Abstract: A voltage detecting device includes a plurality of voltage detecting circuits provided for battery modules of a battery, the battery being formed by connecting, in series with each other, the battery modules each formed by connecting battery cells in series with each other, the plurality of voltage detecting circuits being configured to detect voltage of each of the battery cells; a plurality of voltage detecting lines connecting the battery cells to the voltage detecting circuits; and a control device controlling charge and discharge of the battery cells on a basis of detection information obtained from the voltage detecting circuits, a voltage detecting line having a lowest potential being connected to one of the voltage detecting circuits and a voltage detecting line having a highest potential being connected to the other of the voltage detecting circuits, being adjacent and connected to each other via a first capacitor.

Abstract: A voltage detecting device includes a voltage detecting circuit configured to detect voltages of a plurality of battery cells constituting a battery; a plurality of voltage detecting lines connecting the respective battery cells to the voltage detecting circuit; discharging circuits connecting the respective voltage detecting lines to a ground, and discharging the battery cells in an overcharged state; a power adjusting section adjusting power of the battery, and supplying the voltage detecting circuit with the adjusted power as driving power; the voltage detecting circuit detecting the voltages of the respective battery cells via the voltage detecting lines; and an overvoltage protecting circuit protecting the voltage detecting circuit from voltage equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value, the voltage being generated in the voltage detecting lines, the discharging circuits, and the power adjusting section.

Abstract: In an electromagnetic fuel injection valve which is configured to absorb an unbalanced load applied to sliding portions between a fixed core and a valve stem, thereby enabling a reduction in a frictional resistance of the sliding portions, a guide bush is press fitted in an inner peripheral surface of the fixed core, the valve element includes a valve part configured to cooperate with the valve seat, and the valve stem continuously provided to the valve part and extending toward the guide bush, a sliding member configured to be slidably fitted to an inner peripheral surface of the guide bush is press fitted on the valve stem, wherein an annular gap is provided at least at one of a location between the fixed core and the guide bush and a location between the valve stem and the sliding member, within sliding regions of the guide bush and the sliding member.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided with: a semiconductor element; and a connecting conductor that electrically connects at least one of an input terminal and an output terminal of the semiconductor element to a connection terminal of an electronic device. In this semiconductor device, the connecting conductor is a block structure.

Abstract: A battery voltage detector includes, but is not limited to: a voltage detection circuit; and a voltage processor. The voltage detection circuit includes, but is not limited to: a capacitor configured to be charged by a battery cell; a pair of output terminals; an output switch; and a voltage processor. While the capacitor is charged, the output switch is configured to be off-state and insulate the capacitor from the pair of the output terminals. After the capacitor is charged, the output switch is configured to be on-state and connect the capacitor to the pair of the output terminals. The voltage processor is configured to obtain, as a cell voltage, a voltage between the output terminals of the voltage detection circuit while the output switch is on-state. A high-potential output terminal of the pair of the output terminals is connected to a power line via a pull-up resistor.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic control device including a processing unit having a function of shifting to a sleep mode in which the processing unit is adapted to start up from the sleep mode according to occurrence statuses of one or more startup factors, and shift to the sleep mode according to a system power supply voltage.

Abstract: In a fuel injection valve supporting structure, a first contact surface being orthogonal to a center axis of a fuel injection valve and opposed to a fuel supply cap and paired second contact surfaces opposed to each other with a plane, including the center axis and a center line of a coupler, in between are formed in an intermediate portion of the fuel injection valve, and a supporting member includes: a base plate set on the first contact surface; an elastic piece extending from the base plate to elastically come into pressure contact with the fuel supply cap and bias the fuel injection valve toward an injection valve attachment hole by its reaction force; and paired turn stopper pieces each extending from the base plate to abut against the second contact surface and restrict a turn of the fuel injection valve about the center axis.

Abstract: Provided is a fuel supply control device that performs power supply control of a shut-off valve including a first valve body that is disposed at a fuel supply path ranging from a gaseous fuel tank to a regulator and is opened in advance during power supply, and a second valve body that is opened due to a decrease in a differential pressure between upstream and downstream after the first valve body is opened, and fuel injection control. The fuel supply control device includes a control unit that sets a delay time from an initiation time of power supply to the shut-off valve to an initiation time of fuel injection in correspondence with a first fuel pressure upstream of the shut-off valve and a second fuel pressure downstream of the regulator, and initiates fuel injection after the delay time has passed after the initiation of the power supply to the shut-off valve.

