Abstract: This air conditioning device for a vehicle has: an indoor condenser; an indoor evaporator; a first expansion valve; a second expansion valve; a refrigerant line; an expansion valve control detector; and a controller. The expansion valve control detector is constituted by: only one temperature sensor that detects the temperature of refrigerant in an inter-expansion valve line of the refrigerant line; and only one pressure sensor that detects the pressure of the refrigerant in the inter-expansion valve line. During a cooling operation, the controller issues, to the first expansion valve, an opening command corresponding to a state quantity of the refrigerant that has been detected by the expansion valve control detector, and during a heating operation, the controller issues, to the second expansion valve, an opening command corresponding to a state quantity of the refrigerant that has been detected by the expansion valve control detector.

Abstract: This compressor comprises a compressor body, an electric motor that has a rotating shaft extending along an axis and drives the compressor body via the rotating shaft, and a housing that houses the compressor body and the electric motor. The electric motor has a rotor capable of rotating about the axis and an annular stator centered about the axis. The housing has a housing body and a pair of highly rigid parts that are provided on the outer side of the housing body in positions opposite in the radial direction and that have higher rigidity than other portions. The stator is fixed to the inner peripheral surface of the housing at a plurality of fixing points provided at positions different from points where the housing intersects with a first straight line connecting the pair of highly rigid parts and a second straight line orthogonal to the first straight line.

Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning system includes a refrigerant circuit, a heat medium circuit, a vehicle-interior heat exchanger, a vehicle-exterior heat exchanger including a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger disposed in series with respect to a flow of air generated by an air blower, a switching unit, a detection unit for detecting a degree of frost formation, and a control device. The operation mode includes a defrosting mode in which the heat medium in the high-temperature medium circuit is supplied to a defrosting target to be selected as either the first or second heat exchanger by the operation of the switching unit. The control device selects, as the defrosting target, the first heat exchanger in preference to the second heat exchanger when determined that both the first and the second heat exchangers need to be defrosted.

Abstract: A system according to the present invention comprises: a power source which generates a first low voltage from a supplied high voltage; a capacitor which suppresses fluctuations in the high voltage; and a first device which operates by using the first low voltage as an electric power source and which increases its own current consumption when supply of the high voltage to the power source has stopped.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a control device, a heat source system, a control method, and a control program with which a heat medium at a required temperature can be more effectively sent out. This control device, which is applied to a heat source system 1 comprising a plurality of heat source machines (2a), (2b) connected in series, comprises a setting unit which sets the outlet setting temperatures of cool water in the respective heat source machines (2a), (2b) on the basis of: a measured value of a cool water flow rate, measured values of inlet temperatures of the cool water in the respective heat source machines (2a), (2b); and the required outlet temperature of the cool water in the heat source system (1).

Abstract: Provided is a air purge device that can effectively discharge air.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to improve insulating properties. This terminal unit (30) comprises: a plate-shaped base unit (40); a plate-shaped insulation unit (51) and a fitting insulation unit (52) that cover the plate surface of the base unit; a terminal (70) that extends in the Z axis direction, which is the direction intersecting the plate surface of the base unit (40), and penetrates the base unit (40) and the plate-shaped insulation unit (51); and an upper cylinder insulation unit (53) that extends along the Z axis direction from the plate-shaped insulation unit (51) and covers the side surface of the terminal (70). The plate-shaped insulation unit (51) and the upper cylinder insulation unit (53) are formed integrally.

Abstract: Provided is a method for continuing the operation of an electric compressor even if the magnitude of ripple voltage exceeds a predetermined threshold value. A control device of an electric compressor is provided with: a detection unit for detecting the ripple voltage of the electric compressor which is driven by a battery; a determination unit for determining whether or not the value of the ripple voltage is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value; and a control unit for reducing the rotation speed of a motor of the electric compressor down to a predetermined first target rotation speed greater than 0 when the value is greater than or equal to the threshold value.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a vehicle air conditioning system and a control method of the vehicle air conditioning system which enable detecting leaks of flammable refrigerant without requiring a separate sensor.

Abstract: A scroll compressor comprising a fixed scroll (15); an orbiting scroll (16) supported in a manner allowing for orbiting motion; a discharge port through which a fluid compressed by the two scrolls (15, 16) is discharged; an end plate step portion (16E) provided on an end plate of the orbiting scroll (16) formed so that a height of the end plate is higher on a center portion side in the direction of a spiral wrap and lower on an outer end side; and a wrap step portion (15E) provided on a wall portion of the fixed scroll (15) that corresponds to the end plate step portion (16E) so that a height of the wall portion is lower on the center portion side of the spiral and higher on the outer end side; wherein the orbiting scroll (16) is treated for surface hardening and the fixed scroll (15) is not treated for surface hardening.

