Vehicle air conditioner
View Patent ↗Provided is a vehicle air conditioning device that can save the space for installing constituent apparatuses of a vehicle by using a heater for multiple purposes and reduce the manufacturing cost. Heating assisting operation for heating air to be supplied into a cabin is performed in a manner that a heat medium heated by a heat medium heater 32 in a heat medium circuit 30 flows to a heat medium radiator 16 without flowing on a battery B side while heating operation is performed.
1. A vehicle air conditioning device that includes a refrigerant circuit including a compressor, an indoor heat exchanger, an outdoor heat exchanger, and an expansion valve and performs heating operation for increasing temperature of air in a cabin by performing heat exchange in the indoor heat exchanger between a refrigerant and air to be supplied into the cabin,
the vehicle air conditioning device comprising a heat medium circuit in which a heat medium heater for heating a heat medium and a constituent apparatus of the vehicle are connected, the heat medium circuit being able to heat the constituent apparatus by the heat medium that flows, wherein
the heat medium circuit includes a heat medium radiator that is connected in parallel to the constituent apparatus and causes the heat medium to radiate heat to the air to be supplied into the cabin, and
heating assisting operation for heating the air to be supplied into the cabin is performed in a manner that the heat medium heated by the heat medium heater flows to the heat medium radiator without flowing on the constituent apparatus side while heating operation is performed.
2. The vehicle air conditioning device according to claim 1 , wherein
the heat medium circuit is connected to a heat medium heat exchanger that cools the heat medium by performing heat exchange with the refrigerant flowing in the refrigerant circuit.
3. The vehicle air conditioning device according to claim 2 , wherein
the heat medium circuit is able to set at the same time, a first circulation flow path for circulating the heat medium between the constituent apparatus and the heat medium heat exchanger and a second circulation flow path for circulating the heat medium between the heat medium heater and the heat medium radiator.
4. The vehicle air conditioning device according to claim 1 , wherein
the heat medium radiator is disposed on an upstream side of the indoor heat exchanger functioning as the radiator in a flow path of the air to be supplied into the cabin.
5. The vehicle air conditioning device according to claim 1 , to further comprising
a preliminary heating function for heating the air to be supplied into the cabin in a manner that the heat medium heated by the heat medium heater flows in the heat medium radiator while the flow of the refrigerant in the refrigerant circuit stops.