Abstract: A variable-capacity compressor capable of improving starting performance of the compressor and eliminating the risk of the compressor becoming uncontrollable due to contamination or the like in a refrigerant is disclosed. An opening passage allowing the control pressure chamber to communicate with a suction chamber is provided separately from a bleed passage, a valve housing chamber is formed on the opening passage, and the opening passage is formed by including an upstream-side opening passage allowing the control pressure chamber to communicate with the valve housing chamber and a downstream-side opening passage allowing the valve housing chamber to communicate with the suction chamber. A valve body housed so as to open/close the downstream-side opening passage and a biasing means biasing the valve body in an opening direction are provided. The valve housing chamber is connected to the downstream side of a pressure control valve provided on a supply passage.

Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning apparatus in which a noise caused by burble is reduced is provided. The vehicle air conditioning apparatus includes: a case having an air channel in an interior thereof; a blower configured to supply blown air to the air channel, the case includes a cylindrical portion and an enlarged portion continued from the cylindrical portion on a downstream side and having a cross-sectional area larger than a cross-sectional area of the cylindrical portion, the enlarged portion includes a projecting wall having a wall surface projecting outward of the air channel, the projecting wall includes at least one projection projecting inward of the air channel, and a top portion of the projection is in contact with a side surface of an virtual cylinder, which is formed by extending the inner wall surface of the cylindrical portion in the virtually extended toward the downstream, or is provided on the projecting wall side with respect to the side surface of the virtual cylinder.

Abstract: To provide a vehicle air-conditioning apparatus which can ensure a dehumidifying ability even during an intermediate thermal load time where an outside air temperature becomes high during a dehumidifying heating operation time. In a vehicle air-conditioning apparatus, at least a compressor 6, a first heat exchanger 2, a first refrigerant control part 9 which is formed by connecting a first expansion device 7 and a first open/close valve 8 in parallel to each other, a vehicle exterior heat exchanger 4, a second refrigerant control part 13 which is formed by connecting a second expansion device 12 and a second open/close valve 11 in series, and a second heat exchanger 3 are connected in the preceding order in a loop.

Abstract: To provide a battery temperature adjustment unit capable of efficiently supplying air adjusted to an appropriate temperature to a battery. A unit provided in a module case accommodating a battery includes a unit case having an air inlet and an air outlet, a heat exchanger disposed in the unit case, and a blower disposed in the unit case, in which air in the module case is sucked through the air inlet by the blower while being blown out through the air outlet and circulates through the module case and the air blown out through the air outlet includes air that has passed through the heat exchanger and air that has not passed through the heat exchanger. The unit also includes a heater disposed in parallel with a heat exchanger for cooling or disposed closer to the air inlet than the heat exchanger for cooling.

Abstract: In a vehicular air conditioning device including an air conditioning case having an air passage therein, a cooling heat exchanger disposed in the air passage, the heat exchanger exchanging heat between blown air flowing through the air passage and a heat medium, a cooling medium supplying sub pipe and a cooling medium recovering sub pipe connected to the cooling heat exchanger, the cooling medium supplying sub pipe and the cooling medium recovering sub pipe supplying the heat medium to and recovering the heat medium from the outside, and an air filter disposed in the air passage, and the air filter being attachable to and detachable from the air conditioning case, in which the cooling medium supplying sub pipe and the cooling medium recovering sub pipe have overlapping sections, respectively, included in an attachment and detachment path of the air filter and the overlapping sections are disposed in parallel with an attachment and detachment direction of the air filter.

Abstract: A proximity sensor with high accuracy without being subject to an influence due to magnet variations is disclosed. A first yoke is insert-molded in an intermediate position between N and S poles of a magnet, and a projecting portion of the first yoke projects from a wall face of the magnet vertically to a magnetic pole face. A protruding portion of a second yoke opposes the projecting portion to arrange a main body portion in parallel with the wall face of the magnet, and a hall IC having a direction of connecting the projecting portion and the protruding portion as a magnetic responsive direction is arranged in a space between the projecting portion and the protruding portion.

Abstract: A switch device may include a non-conductive operating portion provided with a plurality of operating areas inside an outer edge part of the operating portion, an electrode sheet spaced from the operating portion and having a plurality of electrodes each including at least one detection electrode and being arranged to face a respective operating area, and a detecting unit that may detect operations of the plurality of operating areas. An inner part of the operating portion positioned inward of the outer edge part may be displaceable in a facing direction of the operating areas and the electrodes. The detecting unit may be configured to determine an operated operating area, which may be operable by touch or push operation, based upon a position of at least one of the detection electrodes, a change in capacitance of the detection electrode, and a changing amount in capacitance of the detection electrode.

Abstract: A lever device in which a lid is mounted to an opening portion of a lever member without dropping down therefrom and with a good visual quality is disclosed. The lever device comprises a lever member swingably supported in a fixed system, an opening portion provided in the lever member to open in a radial direction, and a lid that is engaged to the opening portion to cover the opening portion therewith, wherein the lid is provided with a thin portion. Deflections are generated in such a manner as to concentrate on the thin portion of the lid.

Abstract: An inhibiter switch is configured to include a fixed contact point that is connected to and disconnected from a movable contact point. The movable contact point is configured to make pressure contact with the fixed contact point by the movement of a movable board by a shaft member, wherein a press-fit amount of the shaft member to a projecting portion is made smaller toward a connecting portion between the projecting portion and an inner periphery of an insert hole of the movable board.

