Patent ID: 7931075

Claim:
An air conditioner for a vehicle having a passenger compartment, the air conditioner comprising: an air conditioning unit located on a front side in the passenger compartment at an approximately center portion in a vehicle width direction, the air conditioning unit including a cooling heat exchanger that is located to have an air passing portion through which the air passes approximately horizontally; and a blower unit having a blower that is configured to blow air to the air conditioning unit, the blower unit being located at a position offset from the air conditioning unit in the vehicle width direction; a refrigerant pipe connected to the cooling heat exchanger, wherein: the blower includes a double-axial motor having a rotation axis positioned approximately in a vehicle top-bottom direction, a pair of centrifugal fans located at two sides of the double-axial motor in an axial direction to be driven by the double-axial motor, and a pair of scroll casings in which the centrifugal fans are accommodated, respectively; the pair of scroll casings has two suction ports opened at two opposite sides of the centrifugal fans in the axial direction that is substantially the vehicle top-bottom direction; the scroll casings have a pair of scroll shapes in a circumferential direction of the centrifugal fans, and a part of the scroll shapes of the scroll casings extend approximately horizontally to have two air outlets; the two air outlets extend approximately horizontal; the two air outlets are stacked one on top of the other in the vehicle top-bottom direction to be joined to an air inlet portion of the air conditioning unit, substantially as a single air outlet; the two air outlets are located approximately at the same height position as that of the air passing portion of the cooling heat exchanger, and have a height dimension (H 2 ) at a downstream end side that is approximately equal to a height dimension (H 1 ) of the air passing portion of the cooling heat exchanger; the scroll casings are arranged in the vehicle top-bottom direction to have a space therebetween; and the refrigerant pipe is located in the space.