US Patent Issued to HANON SYSTEMS on July 22 for "HVAC dual inlet design for partial recirculation operation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,217, issued on July 22, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"HVAC dual inlet design for partial recirculation operation" was invented by Eric K. Haupt (Livonia, Mich.), Mark Douglas Conley (Canton, Mich.), Martin Coleman (Milan, Mich.), Dennis Vermette (Westland, Mich.) and Shane Harte (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air handling system a housing defining an inlet section which includes a first inlet portion and a second inlet portion. The first inlet portion includes a first recirculation inlet receiving recirculated air from a passenger compartment of the vehicle and a first ambient air inlet receiv...