Patent ID: 6994157

Claim:
Air conditioner for an occupant compartment of a vehicle having a forward vehicle space and a rearward vehicle space with one right seat zone and one left seat zone respectively, the air conditioner comprising: an air conditioning box, an evaporator arranged in the air conditioning box, a heat exchanger arranged in the air conditioning box, a cold air space being situated between the evaporator and the heat exchanger, a warm air space providing a common supply of warm air to the forward vehicle space and rearward vehicle space being arranged behind the heat exchanger, air mixing spaces being controllably connected with the cold and warm air spaces for supplying conditioned air to the forward vehicle space and the rearward vehicle space, warm air flaps arranged downstream of the heat exchanger, and cold air flaps operatively arranged at upper and lower sides of the heat exchanger, wherein four air mixing spaces are provided so that a separate air mixing space is assigned to each seat zone in the forward vehicle space and the rearward vehicle space and for controllably connecting the four air mixing spaces to the cold air space and the warm air space, one of the warm air flaps and one of the cold air flaps each being provided for each of said air mixing spaces wherein the air mixing space of the forward vehicle space and of the rearward vehicle space are selectively communicatable to the warm air space via the warm air flaps, such that a leg space in the forward vehicle space is provided with the conditioned air in a manner not influenced by the conditioned air supplied to a leg space in the rearward vehicle space.