Air-conditioning apparatus for vehicle
AssigneeSubaru Corporation
InventorsTakashi Tsunoda, Hisashi Nagano
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Abstract
An air-conditioning apparatus for a vehicle includes an air-conditioning duct that includes an air supply path through which air to be supplied into an interior of the vehicle passes, a first tank to which a cool medium and a warm medium for adjusting the temperature of a first intermediate medium are supplied, a first heat exchanger that is provided in the air-conditioning duct and through which the first intermediate medium circulates from the first tank, and a controller that controls the first intermediate medium to a temperature needed to set the interior to a desired temperature.
Claims6
An air-conditioning apparatus for a vehicle comprising:
- an air-conditioning duct that includes an air supply path,
- wherein the air supply path passes to an interior of the vehicle through which an air is to be supplied to an interior of the vehicle;
- a first tank that stores a first intermediate medium and to which a first cool medium and a first warm medium to adjust a temperature of the first intermediate medium are supplied;
- a first heat exchanger that is provided in the air-conditioning duct and through which the first intermediate medium circulates from the first tank;
- a second tank that stores a second intermediate medium, and to which a second cool medium and a second warm medium to adjust a temperature of the second intermediate medium are supplied;
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- a second heat exchanger that is provided, in the air-conditioning duct, upstream of the first heat exchanger and through which the second intermediate medium circulates from the second tank,
- a third heat exchanger that is juxtaposed below the second heat exchanger in the air supply path of the air-conditioning duct and through which the second intermediate medium circulates from the second tank, and
- a controller that:
- controls the first intermediate medium to a temperature enough to set the interior to a desired temperature, and
- passes the second intermediate medium in a larger amount through the second heat exchanger than through the third heat exchanger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.