Heating or air conditioning unit

US5853323A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Behr GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Oliver Beck · Sindelfingen, DE
• Ralf Berndt · Ditzingen, DE
• Walter Denk · Ditzingen, DE
• Hans Juergen Drobner · Leonberg, DE
• Manfred Fuchs · Nuremberg, DE
• Gabriele Herbold · Erbach, DE
• Ingo Putz · Stuttgart, DE
• Reinhold Schork · Eberbach, DE
• Thomas Spranger · Stuttgart, DE
• Walter Ullrich · Katonah, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 24, 1997
• Grant date: Dec 29, 1998
• Expiry date: Oct 24, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/87877
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A heating or air conditioning unit for the interior of a motor vehicle including installation frames having louvers being inserted into a receptacle of the housing provided for that purpose. The installation frame has a profile on its frame sides so that the installation frame is held in a positive-locking manner in a receptacle of the housing. The profile has a wedge-shaped structure, thin ribs extending, running apart, along a frame side in the insertion direction.