Denso Corporation

Osamu Nagata

Kazuma Inagaki

Yoshihiro Goto

Kenji Ishida

In a vehicle air conditioner, a case member of an inside/outside air switching portion is disposed at an approximate center in an interior unit in a vehicle width direction, to define an air passage extending in the vehicle width direction. An outside air suction port is provided in the case member, and first and second openings are opened in the case member at both side ends of the air passage in the vehicle width direction. One of the first and second openings is used as an inside air suction port, and the other one thereof is used as an outlet passage port. In addition, the outlet passage port of the case member is coupled to a suction port of a blower through a connection duct.

Air conditioner for vehicles with right steering wheel and left steering wheel

In an air conditioning unit of a vehicle air conditioner, an air-outlet mode switching portion is provided at an upper side of a heat exchanging portion including at least a heating heat exchanger for heating air. The air-outlet mode switching portion includes a rotary door rotatable around a rotation shaft, and the rotary door includes a circumference wall surface for opening and closing plural air outlet openings through which air is blown toward different zones of a passenger compartment. Further, the heating heat exchanger is arranged to be crossed with a horizontal surface, and a rotation space of the rotary door is provided to extend from an upper side of the heating heat exchanger to a side portion of the heating heat exchanger. Accordingly, the size of the air conditioning unit can be made smaller.

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Ichinomiya, Japan

Osamu Nagata