PRE-RIDING AIR CONDITIONING METHOD AND AIR CONDITIONER

• US 20090193821A1
• Filed: 10/17/2006
• Published: 08/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
• Original Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
• Inventors: Ohashi, Toshio, Ozeki, Yukio, Soma, Hiroshi, Kitagawa, Takehiko
• Application Number:
  US11/575,460
• Publication Number:
  US 20090193821A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 62/89
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00742 by detection of the vehicle occupants' presence; by detection of conditions relating to the body of occupants, e.g. using radiant heat detectors
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00778 the input being a stationary vehicle position, e.g. parking or stopping
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/008 the input being air quality
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00828 Ventilators, e.g. speed control B60H1/00864 takes precedence

Abstract

A pre-riding air conditioning method in which if an intention of a passenger to ride in a vehicle is detected, an inside air fan (3) is operated to stir air in a passenger room, and an air conditioner comprising the inside air fan (3) which can stir air in the passenger room, and a control (21) which operates the inside air fan (3) when the intention of a passenger to ride in the vehicle is detected.

Claims

1. A pre-riding air conditioning method, wherein

if an intention of a passenger to ride in a vehicle is detected, an inside air fan is operated and air in a passenger room is stirred.

2. The pre-riding air conditioning method according to claim 1, wherein

when air is stirred by the inside air fan, the stirred air is passed through a filter, and air in the passenger room is cleaned.

3. The pre-riding air conditioning method according to claim 1, wherein

the inside air fan is stopped after a predetermined time is elapsed.

4. The pre-riding air conditioning method according to claim 1, wherein

when air is stirred by the inside air fan, the stirred air is sent out from a vent blowoff port.

5. An air conditioner comprising

an inside air fan which can stir air in a passenger room, and a control which operates the inside air fan when an intention of a passenger to ride in a vehicle is detected.

6. The air conditioner according to claim 5, further comprising

a filter which cleans air in the passenger room and through which an stirred air passes when air is stirred by the inside air fan.

7. The air conditioner according to claim 5, wherein

the control stops the inside air fan after a predetermined time is elapsed.