Patent ID: 8240164

Claim:
An air conditioning apparatus comprising: an air-conditioner casing that causes air flow to flow into a vehicle, toward the vehicle windshield and a front seat; an air blower that is provided in the air-conditioner casing, wherein the air blower includes: an electric motor; and an impeller that suctions air into an air inlet from a rotating shaft direction to blow the air in a radial direction through an air outlet in order to generate the air flow by rotation of a rotating shaft of the electric motor; a cooling heat exchanger that is provided in the air-conditioner casing for cooling the air flow; a heating heat exchanger that is provided in the air-conditioner casing for heating the air flow which has passed through the cooling heat exchanger; and a bypass passage that is provided in the air-conditioner casing for causing cold air, which has passed through the cooling heat exchanger, to bypass the heating heat exchanger, wherein: the air blower is located downstream of the cooling heat exchanger and the heating heat exchanger in a flow direction of air; each of the cooling heat exchanger and the heating heat exchanger has a flat shape, the cooling heat exchanger and the heating heat exchanger being arranged in parallel with each other; the air conditioning apparatus conditions air in the vehicle by using the cold air which has passed through the bypass passage and hot air which has passed through the heating heat exchanger; the air blower is positioned on an extension of a flat direction that is orthogonal to a thickness direction of the flat shape of the heating heat exchanger; the rotating shaft of the electric motor is disposed in parallel with an air outflow surface of the heating heat exchanger; and a partition wall is formed within the air-conditioner casing at a position downstream of the air outflow surface of the heating heat exchanger in the flow direction of air, the partition wall guiding the air flow which has passed through the heating heat exchanger toward the air blower; and an air passage inside the air-conditioner casing disposed directly between the partition wall and a rear wall of the casing guides, the air blown by the air blower toward a front seat foot opening portion defined by the air-conditioning casing and a defroster opening portion defined by the air-conditioning casing; the air blown by the air blower flows through the air passage directly to the front seat foot opening portion defined by the air-conditioning casing toward feet of an occupant in a front seat of the vehicle and flows through the air passage directly to the defroster opening defined by the air-conditioning casing toward the windshield of the vehicle.