Abstract: An axial fan rotates around a rotating shaft. The axial fan includes a hub, and a plurality of blades extending in a radial direction from the hub. Each blade includes a leading edge, a trailing edge including a depression, and a reinforcing protrusion located at least forwardmost and having a wall thickness thicker than a surrounding portion. As viewed along a rotating shaft direction, when a first virtual line and a second virtual line perpendicular to the radial direction are drawn, the reinforcing protrusion extends radially inside of the first virtual line and extends radially outside of the second virtual line, the first virtual line and the second virtual line respectively pass through a rearmost first endpoint in the rotation direction on a radially inside of a rear end that substantially overlaps the depression, and a rearmost second endpoint on a radially outside of the rear end.

Abstract: A disadvantage such as loss of life to a bearing of an indoor fan motor may occur when the number of rotations of the indoor fan falls below a predetermined number of rotations. An indoor unit includes a fan, a casing, a first horizontal flap, a second horizontal flap, and an indoor controller. The casing accommodates the fan, and has a blow-out port through which air provided by the fan is blown out. The indoor controller performs opening and closing operations to bring the first and second horizontal flaps into a first state in decreasing an airflow volume to be blown out through the blow-out port. In the first state, the first horizontal flap is in a position to open a first portion of the blow-out port while the second horizontal flap is in or substantially in a position to close a second portion of the blow-out port.

Abstract: An axial fan rotates around a rotating shaft. The axial fan includes a hub, and a plurality of blades extending in a radial direction from the hub. Each blade includes a leading edge, a trailing edge including a depression, and a reinforcing protrusion located at least forwardmost and having a wall thickness thicker than a surrounding portion. As viewed along a rotating shaft direction, when a first virtual line and a second virtual line perpendicular to the radial direction are drawn, the reinforcing protrusion extends radially inside of the first virtual line and extends radially outside of the second virtual line, the first virtual line and the second virtual line respectively pass through a rearmost first endpoint in the rotation direction on a radially inside of a rear end that substantially overlaps the depression, and a rearmost second endpoint on a radially outside of the rear end.

Abstract: To provide an industrial method for producing a substituted benzoic acid compound useful as an intermediate of pharmaceutical and agricultural chemicals with high purity and high yield.

Abstract: To provide an industrial method for producing a substituted benzoic acid compound useful as an intermediate of pharmaceutical and agricultural chemicals with high purity and high yield.

Abstract: When a seat heater and a planar electric heater on a surface of an interior member are used in parallel, the seat heater and the planar electric heater cannot be heated sufficiently due to a limitation on an electric capacity of a vehicle, and in particular, in a vehicle having good engine efficiency, heating of an interior of a passenger compartment by air conditioning utilizing hot air generated by heat expelled from an engine is not sufficient, whereby there sometimes occurs a situation where occupants feel cold. A heating device 2 is provided in a side door panel 1 of a vehicle and a seat heater is made to be heated mainly at an initial stage of heating after an occupant gets in the vehicle, whereas the heating device 2 is made to be heated after a predetermined period of time elapses, whereby the body of the occupant can be warmed quickly and efficiently without making the occupant feel cold physically.

Abstract: A seat with a heating device is provided which realizes a configuration in which the arm, palms and finger tips of a user can easily be warmed when the user uses the seat with the heating device. When the user is seated in a seat with a heating device and feels cold due to it being winter, the user controls a switch to heat the seat, whereby energization of heating elements 3a, 3b, 3c is started which are connected to a power supply via electric wires. When the energization of the heating elements 3a, 3b, 3c is started, heat generated thereby is conducted to skin materials 2a, 2b, 2c and surfaces of the skin materials are warmed. When the user places his or her arm on an armrest portion 5, the arm is warmed via the skin material 2c, whereby the user can feel the sensation of comfortableness.

Abstract: A fan apparatus includes an impeller, a motor rotating the impeller, a plurality of stator blades arranged opposite to the impeller in an axial direction. The stator blades each include a curved portion at which the stator blades each are curved with respect to the direction in which the stator blades extend.

Abstract: A centrifugal fan includes a motor having an impeller and a housing for accommodating the motor. The housing has a sidewall surrounding an outer circumference of the impeller. An air inlet is formed in the housing and opposed to a center portion of the impeller. An air outlet is formed in the sidewall of the housing and opposed to an outer surface of the impeller. The housing includes a housing body and a housing cover. The housing body has a bottom with the motor secured thereon. The housing cover, formed by a pressed metal member, has an upper part and a cover sidewall extending from the upper part toward the bottom of the housing body and forming at least a part of the sidewall of the housing.

Abstract: A seat with a heating device is provided which realizes a configuration in which the arm, palms and finger tips of a user can easily be warmed when the user uses the seat with the heating device. When the user is seated in a seat with a heating device and feels cold due to it being winter, the user controls a switch to heat the seat, whereby energization of heating elements 3a, 3b, 3c is started which are connected to a power supply via electric wires. When the energization of the heating elements 3a, 3b, 3c is started, heat generated thereby is conducted to skin materials 2a, 2b, 2c and surfaces of the skin materials are warmed. When the user places his or her arm on an armrest portion 5, the arm is warmed via the skin material 2c, whereby the user can feel the sensation of comfortableness.

