Abstract: A control apparatus and control method for a processor can reset the processor when the processor returns from low current consumption operation mode to regular operation mode. The control apparatus (11) for a processor (10) includes a watchdog timer (20) that resets the processor (10) when a P-RUN signal from the processor (10) cannot be acquired for a predetermined time, a current monitor (19) that suspends operation of the watchdog timer (20) when output current of a power supply (18) that supplies power to the processor (10) falls below a predetermined value and starts operation of the watchdog timer (20) when the output current becomes equal to or greater than the predetermined value, and a current amplifier (21) that increases the output current to be equal to or greater than the predetermined value upon acquiring a signal for causing the processor (10) to start operating in the regular operation mode.

Abstract: When a power switching element brought into contact with a contact part formed at a back side of a suction refrigerant passage is cooled by refrigerant that has been sucked in through a suction port and that is passing through the suction refrigerant passage, high-temperature, high-pressure refrigerant flowing in from a compression chamber to a suction chamber is prevented from flowing back by a check valve. Therefore, there is always low-temperature, low-pressure refrigerant in the suction refrigerant passage, and the power switching element can be efficiently cooled by the refrigerant in the suction refrigerant passage.

Abstract: A gas compressor is configured such that a suction-side area that is in sliding contact with the inner circumferential surface of a cylinder chamber when a compression chamber is in the suction stroke has a larger radius of curvature than that of a compression-side area that is in sliding contact with the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder chamber when the compression chamber is in the compression stroke.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heat exchanger, a heat exchanger assembling apparatus, and a heat exchanger assembling method, according to which assembling each of the laminated tubes with a tank can be accurately performed. A heat exchanger (10) including a plurality of laminated tubes (11) having an opening end (11d) to which a tank (13,14) is connected. A pressing portion (11g) is provided in the vicinity of the opening end of each tube, the tube being held by the pressing portion when the tank is connected to the opening ends of the tubes.

Abstract: A vehicle ground fault detection apparatus (1) detects a ground fault of a high-voltage system electrically insulated from a vehicle body connected to a low-voltage system and includes a transformer (2) blocking a DC component between the low- and high-voltage systems, an oscillation circuit (3), in the low-voltage system, connected to a primary coil (21) of the transformer (2), and a voltage dividing resistor (4), in the high-voltage system, connected to a secondary coil (22) of the transformer (2). The vehicle ground fault detection apparatus (1) measures a positive peak of voltage generated in the voltage dividing resistor (4) by voltage induced in the secondary coil (22) through AC voltage generated by the oscillation circuit (3) and detects the ground fault using the peak voltage. The insulation of the coupling portion between the ground fault detection circuit and the high-voltage system circuit does not suffer breakdown during temporary AC noise.

Abstract: This capacitor structure is provided with a capacitor body in which a plurality of wound-type capacitors are housed in a housing, and which is fixed to a fixing object via a fastening tool (a cylindrical member and a fixing bolt). The capacitor structure is configured such that the capacitor body is fixed to the fixing object by inserting the fastening tool into at least one of a gap formed between the outer peripheral surfaces of the wound-type capacitors or gaps formed between the outer peripheral surfaces of the wound-type capacitors and the inner wall of the housing, in a state in which the wound-type capacitors are installed side by side on the floor of the housing.

Abstract: A vehicle display device 10 includes a combiner 4, provided between a windshield 1 and a driver's seat, and including a transparent region portion 4a and a display styling portion 40 having a light diffusion function, and an illuminating unit 3, which is capable of selectively illuminating the display styling portion 40 and the transparent region portion 4a at the periphery of the display styling portion 40.

Abstract: A cooling medium circulating apparatus includes first and second flow paths configured to circulate a cooling medium, and a flow path switchover unit for connecting or disconnecting between the first and second flow paths. A method for controlling a cooling medium circulating apparatus includes detecting temperatures of the cooling medium flowing through the flow paths. The method further includes calculating a temperature difference between temperatures of the cooling medium flowing through the first and second flow paths. In the cooling medium circulating apparatus and method, a prescribed cycle is set, and connecting and disconnecting periods are set. The connecting and disconnecting periods are periods for connecting and disconnecting, respectively, between the flow paths in the prescribed cycle. The flow path switchover unit is controlled based on the connecting and disconnecting periods. The prescribed cycle becomes shorter as the temperature difference becomes larger.

Abstract: Rattling of a vehicle-mounted equipment supported by a bracket is restricted.

Abstract: A vehicle air-conditioning device is a heat pump type vehicle air-conditioning device including an external heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between refrigerant flowing the inside thereof and outside air. With the vehicle air-conditioning device, a controller functions as a temperature-difference calculation unit that calculates the temperature difference ?T between the refrigerant in a refrigerant flow path on the exit side of the external heat exchanger and the outside air, and in addition, the controller functions as a frost formation determination unit that determines that frost formation is caused on the external heat exchanger on the basis of the elapsed time to of a state in which the temperature difference ?T is equal to or larger than a frost-formation temperature difference at which the frost formation may be caused on the external heat exchanger.

