Patent ID: 6123267
Filing Date: 2000-09-26
Classification: B60H

Abstract:
A vehicular air conditioner for blowing air into a cabin of a vehicle, the vehicular air conditioner comprising:a blower for supplying blow air to the vehicular air conditioner;a foot outlet and a face outlet being coupled to the blower, and each of the foot outlet and the face outlet selectively blows out air into the cabin of the vehicle;the vehicular air conditioner including a heat source for performing a heating operation on said blow out air prior to exiting from one of the foot outlet and the face outlet;a controller for controlling the discharge of blow out air from said foot outlet and the face outlet; andsaid controller carrying out a warm-up control in which said controller prevents air from being blown out of said foot outlet from a time when said heating operation is started until a time when a temperature of said heat source reaches a certain temperature, and said controller switching, after said certain temperature is reached by said heat source, to operation of said foot outlet and the face outlet in a bi-level mode in which said blow out air is blown out from both of said foot outlet and said face outlet;wherein said controller then maintains operation in said bi-level mode so that the blow out air is blown out from both of said foot outlet and said face outlet for a time period, the length of which time period is variable.