Abstract: A fuse comprising including a housing, a fusible element disposed within the housing, first and second terminals extending from opposite ends of the fusible element and out of the housing, and a quantity of arc suppressing material disposed on the fusible element, wherein the arc suppressing material is formed of a polyamide hotmelt adhesive mixed with a flame retardant.

Abstract: In this stator, lead wire extended portions and a power wire extended portion are extended from a resin portion by an extended portion separating portion such that the lead wire extended portions are separated from the power wire extended portion by distances that are greater than a maximum value of the width of clearance between an end-side portion of the lead wire extended portion and a facing portion located next to the end-side portion, the resin portion being provided so as to cover lead wire portions and a power wire portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element and a first connection member. The semiconductor element includes a substrate and an electrode pad. The substrate includes a transistor formation region, in which a transistor is formed and which is shaped to be non-quadrangular. The electrode pad is located on the transistor formation region. The first connection member is connected to the electrode pad at one location. The electrode pad is arranged to cover a center of gravity of the transistor formation region in a plan view of the electrode pad. In the plan view, a connection region in which the first connection member is connected to the electrode pad includes a center of gravity position of the transistor formation region.

Abstract: A driving control system 1 includes a camera unit 11 and a transceiver 18 which are mounted to a vehicle 5. The driving control system 1 also includes a transceiver 74, an information recognition_ECU 72 which recognizes road traffic information based on first road traffic detection information received by the transceiver 74 through the transceiver 18, and a traveling_ECU 73 which computes control information for the vehicle 5 based on the road traffic information, which are provided to a traffic control apparatus 70 disposed in each predetermined traffic control area. The driving control system 1 also includes an E/G_ECU 23, a PS_ECU 24, and a BK_ECU 25 which are mounted to the vehicle 5 and execute driving control based on the control information received by the transceiver 18 through the transceiver 74.

Abstract: The power conversion device includes: a power module; a plurality of capacitor elements each having an element body portion, a first electrode, and a second electrode; a first busbar connecting the first electrode and the power module; and a second busbar connecting the second electrode and the power module. The power module is disposed so as to be opposed to a side surface of the element body portion of only one of the capacitor elements. One or each of the first busbar and the second busbar has, as a connection member connecting the power module and a corresponding one of the first electrode or the second electrode to each other, an opposed plate-shape portion opposed only to an opposed portion of the side surface of the element body portion opposed to the power module.

Abstract: A power conversion device includes: main circuits each having a plurality of power modules that are parallelly connected to each other; and driving circuits for driving the main circuits. The driving circuits are each provided with: at least one driver for generating control signals to be inputted to the respective module control terminals of the plurality of power modules; and a filter that is connected between the at least one driver and the module control terminals, the filter having, per each module pair formed of two power modules, an impedance characteristic with a peak shape showing an increased impedance in a predetermined specific frequency range. The filter has a coupling element per each module pair, the coupling element being connected between two module control terminals and including a capacitor.

Abstract: A protection device includes a movable arm, a fixed terminal, and a bimetallic member, and a casing that accommodates them, the bimetallic member is located either above or below the movable arm, one end of the bimetallic member applies force to one end of the movable arm, thereby holding one end of the movable arm and the fixed terminal in contact.

Abstract: A smoker for meats and other foods, belonging to the technical sector of barbecues and similar, of horizontal type, with displaced furnace and direct flow or vertical type smokers, is formed: by a smoking chamber and a furnace. The smoking chamber is formed by: a dividing plate; a lower chamber arranged in communication with the furnace; a smoking chamber itself; passages provided in the dividing plate through which the heated gases are fed into the smoking chamber itself; a set of grates disposed in different levels; and a chimney; the lower chamber is constituted by a plenum box, which maintains the static pressure of the heated gases homogeneous in its interior; the passages include alignments of deflector openings provided on the opposite sides of the dividing plate, selected to increase the speed with the formation of vortices and direct the heated gas fed into the smoking chamber itself.

Abstract: There is provided an electric-power conversion apparatus that can protect semiconductor switching devices in accordance with the ambient temperature. The electric-power conversion apparatus includes a comparator that generates an output based on a comparison between the output of a sensor and a threshold value, a reference voltage circuit that produces the threshold value, and a control circuit that is configured in such a way as to be able to stop operation of a main circuit, based on the output of the comparator; the reference voltage circuit is configured in such a way as to change the threshold value in accordance with an ambient temperature under which semiconductor switching devices are laid.

Abstract: Provided is a norovirus deactivator, including a lysozyme component that includes at least one kind selected from lysozyme and/or a salt thereof, and a denatured product thereof.

