Patent ID: 6101828
Filing Date: 2000-08-15
Classification: B60H

Abstract:
An air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle having right and left foot spaces below an instrument panel in a passenger compartment at right and left sides of a center console, said air conditioning apparatus being disposed within the instrument panel, said air conditioning apparatus comprising:a case for forming an air passage through which air is blown from a front side toward a rear side in a front-rear direction of the vehicle, said case having a longest dimension in a right-left direction of the vehicle; anda heat exchanger for adjusting a temperature of air to be blown into the passenger compartment of the vehicle, said heat exchanger being disposed in said case in such a manner that a longest dimension of said heat exchanger is in the right-left direction,wherein said case is disposed within the instrument panel at a center in the right-left direction to extend from said center to upper sides of the right and left foot spaces in said right-left direction without being inserted into the center console.