CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160141735 | ASSEMBLED BATTERY - A battery unit, a bottomed case, a plate-shaped cooling plate, and first heat transfer material are included. The cooling plate is fastened to a bottom part of the case from the outside of the case, and can cool the battery unit via the bottom part of the case. The first heat transfer material have a plastic property and are held between the bottom part of the case and the cooling plate. The bottom part of the case has heat transfer material housings that house excess first heat transfer material therein when the cooling plate has been fastened to the case. | 05-19-2016 |
20160131720 | DEVICE FOR ESTIMATING STATE OF HEALTH OF BATTERY, AND STATE OF HEALTH ESTIMATION METHOD FOR BATTERY - A device for estimating state of health of battery, and a state of health estimation method with improved estimation accuracy of the state of health of the battery are provided. The device for estimating state of health includes: a charge and discharge current detection unit ( | 05-12-2016 |
20160116542 | ESTIMATION DEVICE AND ESTIMATION METHOD - An estimation device and estimation method that can reduce computational load and enhance estimation accuracy in state estimation of an internal state quantity in a nonlinear system are provided. An estimation device ( | 04-28-2016 |
20160097599 | HEAT EXCHANGER - A first projection plate and a second projection plate of each segment of first plurality of segments cause gas flowing into each segment to flow out from each segment while causing rotation in the gas in different directions with respect to a rotational axis in a gas flow direction and then flow into each of two segments of second plurality of segments adjacent in a perpendicular direction to the gas flow direction. | 04-07-2016 |
20160076915 | LIGHT GUIDE BODY FOR LIGHT EMITTING POINTER - A light guide body includes a light introduction member ( | 03-17-2016 |
20160070100 | DISPLAY DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - When a combiner is used, a cut part of a shift in an outer circumferential edge portion of the combiner is reduced, and a front scenery of a vehicle is more easily seen and recognized. A vehicular display device includes a displayer | 03-10-2016 |
20160069623 | HEAT EXCHANGER - A forward-tilting protruding piece leans forward toward an upstream side in a gas flow direction. A rearward-tilting protruding piece is disposed downstream of the forward-tilting protruding piece and leans rearward toward a downstream side in the gas flow direction. The forward-tilting protruding piece is in a shape of a four- or more-sided polygon including a base side in contact with a peripheral surface of the gas passage and a pair of left and right sides. The base side is oriented obliquely with respect to a direction perpendicular to the gas flow direction. The angle of one of the sides which is located on the upstream side in the gas flow direction with respect to the base side is larger than the angle of the other of the sides which is located on the downstream side in the gas flow direction with respect to the base side. | 03-10-2016 |
20160068078 | DRIVING FORCE CONTROLLER FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE - An electric vehicle driving force control device capable of decreasing discrepancy generated between a driver's acceleration pedal operation and output torque actually generated by a drive motor is provided. The electric vehicle driving force control device includes target torque setting unit | 03-10-2016 |
20160043451 | TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENT DEVICE - A temperature adjustment device includes a cooling member and a connecting member. The cooling member consists of a first plate and a second plate. The first plate is thermally abutted against a heat-generating member. The second plate is stacked on a lower surface of the first plate to define a cooling space with the first plate, the cooling space a cooling medium flows through, and being configured to include an inlet and an outlet of the cooling medium on a bottom surface facing against the first plate. The connecting member is the connecting member to a temperature adjustment circuit, and that is configured with a tube member having a flat part. The connecting member includes a connecting port connected to the inlet or the outlet on the flat part, and that is laminated and arranged on the second plate such that the flat part is abutted against the second plate. | 02-11-2016 |
20160003127 | INTAKE-AIR COOLING DEVICE FOR ENGINE AND METHOD FOR COOLING ENGINE - A first cooling water circuit is configured such that the cooling water that has come out from the engine passes through the first intake-air cooling device and returns to the engine again. A second cooling water circuit is configured such that the cooling water that has come out from the engine passes through the second intake-air cooling device and returns to the engine again. A heat exchanger is configured to perform heat exchange between the cooling water that has come out from the engine and flowing to the first intake-air cooling device and the cooling water that has come out from the second intake-air cooling device and that is flowing to the engine. | 01-07-2016 |
