Abstract: An air vent device for a ventilation system of a vehicle. The device has a pipe forming an air channel for providing air to a compartment of the vehicle and a diffuser for disturbing the airflow provided to the vehicle compartment. The diffuser has a portion made of a flexible material which diffuser portion is arranged to cover a part of a cross-section area of the air channel and the diffuser portion is expandable for varying the size of the covered part of the air channel cross section area.

Abstract: A vehicle system includes: an olfaction sensor comprising: a blower configured to draw air through an inlet; a dehumidifier configured to decrease a humidity of the air; and a sensor located downstream of the dehumidifier and configured to measure an amount of a chemical in the air after the air flows through the dehumidifier; and a control module configured to selectively take one or more remedial actions based on the amount of the chemical in the air measured by the sensor.

Abstract: A portable hood may include a base, a head, a column, and a fan. The head may introduce air thereinto and discharge the introduced air to the outside. The column may be coupled eccentrically to a side of the head in a horizontal direction. Further, the fan may be located inside of the head such that the fan is eccentric to the head toward the column.

Abstract: A fluid distribution device that includes a distributor housing having at least one fluid inlet opening and at least one fluid outlet opening; and at least one rotary, elongated hollow element having a wall that has one or more fluid-passage openings, a fluid flow through the distributor housing is changed by rotating the at least one hollow element.

Abstract: An oven appliance having a cabinet with a chamber positioned within the cabinet. The chamber is configured for receipt of a food item for cooking. The oven appliance also includes a door for providing selective access to the chamber and a plurality of walls including a top wall, a bottom wall, a back wall, a front wall, and opposing sidewalls defining the chamber. Further, the oven appliance includes a fan assembly operable to cause air to flow in the chamber and a fan cover arranged to at least partially cover the fan assembly. Moreover, the oven appliance includes a first heating element arranged adjacent to the bottom wall. In addition, the oven appliance includes a duct in fluid communication with the fan assembly and the first heating element for directing airflow in the chamber to the fan assembly and across the first heating element to heat the food item.

Abstract: A door and a home appliance having the same. The home appliance includes a main body including a chamber and a door configured to open or close the chamber, wherein the door includes a front panel, a plurality of flanges formed from the front panel in a bent shape, an incision portion between the plurality of flanges, a fixing member coupled to the plurality of flanges to prevent the door from being deformed, and a cover member configured to cover the incision portion and the fixing member. The cover member includes a corner cover portion and a rear cover portion.

Abstract: A vehicle has a windshield, a cladding element having a front surface, which faces the windshield, a rear surface, which faces away from the windshield, and a top surface, which is arranged between the front surface and the rear surface and is angled toward the front surface and rear surface. An airflow element has a wall element, a grille element and an air inlet. At least the front surface and the top surface of the cladding element have a recess in which the wall element and the grille element are arranged. The grille element is designed to direct air from the airflow element to the windshield.

Abstract: A ventilation method for a high gas working face based on alternating intake and air return in a mine gallery is provided. In this method, an isolated island working face is divided into several sections along a strike direction. A coal pillar is alternately set as a conventional section and a gas-drainage section. Opposite coal pillars in the two mine galleries within the same section are respectively used as the conventional section and the gas-drainage section. Two mine galleries on both sides of the isolated island working face are alternately used as an intake gallery and a return gallery. The coal pillar at the side of the mine gallery as the return gallery is the gas-drainage section. A gas-drainage hole communicating a goaf is provided in the gas-drainage section, so that gas in the goafs at two sides of the isolated island working face can be extracted alternately.

Abstract: An air circulation device includes a suction section configured to suck indoor air, and a blower section configured to blow the air sucked by the suction section into a room. The air is in a form of a vortex ring. The air circulation device is operable in at least a first mode in which the vortex ring blown therefrom reaches a wall surface of the room.

Abstract: A diffuser assembly for a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a housing having an outer frame and an inner frame disposed within the outer frame. The outer frame includes an inlet configured to receive an air flow. The inner frame forms a first flow path for the air flow through the housing between the outer frame and the inner frame. The inner frame defines a second flow path for the air flow through the inner frame. The diffuser assembly also includes a damper assembly configured to transition between a first configuration to enable discharge of the air flow from the housing via the first flow path and a second configuration to enable discharge of the air flow from the housing via the second flow path.

