Patent ID: 6347987
Filing Date: 2002-02-19
Classification: B60H

Abstract:
An air conditioner for a vehicle having a passenger compartment, comprising:an air conditioning unit having a plurality of air outlets for blowing conditioned air toward plural air-conditioning zones in the passenger compartment, the air conditioning unit being set to respectively independently adjust air temperature to be blown toward at least both first and second zones among the plural air-conditioning zones; a plurality of air-blowing state changing units for changing a blowing range of the conditioned air blown from the air outlets, each of said plurality of air-blowing changing units being disposed in a respective air outlet; and an air-blowing state control unit for controlling an operation state of the air-blowing state changing units, in such a manner that a first air conditioning range of one air-blowing state changing unit for said first zone is restricted at a side proximate to the other air-conditioning zone at least including said second zone, and a second air conditioning range of another air-blowing state changing unit for said second zone is restricted at a side proximate to the other air conditioning zone at least including said first zone.