20150362268 | COOLING MEDIUM CIRCULATING APPARATUS, AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COOLING MEDIUM CIRCULATING APPARATUS - A cooling medium circulating apparatus comprising a first flow path configured to circulate a cooling medium, a second flow path through configured to circulate the cooling medium, and a flow path switchover unit configured to connect or disconnect between the first flow path and the second flow path, wherein a prescribed cycle, a connecting period and a disconnecting period is set, the connecting period being a connecting period between the first flow path and the second flow path in the said prescribed cycle, the disconnecting period being a disconnecting period between the first flow path and the second flow path in the said prescribed cycle, whereby the flow path switchover unit is controlled on the basis of the connecting period and the disconnecting period, and the prescribed cycle is made shorter as a temperature difference between a temperature of the cooling medium flowing through the first flow path and a temperature of the cooling medium flowing through the second flow path is larger. | 12-17-2015 |
20150357957 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE AND ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR - A motor control device of the present invention supplies a detection current to a motor at predetermined time intervals, detects a voltage between the both ends of a smoothing capacitor when the detection current is supplied, and determines whether a connector is inserted or unplugged based on a change in the voltage between the both ends of the smoothing capacitor. Furthermore, if determining that the connector is unplugged, the motor control device decreases the voltage between the both ends of the smoothing capacitor to or below a defined value by discharging the smoothing capacitor. | 12-10-2015 |
20150345877 | COMBINED HEAT EXCHANGER - A combined heat exchanger includes a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger accommodated in a first tank of the first heat exchanger, and a third heat exchange disposed above or beneath the first heat exchanger. First refrigerant flowing in the first tank exchanges heat with second refrigerant flowing in the second heat exchanger, and the second refrigerant that has exchanged heat flows into a third tank of the third heat exchanger. The second heat exchanger includes a refrigerant flow-in port and a refrigerant flow-out port. The refrigerant flow-in/flow-out ports are disposed at positions opposed to each other on the first tank. The refrigerant flow-out port is connected with the third tank. According to the combined heat exchanger, the refrigerant flow-in/flow-out ports aren't protruded laterally outward from the second heat exchanger, and thereby layout flexibility of the refrigerant flow-in/flow-out ports can be improved. | 12-03-2015 |
20150317971 | BUZZER OUTPUT CONTROL DEVICE AND BUZZER OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD - Provided is a buzzer that sounds without noise contamination. Specifically, an inaudible frequency signal generation unit | 11-05-2015 |
20150267972 | HEAT EXCHANGER - A heat exchanger includes a core unit having a plurality of pipe members arranged in parallel, a pair of tanks joined to the core unit to sandwich the core unit from opposite sides in a longitudinal direction of the pipe members and communicating with the pipe members, and a partition plate for closing a cross-section of the tank. The partition plate includes a recess on an outer edge portion to be held in contact with an inner wall surface of the tank, the tank includes a projection to be engaged with the recess on the inner wall surface, and the projection and the recess are formed by plastic working a part of the tank in contact with the partition plate from an outer side toward an inner side of the tank in a state where the partition plate is arranged in the tank. | 09-24-2015 |
20150267971 | HEAT EXCHANGER - A heat exchanger includes a core unit having a plurality of pipe members open at opposite ends and arranged in parallel, a pair of tanks joined to the core unit to sandwich the core unit from opposite sides in a longitudinal direction of the pipe members and communicating with the pipe members, and a partition plate for closing a cross-section of the tank intersecting with a pipe member arrangement direction. A pair of projections for sandwiching the partition plate from opposite sides in the pipe member arrangement direction is provided on an inner wall surface of the tank. The projections are formed by plastic working parts of the tank at opposite sides of a part to be held in contact with the partition plate in a direction at the pipe member arrangement direction from an outer side toward an inner side of the tank. | 09-24-2015 |
20150260800 | DEVICE FOR ESTIMATING PARAMETERS OF BATTERY, AND ESTIMATION METHOD - A device for estimating parameters of battery capable of improving, by using simple calculations, estimation accuracy of a parameter and the like of a battery equivalent circuit model will be provided. | 09-17-2015 |
20150247650 | VEHICLE SAFETY DEVICE - A vehicle safety device installed in a hybrid electric vehicle or an electric vehicle is provided to be capable of interrupting a current supplied from a power supply to a load via a supply line. The vehicle safety device includes first interrupting mechanism adapted to set the supply line in an interrupted condition when a temperature of the load reaches a first set temperature and second interrupting mechanism adapted to set the supply line in the interrupted condition such that the supply line cannot be returned to an energized condition when the temperature of the load reaches a second set temperature that is higher than the first set temperature. | 09-03-2015 |
