US 12,134,299 B2
Method for mounting a sealing device between a housing of an air-conditioning installation and a partition wall present in or on the vehicle interior of a motor vehicle
Thomas Feith, Pforzheim (DE); Michael Sickelmann, Kornwestheim (DE); Robin Hederer, Birstein (DE); and Ronny Schreiber, Bad Orb (DE)
Assigned to Mahle International GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed by MAHLE International GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed on Dec. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/541,113.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 215 220.9 (DE), filed on Dec. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0194168 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. B60H 1/00 (2006.01); F16J 15/10 (2006.01)
CPC B60H 1/00514 (2013.01) [F16J 15/104 (2013.01); B60H 2001/00635 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for mounting a sealing device between a housing of an air-conditioning installation and a partition wall present in a motor vehicle, the method comprising:
(a) arranging the housing and the partition wall relative to one another so that a housing aperture present in the housing and a wall aperture present in the partition wall are positioned adjacent to one another;
(b) arranging a sealing device having a frame-shaped sealing body formed as a profile part, which in profile is formed substantially V-shaped with a first and second leg, between the two apertures in such a manner that:
the sealing body aperture circumferentially enclosed by the frame-shaped sealing body fluidically communicates with the two apertures in such a manner that
in profile a transition between the two legs of the sealing body lies, with a contact portion of the transition against the partition wall and a first end portion of the first leg facing away from the transition lies against the housing; and
(c) reducing a distance between the two apertures by moving the housing towards the partition wall at least until the transition folds over towards the wall aperture or away from the wall aperture.