Patent ID: 11964540
Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A heating apparatus for a vehicle, the heating apparatus comprising:
an air heating unit configured to heat air conditioning air to be sent into a vehicle cabin;
a contact heating unit configured to heat a member that is in contact with a body of an occupant in the vehicle cabin; and
an electronic control unit, wherein:
a heater of the air heating unit and a heater of the contact heating unit each are supplied with an electric power from one or more batteries; and
the electronic control unit is configured to:
decrease an electric power that is supplied to the heater of the air heating unit when the heater of the contact heating unit is on to reduce an electric power consumption from the one or more batteries as compared to an electric power that is supplied to the heater of the air heating unit when the heater of the contact heating unit is off;
decrease a target water temperature of the air heating unit when the contact heating unit is on;
decrease a total electric power of the electric power that is supplied to the heater of the contact heating unit and the electric power that is supplied to the heater of the air heating unit when the heater of the contact heating unit is on as compared to the electric power that is supplied to the heater of the air heating unit when the heater of the contact heating unit is off and
decrease the electric power that is supplied to the heater of the air heating unit as an outside air temperature outside the vehicle increases.