Patent ID: 8376037

Claim:
A vehicular air conditioning apparatus including a casing in which passages and blow-out ports are formed for conveying air into a vehicle compartment, cooling means disposed inside the casing for cooling the air, and heating means disposed inside the casing on a downstream side from the cooling means for heating the air, and further comprising: a cool air passage disposed on a downstream side of the cooling means, the cool air passage extending so as to circumvent the heating means, and through which air that has been cooled by the cooling means flows; a warm air passage disposed on a downstream side of the heating means through which air that has been heated by the heating means flows, and which communicates with the cooling passage on a downstream side thereof; a holder that holds the heating means; and a temperature control damper disposed rotatably at a region where the warm air passage and the cool air passage communicate, wherein the heating means is disposed immediately above the cooling means, a lower end of the temperature control damper is moved away from the holder when the temperature control damper is operated to establish communication between the warm air passage and the cool air passage, and the lower end of the temperature control damper is contacted with the holder when the temperature control damper is operated to block communication between the warm air passage and the cool air passage, and when the lower end of the temperature control damper is moved away from the holder, the temperature control damper deflects a flow of air delivered from the heating means downwardly toward an upstream direction of the cool air passage such that the flow of air delivered from the cooling means and the flow of air delivered from the heating means are oriented mutually in opposite directions.