Patent · US Expired

Air outlet with aperiodic oscillation

US5259815A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 3, 1990
Grant dateNov 9, 1993
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Expiry dateAug 3, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S239/07
  • WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A air outlet for a passenger compartment of a vehicle has a duct forming a jet of air, a pair of lateral sidewalls, bounded by the top and bottom walls diverging from each other from their upstream ends to their downstream ends at a rate sufficient to preclude a stable wall effect and for causing aperiodic oscillation of the jet into the passenger compartment of said vehicle. Various means are disclosed to further destabilize the wall effect.

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