Abstract: A switch comprising a body case, a movable board that is movably disposed in the body case and a movable contact point disposed in the movable board is disclosed. A fixed contact point is provided in the body case with a lubricating agent applied thereto. The movable contact point makes pressure-contact with the fixed contact point, and is connected and disconnected from the fixed contact point corresponding to a position of the movable contact point changing by moving the movable board. Grooves are formed in a contact portion of the movable contact point with the fixed contact point to be arranged along the movement direction of the movable contact point.

Abstract: There is provided a multidirectional switch in which, when a knob in a neutral position is operated to be tilted with respect to a reference axis at the time the knob is in the neutral position, a pressing part positioned in an operating direction side of the knob moves in an axial direction of the reference axis to selectively close a switch element corresponding to the moved pressing part. The switch element and the pressing part respectively comprise four switch elements and four pressing parts that are respectively provided at intervals each having 90 degrees in the circumferential direction around the reference axis, and one pressing part is connected to another pressing part adjacent thereto in the circumferential direction around the reference axis by a flexible connecting element formed in a wave shape as viewed in a radial direction of the reference axis.

Abstract: To provide a piston compressor capable of preventing excessive oil from accumulating in a crank chamber in any operation state while securing the supply of oil to a swash plate. In a piston compressor in which an oil separation passage (43) is formed in a shaft (7) and a crank chamber (2) communicates with a suction chamber (31) through the oil separation passage (43), a supply passage (40) opens at a region of a cylinder block (1) opposed to a swash plate (18) to thereby allow a working fluid introduced from a discharge chamber (32) into the crank chamber (2) to be supplied to the swash plate (18) and a bypass passage (50) allowing the crank chamber (2) to constantly communicate with the suction chamber (31) is provided to thereby prevent the accumulation of excessive oil in the crank chamber (2) regardless of the operation condition.

Abstract: In a door for an air conditioner provided with a pair of seal lips, an abutting force of the door is equalized whichever seal lip abuts on the seat portion first, and flexibility of the seal lips is secured, and further, noise occurring due to air passing between an inner wall of a case and the seal lips can be reduced.

Abstract: In an initial state where a push rod is pressed down, a base of a movable contact point board supporting a movable contact point makes contact with inclined protruding portions of a moving block by a second spring to be inclined. When the movable contact point makes contact with a fixed contact point following the projecting of the push rod, the base makes contact with stoppers. Thereafter, since the moving block alone rises, the movable contact point board rotates following the end edges of the stoppers according to release of the pressing by the protruding portion. Thereby the movable contact point largely slides and is displaced to the fixed contact point.

Abstract: A battery temperature control unit 1 for controlling a temperature of an internal space 21 of a module case 22 is provided. The battery temperature control unit 1 includes a unit case 3 which is arranged in the internal space 21 of the module case 22 and includes an air flow passage 4 inside the unit case 3. The battery temperature control unit 1 further includes a heat exchanger 11 arranged in the air flow passage 4. The unit case 3 includes a module opening sealing portion 31, which seals a module opening 24 formed in a wall surface of the module case 22. A module sealing surface 32 is formed in the module opening sealing portion 31, which closes the module opening 24 from an internal space 21 side. A first communication hole 36 and a second communication hole 37 are also formed in the module opening sealing portion 31, which allow the outside of the module case 22 and the inside of the unit case 3 to communicate with each other.

Abstract: A push switch is provided with a knob that causes the movable contact point in contact with the fixed contact point to slide thereon by a push operation of the knob, thereby connecting/disconnecting the movable contact point and the fixed contact point. A sliding direction of the movable contact point is set to a direction vertical to the push direction of the knob, and the push operation of the knob allows the movable contact point in contact with the fixed contact point to slide in a direction vertical to the push direction of the knob.

Abstract: To provide a vehicular air conditioner provided with a partition portion splitting blowing sir absorbed into a casing into plural air flows and a door capable of abutting on the partition portion, in which an air volume from an air blow-off port is secured end generation of noise is reduced, and a vehicle equipped with the vehicular air conditioner. The vehicular air conditioner according to the present invention has the partition portion splitting the blowing air into plural air flows and having a cross-sectional shape which is smaller in an upstream side than in a downstream side of the blowing air.

Abstract: A switch device may have a restriction member provided between a support portion and a fixed contact point portion of a polar board for restricting movement of a movable piece to the polar board. The restriction member may have a set height from the polar board such that the restriction member abuts on the movable where the fixed contact point reaches a predetermined height from the polar board due to wear. The movable piece may be supported by the support portion to be displaceable in the longitudinal direction such that when one side of the movable piece makes contact with the first fixed contact point, in a case where the restriction member makes contact with the movable piece, the movable piece may be displaced in the longitudinal direction on a basis of the contact position with the restriction member to be disconnected from the first fixed contact point.

Abstract: This printed circuit board (12) comprising: a first portion (20) having first electronic components (22) of which the earth electrode is on a first voltage source (14); a second portion (24) having second electronic components (26) of which the earth electrode is on a second voltage source (16); a third portion (28) inserted between the first portion (20) and the second portion (24); a switched-mode power supply circuit (32) connecting the first portion (20) and the second portion (24); the said second portion (24) also comprising an electronic component (30) powered by the said first voltage source (14), is characterized in that it also comprises detection means (34) for detecting a drop in electrical consumption of the component (30) and switching means for switching the switched-mode power supply circuit (32) when a predetermined drop in electrical consumption of the said component (30) is detected.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor vehicle facade module (1) comprising a support piece (3, 5, 7, 9) comprising:—a first part (11) comprising an upper crossmember (3) having a first reinforcement (10),—a second part (13) made of plastic and comprising: lateral uprights (7), and at least two portions (15) configured for assembly with the first part (11), the at least one portion (15) comprising a second reinforcement (12).