Patent ID: 7828050

Claim:
A vehicle seat air-conditioner, comprising: a seat adapted to receive an occupant; a seat temperature adjustment device that adjusts a temperature of a conditioned gas; a blower that supplies the conditioned gas to the seat; a seat covering layer defining an outer surface of the seat; a cushion body that is covered by the seat covering layer, said seat covering layer being pulled into a tack groove provided in said cushion body so as to be fixed; a flow channel defined by a space between said cushion body and said seat covering layer, and extending along a surface of said seat, said flow channel receiving the conditioned gas from the blower, and, a blow-out hole formed in said seat covering layer and connected to said flow channel, the conditioned gas flowing through said flow channel being blown out through said blow-out hole toward the occupant, wherein said seat covering layer conveys heat of the conditioned gas flowing through said flow channel to the occupant, and the vehicle seat air-conditioner is adapted to convey heat from the conditioned gas to the occupant by either: directly blowing out the conditioned gas to the occupant, or performing heat exchange between the conditioned gas flowing through said flow channel and the occupant via said seat covering layer.