Abstract: An arrangement connecting the dashboard and the center console. On both sides of the rearward face end of the dashboard, dovetail guides are provided which are formed by the detachable mounting of at least one dovetail connection element, are accessible from above and extend essentially in a downward widening manner. On the forward face end of the center console, dovetail guides are provided which are molded on both sides, are closed in the upward direction, extend in the downward direction in a widening manner and interact in a form-locking fashion with the respective assigned dovetail guide on the dashboard. As a result, an easily mountable, reliable connection of the center console and the dashboard is implemented at low expenditures.

Abstract: A device for holding two drink containers which can be arranged in the compartment of a central console of a motor vehicle has a holding ring for lateral fixing of the one drink container and a holding frame for the second drink container which are moved out of a position in which they are recessed in the compartment. The folded-together holding ring, together with the holding frame, assume a position projecting from the compartment. From that position, the folded-together holding ring moves into its opened-out holding position beside and above the holding frame. Movement from the recessed position can be effected automatically.

Abstract: An engine bonnet integrates a water separation facility while dispensing with expensive additional parts which were hitherto necessary in order to separate concomitantly entering water from the air for a heating and air-conditioning system flowing in via an air inlet situated in the engine bonnet or between the rear edge of the engine bonnet and the windscreen. The necessary inner reinforcement of the engine bonnet panel is configured in such a way along that side of the engine bonnet which is turned towards the windscreen that it simultaneously feeds the air stream entering via an air inlet in the engine bonnet to an air-fill chamber situated upstream of the air intake duct of the heating or air-conditioning system that water separation also occurs in addition.

Abstract: A water box is provided for collecting run-off water which flows between a motor vehicle windscreen and an engine bonnet into a body space. A component has a water guide channel which carries away water along the windscreen lower edge, a forward set water box, under which is located a filter element, connecting with at least the central section of the component. The water box has an attachment section to the component with the water guide channel and may be moved in this attachment section from its connected position on the component so that it frees a path for exchanging the filter element.

Abstract: An air guide box, particularly for installation in motor vehicles, has a part permanently located in a holder and a removable cover part for the replacement of, for example, an air filter insert. Actuating elements are fastened to the removable cover part and each of which operates an air butterfly also supported in the removable cover part. In order to avoid having to release specifically conduit connections required for the control of the actuating elements during the removal of the removable cover part, the conduit connections are run in sections in a wall of the removable cover part and of the permanently located part, respectively. A plug-in connection is provided in the joint between the two parts of the box, and is separated during the removal of the removable cover part and joined together again when the cover part is replaced. The removable cover part can be configured as a frame for adjustable plates of a cooling air guide on a fan.

Abstract: A fresh-air supply system for a vehicle ventilation device through an air inlet opening in a bonnet or hood swivellably attached to the vehicle bodywork, has a fresh-air duct which starts from the air inlet opening, the first duct portion of which is arranged underneath the air inlet opening on the bonnet and the second duct portion of which is arranged immovably on the bodywork. The two duct portions of the fresh-air duct are brought by the closing movement of the bonnet into a connection position in which a circumferential sealing flange of the first duct portion cooperates with a corresponding sealing flange of the second duct portion. The cooperating sealing flanges of the two duct portions, lying in an approximately horizontal plane, are covered over by the bonnet. The first duct portion is a water-collecting box surrounding the air inlet opening and having a drainage device.

Abstract: A filter in the inlet stream of a heating system or air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle for retaining noxious gaseous air components has the form of a tubular section which has air flowing through it transversely. The filter can be sealed at one end by a flap. For the purpose of rapidly implementable desorption with low expenditure, the filter be constructed from layered discs filled with activated carbon. The discs are separated from one another in each case by an intermediate layer consisting of material with good heat-conducting properties. The discs and the intermediate layers are clamped to each other by armatures penetrating the discs in the direction of the central longitudinal axis of the tubular section. The armatures, which have a heat-conducting connection to the intermediate layers, can be heated.

Abstract: In a filter insert which is received exchangeably in a shaft along a channel and which can be fixed sealingly relative to frame shaped shaft walls via at least one gasket preferably continuous on a flow-off side of the filter, it becomes possible to change the filter easily, without the danger of damaging the gasket, if there is at least one pressing element which can be connected to a pressure reducing device. When the pressing element is in the contracted pressure reduced position, a continuous gap forms between the gasket and associated shaft wall during a shift of the filter, this gap being cancelled when the pressure reducing device is disconnected.

Abstract: In a device for supplying fresh air to the passenger space of a vehicle, to ensure an easy filter change, at the same time with the air filter being protected against water, the fresh-air inlet is arranged in the engine hood and the water run-off is arranged on the top side, facing the fresh-air inlet, of a hood-like filter cover covering the air filter. The filter cover is fastened releasably to an air distributor box receving the air filter and carries air throughflow orifices in its casing region. With the engine hood open, the filter cover is freely accessible and can be removed from the air distributor box for the purpose of a filter change.

Abstract: In a heating/air conditioning system for a motor vehicle, with an exchangeable and selectively bypassable absorption filter which is arranged in a channel shaped housing and through which fresh air and/or circulating air can flow, a high degree of absorption is achieved when unprocessed air passing through internal leakage points at the absorption filter holder and the shut off bypass line of the absorption filter is collected and conveyed, via at least one line, to a location which is separated from the passenger space and the pressure level of which is lower than the pressure level on the flow off side of the absorption filter. Untreated air, which in certain circumstances escapes through external leakage points of a housing partition, is guided outside the passenger space, at the same time being prevented from overflowing into the latter.

