Air-conditioner for vehicle
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsKatsuji Kuwada, Shinya Murayama
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Abstract
An air intake device has a first inlet through which outside air flows and a second inlet through which inside air flows. A filter is arranged to cover a lower part of the first inlet and a lower part of the second inlet. An air sending device is located under the filter, and the filter is arranged to be inclined to an air intake part of the air sending device. The air intake device is configured to be switched between an outside air mode and a two, layer mode. The air intake device defines a continuation passage at the outside air mode. The continuation passage causes the outside air to flow from the lower part of the first inlet to the lower part of the second inlet.
Claims5
An air-conditioner for a vehicle comprising:
- an air conditioning unit which conditions air to be sent into a passenger compartment of the vehicle;
- and
- an air sending unit which supplies air to the air conditioning unit, wherein
- the air sending unit includes
- an air intake device having a first inlet through which outside air outside of the passenger compartment flows into the air intake device and a second inlet through which inside air inside of the passenger compartment flows into the air intake device, the first inlet and the second inlet being opened at a two layer mode, the first inlet being opened and the second inlet being closed at an outside air mode, the air intake device being configured to be switched between the outside air mode and the two layer mode,
- a filter arranged to cover a lower part of the first inlet and a lower part of the second inlet to collect a foreign matter contained in the outside air and the inside air, the filter having a first part adjacent to the first inlet and a second part adjacent to the second inlet, and
- an air sending device located under the filter,
- the air intake device defines a continuation passage at the outside air mode, the continuation passage causing the outside air drawn from the first inlet to flow from the lower part of the first inlet to the lower part of the second inlet,
- the air sending device draws the outside air through the first inlet, the continuation passage and the first part and the second part of the filter at the outside air mode, and
- the filter is arranged to be inclined to an air intake part of the air sending device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.