Patents Assigned to Valeo Climate Control, Inc.
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Patent number: 6598665Abstract: A system for supplying air to first and second regions of a vehicle passenger compartment, has a first fan, a heater device, and first and second air conduits. The heater device has a first air inlet and outlet for air from the first fan and a second air inlet and outlet for recirculating air within the passenger compartment. The first and second outlets of the heater device supply air through the first and second air conduits to the first and second regions of the said vehicle. The second air conduit is connected to said second air outlet of said heater device via a second fan operable in use to selectively supply air through the second conduit to the second region of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1999Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: Valeo Climate Control, Inc.Inventor: Stefan Schwarz
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Patent number: 6484755Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning apparatus having two pair of rotatable flow control doors for separately controlling and varying the temperature and flow of air supplied to two different zones of the vehicle interior. Each pair of flow control doors are linked together and operated by a single actuator device.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1999Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: Valeo Climate Control Inc.Inventor: Stefan Schwarz
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Publication number: 20020007944Abstract: A system for supplying air to first and second regions of a vehicle passenger compartment, has a first fan, a heater device, and first and second air conduits. The heater device has a first air inlet and outlet for air from the first fan and a second air inlet and outlet for recirculating air within the passenger compartment. The first and second outlets of the heater device supply air through the first and second air conduits to the first and second regions of the said vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 1999Publication date: January 24, 2002Applicant: Valeo Climate Control, Inc.Inventor: STEFAN SCHWARZ
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Patent number: 6278083Abstract: A lateral heating or air conditioning unit has an electric heating device downstream of the heater core, spaced from it and in the mouth of the hot passage. Separate blend doors are disposed in each of the hot and cold passages. The electric heater device is flush with the opening of the hot air passageway into the mixing chamber so as to prevent air flow disturbances.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2000Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: Valeo Climate Control, Inc.Inventor: Stefan Schwarz
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Patent number: 6139273Abstract: A radial flow fan wheel has a longitudinal axis and consists of an annular member and a plurality of first and second blade members. The first and second blade members depend from the annular member substantially parallel to the axis of the first blade members being disposed on a first pitch circle and the second blade member being disposed on a second pitch circle which has a radius less than a radius of the first pitch circle.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1998Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignee: Valeo Climate Control, Inc.Inventors: Stefan Helmut Schwarz, Thomas Hermann Mersch
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Patent number: 6106386Abstract: A mixing device for mixing two air flows has plural first flexible curtains disposed between first edge regions of alternate pairs of air guides, and a plurality of second flexible curtains disposed between second edge regions of alternate pairs of air guides. Moveable air guides in each pair may be moved to control the flow of air.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1998Date of Patent: August 22, 2000Assignee: Valeo Climate Control, Inc.Inventor: Stefan Schwarz
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Patent number: 5988263Abstract: An air flow mixer structure for a vehicle air conditioning system has a first conduit for a first air flow, a second conduit for a second air flow, an opening between said first and second conduits for merging said first and second air flows in a merging region and a common air channel for said merged air flows, the mixer structure having an air inlet region and an air outlet region opening into said merging region, the structure comprising plural air passages disposed between said inlet region and said outlet region for dividing an air flow at said inlet region into plural air flows at plural said openings into said merging region.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1997Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Valeo Climate Control, Inc.Inventor: Stefan Helmut Schwarz
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Patent number: 5980380Abstract: A ventilation unit comprising: a first channel for a relatively cold air stream; a second channel for a relatively hot air stream; and an outlet door located at the ends of the first and second channels for dividing air from the first and second channels between a first outlet and a second outlet in such a way that desired proportions of each of the cold and hot air streams are divided to each of the first and second outlets.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1997Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: Valeo Climate Control, Inc.Inventor: Stefan H. Schwarz
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Patent number: 5647399Abstract: A flow control device including first and second flow control members, first and second actuators, and first and second transmission devices wherein both flow control members are adapted for rotation about a common axis. The first flow control member has a wall portion which defines an aperture aligned with the common axis. The second transmission device includes a shaft member which passes through the aperture for rotation therein. A first end of the shaft member is coupled to the second actuator and a second end of the shaft member is coupled to the second flow control member. The first transmission device includes a first rotary body coupled to the first flow control member and rotatable about the common axis and a second rotary body coupled to the first actuator and rotatable about a second axis offset from the common axis. The first and second rotary bodies are engagable by a mechanism such that rotation of the first rotary body causes rotation of the second rotary body.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1995Date of Patent: July 15, 1997Assignee: Valeo Climate Control Inc.Inventor: Goeran Peter Andersen