| US 7,575,510 B2 | ||
| Vehicle air-vent | ||
| Myoung-Sug Kim, Yongin-si (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd., Seoul (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Filed on Aug. 03, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/195,816. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 10-2004-0073951 (KR), filed on Sep. 15, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0057952 A1, Mar. 16, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. B60H 1/34 (2006.01); G05G 5/06 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 454—155 [16/121] | 3 Claims |

| 1. An air-vent of a vehicle comprising:
a front duct configured to change a discharging direction of an air stream horizontally and vertically;
a rear duct connected to a rear side of the front duct and a damper hinged to an inside of the rear duct and selectively blocking
the air stream;
a rotatable knob coupled to a side of the front duct, formed with a hole at a side thereof, and configured to drive the damper;
and
an angle-restricting device including a cylindrical housing integrally connected to a portion of the front duct and extending
generally radially within the hole of the knob, the angle-restricting device elastically radially movable to restrict a rotation
angle of the knob,
wherein the angle-restricting device includes a stopper installed in an open end of the cylindrical housing, the stopper configured
to elastically move around an inner circumference of the hole as the knob is rotated, a pair of spaced stopper recesses formed
at the inner circumference of the hole to receive the stopper as the stopper moves around the inner circumference of the hole
to detect whether the damper is opened or closed, and the stopper is configured to move outwardly in a radial direction of
the cylindrical housing when the stopper is received by the spaced stopper recesses, and
the hole is provided with a substantial cylindrical space between the inner circumference thereof and the portion of the front
duct where the cylindrical housing is integrally connected, when the angle restricting device is assembled
wherein the cylindrical housing connects with said inner circumference of the angle restricting device only by the stopper.
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