Patent ID: 7462214

Claim:
A vehicular air-conditioner comprising: blower control means for controlling a blower provided in an air passage of an air-conditioning unit; vent control means for selecting at least one of a plurality of vents provided at an end of said air passage and controlling the air from said blower so as to be blown from said selected vent to an inside of a vehicle compartment; an air-conditioning controller which controls operation of the blower control means and the vent control means based on a predetermined control program; wherein a pollen mode is set by the air-conditioning controller where a vent able to blow air to a vicinity of a face of a driver is selected from said plurality of vents by said vent control means and a predetermined amount of air is blown from said selected vent to the vicinity of the face of the driver in said vehicle compartment and said blower control means and said vent control means are controlled by the air-conditioning controller so that operation under said pollen mode is started when an ignition switch of said vehicle is initially turned on; said blower control means is controlled by the air-conditioning controller to make a level of air flow of said blower at the time of start of said pollen mode a limit maximum air flow set to a magnitude between a minimum air flow and a maximum air flow; said blower control means is controlled by the air-conditioning controller to control the level of air flow in said pollen mode so that said limit maximum air flow continues for a specified time from the start of said pollen mode; and after an elapse of a preset time from the start of said pollen mode, said air conditioning controller ends said pollen mode and said air conditioning controller controls said blower control means and said vent control means so that operation under a normal auto mode of said vehicular air-conditioner is set.