Wind protection device for an open motor vehicle

US6786545B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Claudio Bargheer · Stuttgart, DE
• Peter Nordberg · Unterföhring, DE
• Vasilios Orizaris · Renningen, DE
• Karl Pfahler · Stuttgart, DE
• Lothar Renner · Nufringen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 1, 2001
• Grant date: Sep 7, 2004
• Expiry date: Nov 1, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60N2/5657
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A wind protection device for an open motor vehicle includes a passenger cell that has at least one car seat with a backrest. There is on a level with the top area of the backrest at least one air outflow opening of an air supply system. Thereby, the head, shoulder and neck area of the seat occupant is impinged on with an air stream that can be regulated to avoid an undesired air draft. The air supply system has at least one sensor to measure a parameter value, whereby the air stream, issuing from the air outflow opening, is regulated as a function of the parameter value by way of a regulating unit.