Air conditioning unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9396718-B2
Application number	US-201313948591-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 23, 2013
Priority date	Jul 23, 2012
Publication date	Jul 19, 2016
Grant date	Jul 19, 2016

Abstract

The invention relates to an air conditioning unit having an air duct, having a fan for conveying an airflow through the air duct, having a heat exchanger for the thermal conditioning of the airflow and having an apparatus for noise reduction, which apparatus has a microphone, a loudspeaker and an evaluation and control unit, the microphone being arranged in a housing indentation of the duct wall of the air duct, the housing indentation having a wall and the loudspeaker being arranged at least partially in an opening of the duct wall of the air duct in a manner which is spaced apart from the microphone in the direction of the noise emission, wherein the wall of the housing indentation is curved at least partially, the housing indentation of the microphone being covered with a porous acoustically transparent material.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An air conditioning unit comprising
an air duct comprising a diffuser arranged between a fan tongue of a fan and a heat exchanger inlet region of the air duct,
a fan for conveying an airflow through the air duct,
a heat exchanger for the thermal conditioning of the airflow, and
an apparatus for noise reduction, which apparatus comprises a microphone, a loudspeaker and an evaluation and control unit,
wherein the microphone is arranged in a housing indentation of the duct wall of the air duct, wherein the housing indentation comprises a wall, wherein the wall of the housing indentation is curved at least partially, wherein the housing indentation is covered with a porous acoustically transparent material,
wherein the loudspeaker is arranged at least partially in an opening of the duct wall of the air duct in a manner which is spaced apart from the microphone in the direction of the noise emission,
wherein the air duct has a width (x) and a height (h), wherein the diffuser is of a length (L) shorter than a length of the air duct, wherein length (L) is at least 10 cm, wherein over length (L) the diffuser has a relatively constant width (x) of at most 15 cm and has a height (h) of at most 20 cm, wherein over length (L) the height (h) is widened by at most 50%, wherein a height of the heat exchanger inlet region of the air duct is at least 100% greater than height (h).

2. The air conditioning unit according to claim 1 ,
wherein the wall of the housing indentation of the air duct has an at least partially outwardly curved first section in the flow direction and relative to the duct wall which adjoins the housing indentation.

3. The air conditioning unit according to claim 1 ,
wherein a second section of the wall of the housing indentation of the air duct is configured as a plane in the flow direction and perpendicularly with respect to the duct wall which adjoins the housing indentation.

4. The air conditioning unit according to claim 1 ,
wherein the housing indentation of the air duct has at least partially a cutout on its edges which face the air duct, on the surface of which cutout the acoustically transparent material for covering the housing indentation is arranged so as to be flush with the duct wall.

5. The air conditioning unit according to claim 4 ,
wherein the cutout runs around the edges of the housing indentation, and the wall of the housing indentation has a first convexly shaped edge region, starting from the cutout, in the flow direction and relative to the duct wall which adjoins the housing indentation, which first convexly shaped edge region is adjoined by a concavely shaped bottom region which is adjoined by a second convexly shaped edge region which ends in the cutout, and the wall of the housing indentation of the air duct has two planes in the flow direction and perpendicularly with respect to the duct wall, which two planes adjoin the housing indentation, a first plane starting from the circumferential cutout and a second plane ending in the circumferential cutout.

6. The air conditioning unit according to claim 1 , wherein the wall of the housing indentation of the air duct has an acoustically damping shroud which is arranged between the wall and the microphone.

7. The air conditioning unit according to claim 1 , wherein the apparatus for noise reduction is arranged between the fan and the heat exchanger, between the air inlet and the fan and/or downstream of the heat exchanger.

8. The air conditioning unit according to claim 1 , wherein the microphone and the loudspeaker are arranged in the diffuser and a noise reduction apparatus of the air duct.

9. The air conditioning unit according to claim 8 , wherein the cross-sectional area of the air duct does not increase over the length of the diffuser and/or of the noise reduction apparatus by more than 50%.

10. The air conditioning unit according to claim 8 , wherein the loudspeaker is arranged substantially immediately upstream of the widened portion of the diffuser and/or of the noise reduction apparatus in the flow direction.

11. The air conditioning unit according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of loudspeakers or microphones are arranged laterally in the duct wall of the air duct, the loudspeakers being arranged at the same height in relation to the flow direction of the air or the sound waves.

12. The air conditioning unit according to claim 11 , wherein at least two loudspeakers are provided which are arranged on adjoining or opposite walls of the air duct.

13. The air conditioning unit according to claim 1 , wherein the opening or the openings in the duct wall for the loudspeaker or the loudspeakers are covered with a porous acoustically transparent material.

14. The air conditioning unit according to claim 1 , wherein the sound outlet side of the loudspeaker is of rectangular or longitudinally oval configuration and is as high as the wall of the air duct.

15. The air conditioning unit according to claim 1 , wherein the duct wall of the air duct is fitted with an acoustically absorbent material.

16. The air conditioning unit according to claim 1 , wherein the loudspeaker is arranged in a side duct of the air duct, it being possible for the anti-phase sound which is generated by the loudspeaker to be introduced into the air duct substantially in the direction of propagation of the primary sound.

Assignees

• Behr Gmbh & Co Kg
• Mahle Int Gmbh

Inventors

• Paul Michael
• Gruber Klaus

Classifications

• B60H2001/006

  Noise reduction · CPC title

• G10K2210/509

  Hybrid, i.e. combining different technologies, e.g. passive and active · CPC title

• F24F13/24

  Means for preventing or suppressing noise · CPC title

• G10K11/16 Primary

  Methods or devices for protecting against, or for damping, noise or other acoustic waves in general (G10K11/36 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G10K2210/3219

  Geometry of the configuration · CPC title