US 12,485,722 B2
HVAC unit
Florian Klein, Bad Liebenzell-Moettlingen (DE); Markus Michael, Ilsfeld (DE); Anja Reiter, Schorndorf (DE); Jochen Schaudt, Hechingen (DE); and Sushant Bhoi, Pune (IN)
Assigned to Mahle International GmbH, (DE)
Filed by Mahle International GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed on Feb. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/669,336.
Claims priority of application No. 102021201303.1 (DE), filed on Feb. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0250436 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. B60H 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60H 1/00564 (2013.01) [B60H 1/00735 (2013.01); B60H 1/00792 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An HVAC unit for a motor vehicle, comprising:
a housing, a sensor device through which air is flowable and an air duct arrangement through which air is flowable,
the sensor device attached to the housing and airflow-connected to the air duct arrangement at an interface,
the interface provided by two connecting pieces of the sensor device aligned in a Z-direction and two receptacles of the air duct arrangement corresponding with the two connecting pieces,
wherein the two connecting pieces are disposed on the sensor device and the two receptacles of the air duct arrangement are disposed in the housing, and
wherein a respective connecting piece of the two connecting pieces engages in a respective receptacle of the two receptacles at the interface and is airtight-connected to the respective receptacle, and
wherein the respective connection piece together with the respective receptacle defines part of an airflow path of the air duct arrangement.