Abstract: Provided is an in-car operation display device which improves the operability of a display unit. The display unit is used for indications and operations for car-installed functions such as settings and instructions of the car-installed functions. An operating means (first switch plate SpL, second switch plate SpR) includes an operating-plate portion (6L, 6R) configured to be operated to move along a display screen 5a of a display unit 5. The operating-plate portion (6L, 6R) includes a protruding switch portion (touch-sensor protrusion 10-15).

Abstract: An electric vehicle driving force control device capable of decreasing discrepancy generated between a driver's acceleration pedal operation and output torque actually generated by a drive motor is provided. The electric vehicle driving force control device includes target torque setting unit 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10 for setting target torque by limiting an upper limit of a target torque basic value from the target torque basic value and the maximum discharge power equivalent motor torque. The target torque setting unit corrects the target torque basic value such that, on a graph indicating a relationship between an acceleration opening and the target torque, an acceleration opening generating a limited target torque shifts to an acceleration opening side greater than the acceleration opening, and target torque smaller than the target torque basic value is generated in an accelerator opening region which is smaller than the limited accelerator opening.

Abstract: A thermal sensor with a simple structure can secure the deformability of a bimetal, and accurately control the position of the bimetal, to increase the response speed (heat response) of the bimetal. The thermal sensor includes a bimetal, a case, and a cover member. A pressing portion is provided between the cover member and the bimetal to press the bimetal to a bottom portion of the case. The pressing portion is deformable in accordance with the deformation of the bimetal.

Abstract: A driving force controller for an electric vehicle includes a feed-forward compensator for computing a second target driving force so as to suppress overshooting of an actual driving force that is actually outputted, with respect to a first target driving force requested by a driver, the feed-forward compensator includes a first transfer function expressing a characteristic that the actual driving force becomes a predetermined response with respect to the first target driving force; and an inverse of a second transfer function approximately expressing a transmission characteristic between a input target driving force and the actual driving force in a control system except the feed-forward compensator.

Abstract: A temperature adjustment device includes a cooling member and a connecting member. The cooling member consists of a first plate and a second plate. The first plate is thermally abutted against a heat-generating member. The second plate is stacked on a lower surface of the first plate to define a cooling space with the first plate, the cooling space a cooling medium flows through, and being configured to include an inlet and an outlet of the cooling medium on a bottom surface facing against the first plate. The connecting member is the connecting member to a temperature adjustment circuit, and that is configured with a tube member having a flat part. The connecting member includes a connecting port connected to the inlet or the outlet on the flat part, and that is laminated and arranged on the second plate such that the flat part is abutted against the second plate.

Abstract: A vehicle air conditioner includes an evaporator configured to cool air, a heater core provided on a downstream side of the evaporator, a plurality of doors provided between the evaporator and the heater core, and a central air path formed on the downstream side of the evaporator. The central air path is provided with a first door of the plurality of doors, and a first side air path formed on a first side of the central air path. The central air path is further provided with a second door of the plurality of doors, a second side air path formed on a second side of the central air path, and a third door of the plurality of doors. A sub-casing is configured to form the central air path, and a first division casing and a second division casing are configured to sandwich the sub-casing.

Abstract: A thermal management system for an electric vehicle that is used in the electric vehicle driven by an electric motor includes a refrigerant loop for an air conditioner, a refrigerant loop for a battery that allows a refrigerant for the battery to circulate among the battery, an evaporating unit and a heating device, and thermal management controlling means that, during charging of the battery, heats the refrigerant for the battery by using the heating device when temperature of the refrigerant for the battery is lower than target temperature of the refrigerant for the battery, and that allows the refrigerant for the air conditioner to circulate and to absorb heat from the refrigerant for the battery, in the evaporating unit, when the temperature of the refrigerant for the battery is higher than the target temperature of the refrigerant for the battery.

Abstract: In a battery cooling device 1 that cools a battery 2 that is arranged in a battery accommodation space 5 by taking in the air in a passenger compartment 6 through an air intake port part 12 provided in a vehicle interior trim 7 and a first air intake pipe 13, the first air intake pipe 13 is provided with an auxiliary air intake port 31 that opens to a space 30 formed between the vehicle interior trim 7 and a vehicle interior panel 8 that is located at a passenger-compartment outer side of the vehicle interior trim 7.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device that can suppress a temperature increase in beam leads while reducing the number of wiring lines and can suppress an increase in manufacturing costs. The semiconductor device is provided with a power module including an upper arm and a lower arm each configured by connecting in parallel a plurality of power elements and a plurality of rectifying elements. Current to one arm flows through a plurality of separately wired beam leads. A portion of the power elements and a portion of the rectifying elements in one arm form a pair and are connected by a common beam lead.

Abstract: A surface of a product is divided into a plurality of patches and a polygon mesh is formed. Sequences of vertexes on borderlines between the adjacent patches are allowed to correspond to each other, and then, a texture is mapped on each of patch units. The vertexes of the polygon mesh displaced in accordance with the mapped texture are connected together to form crimp applied polygon data for each of the patch units. In each of processing stages, since data to be processed can be limited to data of the two adjacent patches at the maximum, a practicable range of a computer is not exceeded due to the restriction of capacity of an operation memory.

