# US 11,305,608 B2 · Air conditioner for vehicle > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,305,608 B2 - Document ID: US11305608B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/774,559 - Filed: 2020-01-28 - Published: 2020-07-30 - Granted: 2022-04-19 - Earliest claimed: 2019-01-29 - Assignees: Hanon Systems - Applicants: Hanon Systems - Inventors: Yong Ho Kim; Chui Hee Kim; Hak Kyu Kim; Byeong Ha Lee; Yong Seon Lee; Jun Min Lee; Jae O Jung; Jae Won Jeong - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11305608B2 ## CPC - B60H 1/00064: {for sending air streams of different temperatures into the passenger compartment} - B60H 1/00285: {for vehicle seats} - B60H 1/00007: {Combined heating, ventilating, or cooling devices (control systems or mechanisms B60H1/00642)} - B60H 1/00035: {for sending an air stream of uniform temperature into the passenger compartment} - B60H 1/00295: {for trim components, e.g. panels, dashboards, liners} - B60H 1/00678: {the axis of rotation being in the door plane, e.g. butterfly doors} - B60H 1/242: {located in the front area} - B60H 1/246: {located in the interior of the vehicle or in or below the floor} - B60H 2001/00092: {of air deflecting or air directing means inside the device} - B60H 2001/00185: {Distribution of conditionned air} - B60H 2001/002: {to front and rear part of passenger compartment} - B60H 2001/00721: {Air deflecting or air directing means} - B60H: ARRANGEMENTS OF HEATING, COOLING, VENTILATING OR OTHER AIR-TREATING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PASSENGER OR GOODS SPACES OF VEHICLES ## Abstract The present invention relates to an air conditioner for a vehicle having a rear seat outlet, which can relieve temperature inversion that discharge temperature of the console vent becomes higher than discharge temperature of a rear seat floor vent in a bi-level mode, and prevent reduction of air volume of the console vent in the cooling mode. The air conditioner for a vehicle, which has a rear seat outlet, includes an air-conditioning case having an air passageway formed therein and a plurality of air outlets, and a cooling heat exchanger and a heating heat exchanger disposed in the air passageway of the air-conditioning case to exchange heat with air passing through the air passageway. Wherein the air outlets include a console vent and a rear seat floor vent, and an entrance of the rear seat floor vent is formed above an entrance of the console vent. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An air conditioner for a vehicle, which has a rear seat outlet, the air conditioner comprising an air-conditioning case having an air passageway formed therein and a plurality of air outlets, and a cooling heat exchanger and a heating heat exchanger disposed in the air passageway of the air-conditioning case to exchange heat with air passing through the air passageway, wherein the air outlets include a console vent and a rear seat floor vent, and wherein an entrance of the rear seat floor vent is formed above an entrance of the console vent. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The air conditioner according to claim 1, wherein a discharge path of the console vent is formed below a warm air passageway to be connected with a cold air passageway, and wherein a discharge path of the rear seat floor vent is formed above the cold air passageway to be connected with the warm air passageway. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The air conditioner according to claim 1, wherein the rear seat floor vents are formed at both sides of the air-conditioning case in the width direction, and the console vent is formed between a pair of the rear floor vents in the width direction. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The air conditioner according to claim 3, wherein warm air of the warm air passageway moves downwards through the lateral surface of the rear seat floor vent path, and then, is discharged through a rear seat floor vent outlet. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The air conditioner according to claim 3, further comprising: a rear seat mode door for adjusting the degree of opening of the console vent and the degree of opening of the rear seat floor vent, wherein the rear seat mode door is formed in a dome shape of which both sides are closed in a width direction. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The air conditioner according to claim 5, wherein both sides of the rear seat mode door in the width direction block the entrance of the rear seat floor vent to shut off the air discharged to the rear seat floor vent, and the dome-shaped surface blocks the entrance of the console vent to shut off the air discharged to the console vent. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The air conditioner according to claim 1, wherein the air passageway of the air-conditioning case comprises: a warm air passageway formed to make the air passing the cooling heat exchanger pass the heating heat exchanger; a front seat cold air passageway formed to make the air passing the cooling heat exchanger bypass the heating heat exchanger so as to be discharged to the front seat of the vehicle; and a rear seat cold air passageway formed to make the air passing the cooling heat exchanger bypass the heating heat exchanger so as to be discharged to the rear seat of the vehicle, and wherein the front seat cold air passageway, the warm air passageway, and the rear seat cold air passageway have rear seat outlets, which are formed vertically in order. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The air conditioner according to claim 7, further comprising: a rear seat outlet including a front seat temperature door for adjusting the degree of opening between the front seat cold air passageway and a part of the warm air passageway, a first rear seat temperature door arranged between the cooling heat exchanger and the heating heat exchanger to adjust the degree of opening of another part of the warm air passageway, and a second rear seat temperature door arranged at the downstream side of the heating heat exchanger to adjust the degree of opening between the warm air passageway and the rear seat cold air passageway. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The air conditioner according to claim 1, wherein the rear seat outlet further includes a hot channel part for guiding the air passing the heating heat exchanger to the console vent at the downstream side of the heating heat exchanger. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The air conditioner according to claim 9, wherein the hot channel part connects the warm air passageway with the entrance of the console vent. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The air conditioner according to claim 9, wherein the hot channel part is formed in a tube shape of which both sides are opened, and one side is opened toward the warm air passageway and the other side is opened toward the console vent. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The air conditioner according to claim 11, wherein the opening part of the other side of the hot channel part is formed below the entrance of the rear seat floor vent. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The air conditioner according to claim 11, further comprising: a rear seat mode door for adjusting the degree of opening of the console vent and the degree of opening of the rear seat floor vent, wherein the rear seat mode door is formed in a dome shape of which both sides are closed in the width direction, and wherein the opening part of the other side of the hot channel part faces the dome-shaped inner surface of the rear seat mode door. ### Claim 14 (depends on 9) The air conditioner according to claim 9, wherein the rear seat floor vents are formed at both sides of the air-conditioning case in the width direction, and wherein the hot channel part is formed between a pair of the rear seat floor vents in the width direction. ### Claim 15 An air conditioner for a vehicle, comprising: a rear seat cold air passageway for transferring cold air passing through a cooling heat exchanger, a warm air passageway for transferring warm air passing through a heating heat exchanger, and a console vent and a rear seat floor vent for discharging the cold air of the rear seat cold air passageway and the warm air of the warm air passageway to the rear seat of the interior of the vehicle, wherein the console vent is formed to correspond to the rear seat cold air passageway near the cooling heat exchanger, and the rear seat floor vent is formed to correspond to the warm air passageway near the heating heat exchanger: a console, duct for transferring the cold air discharged from the console, vent in the upward direction from a passenger who is sitting on the rear seat; and a rear seat floor duct for transferring the warm air discharged from the rear seat floor vent in the downward direction from the passenger who is sitting on the rear seat, wherein the console duct is bent and e, tended in the upward direction of the rear seat from the console vent of the lower side to transfer the cold air discharged from the console, vent of the lower side toward the face of the passenger who is sitting on the rear seat, and wherein the rear seat floor duct is bent and extended in the downward direction of the rear seat from the rear seat floor vent of the upper side to transfer the warm air discharged from the rear seat floor vent of the upper side toward the legs of the passenger who is sitting on the rear seat. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The air conditioner according to claim 15, wherein the rear seat cold air passageway is formed at a lower part of the air-conditioning case and below the heating heat exchanger and the warm air passageway is formed above the rear seat cold air passageway, and wherein the console vent and the rear seat floor vent are respectively formed at the lower part and the upper part of the air-conditioning case to correspond to the rear seat cold air passageway of the lower side and the warm air passageway of the upper side. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The air conditioner according to claim 15, wherein a pair of the console vents are formed side by side in the width direction of the air-conditioning case to be spaced apart from each other, and the single rear seat floor vent is formed in the width direction of the air-conditioning case, and wherein a pair of the console ducts are formed corresponding to the console ducts, and the single rear seat floor vent is formed corresponding to the rear seat floor vent. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The air conditioner according to claim 17, wherein the rear seat floor duct is bent and extended in the downward direction of the rear seat from the rear seat floor vent, between a pair of the console ducts.