20150235923 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided is a semiconductor device that can suppress a temperature increase in beam leads while reducing the number of wiring lines and can suppress an increase in manufacturing costs. The semiconductor device is provided with a power module including an upper arm and a lower arm each configured by connecting in parallel a plurality of power elements and a plurality of rectifying elements. Current to one arm flows through a plurality of separately wired beam leads. A portion of the power elements and a portion of the rectifying elements in one arm form a pair and are connected by a common beam lead. | 08-20-2015 |
20150221466 | TEMPERATURE SWITCH AND FLUID HEATING DEVICE - A temperature switch performs switching according to temperature of a heater. The temperature switch includes a bimetal that is deformed when the temperature of the heater reaches set temperature, a switch mechanism that is opened and closed by deformation of the bimetal, and a housing member that houses the bimetal and the switch mechanism, and that is able to conduct heat to the bimetal. The heater includes a pair of heat generation units that is adjacent to each other. The housing member includes a contact portion that is formed to project and that is inserted between the pair of heat generation units. | 08-06-2015 |
20150211810 | HEAT EXCHANGER | 07-30-2015 |
20150202986 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND ITS CONTROL METHOD - A thermal management system for an electric vehicle includes a refrigerant loop for an air conditioner, a refrigerant loop for a battery that allows a refrigerant for the battery to circulate among the battery, an evaporating unit and a heating device, and a thermal management controlling unit that heats the refrigerant for the battery by using the heating device when temperature of the refrigerant for the battery is lower than allowable lower-limit temperature of the battery, and that reduces the temperature of the refrigerant for the battery to be equal to or lower than allowable upper-limit temperature of the battery by increasing an output of the compressing unit when the temperature of the refrigerant for the battery is higher than the allowable upper-limit temperature of the battery. | 07-23-2015 |
20150152870 | ELECTRIC COMPRSSOR AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR - An electric compressor and a method for assembling the same include: an electric motor unit including a stator fixed to a housing by a press-fitting to an inner peripheral wall of the housing and a rotor rotatably arranged inside the stator; a compression unit configured to be driven by a rotational drive force of the electric motor unit and compress a coolant; and a guide member attached to an outer periphery of the stator and having a guiding curved surface portion configured to guide the press-fitting of the stator to the inner peripheral wall of the housing. | 06-04-2015 |
20150132168 | GAS COMPRESSOR - A compressor ( | 05-14-2015 |
20150127280 | BATTERY'S STATE OF CHARGE ESTIMATION APPARATUS - A battery's state of charge estimation apparatus will be provided. | 05-07-2015 |
20150091483 | Electric Motor Control Device - An electric motor control device is capable of reducing vibration in a speed fluctuation range at a high frequency. The electric motor control device includes a target rotation speed setting unit that sets the target rotation speed of an electric motor, a rotation speed estimation unit that calculates an estimated rotation speed of the electric motor, and a drive command signal generation unit that generates a drive command signal for the electric motor so as to eliminate a rotation speed difference between the target rotation speed and the estimated rotation speed. The rotation speed estimation unit includes an error calculation unit that calculates an error related to rotation of the electric motor and an estimated corrected rotation speed calculation unit that calculates an estimated corrected rotation speed by taking the error as input and correcting the estimated rotation speed. | 04-02-2015 |
20150084886 | IN-CAR OPERATION DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is an in-car operation display device which improves the operability of a display unit. The display unit is used for indications and operations for car-installed functions such as settings and instructions of the car-installed functions. An operating means (first switch plate SpL, second switch plate SpR) includes an operating-plate portion ( | 03-26-2015 |
20150068472 | EGR Gas Cooling System - An EGR gas cooling system of the present invention includes a main cooling water circuit which circulates cooling water between an engine, a main radiator that radiates heat of the cooling water of the engine and a primary EGR cooler that cools EGR gas by the cooling water and a low temperature cooling water circuit which circulates the cooling water between the engine, a sub-radiator provided integrally with or separately from the main radiator to radiate heat in the cooling water and a secondary EGR cooler that cools the EGR gas by the cooling water. A flow rate controller which controls a flow rate of the cooling water is provided between the engine and the sub-radiator of the low temperature cooling water circuit. | 03-12-2015 |
