Patent ID: 7247088

Claim:
An air conditioner for a vehicle including a pair of front pillars which are disposed diagonally in front of a passenger seated in a front seat and extends slant in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, upper ends of the front pillars being interconnected by a front header extending in a vehicle width direction, a windshield of the vehicle being supported at the front pillars and the front header, the air conditioner comprising: an air conditioning duct to be disposed along the front pillars; a front-pillar conditioned-air blowoff port which blow off conditioned air toward the passenger seated in the front seat from said air conditioning duct; and a louver device to be disposed at said front pillars and deflect the conditioned air within an angle which is smaller than a slant angle of said front pillars, wherein said louver device is located at a relatively upper portion of the front pillar from the middle and configured so as to be adjustable within a specified angle in a vertical direction of the vehicle, and a conditioned-air blow-off line of the conditioned air blown off from said louver device is configured such that an upper limit thereof is approximately parallel to a belt line of the vehicle and a lower limit thereof has said angle with respect to the upper limit, whereby the conditioned air from said louver device can be blown off toward a neck portion and a head portion of the passenger, and wherein said air conditioning duct has a rib portion as an impact absorbing portion to absorb an impact acting from an inside of a passenger compartment, and said rib portion is configured so as to absorb the impact by being deformed by the impact which is greater than a specified value.