in the inflow space from an air pressure in the vehicle interior.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A seat air conditioning device for a vehicle, which causes air to flow into a seat, comprising:
an inflow space formation part that forms an inflow space into which air flows from a vehicle indoor air-conditioning unit conditioning air in a vehicle interior; a blower having a suction part in which an air suction port is defined to communicate with the inflow space, and a blower fan that draws air from the inflow space through the air suction port to send the air into the seat; and an opening-and-closing door, wherein the inflow space formation part has a space communication hole that causes the inflow space and a space of the vehicle interior to communicate with each other, and the opening-and-closing door is disposed in the inflow space formation space to open and close the space communication hole, the opening-and-closing door closing the space communication hole from an inner side of the inflow space formation part, the opening-and-closing door being moved in an opening direction for opening the space communication hole by an air pressure difference defined by subtracting an air pressure in the inflow space from an air pressure in the vehicle interior.

2 . The seat air conditioning device according to claim 1 , wherein
the opening-and-closing door is biased in the opening direction more strongly, as the air pressure difference is increased.

3 . The seat air conditioning device according to claim 1 , wherein
the space communication hole has an inflow space connection end adjacent to the inflow space, the inflow space formation part has a connection end formation part formed by surrounding the inflow space connection end, and the opening-and-closing door closes the space communication hole by being pressed onto the connection end formation part.

4 . The seat air conditioning device according to claim 3 , wherein
the opening-and-closing door has flexibility, the opening-and-closing door has one end part fixed to the inflow space formation part, and the other end part pressed onto the connection end formation part in the state where the space communication hole is closed, and the opening-and-closing door is deformed between the one end part and the other end part, and the other end part separates from the connection end formation part to open the space communication hole.

5 . The seat air conditioning device according to claim 4 , wherein
the blower fan rotates about a fan axial center extending up and down, and draws in air from the air suction port in an axial direction of the fan axial center, the other end part of the opening-and-closing door is located at a lower side of the one end part, and is located the same position as the one end part, or at an inner side of the one end part in a radial direction of the fan axial center in the state where the opening-and-closing door closes the space communication hole, and the opening-and-closing door is partially made heavy at the other end part.

6 . The seat air conditioning device according to claim 3 , wherein
the blower fan rotates about a fan axial center, and draws in air from the air suction port in an axial direction of the fan axial center, the opening-and-closing door is arranged at an outer side of the air suction port in a radial direction of the fan axial center, and the inflow space connection end of the space communication hole is faced to an inner side in the radial direction when being seen from the axial direction.

7 . The seat air conditioning device according to claim 6 , wherein
the space communication hole is one of a plurality of space communication holes formed in the inflow space formation part, the opening-and-closing door is one of a plurality of opening-and-closing doors, and the plurality of opening-and-closing doors are arranged in a circumferential direction of the fan axial center, and the plurality of space communication holes are arranged in the circumferential direction.

8 . The seat air conditioning device according to claim 3 , wherein
the connection end formation part has a contact surface onto which the opening-and-closing door is pressed, the contact surface is sloped to face obliquely upward, and the opening-and-closing door closes the space communication hole in a sloped state along the contact surface.

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Fujii Kouji
• Nakajima Hiroshi

Classifications

• B60H1/00564

  of air ducts · CPC title

• B60H1/241

  characterised by the location of ventilation devices in the vehicle · CPC title

• B60H1/00521

  Mounting or fastening of components in housings, e.g. heat exchangers, fans, electronic regulators · CPC title

• B60H1/00285 Primary

  for vehicle seats · CPC title

• B60N2/5628

  coming from the vehicle ventilation system, e.g. air-conditioning system · CPC title