20150051853 | APPARATUS FOR PARAMETER ESTIMATION - Provided is an apparatus for parameter estimation that, when performing parameter identification of a mathematical model expressing a target system as a differential equation, can reduce the estimation error of the parameters insofar as possible. The apparatus for parameter estimation includes a mathematical model expressing a target system as a differential equation, an input signal detection unit that detects an input signal to the target system, an output signal detection unit that detects an output signal from the target system, and a parameter identification unit that performs system identification by taking the input signal and the output signal as input and using these signals to identify parameters used in a transfer function of the mathematical model. The parameter identification unit performs, simultaneously with the system identification, continuous-time system identification of initial values of the transfer function based on the input signal and the output signal. | 02-19-2015 |
20150020994 | INTEGRATED COOLING SYSTEM - An integrated cooling system comprises a first cooling circuit including a first heat exchanger that cools a first cooling medium by a core portion arranged between an inlet tank and an outlet tank; a second cooling circuit including a second heat exchanger installed in the outlet tank to cool a second cooling medium by the first cooling medium, a pressure of the second cooling medium of the second heat exchanger being higher than that of the first cooling medium, in which at a power position that can secure in the first cooling circuit a minimum necessary amount of the first cooling medium for functioning the first cooling circuit, there is provided a fragile portion that is broken when applied with a pressure equal to or larger than a predetermined level thereby to permit communication between the interior and the outside of the outlet tank. | 01-22-2015 |
20140350784 | TOUCH-SENSITIVE VEHICLE DISPLAY DEVICE - A touch-sensitive vehicle display device is disclosed. The touch-sensitive vehicle display device comprises a body having a display including a touch panel on a surface thereof, whereby a screen operation is performed on the surface of the display by a touch-screen operation; an operation plate provided along the surface of the display; and a controller controlling information to be indicated on the display. The operation plate includes an opening section to indicate a switch provided to face the touch panel, and a plurality of touch-sensitive switch-confirmation portions provided on an end portion of the opening section for switch indication, and the controller controls a switch-indication portion to be inside the opening section to indicate switching in the display, and controls a plurality of selection-switches to be in the switch-indication portion to correspond to the plurality of switch-confirmation portions. | 11-27-2014 |
20140340045 | APPARATUS FOR BATTERY STATE ESTIMATION - An apparatus for battery state estimation can accurately estimate the internal state of a battery by taking into consideration the slow response portion of the battery. The apparatus for battery state estimation includes a charge/discharge current detection unit, a terminal voltage detection unit, an equivalent circuit model including a fast response portion and slow response portion of the battery, a sequential parameter estimation unit that performs sequential parameter estimation, using only the fast response portion among response portions, based on the charge/discharge current value and the terminal voltage value, a constant setting unit that sets a constant representing resistance and capacitance in the slow response portion of the equivalent circuit model, a plurality of multiplication units that multiply the parameter estimated by the sequential parameter estimation unit and the constant by the charge/discharge current value, and an addition unit that obtains an overvoltage value of the battery by adding the multiplied values. | 11-20-2014 |
20140326198 | Engine Cooling Apparatus and Engine Cooling Method - A sub-control valve is provided which detects a temperature of a liquid coolant in a main circulation path and separates part of the liquid coolant which is to be sent to a main radiator to send it into a sub-circulation path in case the detected temperature of the liquid coolant exceeds an upper limit value of the temperature of the liquid coolant when an engine runs in a steady state, and the liquid coolant which is sent into the sub-circulation path by the sub-control valve is cooled in a sub-radiator and is then caused to flow into a cooler device, while the liquid coolant in the sub-circulation path is separated to be returned to an upstream side of a first pump in the main circulation path. | 11-06-2014 |
20140257726 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BATTERY STATE OF CHARGE ESTIMATION - An apparatus and method for battery state of charge (SOC) estimation can reduce the estimation error in the battery SOC. The apparatus includes a charge/discharge current detection unit, a terminal voltage detection unit, a first estimation unit that estimates a first SOC by integrating the charge/discharge current value, a second estimation unit that estimates an open circuit voltage value from the charge/discharge current value and the terminal voltage value and estimates a second SOC from the open circuit voltage value, a first difference calculation unit that calculates a SOC difference between the first SOC and the second SOC, an error estimation unit that estimates, based on the SOC difference, an error as a state quantity of an error model by using the error model, and a second difference calculation unit that calculates a SOC of the battery by subtracting the error from the first SOC. | 09-11-2014 |