Abstract: Provided is a method for determining the generation source of ripple voltage when abnormal ripple voltage is detected. The control device is for an electric compressor, the control device comprising: a detection unit that detects ripple voltage; a judgment unit that judges whether the ripple voltage is abnormal based on the value of the ripple voltage; and a cause determination unit that determines whether the cause of the abnormality is the electric compressor or some other external device, based on the control result of the electric compressor.

Abstract: Provided is a method for detecting a ripple voltage. A control device is provided with: an acquiring unit which acquires the voltage value of an input voltage of a battery-driven electric compressor at irregular intervals; and a waveform computing unit which computes the waveform of a ripple component of the input voltage on the basis of the acquired voltage value.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to suppress noise caused by contact between a depression and a ring. Provided is an electric compressor comprising: a housing that forms an outer shell; a fixed scroll that is housed in the housing and fixed on the housing side; a turning scroll that meshes with the fixed scroll and turns with respect to the fixed scroll; an autorotation inhibiting mechanism (30) that inhibits autorotation of the turning scroll; and a lubricant supply unit that supplies a lubricant to the autorotation inhibiting mechanism (30). The autorotation inhibiting mechanism (30) has: a ring hole (32) which is formed in the turning scroll; a ring (33) which is disposed in the ring hole (32), and the outer circumferential surface (33b) of which faces the inner circumferential surface 32a of the ring hole (32); and a pin (34) which is provided to the housing and which engages with the inner circumferential surface (33a) of the ring (33).

Abstract: This light illumination unit comprises: a heat sink that has a plate-shaped heat sink body and fins protruding from a first main surface of the heat sink body; an electronic substrate that is laminated on a second main surface of the heat sink body on the reverse side thereof from the first main surface; and a light illumination element that is mounted on a first surface of the electronic substrate on the side thereof where the heat sink is provided. As a result of said configuration, it is possible to save space as well as power.

Abstract: This refrigeration machine comprises a compressor that compresses a refrigerant, a condenser that condenses the refrigerant which has been compressed by the compressor, an expander that expands the refrigerant which has been condensed by the condenser, a liquid film type evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant which has been expanded by the expander, and an eductor that generates flow speed difference and pressure difference in the refrigerant which has been expanded by the expander and suctions refrigerant stored in the evaporator.

Abstract: A geothermal heat utilization system includes a first well having a first upper opening and a first lower opening, and a second well having a second upper opening and a second lower opening. The geothermal heat utilization system further includes a first pipe, a second pipe, a first heat exchanger, and a second heat exchanger. The geothermal heat utilization system is capable of supplying underground water of an upper aquifer from the first upper opening to the second upper opening via the first pipe, and the geothermal heat utilization system is capable of supplying underground water of a lower aquifer from the second lower opening to the first lower opening via the second pipe.

Abstract: The geothermal heat utilization system is capable of supplying underground water of an upper aquifer from the first upper opening to the second upper opening via the first pipe, and capable of supplying underground water of a lower aquifer from the second lower opening to the first lower opening via the second pipe. Further, the geothermal heat utilization system is configured to pump hot water and at the same time, pump cold water.

Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning system includes a refrigerant circuit that circulates a refrigerant through a compressor, a heat-absorbing heat exchanger, a decompression unit, and a heat-dissipating heat exchanger, a heat medium circuit including a high-temperature heat medium circuit that circulates a high-temperature heat medium and a low-temperature heat medium circuit that circulates a low-temperature heat medium, a vehicle interior heat exchanger that exchanges heat between air and at least one of the high-temperature heat medium and the low-temperature heat medium, a vehicle exterior heat exchanger that exchanges heat between air and at least one of the high-temperature heat medium and the low-temperature heat medium, and a switching unit that switches respective flows of the high-temperature heat medium and the low-temperature heat medium in accordance with an operation mode of the vehicle air conditioning system.

Abstract: A casing unit includes a first casing, and a second casing configured to be combined with the first casing from a first direction. The first casing includes a first casing main body and a protrusion. The second casing includes a second casing main body provided with an accommodating groove into which the protrusion is to be accommodated. Any one of the protrusion and the second casing main body is provided with a guiding part that relatively moves the first casing and the second casing in a second direction, in response to combining the first casing and the second casing. The second casing further includes an overlapping part that overlaps with the first casing main body in the first direction in a combined state, and that is elastically deformable in response to relative movement of the first casing and the second casing in the second direction.

Abstract: This heat exchanger is equipped with: a first heat exchange unit having a first inlet/outlet unit which has one inlet/outlet port and through which a coolant flows, and also having a plurality of first heat transfer pipes, each of which has one end thereof connected to the first inlet/outlet unit; a header pipe which is connected to the other ends of the plurality of first heat transfer pipes; and a second heat exchange unit having a second inlet/outlet unit which has two or more inlet/outlet ports and through which a coolant flows, and also having a plurality of second heat transfer pipes, each of which has one end thereof connected to the header pipe and the other end thereof connected to the second inlet/outlet unit. The coolant flows from the first heat exchange unit side toward the second heat exchange unit side during heating and flows from the second heat exchange unit side toward the first heat exchange unit side during cooling.