Abstract: An arrangement of a low air inlet and a circuit for driving a torque generator in an ultra-compact centrifugal fan is disclosed. In the ultra-compact centrifugal fan, a region occupied by the circuit is not completely arranged radially inside a cup-shaped portion to which an impeller is attached. At least a part of the low air inlet provided on a bottom of a housing of the centrifugal fan is arranged in a range of predetermined angle in an imaginary ring-shaped portion surrounding a base portion covered by the cup-shaped portion. A part of the circuit, that is not covered by the cup-shaped portion, is arranged upstream of the range of the predetermined angle in a flowing direction of airflow.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a plurality of clock gating circuits, a plurality of flip-flops to which transmission of a clock signal is controlled by a respective clock gating circuit, and a clock gating control circuit that controls an active state and an inactive state of the plurality of clock gating circuits, wherein during a test operation mode, the clock gating control circuit controlling the active state and the inactive state of the plurality of clock gating circuits according to a user logic signal, and controlling setting of an arbitrary combination of clock gating circuits to an inactive state regardless of the user logic signal.

Abstract: A vehicle seating system is provided in which infrared rays radiated from a surface of a thermal radiation member at the time of heating are emitted to a bodily portion of an occupant which extends from his or her head to shoulders for implementation of effective heading. In a case of a planar heating element 2 being installed above a side windowpane, the planar heating element 2 is installed so as to confront an upper body of an occupant who is seated in a seat which extends from his or her head to shoulders, and when the planar heating element 2 is energized, an upper body of the front-seat occupant can be warmed by radiation heat. In a case of a planar heating element 3 being installed in a center pillar portion, when the planar heating element 3 is energized, the upper body of the front-seat occupant can be warmed by radiation heat.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a plurality of clock gating circuits, a plurality of flip-flops to which transmission of a clock signal is controlled by a respective clock gating circuit, and a clock gating control circuit that controls an active state and an inactive state of the plurality of clock gating circuits, wherein during a test operation mode, the clock gating control circuit controlling the active state and the inactive state of the plurality of clock gating circuits according to a user logic signal, and controlling setting of an arbitrary combination of clock gating circuits to an inactive state regardless of the user logic signal.

Abstract: When a seat heater and a planar electric heater on a surface of an interior member are used in parallel, the seat heater and the planar electric heater cannot be heated sufficiently due to a limitation on an electric capacity of a vehicle, and in particular, in a vehicle having good engine efficiency, heating of an interior of a passenger compartment by air conditioning utilizing hot air generated by heat expelled from an engine is not sufficient, whereby there sometimes occurs a situation where occupants feel cold. A heating device 2 is provided in a side door panel 1 of a vehicle and a seat heater is made to be heated mainly at an initial stage of heating after an occupant gets in the vehicle, whereas the heating device 2 is made to be heated after a predetermined period of time elapses, whereby the body of the occupant can be warmed quickly and efficiently without making the occupant feel cold physically.

Abstract: In manufacturing of the stator unit 2 according to one preferred embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of terminal pins are arranged in an axially spaced manner from a plurality of the coils during a twining process of the wires from the coils 232 to the terminal pins 241. Then, after the wire is twined to the terminal pins, the terminal pins connected to the coils are moved along the outer side face of the sleeve housing, functioning to as a guide portion 2201 for the terminal pins. By virtue of the configuration, the terminal pins 241 may be approximated to the coils without applying the tension on wire, and the stator unit may be made thin with preventing the open circuit of the wires.

Abstract: In a delay failure test circuit, a delay failure test between two clock domains among a plurality of clock domains having different operation clock rates is performed. The delay failure test circuit inputs, to a first clock domain, a clock signal having only a launch edge for transferring data from the first clock domain to a second clock domain, and to input, to the second clock domain, a clock signal having only a capture edge for capturing the data.

Abstract: A test circuit tester includes a scan-chain input-output information generator that generates information for an input and an output of the scan chain that is scan-chain input-output information, based on input information for the scan chain; a test-circuit input-output information generator that generates information for an input and an output of the test circuit that is test-circuit input-output information, based on the scan-chain input-output information; an output unit that outputs the test-circuit input-output information generated; and a verifying unit that verifies the test circuit based on an output pattern output from the test circuit through the scan chains in response to input of the information for the input of the test circuit output to the test circuit, and the information for the output from the test circuit.

Abstract: A design support apparatus includes a unit that inputs a user net list created by using hard macro cells excluding test circuits, and a unit that arranges hard macro cells using a frame into which hard macro cells, where timing-converged physical information includes test terminals, and test circuits are embedded as arrangement/wiring information. Moreover, includes a unit that arranges and wires the test circuits using the arrangement/wiring information of the test circuit embedded into the frame, a unit that recognizes arrangement/wiring information where the arrangement/wiring information of the test circuits is removed from arrangement/wiring information obtained by wiring, and a unit outputs a net list of a logic structure.

Abstract: In a delay failure test circuit, a delay failure test between two clock domains among a plurality of clock domains having different operation clock rates is performed. The delay failure test circuit inputs, to a first clock domain, a clock signal having only a launch edge for transferring data from the first clock domain to a second clock domain, and to input, to the second clock domain, a clock signal having only a capture edge for capturing the data.