Abstract: A windshield vent includes a housing plate with a vent opening securable to a windshield. A vent flap secured in the opening is rotatable on an axle between a closed position and an open position. The vent system is suitable for laminated glass windshields including a recess in which the housing plate is secured.

Abstract: A data capture device includes a housing supporting a window at a scan opening, a data capture module with a scanner field of view directed through the scan window, a heater controllable to heat the window, a non-contact temperature sensor with a sensor field of view directed at the scan window, an auxiliary temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive (i) a window temperature from the non-contact temperature sensor, (ii) an external ambient temperature from the auxiliary temperature sensor, and (iii) an external ambient humidity from the humidity sensor. The controller then determines a dew point according to the ambient temperature and the ambient humidity, and selects a power level for the heater based on a comparison of the window temperature and the dew point.

Abstract: A vehicle air-conditioning apparatus is provided which is capable of efficiently eliminating or suppressing fogging of a window while comfortably heating a vehicle interior. A controller changes and executes a heating mode to let a refrigerant discharged from a compressor 2 radiate heat in a radiator 4, and a dehumidifying and heating mode to let the refrigerant discharged from the compressor radiate heat in the radiator and let the refrigerant absorb heat in a heat absorber 9. When the temperature of air blown out to the vehicle interior is not capable of reaching a target outlet temperature in the dehumidifying and heating mode, the controller actuates a window heater 35 heating a front window 30 and shifts to the heating mode.

Abstract: A vehicle side-view mirror water removal arrangement is easily retrofitted to vehicles having an existing source of compressed air and a side-view mirror with a reflective surface. The arrangement includes a valve having an input port connected to the existing source of compressed air and an output port, the valve being movable between open and closed positions to control the flow of compressed air from the existing source of compressed air to the output port of the valve. A conduit's proximal end is connected to the output port of the valve with its distal end located at the side-view mirror for conducting the compressed air from the output port of the valve to the side-view mirror.

Abstract: A flow of air coming out of a louver facing the internal space of the passenger compartment of a vehicle is oriented, exploiting the Coanda effect, in an area adjacent to a first surface of the passenger compartment or in an area adjacent to a second surface of the passenger compartment.

Abstract: Heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems for busses having air distribution at the front of the bus through a distribution system integrated with the dashboard and outlet vents shaped and oriented to provide clearing of mist and frost from vehicle windows, particularly those in and around an entry to the vehicle. A dedicated blower for an entry way door is provided.

Abstract: In a car defroster which detects the clouding on the window glass by a sensor and blows conditioned air out from the defroster port to the window glass to remove the blur, an infrared sensor 1 is used as the sensor for measuring the surface temperature of the window glass, and the defrosting operation is carried out according to the measuring result. The infrared sensor is provided, for example, at a center of the ceiling of the passenger compartment, and consists of at least two sensor elements so that the temperatures of window glasses in a plurality of directions are detectable.

Abstract: In a vehicle air conditioner, an interior heat exchanger of a heat pump refrigerant cycle is disposed in an air conditioning case to heat and cool air passing therethrough. The air conditioning case has therein a bypass passage through which air flows to a downstream side while bypassing the interior heat exchanger. In a defogging mode, air mainly passing through the bypass passage is blown toward a windshield of the passenger compartment, and air mainly passing through the interior heat exchanger is blown toward a lower side in the passenger compartment. Accordingly, even by setting the heating capacity of the interior heat exchanger at a maximum degree, it can restrict a windshield from being fogged in the defogging mode.

Abstract: A device for delivering conditioned air into a passenger area of a rail vehicle, said device comprising a duct extending along the bottom of a side wall of the passenger area, that side face of said duct which is adjacent to the inside of the passenger area being provided with air outlet means disposed over the entire length of the duct and designed so as to release a flow of air across the floor of the vehicle, the top of the duct being provided with openings opening out in a space defined laterally by two substantially parallel walls adjacent to the side wall of the vehicle, said space opening out via its top into the passenger area and its wall that is adjacent to the inside of the passenger area being provided, close to the duct, with one or more slots into which air contained in the passenger area is sucked, wherein said openings are distributed over the length of the duct such that air outlet zones provided with openings are disposed in alternation with barrier zones not provided with any openings, and

Abstract: A heating and air conditioning system for a motor vehicle includes a plenum supplied with air by each of a pair of variable speed blowers. A set of heating and air conditioning ducts extend from the plenum to the drivers side of the vehicle, and another set of heating and air conditioning ducts extend from the plenum to the passengers side of the vehicle. Accordingly, both the driver and the passenger can control the blower supplying air to the ducts on the corresponding side of the vehicle. A defrosting duct extends from the plenum to supply defrosting air to the windshield of the vehicle. One of the blowers normally supplies air to the defrosting duct, but the volume and velocity of air may be "boosted" by optional use of the other blower.

Abstract: An adapter system for vehicle windshield defroster including a manifold assembly including at least one manifold member having a defroster interface aperture formed through a bottom surface thereof that is surrounded on an outer bottom surface of the manifold member by a resilient gasket member secured to the outer bottom surface and a magnetic member secured to the gasket member, a manifold chamber formed within the manifold member in air flow communication with the defroster interface aperture, and at least one diffuser bar aperture that is in airflow communication with the manifold chamber; and at least one elongated diffuser bar having an airflow passageway formed along the length thereof, an air inlet aperture formed at a first end thereof in airflow communication with the airflow passageway, the first end of the diffuser bar being adapted to seat within the diffuser bar aperture in a manner to establish airflow between the airflow passageway and the manifold chamber, and a plurality of spaced diffuser a

Abstract: A heat pump type air conditioner for an automotive vehicle has a compressor to which an outer heat exchanger and a heat-radiating inner heat exchanger are connected through a three-way valve. The heat-radiating inner heat exchanger is connected to a heat-absorbing inner heat exchanger through an expansion valve. The heat-absorbing inner heat exchanger is connected to the compressor. During a cooling operation the three-way valve is set to lead the refrigerant from the compressor to the outer heat exchanger. During a heating operation the three-way valve is set to lead the refrigerant from the compressor to the heat-radiating inner heat exchanger while bypassing the outer heat exchanger.

Abstract: An air conditioning system suitable for use in an electric vehicle. In the air conditioning system, a refrigerant gas circulatory system of the heat pump type for selectively effecting cooling and heating is disposed inside the electric vehicle and comprises lines which interconnect three heat exchangers, a directional control valve, a compressor and an expansion valve to one another. A control device is provided so as to activate and inactivate the heat exchanger, the directional control valve and the compressor. Before the expected running of the vehicle, at least a portion of the refrigerant gas circulatory system can be operated by the control device using a drive source different from the drive source used for running the vehicle. Accordingly, a comfortable room environment can be established for the expected time on riding by activating the air conditioning system in an unmanned state.

Abstract: A heated air delivery system for vans, trucks and buses which has a single heated air distribution compartment located beneath the dashboard and designed to deliver heated air to defrost the entire windshield through a single elongated tapered defroster discharge nozzle located along the center of the dashboard. The heated air distribution compartment is also designed to deliver heated air to other areas within the vehicle's interior such as the driver's area, the stepwell entry area and teh driver's side mirror. The heated air is delivered into a plenum chamber within the air distribution compartment preferably from an opening in the bottom of the compartment.

Abstract: An aircraft, for example, helicopters, windshield defogger and/or deicer system is discussed which is connectable with a high pressure, high temperature air supply from the compression stage of a turbine engine. The system utilizes a Coanda-type ejector method to mix and distribute high temperature bleed air and cabin air to an existing defroster dispersal shroud fixed adjacent to the aircraft windshield.