Air conditioning apparatus for vehicle
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsHiroyuki Sato, Toshihiko Muraki
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Abstract
An air conditioning apparatus has a cool-side door device and a heating-side door device between an evaporator and a heater core. The cool-side door device is configured to open and close a cool air passage through which a cool air generated by the evaporator flows. The heating-side door device is configured to open and close a heating air passage through which the cool air flows to be heated by the heater core. At least one of the cool-side door device and the heating-side door device is constructed of a plurality of doors. The plurality of doors is configured to begin to open successively when being opened from a fully closed condition.
Claims12
An air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- a case;
- an evaporator disposed in the case for generating a cool air;
- a cool air passage provided in the case downstream of the evaporator;
- a heating air passage provided in the case downstream of the evaporator;
- an air mixing space provided in the case downstream of the cool air passage and the heating air passage;
- a heater core disposed in the heating air passage for heating the cool air;
- a cool-side door device disposed upstream of the cool air passage, the cool-side door device configured to control a volume of the cool air flowing in the cool air passage;
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- a heating-side door device disposed upstream of the heating air passage, the heating-side door device configured to control a volume of the cool air flowing in the heating air passage, wherein
- at least one of the cool-side door device and the heating-side door device includes a plurality of doors, and
- the plurality of doors is configured to begin to open successively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.