20140238006 | EXHAUST GAS HEAT EXCHANGER - An exhaust gas heat exchanger includes a tube through which exhaust gas flows, a fin disposed in the tube, and protruded tabs protruded from the tube or the fin. Each of the protruded tabs is inclined to an upstream side, and has a polygonal shape more than a quadrilateral shape having at least a bottom side, one lateral side and another lateral side. An angle of the one lateral side to the bottom side is set smaller than 90 degrees and than an angle of the other lateral side to the bottom side. The bottom side is placed to intersect with a perpendicular direction to the exhaust gas flow direction, and the other lateral side is located upstream from the one lateral side. According to the exhaust gas heat exchanger, it is possible to improve heat exchange efficiency by generating a swirl flow for facilitating heat transfer effectively. | 08-28-2014 |
20140116662 | SERPENTINE HEAT EXCHANGER - A serpentine heat exchanger includes a tube formed by bonding two press-molded tube sheets and folded back in a serpentine shape, and a corrugated fin arranged in a space enclosed by the tube that is folded-back. An inside of a folded-back portion of the tube includes a plurality of protrusions at a distance from one another, the protrusions protruding from one tube sheet and contacting the other tube sheet. | 05-01-2014 |
20140112817 | VANE COMPRESSOR - A rotor of a vane compressor includes vanes that reciprocates in vane slots, coil springs that urge the vanes, and guide members each having a press-in end pressed into the vane and an accommodated end and inserted into the coil spring. When an outer diameter of the guide member is a, an inner diameter of the coil spring is b1, an outer diameter thereof is b2, and an inner diameter an accommodation hole for the coil spring is c, (b1−a)<(c−b2) is satisfied. A diameter of an end (a first contact portion) of the coil spring on a side of the accommodated end is larger than a diameter of another end (a second contact portion) thereof on a side of the press-in end. According to the compressor, contacts between the accommodation hole and the guide member can be prevented without high accuracy forming of the accommodation hole. | 04-24-2014 |
20140104318 | DISPLAY DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A display device for a vehicle includes a display unit | 04-17-2014 |
20140070521 | AIRBAG DEVICE - An airbag device includes an airbag main body, a storing section, an airbag lid member, a hinge section and a protective member. The airbag lid member has a lid section and an opening section. The lid section is configured to be opened by a pressing force of the airbag main body. The opening section is formed when the lid section is opened. The hinge section couples an edge portion of the opening section and the lid section. The protective member is configured and arranged to be disposed between the airbag main body and the hinge section when the airbag main body expands, and has a main protective section and a peripheral portion protective section. The peripheral portion protective section is provided on both sides of the main protective section to cover at least a peripheral portion of the lid section which protrudes from both sides of the hinge section. | 03-13-2014 |
20140063369 | TOUCH DISPLAY - A touch display including a liquid crystal display having a surface displaying images and a capacitive touch-sensitive panel superposed on a surface of the liquid crystal display and enabling an input operation in reaction to the displayed image; wherein being arranged on the liquid crystal display in order from the surface of the liquid crystal display toward an outer surface of the liquid crystal display, a second quarter-wave plate converting a light passing through into a circular polarization by shifting phase, the capacitive touch-sensitive panel, a first quarter-wave plate having a same orientation to the second quarter-wave plate, a polarizer converting the light passing through into a linear polarization, a decorated sheet protecting an upper surface of the capacitive touch-sensitive panel, and an antireflection layer preventing a surface-reflection of outside light, in order to obtain the antireflection effect while keeping costs low. | 03-06-2014 |
20140063038 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FORMING SURFACE TREATMENT DATA - A surface of a product is divided into a plurality of patches and a polygon mesh is formed. Sequences of vertexes on borderlines between the adjacent patches are allowed to correspond to each other, and then, a texture is mapped on each of patch units. The vertexes of the polygon mesh displaced in accordance with the mapped texture are connected together to form crimp applied polygon data for each of the patch units. In each of processing stages, since data to be processed can be limited to data of the two adjacent patches at the maximum, a practicable range of a computer is not exceeded due to the restriction of capacity of an operation memory. | 03-06-2014 |
