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US 11,377,005 B2Granted
Vehicle air conditioning device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKeita Iwasaki, Keiichi Kondo, Shuichi Ui
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Abstract
A vehicle air conditioning device includes: a sucking section provided at a seat that is disposed over a floor portion of a cabin, the sucking section configured to suck air via the seat from a vehicle front side relative to the seat, from a floor portion side relative to a vehicle vertical direction middle of the cabin; and a guiding section configured to guide air sucked by the sucking section toward the floor portion side at a vehicle rear side relative to the seat or toward a vehicle upper side.
Claims6
A vehicle air conditioning device, comprising:
- a sucking section provided at a seat that is disposed over a floor portion of a cabin, the sucking section configured to suck air via the seat from a vehicle front side relative to the seat, from a floor portion side relative to a vehicle vertical direction;
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- a guiding section configured to guide air sucked by the sucking section toward a vehicle upper side from a back side of the seat, wherein:
- the guiding section includes a first duct and a second duct;
- the second duct includes an aperture portion with a fixed outlet angle and that opens vertically upward towards the vehicle upper side, and the guiding section guides air that has been sucked by the sucking section toward the vehicle upper side from the aperture portion,
- the seat includes a seat back portion and a seat cushion portion, a lower portion of the seat back portion contacting the seat cushion portion,
- the first duct extends from an inside of the seat cushion portion to an inside of the seat back portion and the first duct extends from the inside of the seat cushion portion to the inside of the seat back portion by passing through a portion at which the lower portion of the seat back portion and the seat cushion portion contact each other,
- a first end of the first duct is provided within the seat cushion portion,
- a second end of the first duct is provided within the seat back portion,
- an entire length of the first duct from the first end to the second end is provided within the seat, and
- the second end of the first duct is positioned at an upper portion of the seat back portion, the second duct is connected to the first duct, and the second duct is formed in an L-shape that extends to a vehicle rear side and then extends to the vehicle upper side.
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