Patent ID: 8109813

Claim:
An air outlet structure of an air conditioner, the air outlet structure comprising: a flow path member, opened at the downstream end thereof as an air outlet for an air conditioning air stream to a vehicle compartment, a top wall of the flow path member being inclined downward in a vehicle vertical direction toward the a flow direction downstream side of the air conditioning air stream, an upstream face of a bottom wall is of the flow path member being inclined downward upward on progression in the vehicle vertical direction toward the flow direction downstream side of the air conditioning air stream, an intermediate face that is continuous with the upstream face being provided horizontally so as to extend along the vehicle front-rear direction, and a downstream face that is continuous from the intermediate face toward the air outlet being inclined upward in the vehicle vertical direction toward the downstream side; a pair of fins, provided one on top of another in the vehicle vertical direction within the flow path member at a middle portion in the flow direction of the air conditioning air stream, with upstream side ends thereof being rotatably supported with respect to the flow path member; and a delivery direction altering part that, being coupled to an operation portion and the pair of fins, changes states of the pair of fins such that: when the pair of fins are swung upward so as to form an upward facing flow path between the pair of fins and the downstream face of the bottom wall, each of the pair of fins is relatively swung toward the other; when the pair of fins are positioned at a vertically intermediate position so as to form a horizontally directed flow path with the top wall and the bottom wall, each of the pair of fins is relatively swung away from the other so as to allow air to pass therebetween; and when the pair of fins are swung downward so as to form a downward directed flow path between the pair of fins and the top wall, each of the pair of fins is relatively swung toward the other.