Abstract: A vehicle power conversion device includes: a housing configured to accommodate an electronic component therein and having an opening; and a cooling device. The cooling device includes a base being a plate-shaped member and heat sinks attached to the base. The base has a groove with refrigerant enclosed. The base has a first main surface to which the electronic component is to be attached, and covers the opening by the first main surface facing an interior of the housing. The heat sinks are joined, at intervals, onto the second main surface of the base.

Abstract: A cooling device includes a heat-receiving block on which a heat emitter is mounted, a first heat pipe fixed at the heat-receiving block, and a second heat pipe located adjacent to the first heat pipe. The first heat pipe accommodates a first refrigerant in the gas-liquid two-phase state, and the second heat pipe accommodates a second refrigerant in the gas-liquid two-phase state. The ratio of the amount of the second refrigerant in the liquid state to the volume of the second heat pipe is higher than the ratio of the amount of the first refrigerant in the liquid state to the volume of the first heat pipe.

Abstract: A cooling device includes (i) a heat receiving block that is a plate-like member to which an exothermic element is attached, and (ii) a cooling member that radiates, to surrounding cooling air, heat transmitted from the exothermic element via the heat receiving block. The cooling device includes (i) at least one header that extends in a Y-axis direction that is a direction in which the cooling air flows, the header being attached to a second main surface, and (ii) branch pipes that are attached to each of the at least one header, the branch pipes extending in a direction away from the second main surface. The branch pipes communicate with the header. A shape of each of the branch pipes in a Y-Z plane is a flat shape, and a longitudinal direction of the flat shape is parallel to the Y-axis direction.

Abstract: A cooling device includes a base that is a plate-shaped member, heat pipes attached to the base, and a fin attached to the heat pipes. A groove, in which refrigerant is enclosed, is formed in the base. The heat pipes are attached to the base and an internal hollow of each of the heat pipes communicates with the groove. A portion of the groove or both the portion of the groove and a portion of the hollow communicating with the groove are filled with the refrigerant in a liquid state.

Abstract: A power supply control system includes a power supply circuit that supplies power, an electronic component that is operable by the power supplied from the power supply circuit, starts shutdown processing in response to an input of a stop instruction signal, and operates when an operation instruction signal is input, and a signal control circuit that receives a power input state signal or a power cutoff state signal as a power state signal indicating a state of the power supply circuit, outputs the stop instruction signal when the power cutoff state signal is input, outputs the operation instruction signal when the power input state signal is input, and outputs the stop instruction signal at least during the shutdown processing when the power input state signal is input in a case in which the shutdown processing of the electronic component is not finished.

Abstract: A vehicle power conversion device includes: a housing configured to accommodate an electronic component therein and having an opening; and a cooling device. The cooling device includes a base being a plate-shaped member and heat sinks attached to the base. The base has a groove with refrigerant enclosed. The base has a first main surface to which the electronic component is to be attached, and covers the opening by the first main surface facing an interior of the housing. The heat sinks are joined, at intervals, onto the second main surface of the base.

Abstract: A cooling system includes: a placement plate on which a plurality of components are disposed; and a liquid refrigerant flow path, which is formed on an opposite side of the placement plate with respect to the plurality of components, and is configured to allow a liquid refrigerant for cooling the plurality of components to flow therethrough. The path includes: a first heat-radiating portion disposed at a liquid refrigerant inlet portion around which fins are disposed such that distances from a flow-path inlet portion to the fins are gradually farther away from a flow-path side wall toward a center of the path; a second heat-radiating portion which includes fins having a curved shape; a third heat-radiating portion having no fins; a fourth heat-radiating portion having higher fin-mounting density than the first and the second heat-radiating portions, an inlet and an outlet through which the liquid refrigerant flows in and out.

Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes: an annular internal liquid coolant flow channel that is mounted to a rotary electric machine main body, and in which an internal liquid coolant circulates around an outer circumference of the rotary electric machine main body, and an external liquid coolant passage portion through which an external liquid coolant passes, the external liquid coolant passage portion is connected to the internal liquid coolant flow channel by a connecting portion that is positioned vertically higher than the rotary electric machine main body, and the electric power converting apparatus includes a heat radiating surface that releases heat that is generated in the electric power converting apparatus, the electric power converting apparatus being mounted to the cooling apparatus such that the heat radiating surface and the internal liquid coolant can exchange heat at a position that is vertically lower than the connecting portion.

Abstract: A cooling system includes: a placement plate on which a plurality of components are disposed; and a liquid refrigerant flow path, which is formed on an opposite side of the placement plate with respect to the plurality of components, and is configured to allow a liquid refrigerant for cooling the plurality of components to flow therethrough. The path includes: a first heat-radiating portion disposed at a liquid refrigerant inlet portion around which fins are disposed such that distances from a flow-path inlet portion to the fins are gradually farther away from a flow-path side wall toward a center of the path; a second heat-radiating portion which includes fins having a curved shape; a third heat-radiating portion having no fins; a fourth heat-radiating portion having higher fin-mounting density than the first and the second heat-radiating portions, an inlet and an outlet through which the liquid refrigerant flows in and out.

Abstract: An endoscopic system includes an endoscope that obtains image information inside a subject; a first recording medium into which the image information obtained from the endoscope is written; a second recording medium that has a table in which a recording condition for writing the image information obtained from the endoscope into the first recording medium has been recorded; and a controller that obtains, on the basis of an operation time period obtained from the endoscope, a recording condition associated with the obtained operation time period from among the plurality of recording conditions recorded in the table that the second recording medium has, and records the image information in the first recording medium under the recording condition.

Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes: an annular internal liquid coolant flow channel that is mounted to a rotary electric machine main body, and in which an internal liquid coolant circulates around an outer circumference of the rotary electric machine main body, and an external liquid coolant passage portion through which an external liquid coolant passes, the external liquid coolant passage portion is connected to the internal liquid coolant flow channel by a connecting portion that is positioned vertically higher than the rotary electric machine main body, and the electric power converting apparatus includes a heat radiating surface that releases heat that is generated in the electric power converting apparatus, the electric power converting apparatus being mounted to the cooling apparatus such that the heat radiating surface and the internal liquid coolant can exchange heat at a position that is vertically lower than the connecting portion.

Abstract: A power supply control system includes a power supply circuit that supplies power, an electronic component that is operable by the power supplied from the power supply circuit, starts shutdown processing in response to an input of a stop instruction signal, and operates when an operation instruction signal is input, and a signal control circuit that receives a power input state signal or a power cutoff state signal as a power state signal indicating a state of the power supply circuit, outputs the stop instruction signal when the power cutoff state signal is input, outputs the operation instruction signal when the power input state signal is input, and outputs the stop instruction signal at least during the shutdown processing when the power input state signal is input in a case in which the shutdown processing of the electronic component is not finished.

Abstract: A touch panel device includes a capacitance touch panel, a calibration performing unit configured to perform a first calibration process for adjusting a reference potential, which serves as a detection threshold for a touch manipulation on the touch panel, after a power source starts power supply, a touch manipulation detection unit configured to become able to detect a touch manipulation on the touch panel after the first calibration process is completed, and a touch manipulation monitoring unit configured to monitor detection of a touch manipulation in the touch manipulation detection unit after the first calibration process is completed, and to instruct the calibration performing unit to perform a second calibration process for adjusting the reference potential, when the touch manipulation detection unit detects a first touch manipulation.

Abstract: A video processor that is connectable to an endoscope and an external light source device that supplies illumination light to a light guide of the endoscope includes: a connection detector that detects a presence/absence of connection between the video processor and the light guide of the endoscope; an internal light source unit that supplies the illumination light to the light guide of the endoscope; a communication controller that performs communication with the external light source device, and obtains device data of the external light source device; and a utilized light source determination unit that determines a light source that supplies the illumination light to the light guide of the endoscope in accordance with a detection result of the connection detector or a state of obtainment of the device data of the communication controller.

Abstract: A touch panel device includes a capacitive touch panel; a manipulation detector that detects a manipulation performed on a manipulation detection area on the touch panel, on the basis of a change in the capacitance of the touch panel; and a manipulation valid area setting unit that sets, in the manipulation detection area, a manipulation valid area in which a manipulation detected by the manipulation detector is determined to be valid.

Abstract: A video processor that is connectable to an endoscope and an external light source device that supplies illumination light to a light guide of the endoscope includes: a connection detector that detects a presence/absence of connection between the video processor and the light guide of the endoscope; an internal light source unit that supplies the illumination light to the light guide of the endoscope; a communication controller that performs communication with the external light source device, and obtains device data of the external light source device; and a utilized light source determination unit that determines a light source that supplies the illumination light to the light guide of the endoscope in accordance with a detection result of the connection detector or a state of obtainment of the device data of the communication controller.

Abstract: A touch panel device includes a capacitive touch panel; a manipulation detector that detects a manipulation performed on a manipulation detection area on the touch panel, on the basis of a change in the capacitance of the touch panel; and a manipulation valid area setting unit that sets, in the manipulation detection area, a manipulation valid area in which a manipulation detected by the manipulation detector is determined to be valid.

Abstract: An endoscopic system includes an endoscope that obtains image information inside a subject; a first recording medium into which the image information obtained from the endoscope is written; a second recording medium that has a table in which a recording condition for writing the image information obtained from the endoscope into the first recording medium has been recorded; and a controller that obtains, on the basis of an operation time period obtained from the endoscope, a recording condition associated with the obtained operation time period from among the plurality of recording conditions recorded in the table that the second recording medium has, and records the image information in the first recording medium under the recording condition.

Abstract: A touch panel is provided in an endoscopic video processor. A scope identification device determines, on the basis of input use-setting information, whether the field of application in which the endoscopic video processor is used is internal medicine or surgery. A touch-panel-sensitivity setting device that sets, when a determination result is surgery by the scope identification device, a detection sensitivity to a sensitivity relatively higher than a sensitivity that is set when the determination result is internal medicine.

Abstract: A probe shape detection apparatus includes a magnetic field sensing section for sensing a magnetic field generated by an electromagnetic coil in a flexible probe, a movement speed calculation section for calculating a movement speed of the coil, a coordinate computation section for calculating three-dimensional coordinates of the coil based on the sensed magnetic field, a moving average coordinate calculation section for calculating moving average coordinates of the coil, a comparison section for comparing the calculated movement speed with a predetermined threshold, a coil coordinate setting section for setting one of the moving average coordinates and the three-dimensional coordinates calculated by the coordinate computation section as the three-dimensional coordinates of the coil, based on a comparison result of the calculated moving speed, and a signal processing section for generating a video signal to display a shape of the probe, based on the set three-dimensional coordinates of the coil.