Patent ID: 8141622

Claim:
A console air conditioner for a vehicle, the console air conditioner comprising: an air conditioner case installed in a console space between front seats of a vehicle, the air conditioner case having a blower installed at an inlet of the air conditioner case, and a face vent and a floor vent installed at an outlet of the air conditioner case; an evaporator and a heater core installed at an inner air passageway of the air conditioner case; a temperature control door for controlling the opening degrees of a cool air passageway and a warm air passageway of the air conditioner case; a vent door for controlling the opening degrees of the face vent and floor vent; and a pillar duct respectively in direct connection with a pillar vent formed at either side of an air mixing zone that is a space where the cool air passageway meets the warm air passageway, and extended toward a B-pillar of a vehicle body, wherein the air flowing into the mixing zone is directly discharged to the pillar duct, wherein the temperature control door is installed such that a rotational trace of the temperature control door is overlapped with a pillar vent area, so that when the temperature control door is placed at a center of the pillar vent area, cool air and warm air are mixed with each other in the mixing zone and flow through the pillar vent into the pillar duct.