The TCRJ (Tangential CounterRotating Jet) is an improved passenger compartment air supply system whose key features are the avoidance of water ingestion and an aerodynamic auto-compensation at all vehicle speeds.
ACV+Engineering shared its TCRJ invention with Ford in Feb.´ 15.
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The Tangential Counter Rotating Jet (TCRJ) is an improved air intake arrangement for vehicle HVAC systems, which is able to supply air for the cabin ventilation in an efficient way, free of water rain drops and with an aerodynamic auto-compensation effect all along the car driving speeds range. The latter one is especially important for comfort reasons, to avoid uncontrolled airflows coming from the air vents to the vehicle occupants when running at high vehicle speeds.
The avoidance of the risk of water ingestion is mandatory to meet the target attributes of the climate control system. In fact, the performance targets of a vehicle HVAC are not only related to the comfort of occupants but also to the safety requirement of keeping the glasses free of moisture.
The TCRJ is at the same time a simple technology which offers space-saving installation of the admission air chamber (the so-called heater plenum) of HVAC systems for passenger vehicles (not always used in racing vehicles).
Due to its characteristics, it is beyond doubt that its implementation would be highly beneficent to a super car.
ACV+Engineering shared its TCRJ invention with Ford of Europe on 17th February 2015 and more recently with Ford of America with the enhanced description “invention relates to an arrangement and to a method for feeding ventilation air to a ventilation device for a vehicle interior and relates to a motor vehicle”, officially registered as Germany Patent # DE 800455854 and as U.S. Utility Patent 1974-803 # 83746633, 11th November 2016.