Patents by Inventor Klaus Arold

Klaus Arold has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9126131
    Abstract: An air filter for a ventilation system of a motor vehicle has a filter frame and a filter medium fastened in and surrounded by the filter frame. The air filter can be inserted along its two-dimensional extent into a receiving slot and is sealed, at least along the inserted regions of the filter frame, between the filter frame and walls of the insertion slot. To allow the filter to be installed in the ventilation system in as force-free and simple a manner as possible, the filter frame has, in the end side facing the insertion direction, at least one guide slot which is oriented in the insertion direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Klaus Arold
  • Publication number: 20090298413
    Abstract: An air filter for a ventilation system of a motor vehicle has a filter frame and a filter medium fastened in and surrounded by the filter frame. The air filter can be inserted along its two-dimensional extent into a receiving slot and is sealed, at least along the inserted regions of the filter frame, between the filter frame and walls of the insertion slot. To allow the filter to be installed in the ventilation system in as force-free and simple a manner as possible, the filter frame has, in the end side facing the insertion direction, at least one guide slot which is oriented in the insertion direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Klaus Arold
  • Publication number: 20060150654
    Abstract: A cup holder for a motor vehicle includes a receiving device and a tempering device which is connected to an air-conditioning system. The air-conditioning system generates an air flow which is conveyed via an air-directing device to a beverage container which is retained in the receiving device. In order to provide a cup holder which is easily accessible to an occupant and may be tempered at the same time, the receiving device may be pulled out of a housing while remaining connected to the air-conditioning system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventor: Klaus Arold
  • Patent number: 6994157
    Abstract: An air conditioner for an occupant compartment of a vehicle having a forward vehicle space and a rearward vehicle space with right and left seat zones includes an air conditioning box, in which an evaporator and a heat exchanger are arranged, as well as a cold air space situated between the evaporator and the heat exchanger. A warm air space is arranged behind the heat exchanger and air mixing spaces are constructed for supplying the forward vehicle space and the rearward vehicle space with conditioned air. To provide a mutually independent temperature adjustment in the forward vehicle space and the rearward vehicle space, a separate air mixing space is assigned to each seat zone. The four air mixing spaces are connected with the warm and cold air spaces by one warm and one cold air flap respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Klaus Arold
  • Publication number: 20050202773
    Abstract: A venting mechanism for a motor vehicle having an air channel and a grating which covers the flow cross section of the air channel, a flow obstacle being arranged upstream from the grating. In order to equalize the flow in the flow cross section with the lowest possible pressure drop, in particular when only a small installation space is available, the grating has an uneven arrangement of openings so that a high degree of obstruction is achieved in a reduced-flow area of the venting cross section and a low degree of obstruction is achieved in a flow-through area of the ventilation cross section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Inventor: Klaus Arold
  • Patent number: 6823935
    Abstract: A heating or air-conditioning system for vehicles, having a heat exchanger through which a heating medium flows and which is arranged in an air duct through which air can flow, at least one air mixing chamber which has a warm-air inflow opening and a cold-air inflow opening, at least one closing member controlling the opening cross-sections of the inflow openings, and a shut-off valve which is arranged in the inflow or outflow of the heating medium to the or from the heat exchanger. For reducing the flow resistance in all operating modes, particularly during maximal cooling, the warm-air inflow opening is arranged in the air flow behind the heat exchanger, and a control system controlling the closing member and the shut-off valve is designed such that, with the shutting-off of the warm-air inflow opening, it closes the shut-off valve and, after the closing of the shut-off valve, changes the closing member into an open position which completely opens up the warm-air inflow opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Klaus Arold
  • Patent number: 6761210
    Abstract: An air-conditioning system for a passenger cell of a vehicle includes an evaporator, for cooling an air stream, arranged in succession with a heat exchanger for heating the air stream. The heat exchanger has a heating medium flowing through it permanently. At least one air-mixing space is directly adjacent to the heat exchanger and has a warm-air inlet, covering at least part of the air outlet surface of the heat exchanger, and a cold-air inlet, forming the mouth of a cold-air duct bypassing the heat exchanger. Control members set the opening cross sections of the inlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Klaus Arold
  • Patent number: 6488077
