Fluid heater

Abstract

Vehicle air conditioning apparatus comprising air conditioning case with inlet and outlet, partition wall dividing the inner space into a first and a second space portions; cooling heat exchanger disposed inside the air conditioning case to span the first and second space portions and connected to the outlet; and heat exchanger disposed inside the air conditioning case to span the first and second space portions. The air conditioning case includes a first flow path disposed in the second space portion below the heat exchanger; a channel part disposed behind the heat exchanger, with its entrance communicating with the first flow path, and exit communicating with the first space portion. Accordingly, a portion of air flowing to the first flow path via cooling heat exchanger without passing through heat exchanger is guided to the first space portion via the channel part without being mixed with air passing through heating heat exchanger.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.