27Oct/080
Denso develops small-format automotive air-conditioning unit
Japanese automotive components manufacturer, Denso has developed a new automotive air-conditioning unit, which it claims is about 20% smaller in volume compared to conventional units. The new system will initially be installed on the Toyota iQ compact car, which will be launched in Japan next month and in Europe in early 2009.
According to Denso, new resin moulding technologies have been used, which allows the size of the blower unit (containing the blower fan) to be reduced to almost half the size of a conventional unit, leading to a significant reduction in size of the entire AC unit.
[Via: indiautomotive]