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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2012
Koji Ota, Kariya, JP;
Manabu Maeda, Nagoya, JP;
Yuji Kawazoe, Kariya, JP;
Shinji Iwama, Nagoya, JP;
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, Aichi-pref, JP;
Abstract
An air conditioner for a vehicle includes an electric heater arranged downstream of a heat exchanger in an air flow direction, a defroster air outlet, a driver-foot air outlet through which air is blown toward a foot area of a driver, a knee air outlet through which air is blown toward a knee area of the driver, a door device which controls an air amount blown into a vehicle compartment by opening or closing the air outlets. When an immediate heating operation is performed by an operation of an immediate heating switch, the door device opens the defroster air outlet and at least one of the driver-foot air outlet and the knee air outlet, and the electric heater heats a total amount of air that is to be blown through the at least one of the driver-foot air outlet and the knee air outlet.