Abstract: The driving force controller for an electric vehicle that controls driving force of a motor in the drive system of an electric vehicle includes: a target driving force setting unit for setting the target driving force based on a request from a driver; a dividing unit for computing a first motor torque command value by dividing the target driving force by a reduction ratio; a target acceleration computing unit for computing target acceleration by dividing the target driving force by inertia of the drive system; an actual acceleration computing unit for computing actual acceleration by differentiating actual rotational speed of the motor; a correction amount computing unit for computing a correction amount for reducing deviation between the target acceleration and the actual acceleration; and a command value computing unit for computing a second motor torque command value by adding the correction amount to the first motor torque command value.

Abstract: Provided is a buzzer that sounds without noise contamination. Specifically, an inaudible frequency signal generation unit 22 generates an inaudible frequency pulse signal P0; an audio frequency signal generation unit 26 generates, from the signal P0, an audio frequency pulse signal P1: a signal synthesizing unit 28 generates a synthesized frequency pulse signal P2 having the signal P0 in an ON time of the signal P1; a first duty ratio setting unit 30 sets a duty ratio Di of the signal P0 in the signal P2 to gradually increase over a first predetermined period of the signal P2, and thus generates a buzzer driving signal P3; and a buzzer driving unit 40 makes a buzzer 60 sound with a pitch corresponding to a frequency of the signal P3 and volume corresponding to the duty ratio of the signal P3.

Abstract: 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 dock 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 gas compressor comprises a rotor having vane grooves, a cylinder shaped to surround an outer circumference of the rotor, vanes plate-shaped, slidably inserted into the vane grooves, and abuttable at one ends on the inner circumference of the cylinder, upon receiving a back pressure from the vane grooves, two side blocks to enclose both ends of the rotor and the cylinder, respectively, compression chambers supplied with a medium to compress the medium to a high-pressure medium for discharge, an oil separator to separate, from the discharged high-pressure medium, oil to be used as the back pressure, an oil path through which the oil at a certain pressure is supplied to the vane grooves, and a high-pressure supply hole formed in at least one of the side blocks, including a small diameter portion and a large diameter portion integrally formed.

Abstract: A knee protector for a vehicle in which an upper bracket which generates a high reaction force to a knee input load and a lower bracket which generates a reaction force lower than the upper bracket are directly or indirectly attached, in a vertical position, to a vehicle body strength member. At least the upper bracket has a closed cross-section part on at least a part of the upper bracket. An inwardly protruding part which inwardly protrudes is formed in at least one surface of the closed cross-section part.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted temperature adjustment device included in a vehicle air-conditioning device includes a low-water-temperature circuit through which low-water-temperature cooling water circulates. In addition, the vehicle-mounted temperature adjustment device has a compressor, a condenser, a subcooling condenser, an expansion valve, which is one example of a first expansion unit, an expansion valve, which is one example of a second expansion unit, and an evaporator and refrigerant-water heat exchanger, and includes a refrigeration circuit that performs temperature adjustment of a temperature-adjustment target. The low-water-temperature circuit has a sub-radiator that releases heat of the low-water-temperature cooling water that has been subjected to heat exchange with refrigerant at the subcooling condenser.

Abstract: In a heat exchanger 1 provided with a receiver tank 9 where a tank 3 of the heat exchanger 1 are connected with each other through intermediate member 7, 8, at least one side of the intermediate member 7, 8 and an outer circumferential portion of the receiver tank 9 is provided with a restricting portion 13c, 31 that restricts a relative displacement between the intermediate members 7, 8 and the receiver tank 9 in a direction along an attachment surface of the receiver tank 9 to which at least the intermediate member 7, 8 is attached.

Abstract: A heat exchanger unit includes a heat exchanger main body in which a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger are arranged in series relative to a refrigerant flowing direction and an air flowing direction. The heat exchanger main body includes on one side thereof an external connection portion configured to supply at least refrigerant and on the other side thereof a communicating portion configured to connect (allowing fluid communication between) the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger. A bypass flow path extends from the one side to the other side of the heat exchanger main body, and is configured to bypass the first heat exchanger. At least one of the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger includes a pair of tank sections disposed at an interval, and a plurality of first heat transfer tubes configured to connect the pair of tank sections.

Abstract: A charge air cooler includes a high temperature side heat exchanger and a low temperature side heat exchanger. The high temperature side heat exchanger is provided on a high temperature side cooling flow path through which a first refrigerant cooled by a first heat exchanger (radiator) flows. The low temperature side heat exchanger is provided on a low temperature side cooling flow path through which a second refrigerant cooled cooler than the first refrigerant by a second heat exchanger (sub-radiator) flows. The low temperature side heat exchanger cools, by the second refrigerant, intake air cooled by the high temperature side heat exchanger. According to the above charge air cooler, the second heat exchanger (sub-radiator) can be prevented from becoming big in size, and intake air temperature can be cooled to desired temperature.

Abstract: In a gas compressor, an outline shape of an inner peripheral surface (41) of a cylinder (40) is set such that in a point before a first compression chamber (43B) adjacent to a second compression chamber (43A) in an upstream side in a rotational direction (W) is exposed to a discharge hole (45b) of a primary discharge portion (45) with rotation of a rotor (50) in the rotational direction (W) (point where the first compression chamber (43B) is positioned upstream of an angular position of being exposed to the discharge hole (45b) of the primary discharge portion (45)), a pressure of refrigerant gas (G) inside the compression chamber (43) reaches a discharge pressure. Therefore, the discharge hole (45b) of the primary discharge portion (45) always discharges the refrigerant gas (G) from the compression chamber (43).