Zexel Valeo Climate Control Corporation

Diesel Kiki Co., Ltd.

Katsuichi Yamamoto

Daisuke Araki

Hideki Nagano

Kazuhisa Katchi

Akitoshi Noguchi

Tsutomu Nakamigawa

Eiji Yanagida

Takehide Matsumoto

A casingof an automotive air conditioner is formed with a hole TH for accommodating a steering member S extending in a right-left direction of a vehicle. The hole TH extends through the casingin the right-left direction of the vehicle.

Car air conditioner

A casingof an automotive air conditioner is formed with a recessfor accommodating a steering member S extending in a right-left direction of a vehicle. The casingis divided into an instrument panel-side part Rp and a fire panel-side part Fp with the recessas a boundary.

Automotive air conditioner and instrument panel module

A casing of an automotive air conditioner is formed with a recess for accommodating a steering member S extending in a right-left direction of a vehicle. The casing is divided into an instrument panel-side part Rp and a fire panel-side part Fp with the recess as a boundary S.

Air conditioner for car and instrument panel module

A variable-displacement vane compressor has a pump housing and a cylindrical rotor supported on a drive shaft and rotatably disposed in the pump housing. The rotor has a plurality of vanes movably fitted in respective slits formed in the rotor and having radially outward ends slidable against an inner peripheral camming surface of the pump housing. Certain ones of the vanes are made of a ferromagnetic material and can be retracted back into the slits in response to energization of an electromagnetic coil to thereby reduce the volume of a fluid discharged from pump working chambers in the pump housing. When the electromagnetic coil is de-energized, all of the vanes are slidably held against the inner peripheral camming surface to discharge the compressed fluid in an increased volume.

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Saitama, Japan

Katsuichi Yamamoto