Patent ID: 7823399
Filing Date: 2010-11-02
Classification: B60H

Abstract:
1. An air conditioning system for a vehicle which is capable of performing pre-air conditioning in which a vehicle cabin is air conditioned before an occupant gets into the vehicle, comprising: an inlet in which an air intake source is changeable; an outlet in which the blowing direction of either air that has been drawn in from the inlet or air that has been drawn in from the inlet and cooled using a refrigerant cycle which a circulates refrigerant is changeable; predicting means for predicting that an occupant will get into the vehicle; and controlling means for blowing cooled air from the outlet toward a lower portion in the vehicle cabin during the pre-air conditioning, wherein the controlling means draws in air from the lower portion in the vehicle cabin through the inlet and blows cooled air from the outlet toward an upper portion in the vehicle cabin when it is predicted that the occupant will get into the vehicle by the predicting means.