Abstract: In an implementation, a method of operating an ignition circuit can include enabling a charge path control circuit and a switch circuit to charge a primary winding of an ignition coil of the ignition circuit until a threshold current is reached in the primary winding. After reaching the threshold current in the primary winding, the method can include maintaining a current in the primary winding of the ignition coil in correspondence with a current limit by alternatively activating and deactivating the charge path control circuit complementary to alternative activation and deactivation of a circulating-current path control circuit. During the maintaining the current in the primary winding, the method can include initiating a spark in a spark plug included in the ignition circuit, the initiating the spark including controlling an amount of energy delivered from the primary winding to a secondary winding of the ignition coil.

Abstract: There is provided an electric-power conversion apparatus that can protect semiconductor switching devices in accordance with the ambient temperature. The electric-power conversion apparatus includes a comparator that generates an output based on a comparison between the output of a sensor and a threshold value, a reference voltage circuit that produces the threshold value, and a control circuit that is configured in such a way as to be able to stop operation of a main circuit, based on the output of the comparator; the reference voltage circuit is configured in such a way as to change the threshold value in accordance with an ambient temperature under which semiconductor switching devices are laid.

Abstract: In an implementation, a method of operating an ignition circuit can include enabling a charge path control circuit and a switch circuit to charge a primary winding of an ignition coil of the ignition circuit until a threshold current is reached in the primary winding. After reaching the threshold current in the primary winding, the method can include maintaining a current in the primary winding of the ignition coil in correspondence with a current limit by alternatively activating and deactivating the charge path control circuit complementary to alternative activation and deactivation of a circulating-current path control circuit. During the maintaining the current in the primary winding, the method can include initiating a spark in a spark plug included in the ignition circuit, the initiating the spark including controlling an amount of energy delivered from the primary winding to a secondary winding of the ignition coil.

Abstract: Provided is a norovirus deactivator, including a lysozyme component that includes at least one kind selected from lysozyme and/or a salt thereof, and a denatured product thereof.

Abstract: Provided is a norovirus deactivator, including a lysozyme component that includes at least one kind selected from lysozyme and/or a salt thereof, and a denatured product thereof.

Abstract: A power supply device includes a converter, a rectifier circuit, a voltage cycle detection circuit, and a power supply cutoff signal output unit. The converter converts an AC voltage inputted from an external power supply to a DC voltage and outputs the DC voltage. The rectifier circuit rectifies the AC voltage inputted from the external power supply and outputs a rectified waveform voltage. The voltage cycle detection circuit detects a voltage cycle in which the rectified waveform voltage reaches a predetermined threshold value and, when the voltage cycle is detected to be longer than a predetermined cycle, outputs a voltage cycle abnormality signal. The power supply cutoff signal output unit outputs a power supply cutoff signal when the voltage cycle abnormality signal is inputted.

Abstract: A power supply device includes a converter, a rectifier circuit, a voltage cycle detection circuit, and a power supply cutoff signal output unit. The converter converts an AC voltage inputted from an external power supply to a DC voltage and outputs the DC voltage. The rectifier circuit rectifies the AC voltage inputted from the external power supply and outputs a rectified waveform voltage. The voltage cycle detection circuit detects a voltage cycle in which the rectified waveform voltage reaches a predetermined threshold value and, when the voltage cycle is detected to be longer than a predetermined cycle, outputs a voltage cycle abnormality signal. The power supply cutoff signal output unit outputs a power supply cutoff signal when the voltage cycle abnormality signal is inputted.

Abstract: There is provided a PWM inverter capable of preventing a phase error from occurring in generating a PWM signal even in the case where a carrier wave frequency is not sufficiently higher than a signal wave frequency. A PWM signal generating section (2) includes a phase adjusting section (11) configured to advance a phase of the signal wave by adding, to a signal wave, a delay component of the PWM signal with respect to the signal wave, the phase delay component being involved by digital control. Furthermore, in a case where the carrier wave frequency is changed, the phase delay component with respect to the signal wave is updated in synchronism with the timing of change of the carrier wave frequency.

Abstract: An extraction circuit is connected to an input path of an output amplifier. When the power is turned on, the extraction circuit extracts current on the basis of a difference between the normal rise of the supply voltage and a delayed supply voltage. Therefore, a steep rise in the input of the output amplifier when the power is turned on can be removed.

Abstract: When a player character performs an act tendency (boom) triggering act, the act number counters are updated for each non-player character associated with the boom triggering act. The value of each act number counter is periodically added to an act tendency value for each non-player character. After an act tendency value reaches an upper limit, the corresponding non-player character performs an act in response to the act tendency triggering act performed by the player character. The act of each non-player character is changed in accordance with the acts performed by the player character in the game world, which provides the player with a fresh feeling that the act performed by the player character set a trend in the game world.