US 12,420,612 B2
Air-conditioning device for use in a vehicle for passenger transport
Thomas Plinninger, Rosenheim (DE); and Christian Schelander-Klopsch, Vienna (AT)
Assigned to Siemens Mobility Austria GmbH, Vienna (AT); and Siemens Mobility GmbH, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 18/845,968
Filed by Siemens Mobility GmbH, Munich (DE); and Siemens Mobility Austria GmbH, Vienna (AT)
PCT Filed Feb. 17, 2023, PCT No. PCT/EP2023/054019
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 11, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/169801, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 14, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2022 202 473.7 (DE), filed on Mar. 11, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2025/0108675 A1, Apr. 3, 2025
Int. Cl. B60H 1/00 (2006.01); B60H 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC B60H 1/00514 (2013.01) [B60H 3/0608 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An air-conditioning device for use in a vehicle for passenger transport, the device comprising:
an outer housing for accommodating components of the air-conditioning device;
said components including a supply fan for conveying conditioned supply air toward a passenger compartment of the vehicle;
an enclosing apparatus disposed to radially surround said supply fan;
said supply fan being a radial fan configured to deflect drawn-in air outward relative to an axis of rotation of an impeller of said supply fan to cause the air to impinge on inner surface regions of said enclosing apparatus associated with said supply fan; and
adsorption structures disposed on said inner surface regions of said enclosing apparatus, said adsorption structures being ribs configured to separate droplets and aerosols from the deflected air, and said ribs having different dimensions from one another.