Vehicle air conditioning apparatus
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorsHiroshi Asou, Katsumi Sakane, Shintaro Hosoda
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Abstract
A vehicle air conditioning apparatus, provided in a vehicle where plural rows of seats are arrayed in the front-to-rear direction of the vehicle, comprises a cooler duct for guiding cool air from a cooler unit of an air conditioning unit to a portion above and between a first rear seat positioned on a second row of seats from a vehicle front and a second rear seat positioned behind the first rear seat. The cooler duct has a first outlet for ejecting cool air to the first rear seat side and a second outlet for ejecting cool air to the second rear seat side, and the first outlet is arranged in a position away from a seated portion of the first rear seat.
Claims13
A vehicle air conditioning apparatus provided in a vehicle where plural rows of seats are arrayed in a front-to-rear direction of the vehicle and an air conditioning unit is provided for air conditioning of a rear portion of the vehicle inside area, the apparatus comprising:
- said air conditioning unit being arranged outside of and near a hollow of the rear portion of the vehicle inside area in a vehicle width direction and in a space formed between a lower end of a pillar located in the rear most part of a vehicle body and a wheel housing of the rear wheel, and said hollow being provided in a floor panel of the rear portion of the vehicle inside area and housing a rear seat when a seat back of said rear seat is folded down on a seat bottom of the rear seat and the entire seat is pushed back to the rear direction;
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- a cooler duct to guide cool air from a cooler unit of an air conditioning unit to a portion above and between a first rear seat positioned on a second row of seats from a vehicle front and a second rear seat positioned behind the first rear seat, the first rear seat being a separated seat in which left seat and right seat portions are divided by a space,
- wherein a first outlet to eject cool air to the first rear seat side and a second outlet to eject cool air to the second rear seat side are formed on the cooler duct, and the first outlet is arranged in a position away from the left and right seat portions of the first rear seat and the cool air is ejected from the first outlet in the direction of the space.
A vehicle air conditioning apparatus provided in a vehicle where plural rows of seats are arrayed in a front-to-rear direction of the vehicle and an air conditioning unit is provided for air conditioning of a rear portion of the vehicle inside area, the apparatus comprising;
- said air conditioning unit being arranged outside of and near a hollow of the rear portion of the vehicle inside area in a vehicle width direction and in a space formed between a lower end of a pillar located in the rear most part of a vehicle body and a wheel housing of the rear wheel, and said hollow being provided in a floor panel of the rear portion of the vehicle inside area and housing a rear seat when a seat back of said rear seat is folded down on a seat bottom of the rear seat and the entire seat is pushed back to the rear direction;
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- a cooler duct to guide cool air from a cooler unit of an air conditioning unit to a portion above and between a first rear seat positioned on a second row of seats from a vehicle front and a second rear seat positioned behind the first rear seat, wherein the air conditioning unit comprises a heater unit and a heater duct to guide heated air from the heater unit,
- wherein the cooler unit and the heater unit are formed integrally,
- the air conditioning unit is arranged between a wheel housing located in the second rear seat side and a lower end of a pillar located in the rear of the wheel housing of the rear wheel and in the rear most part of the vehicle body,
- the cooler duct extends upward along a pillar located in the rear most part of the vehicle body from the cooler unit and guides cool air generated from the cooler unit to an upper position between the first rear seat and the second rear seat located in the rear of the first rear seat, and
- the heater duct extends forward and downward along the side wall of the vehicle body from the heater unit and guides heated air generated from the heater unit to a lower position between the first rear seat and the second rear seat located in the rear of the first rear seat.
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