20140049867 | SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHING ELEMENT DRIVE CIRCUIT - A semiconductor switching element drive circuit includes a semiconductor that passes main current between first and second terminals when voltage is imposed to a gate terminal, and an over current protection circuit that decreases the main current when the main current is judged to become over current for a certain period when exceeding a predetermined current value when current value or voltage value proportional to an amplitude of the main current exceeds a threshold value. The circuit also includes a short circuit protection circuit that decreases gate voltage imposed to the gate terminal earlier than a fall of the main current produced by the over current protection circuit when the main current becomes larger than the over current in a period shorter than the certain period, and a threshold value change circuit that decreases a threshold value when the short circuit protection circuit decreases the main current. | 02-20-2014 |
20130315771 | VANE ROTARY TYPE GAS COMPRESSOR - The present invention provides a vane rotary type gas compressor including a casing, a compressor main body provided within the casing and compressing a coolant sucked by rotary drive, and a drive power transmitter applying a rotary drive power to the compressor main body, and an outer peripheral wall of the casing is provided with a vibration transmission suppressing rib continuously from a mounting portion on a vehicle side, the vibration transmission suppressing rib suppressing vibration transmission caused by the rotary drive of the compressor main body. | 11-28-2013 |
20130314901 | DISPLAY ILLUMINATION STRUCTURE - A display illumination structure includes: a display including a gauge portion; a light source; a light guiding member including an incident portion, a horizontally extending portion configured to guide the light emanating from the light source along the gauge portion, and an interior reflecting bent portion configured to reflect the light that enters from the incident portion towards the horizontally extending portion; and a housing including a main reflecting surface configured to reflect light that exits from the light guiding member so as to be returned to the light guiding member, and an auxiliary reflecting surface configured to reflect light that is not incident on the incident portion and light that leaks from a halfway portion of the light guiding member towards a low-luminance poorly illuminated portion being formed in a position on the gauge portion which lies closer to the light source. | 11-28-2013 |
20130301203 | HOLDING MECHANISM FOR DISPLAY DEVICE AND ASSEMBLING METHOD OF THE SAME - In a holding mechanism for a display device | 11-14-2013 |
20130286526 | VEHICLE SAFETY DEVICE - A vehicle safety device installed in a hybrid electric vehicle or an electric vehicle is provided to be capable of interrupting a current supplied from a power supply to a load via a supply line. The vehicle safety device includes first interrupting mechanism adapted to set the supply line in an interrupted condition when a temperature of the load reaches a first set temperature and second interrupting mechanism adapted to set the supply line in the interrupted condition such that the supply line cannot be returned to an energized condition when the temperature of the load reaches a second set temperature that is higher than the first set temperature. | 10-31-2013 |
20130261240 | POLYURETHANE RESIN POWDER COMPOSITION FOR SLUSH MOLDING - Provided is a polyurethane resin powder composition for slush molding from which an outer skin for an instrument panel can be produced, the outer skin not interfering with deployment of an airbag. More specifically, provided is a polyurethane resin powder composition (D) for slush molding comprising perfectly spherical thermoplastic polyurethane resin particles (A) obtained by reacting a polyester diol component (J) and a diisocyanate component (F), a plasticizer (B), and a vinyl-type copolymer fine particles (C) having a crosslinked structure, wherein the polyester diol component (J) comprises a polyester diol (J1) comprising an aromatic dicarboxylic acid (E) and ethylene glycol as essential constituent units, a ratio of volume average particle sizes of (A) and (C), (A):(C), is 200:1 to 2000:1, and an extent of surface coverage of a surface of (A) with (C) {Equation (1)} is 20 to 80%. | 10-03-2013 |
20130255345 | FIN PROCESSING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a fin processing apparatus including an upper pressing die ( | 10-03-2013 |
20130252528 | AIR-CONDITION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE - An air-condition system includes an air-conditioner having a main blower, a main duct and a heat exchanger, a suction port disposed near a seat, and a sub duct of which one end is connected to the suction port. The air-conditioner suctions air into the main duct through the sub duct, and blows the air into the passenger compartment again. According to the air-condition system, the conditioned air blown out into the passenger compartment is suctioned from the suction port disposed near the seat. Therefore, the conditioned air is recovered and a flow of conditioned air backward from the suction port is restricted, so that comfortable zone air-conditioning can be done. It is unnecessary to provide a heat exchanger used only for zone air-conditioning and thereby simplicity of the system configurations and cost reduction can be brought. | 09-26-2013 |
