Calsonic Kansei Corporation

Marelli Cabin Comfort Japan Corporation

Tsugutaka Ishikawa

Katsuhiro Kurokawa

Masaharu Onda

Kazuyuki Maruyama

Ryuji Tsukuda

Ichiro Miyata

Ryuuji Tsukuda

Yasushi Sunaga

Yousuke Satori

Norimitsu Takeshita

A present disclosure relates to a vehicle air conditioner including a blower. At least the blower is disposed within an engine compartment. The blower includes a motor that is configured to rotate a fan. A rotating shaft of the motor is diagonally arranged with an inclination angle that is greater than 0 degree and less than 90 degrees with respect to a vertical direction. An attachable/detachable direction of the motor with respect to the blower-is an upper side thereof.

Vehicle air conditioner

In an air conditioner for a vehicle and including a heat exchanger for cooling, an air mix door, and a heat exchanger for heating arranged in an air conditioner casing in that order from an upstream fan side toward a downstream side and a rear vent outlet path and a foot outlet path branching out via an air mix chamber for mixing, cold air and hot air, an air distribution amount adjustment blade for adjusting an amount of air distribution from the air mix chamber is provided in the rear vent outlet path, a foot door a door opening degree of which is controlled according to a selected mode is provided in the foot outlet path, and the air distribution amount adjustment blade is a blade in operative association with door open/close operation of the foot door and for limiting the amount of air distribution to the rear vent outlet path when the door opening degree of the foot door is large.

Vehicle air conditioner foot and rear vent door arrangement

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Saitama, Japan

Tsugutaka Ishikawa