Air conditioning apparatus for use in automobile

An air conditioning apparatus for an automobile and having a suction port in one end surface of said apparatus and a discharge port in the other end surface thereof,

• a flat planar evaporator having a lower end toward said suction port and inclined upwardly toward said discharge port to an upper end;
• a cross-flow fan mounted in said apparatus and having a rotary shaft thereof extending in a widthwise direction of said apparatus;
• a discharge guide having a curved surface in the upper part of said apparatus and extending from said cross-flow fan toward said discharge port;
• an upper diffuser forming a continuation of said discharge guide and extending to said discharge port;
• a first stabilizer provided inside said apparatus below said cross-flow fan and positioned on the discharge port side of a vertical plane through the axial center of said cross-flow fan;
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• a second stabilizer provided inside said apparatus below said cross-flow fan and positioned on the suction port side of said vertical plane;
• said evaporator, cross-flow fan, said second and first stabilizers, said discharge guide and said upper diffuser being in the recited order from the suction port to the discharge port of said apparatus.

An air conditioning apparatus for an automobile and having a suction port in one end surface of said apparatus and a discharge port in the other end surface thereof;

• a cross-flow fan mounted in said apparatus and having a rotary shaft thereof extending in a widthwise direction of said apparatus;
• a discharge guide having a curved surface in the upper part of said apparatus and extending from said cross-flow fan toward said discharge port;
• an upper diffuser forming a continuation of said discharge guide and extending to said discharge port;
• a first stabilizer and a second stabilizer each having a cross-sectional shape with a peak extending toward and spaced from said cross-flow fan, and extending in the widthwise direction of said apparatus below said cross-flow fan within said apparatus and spaced from each other in the direction from the discharge port to the suction port, the angle between a plane including the axial center of said cross-flow fan and the peak of said first stabilizer and a horizontal plane is in the range 5.degree..ltoreq.a.ltoreq.40.degree..

An air conditioning apparatus for an automobile and having a suction port in one end surface of said apparatus and a discharge port in the other end surface thereof;

• a cross-flow fan mounted in said apparatus and having a rotary shaft thereof extending in a widthwise direction of said apparatus,
• a discharge guide having a curved surface in the upper part of said apparatus and extending from said cross-flow fan toward said discharge port;
• an upper diffuser forming a continuation of said discharge guide and extending to said discharge port;
• a first stabilizer and a second stabilizer each having a cross-sectional shape with a peak extending toward and spaced from said cross-flow fan, and extending in the widthwise direction of said apparatus below said cross-flow fan within said apparatus and spaced from each other in the direction from the discharge port to the suction port, the angle between a plane including the axial center of said cross-flow fan and the peak of said second stabilizer and a vertical plane is in the range 0.degree.m.ltoreq. b.ltoreq.30.degree..

An air conditioning apparatus for an automobile having a casing with a suction port in one end surface and a discharge port in the other end surface thereof;

• a cross-flow fan mounted in said apparatus and having a rotary shaft thereof extending in a widthwise direction of said apparatus;
• a discharge guide having a curved surface in the upper part of said apparatus and extending from said cross-flow fan toward said discharge port;
• an upper diffuser forming a continuation of said discharge guide and extending to said discharge port;
• a first stabilizer and a second stabilizer each having a cross-sectional shape with a portion extending toward and spaced from said cross-flow fan, and extending in the widthwise direction of said apparatus below said cross-flow fan within said casing and spaced from each other in the direction from the discharge port to the suction port, the stabilizers having a recessed portion defined between them having a flat bottom surface portion which is level with a surface of said casing on the other side of said second stabilizer from said recess toward said suction port.

An air conditioning apparatus for an automobile and having a suction port in one end surface of said apparatus and a discharge port in the other end surface thereof;

• a cross-flow fan mounted in said apparatus and having a rotary shaft thereof extending in a widthwise direction of said apparatus;
• a discharge guide having a curved surface in the upper part of said apparatus and extending from said cross-flow fan toward said discharge port;
• an upper diffuser forming a continuation of said discharge guide and extending to said discharge port;
• a first stabilizer and a second stabilizer each having a cross-sectional shape with a peak extending toward and spaced from said cross-flow fan, and extending in the widthwise direction of said apparatus below said cross-flow fan within said apparatus and spaced from each other in the direction from the discharge port to the suction port, said first stabilizer having a cross-section which is a generally right-angled triangle and having said peak constituted by a vertex of said triangle and the side toward the discharge port of the apparatus as the hypotenuse of said triangle.

An air conditioning apparatus for an automobile and having a suction port in one end surface of said apparatus and a discharge port in the other end surface thereof,

• a cross-flow fan mounted in said apparatus and having a rotary shaft thereof extending in a widthwise direction of said apparatus;
• a discharge guide having a curved surface in the upper part of said apparatus and extending from said cross-flow fan toward said discharge port;
• an upper diffuser forming a continuation of said discharge guide and extending to said discharge port;
• a first stabilizer provided inside said apparatus below said cross-flow fan;
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• a second stabilizer provided inside said apparatus below said cross-flow fan and spaced toward the suction port from said first stabilizer and defining with said first stabilizer a recess below said fan.