Abstract: A component for guiding an airflow in an air-conditioning system of an aircraft includes at least one structural part, at least one inlet opening and at least one outlet opening for air. At least two partial shells are interconnected in an airtight manner in such a way that the inlet openings and the outlet openings remain clear. The partial shells are particle foam parts. A method for producing the component incudes forming the partial shells of particle foam, and interconnecting the partial shells to form the component.

Abstract: The present embodiments relate to an air distribution apparatus for distributing conditioned airflow from a roof mounted air conditioner to the inside of a vehicle, which includes an inlet port adapted to receive the conditioned airflow from the roof mounted air conditioner. An outlet port, which is disposed adjacent to each longitudinal end of the apparatus, delivers conditioned airflow to the vehicle. An internal supply duct is adapted to evenly split the conditioned airflow to the outlet ports.

Abstract: A vehicle includes an internal cabin, a first group of seats within a first row within the internal cabin, a second group of seats within a second row within the internal cabin, and an air curtain system within the internal cabin. The air curtain system is configured to provide one or more air curtains between one or both of (a) the first row and the second row or (b) adjacent seats of one or both of the first group or the second group.

Abstract: A fan includes an inlet part disposed to form a fan inlet, a base disposed to form, together with the inlet part, a fan outlet, and a blade. The blade extends from the base to the inlet part, and includes a first guide surface having an inclination toward an outside of the fan in a radial direction of the fan which changes in a direction from the inlet part toward the base, and a second guide surface having an inclination toward the outside of the fan in the radial direction which changes in a direction from the base toward the inlet part.

Abstract: A cooking appliance in one embodiment may include a main body provided therein with a cooking space, a door configured to open and close the cooking space, a packing member disposed at an entrance of the cooking space and configured to seal a gap that is created in a portion where the main body contacts the door with the door closed, and a bracket coupled to a lower portion of the door and to suppress contact between the packing member and a foreign substance moving to the lower portion of the door with the door closed.

Abstract: A cover (1) for a pressure relief valve assembly (2) of a vehicle, wherein the cover (1) comprises a base body (19) made of a sound-absorbing material which is uniform in terms of the material composition, wherein the base body as such is designed to be self-supporting and is in particular connectable to an edge region (4) of a pressure relief valve assembly (2).

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a sunshade system that monitors a position of the sun and adjusts a position of a frame and/or blades based on a position of the sun. For example, a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit of an HVAC system may be exposed to adverse, external weather conditions, such as sunlight, which may heat up components of the HVAC unit and decrease an efficiency of the HVAC system. Accordingly, a control system of the sunshade system may monitor the position of the sun and adjust the position of the frame and/or the blades to provide adequate shading for the HVAC unit.

Abstract: Fire pit systems including a base pan member having a base pan member lower wall with a pan outer periphery, and one or more side walls extending upward from the base pan member lower wall and along the pan outer periphery; at least two rod members extending upward along opposite sides of the pan outer periphery; and one or more additional accessories that are attachable to and detachable from at least one of the at least two rod members, the one or more additional accessories comprising a griddle, a grill, a coffee pot, a Dutch oven, a tubular spacer, a pot holder, a horizontal bar extending between two rod members of the at least two rod members, a warming tray, or any combination thereof. Methods of making and using the fire pit systems.

Abstract: A cake covering assembly for protecting a cake from airborne pathogens includes a cover that is positionable over a cake. The cover is comprised of a fluid impermeable material to protect the cake from airborne pathogens. The cover has a plurality of candle openings each extending through the cover. A plurality of candle holders is provided and each of the candle holders has a receiver to insertably receive a candle. Each of the candle holders is insertable through a respective one of the candle openings having the receiver being spaced above the cover. In this way each of the candle holders can support the candle in a vertical orientation thereby facilitating the candle to be blown out by a user in the convention of blowing out birthday candles.

Abstract: To enable easy access and lead wire routing during maintenance, without causing ventilation hindrance. An electrical component box 14 is provided on the side of the outer surface of a lateral plate 113 of an outer shell 11 of a body unit, and a cable storage part 15 for storing a drawing section of a lead wire 143 drawn from the electrical component box 14 and guiding the drawing section in a predetermined direction is disposed on the side of the inner surface of the lateral plate 11.