Apple may have abandoned its Apple Car project, but it continues to be granted, and file for, patents related to vehicles.
The latest patent filing is number US 20240300273 A1 for a “spring system” for a car’s air conditioning system. It involves a spring system that could include an air supply that directs a flow of air to a spring. As examples, components such as fans, pumps, and compressors may be used by a spring system to direct the flow of air to the spring.
The vehicle further includes an air conditioning unit including a housing. The housing defines an interior, an entrance opening configured to allow air to enter the interior, and an exit opening configured to allow the air to exit the interior and pass into a passenger compartment. The air conditioning unit further includes an evaporator disposed within the interior of the housing and configured to separate the interior into an entrance section and an exit section.
Summary of the patent filing
Here’s Apple’s abstract of the patent filing: “A spring system includes a bladder, a pump in fluid communication with the bladder, and an air line coupled with the pump and configured to fluidly communicate with a thermal conditioning unit. The pump is configured to draw the air through the air line from the thermal conditioning unit and transmit the air to the bladder.”
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