Abstract: This method consists in supplying the various rooms of the premises with air under stable low pressure using a relatively high-pressure fan, in feeding the fan, on the one hand, using fresh air, and, on the other hand, using recycled air, that is to say air that has been displaced by the fan and not let into the premises, and in regulating the respective proportions of fresh air and recycled air so that the proportion of fresh air increases and the proportion of recycled air decreases when the ventilation requirements increase, and so that the proportion of fresh air decreases and the proportion of recycled air increases when the ventilation requirements decrease, so that the delivery rate of the fan is kept almost constant.Application to systems for controlled mechanical ventilation of premises.

Abstract: A method for adjusting an opening cross section of an air inlet into a premises involves sensing the amount of water vapor contained in the air inside of the premises and the amount of water vapor in the air outside of the premises. The opening cross section is adjusted on the basis of at least one of a difference between the amount of water vapor sensed the inside and outside the premises so that the opening cross section increases when the difference increases and independently of the amount of water vapor in the air outside the premises. A device for adjusting an opening cross section of an air inlet into a premises includes two chambers in communication respectively with the air outside and with the air inside the premises, the chambers being separated from one another by a heat exchanger, which is impervious to water vapor.

Abstract: A device for a variable-flow ventilation system has a filter (10) associa with a ventilation air intake and a shutter element (12) made of an impermeable material, designed to be applied against filter (10) to cover it wholly or partially. The shutter is associated with a mechanism for controlling shutter movement which is connected to a computer (18) which receives information constituted by the pressure value or flow value at the outlet from the fan housing (2). Depending on the information supplied to the computer, the computer acts to hold the pressure at a constant value by affecting the position of the shutter relative to the filter and/or causing the filter to advance.