Air conditioning for automobiles

Claim 1

Air conditioning apparatus for an automobile having a power plant which includes a battery, an alternator, and a converter; an interior passenger space with a back shelf in the interior space rearwardly of the back seat; and a rear trunk with surrounding side walls and a main floor element and a ledge at the front of the trunk elevated above the main floor element and itself forming a floor element, the air conditioning apparatus comprising, a self-contained main operating unit mounted on the ledge in the trunk, and incorporating a coil including a cooling element and a heat dissipating element, means forming an air inlet passage from the exterior through the floor element of the ledge and heading into the operating unit to the cooling element therein, a flexible and extendible hose forming a cool air duct leading from the operating unit and communication with the interior space through the back shelf, a flexible and extendible hose heading from the operating unit through the floor element on the ledge to the exterior and forming an exhaust duct leading from the heat dissipating element to the exterior, means for receiving condensation from the cooling element in the operating unit and conveying it through the floor element on the ledge to the exterior, means for drawing air from the exterior, forcing it over the cooling unit and through the air duct to the interior space of the automobile, and means for driving air over the heat dissipating element and through the exhaust duct to the exterior.