Patent ID: 6758740
Filing Date: 2004-07-06
Classification: B60H

Abstract:
An air conditioner for a vehicle comprising:an air conditioning unit that adjusts an air temperature so that conditioned air to be blown into a passenger compartment is obtained; an air outlet portion having a plurality of air outlets from which conditioned air of the air conditioning unit is blown into the passenger compartment, the air outlet portion having a direct air outlet from which conditioned air is directly blown to a passenger in the passenger compartment, and an indirect air outlet from which conditioned air is indirectly supplied to the passenger, the indirect air outlet being provided in an inner wall portion of the passenger compartment for supplying conditioned air substantially from an entire area of the inner wall portion; a cooling state determining means for determining a proceeding state in a rapid cooling operation; and an air amount control unit for controlling an air amount blown from the direct air outlet and an air amount blown from the indirect air outlet based on the proceeding state detected by the cooling state determining means, wherein the air amount control unit increases the air amount blown from the direct air outlet to be larger than the air amount blown from the indirect air outlet, when the cooling state determining means determines that the proceeding state is in an initial stage with respect to a predetermined stage.