Abstract: A plate (3) having a pair of first communication holes (34) and a pair of second communication holes (35) and a plate (4) having a pair of first communication holes (44) and a pair of second communication holes (45) are alternately laminated to alternately form, between the plates (3) and (4) adjacent to each other, a first coolant flow path (81) and a second coolant flow path (82); a first spacer (5) is interposed around each of the first communication holes (34) and (44) within the first coolant flow path (81); and a second spacer (6) is interposed within the second coolant flow path (82) and at a position corresponding to a periphery of each of the first communication holes (34) and (44).

Abstract: A back pressure space of a vane groove having completed communication with an intermediate-pressure supply groove communicates with a first supply section until refrigerant pressure in each of compression chambers having been partitioned by vanes of the vane grooves reach the highest pressure, and then high pressure is supplied from the first supply section. At a time point when the back pressure space having completed communication with an intermediate-pressure supply groove communicates with the first supply section of a high-pressure supply groove, the preceding back pressure space adjacent to that back pressure space on the downstream side of the rotation direction completes communication with the first supply section.

Abstract: Air in a thermally insulated space, which has been expanded by heat resulting from heating treatment for curing a thermosetting potting material, is prevented from entering the potting material. A casing has a partition wall that partitions an opening into a heat-generating-electronic-component placement section, where a heat generating electronic component is placed, and an adjacent section that is adjacent to the heat-generating-electronic-component placement section, when a heat releasing member is fixed to the opening. The heat-generating-electronic-component placement section is filled with a thermosetting potting material for moisture prevention up to a height which allows at least the heat generating electronic component to be buried in the potting material. The adjacent section has in the casing a communicating portion that communicates with a position which is apart from the heat-generating-electronic-component placement section filled with the potting material.

Abstract: Principally, character input operation can be carried out surely in a simplified manner and in a short time. A character input assist device includes one or more side edge parts provided at a panel surface of a touch panel to have a step serving as a finger hold, and a character icon display controller that is configured to display, along the side edge parts at the panel surface, a plurality of first character icons and second character icons associated with a selected first character icon, and an icon identifiers provided at the side edge parts to allow the position of each of the first character icons or the second character icons to be individually identified.

Abstract: According to a method for forming an elliptical hollow cylinder, part of the elliptical hollow cylinder is formed into a circular hollow cylindrical shape by spinning. The forming method includes a first forming process for forming the part of the elliptical hollow cylinder into a circular hollow cylindrical shape by using an inside roller, and a second forming process for reducing a diameter of the part formed into the circular hollow cylindrical shape in the first forming process by using an outside roller. According to the forming method, it becomes possible to shorten time required for forming the part of the elliptical hollow cylinder into a circular hollow cylindrical shape by spinning.

Abstract: A vehicle air-conditioning device includes: a first coolant-water circulation path in which coolant water passes through an engine ; a second coolant-water circulation path that is communicated with the first coolant-water circulation path and in which the coolant water passes through a vehicle-cabin radiator; a shutting off mechanism that shuts off, when switched to a shut-off state, the communication between the first coolant-water circulation path and the second coolant-water circulation path; and a refrigeration cycle.

Abstract: Problem A sub clock for a sleep mode in a a microcomputer is retained to be operable with high accuracy. Solution A sub clock 20 counts oscillating pulses of a CR oscillating circuit 21 by a loop counter 22, and outputs a clock signal each time the oscillating pulses reach a target count Pm. A CPU 11 counts oscillating pulses of the CR oscillating circuit 21 in a predetermined time measured by a time counter 25 in response to a clock signal of a main clock 13 by a crystal oscillator, and corrects the target count Pm according to a pulse count P thereof. Since the real count state is obtained based upon the clock signal of the main clock having high frequency accuracy without the estimation of the sub clock 20, the high accuracy of the sub clock is retained even if environmental changes such as temperatures occur.

Abstract: A storage device 1 has a storage device body 2 and an opening and closing member 4, which are supported to be capable of pivoting about the center of opening and closing movement, the center being provided on one side. A lock mechanism 13 is provided on the other side of both the storage device body 2 and an opening 3. The lock mechanism 13 is provided with a lock member 16, an unlocking button 17, a cam mechanism 18, and a biasing member 19. The lock member 16 is a pivotable member 22 capable of pivoting about a lock pivot shaft 21. The opening and closing member 4 has a pressure receiving portion 52 on the inner surface side thereof, and the pressure receiving portion 52 is pushed out in an opening direction 23 by the lock member 16 which is caused to pivot in an unlocking direction.

Abstract: A parameter estimation device for a battery capable of reducing an error in estimate of an internal resistance caused by a temperature difference is provided. In a parameter estimation device for a battery (1) for sequentially estimating parameters including a resistance in an equivalent circuit model (41) of the battery based on a temperature of the battery and at least one of a voltage of the battery and a current of the battery, as a resistance value of the resistance in the equivalent circuit model of the battery, a resistance value at a predetermined temperature is estimated, and a resistance value at a present temperature is calculated based on the resistance value at the predetermined temperature and the present temperature.

Abstract: To provide a head-up display apparatus capable of displaying an easily visible image. The apparatus projects a display image displayed on the image displaying part installed in an instrument panel of a vehicle toward a windshield glass (translucent member) through an opening of the instrument panel, reflects the image on the windshield glass, and displays character information and symbol information as a virtual image, which is visible from a predetermined eye-position range. The character information is displayed in a first area where a difference in distortion (binocular parallax) of the virtual image is less than a predetermine value when the translucent member is seen from the predetermined eye-position range.