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heating or air-conditioning system and method for ventilating an occupant compartment of a vehicle having a climatic box in which a heat exchanger is accommodated, through which air can flow, and in which at least one air mixing chamber is constructed, which has an air inflow opening for warm air flowing through the heat exchanger and an air inflow opening for cold air flowing around the heat exchanger as well as outlet openings for mixed air, of which at least one outflow opening is arranged on the bottom in the air mixing chamber and at least one outflow opening is arranged on top in the air mixing chamber, and having closing members controlling the opening cross-sections of the inflow openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Klaus Arold
  • Patent number: 6475077
    Abstract: A heating or air-conditioning system is provided for ventilating a passenger cell. The system includes an air-conditioning box in which a heat exchanger is accommodated and at least one air-mixing chamber is formed. The air-mixing chamber has an inflow opening for hot air flowing through the heat exchanger and an inflow opening for cold air flowing around the heat exchanger. The air-mixing chamber also has at least two outflow openings for ventilating the passenger cell. The system also has an air-mixing device which controls the inflow openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler
    Inventor: Klaus Arold
  • Patent number: 6439296
    Abstract: A heating or air-conditioning system for a vehicle occupant compartment has an air distributor with a warm-air outlet which is connected with an air duct leading to a center plane the vehicle occupant compartment. A cold-air bypass controlled by a cold-air flap is provided for lowering the temperature of the warm air flowing out of the warm air outlet to the air duct. In the cold-air bypass, which has a relatively small cross-section, a throttling element is coupled with the cold-air flap such that the cold-air flap partially, to a defined extent, covers the warm-air outlet in the open position of the cold-air flap, thus maximally opening up the cold-air bypass. In addition, in this arrangement the throttling element completely opens up the warm-air outlet in the closed position of the cold-air flap, thus completely blocking the cold-air bypass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Klaus Arold, Werner Krauss, Klaus Kuonath, Armin Rauch
  • Patent number: 6394891
    Abstract: A nozzle for ventilating a vehicle interior, having a housing which has an air outflow opening which can be closed by a panel when not in use, and having an insert which accommodates air-guiding vanes in a pivotable manner and which is held movably in the housing for the purpose of moving the air-guiding vanes out of the air outlet opening during closing of the panel. In order to integrate the nozzle housing in dashboards of differing design, the insert is designed as a frame-like slide which can be displaced longitudinally in the housing and can be moved into the depth of the housing by a defined displacement path to enable the panel to close the air outflow opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Klaus Arold
  • Patent number: 6338514
    Abstract: A central console for a vehicle having a ventilated storage compartment which is connected via at least one air inlet to at least one air duct in order to ventilate the vehicle rear, and having a control device for opening and closing the one air inlet. For the purpose of ventilating the storage compartment without adversely affecting the cross section of the air duct which continues in order to ventilate the rear, at least one air duct runs laterally past the storage compartment, and the air inlet is arranged in the front end wall of the storage compartment and the air duct is widened in that duct section which is mounted upstream of the air inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Klaus Arold, Matthias Kornibe
  • Publication number: 20010035019
    Abstract: A heating or air-conditioning system is provided for ventilating a passenger cell. The system includes an air-conditioning box in which a heat exchanger is accommodated and at least one air-mixing chamber is formed. The air-mixing chamber has an inflow opening for hot air flowing through the heat exchanger and an inflow opening for cold air flowing around the heat exchanger. The air-mixing chamber also has at least two outflow openings for ventilating the passenger cell. The system also has an air-mixing device which controls the inflow openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Inventor: Klaus Arold
  • Patent number: 6296564
    Abstract: A heating or air-conditioning system for a vehicle has a cold-air duct and a warm-air duct which open out into an air-mixing chamber. One control member is assigned to each of the cold-air duct and the warm-air duct for setting the amount of cold or warm air which flows into the air-mixing chamber. The control member for the amount of warm air is designed as a shutter which includes a plurality of closure lamellae which are arranged next to one another, which overlap one another in the closed position, and which can be pivoted by a common actuating drive. To achieve a less progressive, substantially linear control curve of the shutter in the lower pivoting range, the shutter is designed in such a way that the individual closure lamellae, when they pivot out of their closed positions, open up unevenly sized opening cross sections for the warm air to pass through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Klaus Arold, Stefan Giez
  • Patent number: 6285004
