Patent ID: 8403029

Claim:
A vehicular air conditioning apparatus including a casing having a plurality of passages through which air flows, and a heat exchanger disposed inside the casing for performing heat exchange on the air, the vehicular air conditioning apparatus comprising: a first blower arranged in a transverse direction of a vehicle with respect to the casing and connected to the casing via a first duct; a second blower arranged in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle with respect to the casing and connected to the casing via a second duct; and a blowing passage for rear-side seats connected to a downstream side of the heat exchanger, the blowing passage formed at the casing for supplying the air supplied from the second blower, to rear-side seats in the vehicle, wherein the second duct and the blowing passage for rear-side seats are not communicated with each other, and are arranged so as to intersect with each other, as viewed in the transverse direction of the vehicle such that the second duct is inside the casing with the blowing passage around the outside surface of the second duct; and wherein the blowing passage is branched in a forked manner in the transverse direction of the vehicle, at an intersecting region between the blowing passage and the second duct so that the blowing passage surrounds the second duct, and the branched blowing passage is arranged alongside the second duct in the transverse direction of the vehicle; and the first and second branch passages merge downward of the second duct so that the first and second branch passages surround the second duct.