Patent ID: 6705098
Filing Date: 2004-03-16
Classification: B60H,F24F,G05D

Abstract:
A vehicle air conditioner having automatic control, comprising:an operational portion for setting a desired condition in the air conditioning of a passenger compartment of the vehicle that is manually operated by a passenger; a memory portion for memorizing information of said desired condition in association with a detected value of an environmental condition relating to the air conditioning of the vehicle, and for correcting the memorized information of said desired condition based on an operation of the operational portion; and a control portion for automatically controlling the air conditioning of the passenger compartment of the vehicle based on the memorized information determined by the detected value of the environmental condition that is read from said memory portion, wherein: when the content of a former memorized information read before the detected value of the environmental condition changes is different from that of a latter memorized information read after the detected value of the environmental condition changes, the content of the former memorized information is varied gradually so as to approach that of the latter memorized information, and wherein, the air conditioning is automatically controlled based on said gradually varied information; and said desired condition in said air conditioning is at least one of a blow-out mode of the conditioned air blowing into the passenger compartment, a blowing air amount of the conditioned air blowing into the passenger compartment, an inlet mode of air sucked into the vehicle air conditioner and a blow-out direction of the conditioned air blowing into the passenger compartment.