Patent ID: 6491578
Filing Date: 2002-12-10
Classification: B60H,B60N

Abstract:
An air conditioner for a vehicle including a plurality of seats arranged at least in two rows in a passenger compartment in a vehicle front-rear direction, the passenger compartment having therein at least right and left two seats in each row to have at least four independent air-conditioning spaces for the seats at right and left sides in each row, the air conditioner comprising:an air conditioning unit including: an air conditioning duct defining an air passage through which air flows, and a unit blower which generates an air flow toward the passenger compartment, in the air passage of the air conditioning duct; wherein: the air conditioning duct has a first outlet passage provided in a ceiling portion of the vehicle to extend in the vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle left side near to a center in a vehicle right-left direction such that the first outlet passage crosses with the rows, a second outlet passage provided in the ceiling portion of the vehicle to extend in the vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle right side near to the center in the vehicle right-left direction such that the second outlet passage crosses with the rows, a first suction passage extending in the vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle left side to cross with the rows, and a second suction passage extending in the vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle right side to cross with the rows; the unit blower is disposed for blowing air at least into the first and second outlet passages and for sucking air inside the passenger compartment from the first and second suction passages; the first and second suction passages have at least four suction ports from which air is sucked, at each position approximately corresponding to the waist part of a passenger in a vehicle up-down direction when the passenger is seated on one of the seats; and the first and second outlet passages have at least four outlet ports for respectively independently blowing air toward the at least four air-conditioning spaces.