Nissan Motor Company Limited

Shigeru Kobayashi

Toshio Ohashi

Yoshiro Ichimaru

Hiroaki Katahira

A first air conditioner is generally applied to a vehicle including a windshield and a passenger compartment having a front segment and a rear segment. The windshield faces the front segment of the passenger compartment. Air is injected into the front segment of the passenger compartment via a first duct. Air is injected into the rear segment of the passenger compartment via a second duct. A humidifier acts on the air injected into the rear segment of the passenger compartment via the second duct. In a second air conditioner, a humidifier can be selectively activated and deactivated. A temperature control arrangement responsive to activation and deactivation of the humidifier compensates for fluctuations in the temperature of air resulting from changes between activated and deactivated states of the humidifier.

Air conditioner

A defroster outlet directs conditioned air toward a vehicle window to prevent the window from fogging over. The outlet is blocked when an air-cooling compressor is active. The outlet is unblocked when the compressor is inactive. The compressor may be activated and deactivated in accordance with the atmospheric temperature.

Vehicular air conditioner with defogging feature

An air-conditioning system for use in a motor vehicle having a vehicle body including a seat structure mounted on the floor panel and a side wall member such as a center pillar located on one side of the seat structure, the air-conditioning system comprising an air-conditioner assembly which is positioned on one side of the seat structure and adjacent one of the wheel housings and which includes at least one heat exchanger unit and a covering member having the heat exchanger unit covered between the covering member and the vehicle body, the covering member having a substantially horizontal upper panel portion located sidewise inwardly of the center pillar so as to serve not only to cover the heat exchanger unit but as an armrest for an occupant of the seat structure.

Air-conditioning system of motor vehicle

In a heating apparatus for motor vehicles, there is provided means for permitting part of air just heated by heater means provided in the apparatus to be directed toward a region upstream of the heater means so as to be again heated by the heater means, thereby causing the temperature in the vehicle chamber to be rapidly elevated, while at the same time preventing the humidity therein from being increased.

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Yokohama, Japan

Shigeru Kobayashi