Patent ID: 7210523

Claim:
A vehicle air conditioner comprising: an air conditioning unit that blows conditioned air through blowout ports, wherein the blowout ports have a face blowout port that blows the conditioned air toward a driver and a top blowout port that blows the conditioned air toward a windshield; a control unit that controls air volume of the conditioned air blown from the blowout ports based on heat load of a vehicle and controls a blowout port mode having at least a face blowout port mode; an outside dew point temperature determination means for determining an outside dew point temperature of outside air; and an outside windshield temperature estimate means for estimating an outside windshield temperature, wherein the control unit controls the air volume of the conditioned air blown from the face blowout port and the top blowout port based on the outside dew point temperature and the estimated outside windshield temperature during the face blowout port mode.