Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Denso Corporation

Kazuya Nishiuma

Daisuke Setoguchi

Takashi Ogawa

Yoshinori Ichishi

Takeshi Wakisaka

Takayuki Shimauchi

Yoshinori Okuno

Seiji Tanaka

Takayuki Kamada

Toshinao Aoki

Makoto Inoue

Tatsuru Tanaka

Kazuaki Shingo

Yoshihiko Uesugi

An evaluation device includes a set temperature evaluation portion, an ecological driving evaluation portion, and a notification portion. The set temperature evaluation portion determines a set temperature evaluation value based on a set temperature that is a target temperature. The ecological driving evaluation portion is configured to determine an ecological driving evaluation value based on at least the set temperature evaluation value. The notification portion is configured to notify the occupant of the ecological driving evaluation value. The level of power saving rises with change of the set temperature evaluation value or the ecological driving evaluation value. When the set temperature is changed, and the change of the set temperature causes increase of the level of power saving without decrease in power consumption of the vehicular air conditioner, the set temperature evaluation portion changes the set temperature evaluation value in the one of positive and negative directions.

Ecological vehicle air conditioner evaluation device

A vehicular air-conditioning device includes a blowing port mode door as an air volume regulator that regulates volumes of air-conditioning air blown to a driver seat area, a front passenger seat area, and a rear seat area inside a vehicle compartment, and an air-conditioning controller activated by an activation signal outputted from a body controller in response to opening and closing of a rear seat door during a stoppage of a vehicle system. The air-conditioning controller is capable of operating an actuator for driving the blowing port mode door to blow the air-conditioning air to the rear seat area when an activation switch of the vehicle system is turned on in a state where the air-conditioning control unit has been activated by the activation signal.

Vehicular air-conditioning device

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Kariya, Japan

Kazuya Nishiuma