Patent ID: 8899311

Claim:
A vehicular air conditioner for a vehicle, the vehicular air conditioner comprising: an air-conditioning unit that has a plurality of outlets corresponding to a driver's seat and any other seats in the vehicle and that blows air-conditioned air from the outlets to the driver's seat and the any other seats; a blower that is accommodated in the air-conditioning unit and that is driven by an electric motor to generate blown air; a switching section provided in the air-conditioning unit for switching between a normal air-conditioning mode, in which the air-conditioned air is blown from a driver's seat outlet corresponding to the driver's seat and the any other outlets corresponding to the any other seats other than the driver's seat, and a single seat concentration mode, in which the blowing of the air-conditioned air from at least one of the any other outlets is prohibited and the air-conditioned air is blown solely from the driver's seat outlet; and a controller configured to control the operation of the switching section and to control the amount of the air blown by the blower by setting a supplied power to the blower in accordance with an air-conditioning heat load, wherein the controller is configured to execute the normal air-conditioning mode when an occupant is seated in any seat other than the driver's seat, the controller is configured to execute the single seat concentration mode when there is no occupant in the seats other than the driver's seat, and the controller is configured to set the supplied power to the blower in the single seat concentration mode to be smaller than in the normal air-conditioning mode at any given air-conditioning heat load.