| US 7,404,435 B2 | ||
| Air conditioner for vehicle use | ||
| Katsuhiko Samukawa, Okazaki (Japan); and Masashi Ino, Nagoya (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Denso Corporation, Kariya (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 26, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/190,164. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-218545 (JP), filed on Jul. 27, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0027352 A1, Feb. 09, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. B60H 1/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 165—204 [165/202; 165/232; 165/244; 62/244; 62/228.1; 62/229] | 4 Claims |
| 1. An air conditioner for automotive vehicle use comprising:
an air path for blowing air into the compartments by a blower;
an internal-external air switching means for introducing by switching the internal and the external airs into the air path;
a heat exchanger for cooling the air blown by the blower in the air path;
a plurality of blow mode switching means for switching a plurality of blow modes by opening and closing a plurality of openings
for blowing air into the compartments from the air path;
a blow mode setting means for allowing an occupant to selectively set the blow mode; and
an air condition control unit for driving the blow mode switching means based on the blow mode set;
wherein the blow modes include a foot-defroster mode in which air is blown from both a foot opening toward the feet of the
occupants in the compartments and a defroster opening toward the vehicle window glasses, and the blower and at least one of
the internal-external air switching means and the heat exchanger are controlled in an operatively interlocked relation with
each other; and
wherein the air condition control unit executes the control operation in foot-defroster mode upon lapse of a predetermined
time length from the time point when the foot-defroster mode is set by the blow mode setting means.
|