Patent ID: 9381790
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: B60H

Claim Text:
1. An air conditioning device for a vehicle, comprising: an external heat exchanger disposed in a circulation path of a heat medium and arranged between front ends of a pair of left and right side members of a body of the vehicle, the left and right side members extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction and being separated from each other in a vehicle widthwise direction, a heat-exchanging surface of the external heat exchanger facing forward in the vehicle longitudinal direction; and an accumulator tank disposed in the circulation path of the heat medium and arranged in a front corner area of the vehicle in front of a vehicle wheel house covering a front tire of the vehicle, the entire accumulator tank being positioned outward in a vehicle width direction from the front end of one of the pair of left and right side members and inward in the vehicle width direction of a tire center axis of the front tire when the front tire is straight such that the tire center axis extends in the vehicle longitudinal direction, the tire center axis corresponding to a widthwise center position of the front tire.