Abstract: In an air-conditioning system for vehicles, with a blower, evaporator, heat exchanger and air distributor box with air-outflow ports for at least one middle nozzle and for side nozzles, the air distributor box is connected directly by means of its inlet cross-section to the evaporator. The heat exchanger is arranged aproximately centrally in the air distributor box so as to subdivide the latter into a front and a rear space portion. An air-guide connection piece extends from the front space portion which leads to the middle nozzle and which is connected to the front space portion via a cold-air scoop flap and is in communication with the rear space portion via two bypass channels, in each of which a temperature control flap is arranged. Air-outflow ports for the side nozzles are arranged in the bypass channels. Thus, in the "maximum cooling" mode, cold air passes directly from the front space portion of the air distributor box into the middle and side nozzles and improves the cooling of the passenger space.

Abstract: A connecting element for connecting a fluid line to a component which can be acted upon fluidically, comprising a C-shaped retaining clamp and a bore which passes through at an angle to the retaining clamp is attached to a connection bore of the component in such a way that a push-in connection piece of the fluid line, which is pressed into the retaining clamp transversely to its longitudinal axis, is at the same time inserted through the bore and into the connection bore for forming a fluidic push-in connection.

Abstract: A coupling device for rods required to be connected together is proposed, with a connecting element having bores on both sides, into which the ends of the rods can be inserted. One bore ends in an internal ring-shaped groove coaxial to it, in which an angled end of the rod is accommodated. The other bore is constructed as a screw-threaded bore, into which the rod is engageable by a screw-threaded shoulder. In order to insert the angled end, the connecting element is provided on its housing part with a releasable cover part, which can be closed and caught afterwards. A precise length adjustment of the rods is possible by rotating the connecting element.

Abstract: In an air-conditioning installation for vehicles with a blower for supplying fresh air to a vehicle interior space, with a temperature sensor for detecting the interior space temperature and with an air jet pump, consisting of a venturi pipe and of an air suction connection for producing an air flow over the temperature sensor, the air jet pump is arranged integrated in the blower for reducing the individual components for the temperature detection and for reducing the requisite installation space in the vehicle in such a manner that its air outlet opening lies within the blower stream. The temperature sensor is thereby so arranged that it is acted upon by the interior space air sucked-in by way of the air suction connection.

Abstract: A fresh air supply device is disclosed which is connected upstream of a blower of a heating or air conditioning unit in a motor vehicle. The blower is accommodated by a housing with the fresh air entering into a gap between the windscreen and the adjacent hood. The fresh air is deflected while water and foreign bodies are separated and is supplied to a filter underneath the hood. The filter can be exchanged by pulling it out upwards. Downstream of the filter, the air enters the intake side of the blower. In order to prevent unintentional heating up of the fresh air in the intake tract, while retaining easy exchangeability of the filter, the filter is covered by an intake scoop which can be moved away and is thermally shielded relative to the vehicle hood or bonnet.

Abstract: A sealing device is provided for sealing the bearing journal area of a rotatable flap within the housing of an air guiding duct which sealing device allows for a reliable sealing, increased rotational mobility of the flap and a saving of material cost and weight. The sealing device is formed with a sealing lip arranged over and extending around approximately half the circumference of a bearing journal creating a front-side sealing surface disposed against the interior wall of a housing. The sealing device is connected to the bearing journals and flap body by the engagement of connecting pieces into holes provided in the flap body and a flange provided on a bearing collar all displaced from the interior wall of the housing.

Abstract: A fresh air supply device in a motor vehicle which is installed in an accessories compartment. The engine compartment partition and passenger compartment partition which adjoin the accessories compartment are joined together in the center of the vehicle by means of a frame in which a lower trough-like casing part equipped with a blower is suspended from above. A water separator forming an integral component part of the upper casing part disposed on the lower casing part surrounds an upwardly projecting connection piece carrying a fine filter by its collecting vessel and by the two water outlets leading away therefrom.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for the independent heating of the driver and front-seat passenger side of a passenger space, having flow pipes located at the ends of the heat exchanger at the transition between the upper and lower water compartment. These flow pipes are connected to the central flow connection via a flow channel transverse to the central flow connection and corresponding juncture channel. The transverse channel is located above a collecting chamber which is located at the lower side of the upper water compartment. The flow pipes guide the flow from the upper water compartment to the lower water compartment. Return pipes are positioned to guide the flow from the lower water compartment into the collecting chamber in the upper water compartment. From the collecting chamber the flow travels out of the upper water compartment through return connections.

Abstract: A heating or air-conditioning system for passenger cars is described that is equipped with a main heat exchanger comprising a ribbed-tube block against which the air flows that is guided into the passenger space and of a forward-flow radiator tank through which water flows and a return-flow radiator tank. The heating or air-conditioning system is also equipped with one or several additional panel radiators that are connected to an additional circulating system and are arranged so that they are distributed at or in the interior of the vehicle. This additional circulating system has a forward-flow chamber that is assigned to the return-flow radiator tank of the main heat exchanger. As a result, the advantage is achieved that the panel radiators, during the heating operation, can be acted upon directly from the main heat exchanger by a lower temperature. Also, the advantage is achieved that the panel heat exchangers in the cooling operation of the air-conditioning system, may also be used for cooling.

Abstract: A sliding guide member which includes a sliding member accommodating one end of flexible cable assembly which is adapted to transmit tensile and compressive forces. The end zone of the sliding member in proximity of the cable assembly, which zone is slidingly movably guided within a fixed guide sleeve, is constructed to be offset with respect to the remaining zone in which is accommodated an adjusting element for the sliding guide mechanism. The guided end zone of the sliding member has an approximately spherical shape and includes a bore for a suspension mounting of an end of the flexible cable assembly, which end is provided with a ball element. The sliding member is provided with a threaded bore extending in the axial direction for accommodating the adjusting element, which is equipped with an external thread so as to enable a coupling of the adjusting element to the sliding member.