Patent ID: 8812190

Claim:
A vehicular input manipulation apparatus in a vehicle for changing a setup content of one of a plurality of control parameters under one of a plurality of control modes for driving an in-vehicle air-conditioning apparatus, the input manipulating apparatus comprising: a mode switchover manipulating device that executes switchover to designate, as a target control mode of the air-conditioning apparatus, one of the control modes, which includes an OFF mode that causes the air-conditioning apparatus to be in a predetermined standby state; a target parameter switchover manipulating device that executes switchover to designate one of the control parameters of the air-conditioning apparatus under one of the control modes as a change target control parameter whose setup content is to be changed; and a setup changeover manipulating device that changes the setup content of the change target control parameter, the vehicle input manipulation apparatus characterized by comprising: a target parameter enforcement switching section configured to enforce switchover relative to the change target control parameter by automatically substituting an enforcement change target control parameter at a time when a predetermined control mode is designated as the target control mode, the target parameter enforcement switching section being further configured, at a time when the setup changeover manipulating device is manipulated in a state where the OFF mode is being designated as the target control mode, to forcibly designate an air-conditioner air quantity setup parameter being the enforcement target control parameter of the air-conditioning apparatus, replacing the OFF mode with an other predetermined control mode, where the air-conditioning apparatus is returned from the standby state to a drive state while the air-conditioner air quantity setup parameter is designated as the change target control parameter.