20130232960 | DUAL PIPE EXHAUST MANIFOLD - A dual pipe exhaust manifold includes an inner pipe, an outer pipe and a plurality of spacers. The inner pipe includes a plurality of branch pipes and a plurality of collector pipes. The collector pipes are slidably connected to each other. One end of each of the branch pipe is fixed to a flange section configured and arranged to be attached to a cylinder head of an engine, and the other end of each of the branch pipe is slidably connected to a corresponding one of the collector pipes so that each of the collector pipes is connected to a plural number of the branch pipes. The outer pipe covers a circumference of the inner pipe. The spacers are disposed between the outer pipe and the inner pipe to form a gap therebetween. | 09-12-2013 |
20130232959 | EXHAUST MANIFOLD - An exhaust manifold includes a head flange member, a plurality of branch pipe parts and a collector pipe part. The head flange member has a flange main body portion and a cylinder head mounting surface configured and arranged to be attached to a cylinder head of an engine. Each of the branch pipe parts has an upstream end portion with respect to an exhaust gas flow fixed to one side of the head flange member that is opposite from the cylinder head mounting surface. The collector pipe part is connected to a downstream end portion with respect to the exhaust gas flow of each of the branch pipe parts. An area of the cylinder head mounting surface is smaller than a cross sectional area of the head flange main body portion taken along a plane substantially parallel to the cylinder head mounting surface. | 09-12-2013 |
20130228982 | SEALING STRUCTURE FOR COMPRESSOR - A sealing structure for a compressor includes a cylindrical housing in which a compression unit is accommodated (one end of the housing is opened so as to form an opening), a header fixed to the housing to close the opening of the housing, a ring-shaped gland formed on an end face of the one end of the housing, an O-ring installed in the gland to seal between the housing and the header, and a fastening mechanism for fixing the header to the housing. The end face of the housing is separated, by the gland, into an outer face on an outer circumferential side and an inner face on an inner circumferential side. A step is formed between the outer face and the inner face. According to the above structure, sealing characteristics between the housing and the header can be improved. | 09-05-2013 |
20130221893 | RESET-TO-ZERO AND RETURN PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STEPPING MOTOR - A movable member is movable in a movable range in response to a command issued to a stepping motor such that a given position of the movable member or a given angle of the movable member is changed. An operating method and/or apparatus may select a stopper member origin position from among a plurality of stopper member positions based on which of the plurality of stopper member positions is closer to a first position or a first angle of the movable member that has been calculated based at least in part on a command issued to the stepping motor; perform reset-to-zero processing by moving the movable member into a second position or a second angle relative to the stopper member origin position; and performing return processing by moving the movable member from the second position or the second angle to the first position or the first angle that has been calculated based at least in part on the command issued to the stepping motor before performing said reset-to-zero processing. | 08-29-2013 |
20130207509 | ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR - Provided is an electric compressor ( | 08-15-2013 |
20130160971 | VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONER - A vehicle air conditioner includes an evaporator configured to cool air, a heater core provided on a downstream side of the evaporator, a plurality of doors provided between the evaporator and the heater core, a central air path formed on the downstream side of the evaporator, and provided with a first door of the plurality of doors, a first side air path formed on one side of the central air path, and provided with a second door of the plurality of doors, a second side air path formed on the other side of the central air path, and provided with a third door of the plurality of doors, a sub-case configured to form the central air path, and first and second division cases configured to sandwich the sub-case from right and left. | 06-27-2013 |
20130160368 | MIX DOOR STRUCTURE - A mix door structure wherein drive force for opening and closing a slide door part of a middle slide door unit among multiple slide door units arranged side by side is transmitted by an input shaft including an inner input shaft part (input gear and inner input shaft) which is rotationally supported on two sides at both end portions thereof on bearings provided to a pair of door attachment wall parts of the middle slide door unit and an outer input shaft part (outer input shaft and rotary member) which is rotationally supported on one side on a first shaft hole provided in an outer door attachment wall part of an outermost slide door unit, and the inner and outer input shaft parts are coupled to each other through a coupling hole in the inner input shaft part. | 06-27-2013 |
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