Patent ID: 8721408
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: B60H

Abstract:
1. An air conditioner for a vehicle comprising: a case providing a flow passage for flowing airflows therein, the flow passage including a cooling flow passage in which an evaporator is provided, a heating flow passage in which a heater core is provided, and a mixing section being a mixing region of a hot air flowing through the heating flow passage and a cool air flowing through the cooling flow passage; an air-blowing guide being arranged in the mixing section and guiding the hot air and the cool air, the air-blowing guide extending in a width direction in the flow passage, the air-blowing guide including a pair of first engaging sections at a first end of an extension direction of the air-blowing guide, a first flexible connecting section that elastically deforms, and connects the first engaging sections with each other, a pair of second engaging sections at a second end of the extension direction of the air-blowing guide, a second flexible connecting section that elastically deforms and connects the second engaging sections with each other, and a hot air guide tube guiding the hot air from a first opening end of the hot air guide tube to a second opening end of the hot air guide tube without being mixed with the cool air, the hot air being supplied from an opening for hot air to the mixing section, and the cool air being supplied from an opening for cool air to the mixing section; and a pair of first protrusions and a pair of second protrusions provided in an interior wall of the case, the first protrusions engaging the first engaging sections and the second protrusions engaging the second engaging sections.