Vehicle air conditioning device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9278604-B2
Application number	US-201113516048-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 25, 2011
Priority date	May 31, 2010
Publication date	Mar 8, 2016
Grant date	Mar 8, 2016

Abstract

Provided is a vehicle air conditioning device including an air conditioning unit in which: a unit case ( 10 ) of the air conditioning unit is formed of a plurality of lower and upper divided cases ( 23, 24, 25 ); and the divided cases ( 23, 24, 25 ) are coupled integrally to each other through a mating portion ( 34 ) provided to division end surfaces ( 30 A, 30 B, 32 ). The vehicle air conditioning device also includes a space ( 35 ) having a given height in the top-bottom direction and a given width is formed between respective case inner division end surfaces ( 32, 30 B) of the divided cases ( 24, 25 ) on one side and the divided case ( 23 ) on the other side, the divided cases ( 23, 24, 25 ) constituting the mating portion ( 34 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle air conditioning device including an air conditioning unit that includes an evaporator and a heater core and regulates temperature of air fed from a blower unit to blow off the air into a chamber and a unit case of the air conditioning unit that is formed of at least two divided cases including an upper divided case and a lower divided case, the two divided cases being coupled integrally to each other through a mating portion provided to division end surfaces of the two divided cases, the vehicle air conditioning device comprising;
an extended wall surface that is extended from a position of case inner division end surface of one divided case of the two divided cases to a position in contact with an inner side surface of other divided case of the two divided cases; and
a space that is formed between case inner division end surfaces of the one divided case and the other divided case and that is closed by the extended wall surface, wherein
the space has a width of approximately 0.5 to 1.5 mm and has a height of approximately 3.0 to 8.0 mm, when the extended wall surface is set to 10 mm long.

2. The vehicle air conditioning device according to claim 1 , further comprising a chamfered or rounded portion provided in any one or both of: a corner portion between the inner side surface of the other divided case and the case inner division end surface thereof, the extended wall surface being in contact with the inner side surface; and a corner portion of a leading end surface of the extended wall surface, the corner portion being in contact with the inner side surface of the other divided case.

Assignees

• Chikagawa Noriyuki
• Fujita Soichiro
• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Chikagawa Noriyuki
• Fujita Soichiro

Classifications

• B60H2001/00635

  Air-tight sealing devices · CPC title

• B60H1/00528 Primary

  Connections between housing parts · CPC title