Patent ID: 7159651
Filing Date: 2007-01-09
Classification: B60H

Abstract:
1. An air conditioner in combination with a vehicle, the air conditioner comprising: an opening portion provided in an upper portion of a vehicle side member located immediately under a side window of the vehicle; and an air conditioning unit including cooling and heating means for cooling and heating air and also including a blower for blowing air through the cooling and heating means wherein the blower comprises a scroll casing having a suction duct and a blowout duct, the scroll casing being rotatable between a first position and a second position; when the scroll casing is in the first position, the blowout duct of the blower communicates with the opening portion and the suction duct of the blower communicates with a suction port to suck air from a vehicle passenger compartment at the time of air-cooling; when the scroll casing is in the second position, blowout duct of the blower communicates with a blowout port to blow out air to a foot side of the passenger and the suction duct of the blower communicates with the opening portion at the time of air heating; at the time of air-cooling, cooled air is sent through the opening portion from the cooling and heating means and blown out from the opening portion along an inner face of the side window to an upper half body of a passenger on the side of the side window, at the time of air-heating, air in the neighborhood of the inner face of the side window is sucked into the opening portion and made to pass through the cooling and heating means so that the air can be heated, and the heated air is blown out to the foot side of the passenger.