Air conditioner for forming an air curtain

摘要

An air conditioner (1) for a vehicle is arranged to cool or heat the interior (524) of the vehicle. The air conditioner (1) includes an air conditioning part (500) which selectively cools or heats intake air. The cooled or heated intake air may be supplied to an air curtain forming apparatus (900). In the air curtain forming apparatus (900), the cooled or heated air enters an air feeder (10) from the air conditioning part and is discharged to an air curtain forming part (30) arranged in a number of positions within the interior (524) of the vehicle. The air discharged from the air curtain forming part (30) is sprayed to form an air curtain by an air spray nozzle part (30a) and air suction nozzle part (30b). The sprayed air is admitted to an air-exhaust part (60) to be recirculated to the air feeder (10) or to be discharged externally. A microprocessor (800) controls the air conditioning part (500) and the air curtain forming apparatus (900) in response to various control signals from a temperature operation controlling part (600), a temperature recognition sensor (700) and a mode selector (950). The air curtains discharged by the air curtain forming part (30) effectively partition the interior (524) of the vehicle into zones and individual ones of the zones may be selectively heated or cooled by the air conditioning part (500) very efficiently.