    Abstract: A heating or air-conditioning system for a passenger cell of a motor vehicle has a heat exchanger which is arranged in the cooling water circuit of an internal combustion engine and through which an air stream passes. The system also has a supplementary electric heater through which the same air stream flows. The heat exchanger and supplementary electric heater are arranged in an air box, and have an electronic control unit for controlling heating or air conditioning. In order to give the heating or air-conditioning system a design which is economical in terms of installation space and which is easy to mount, the control unit is arranged downstream of the heat exchanger and the supplementary heater in the floor area of the air box. The supplementary heater is oriented at a right angle with respect to the control unit and makes contact with the control unit on its underside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Klaus Arold
  • Patent number: 6244952
    Abstract: A ventilation assembly for installing in the dashboard of a motor vehicle has having a housing which has an air-inlet opening for fitting on an air-feed duct and also two air-outlet openings which are arranged one above the other in the installation position and lie in two planes at an angle to each other. Two air ducts are formed in the housing, each connecting one of the two air-outlet openings to the air-inlet opening. The quantities of air flowing into the two air ducts is metered. The end side of the lower air duct which leads to the lower air-outlet opening encloses the air-inlet opening, and the upper air duct, which leads to the upper air-outlet opening, encloses a wall opening in the lower air duct. The air-quantity is metered by a pivotable air-discharge flap which is assigned to the wall opening and is arranged in the lower duct in such a manner that its pivot axis lies on that side of the wall opening which is remote from the air-inlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Klaus Arold, Dieter Heinle, Erich Kubsch
  • Patent number: 6223816
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heating and/or air conditioning system for vehicle interiors with air outlets located at the middle level of the vehicle interior, especially in a dashboard. The outlets include a middle nozzle connected by air ducts with an air distributor, the middle nozzle having a middle nozzle automatic button, with a mixing chamber integrated into the air distributor. The chamber has a cold air duct controlled by a cold air flap for supplying cold air to the mixing chamber and at least one outlet opening to the middle level, with the air to the middle level being controllable by at least one middle level flap, with an automatic control device that comprises an additional automatic button, and with a control device for linking signal values of the adjusting elements and programmed control of adjusting motors to set the air flaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Klaus Arold
  • Patent number: 6210265
    Abstract: A ventilating device for vehicles with a housing has at least one air outlet for mounting an air guide part and at least one louvered shutter for metering the quantity of air flowing out through the at least one air outlet. The air outlet has a frame that is circumferential and sealed off from the housing and a plurality of shutter strips pivotably secured in the frame. To simplify the design of the ventilating device and reduce the assembly time, the louvered shutter is pushed into the air inlet and the shutter frame is provided on its outer end pointing away from the housing with a circumferential internal rib, said rib, together with an external rib that is circumferential and concentric relative to the housing, forming a circumferential U-profile for inserting a seal that fits over the edge of the end of the air guide part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Klaus Arold
  • Patent number: 6179707
    Abstract: A ventilation nozzle for vehicles has a main duct and a secondary duct branching off therefrom. The ducts lead into two mutually separated blow-out openings and have controllable air adjusting devices. These adjusting devices are arranged in the area of the secondary duct branch off. Each adjusting device is assigned to one of the ducts, respectively, for adjusting the air quantities flowing to the blow-out openings. To provide an individually adjustable indirect air flow by way of the blow-out opening of the secondary duct, the adjusting device assigned to the secondary duct is constructed as an air flap which provides an air siphoning function from the main duct. A separate control element is assigned to each adjusting device for its adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Klaus Arold
  • Patent number: 6116329
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heating or air-conditioning system for vehicle interiors having an air distributor which is connected to an air guiding duct and has air outlet openings for the lower plane of the vehicle interior. An air guiding duct with air outlet openings for a center plane of the vehicle interior is connected by way of a cold-air inlet with the cold-air duct and by way of a warm-air inlet with the air distributor. One cold-air or warm-air flap respectively is in each case assigned to the cold-air and warm-air inlet. The flaps are configured and disposed for the purpose of a faster cooling of the vehicle interior by the large-area flowing of cold air into all areas of the vehicle interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Klaus Arold