Abstract: An electric leakage detecting apparatus includes: a first voltage-dividing circuit; a second voltage-dividing circuit; a first switch which is inserted in a line connecting the first voltage-dividing circuit and the ground connection resistance; a second switch which is inserted in a line connecting the second voltage-dividing circuit and the ground connection resistance; a first voltage detecting circuit which detects an output voltage of the first voltage-dividing circuit; a second voltage detecting circuit which detects an output voltage of the second voltage-dividing circuit; and a judging circuit which judges whether the electric leakage of the high voltage battery occurs or not on the basis of the output voltage of the first voltage-dividing circuit in a case that the first switch is in ON state and the output voltage of the second voltage-dividing circuit in a case that the second switch is in ON state.

Abstract: A gas fuel injection valve is provided in which a circular recess is formed in a front end face of a valve plunger, the circular recess being surrounded by an annular land part, which is an outer peripheral part of the front end face, an inner peripheral face of the circular recess is formed in a tapered shape so as to increase in diameter in going from a base of the circular recess toward the annular land part, an annular lip is formed on a seating member, the annular lip being joined from the inner peripheral face through to the annular land part and being seated on a valve seat, and the annular lip is disposed so that an annular ridge line of an apex of the annular lip is positioned, in a projection in the axial direction of the valve plunger, above the inner peripheral face.

Abstract: A rotation angle detector includes: a magnet attached to a rotating shaft and magnetized in a certain direction orthogonal to an axis of the rotating shaft; and a non-rotary magneto-electric transducer placed to be opposed to an end surface of the magnet, and configured to detect a rotation angle of the rotating shaft in cooperation with the magnet through magneto-electric transduction. A concave curved surface is formed in the end surface of the magnet in order to make a magnetic flux of a magnetic field facing the end surface of the magnet closer to the magnet and flattened. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a rotation angle detector which is compact in size and has a stable accuracy for detecting the rotation angle, by making the curvature of the magnetic flux near the end surface of the magnet small and placing the magneto-electric transducer in that location.

Abstract: An ejector apparatus for a fuel cell includes an ejector main body including an inlet port, an outlet port, a suction port, and an oxidizer-gas supply port, a first to third chambers provided in the body, a nozzle having a nozzle hole discharging the fuel gas, a diffuser mixing the fuel gas discharged from the nozzle hole and the fuel offgas exhausted from the fuel cell and returned to the suction port, a needle fixed on a side of the body and extending along an axial direction of the nozzle in a hollow portion thereof, and first and second diaphragms arranged to oppose each other, and changing an opening area in a gap between the nozzle hole and an outer peripheral face of a top end of the needle, wherein a pressure receiving area of the first diaphragm is set to be larger than that of the second diaphragm.

Abstract: In a vehicular air conditioning apparatus, a pair of covers are provided on the respective sides of the casing that is constituted by respective air passages. The covers rotatably support a pivot shaft for a defroster damper and a pivot shaft for a sub-defroster damper. The sub-defroster damper is disposed in a passage directly connecting the heater core with the defroster blow-out port, and is disposed on an upstream side of the defroster damper. First and second blower units supply air into the casing. The sub-defroster damper is disposed so as to face a passage which is disposed even inside the casing. Thus, the flowing direction and the amount of air is adjusted.

Abstract: A material containing a soft magnetic substance is subjected to a plastic deformation such as a roll processing to obtain a rod-shaped body. Then, the rod-shaped body or a shaped body obtained by processing the rod-shaped body into a shape other than a flat plate shape is subjected to a heat treatment in the presence of a magnetic field. The rod-shaped body or the shaped body is made magnetic-anisotropic by the heat treatment thereby to obtain a magnetic-anisotropic plastically deformed body.

Abstract: An electronic control device includes: a processing unit that performs a predetermined process in accordance with a program; a watchdog timer that includes a time counter reset by a pulse signal output at a given period from the processing unit and outputs a signal having levels inverted depending on whether an overflow occurs; and a latch circuit that latches the signal output from the watchdog timer and outputs a signal obtained through the latching as a first output enable signal. The processing unit stops the output of the pulse signal, when diagnosing a malfunction of the watchdog timer, and diagnoses the malfunction of the watchdog timer based on the first output enable signal output from the latch circuit, after stopping the output of the pulse signal.

Abstract: A locking mechanism for a valve device, which includes a valve body for opening and closing a fluid path, for retaining the valve body at a predetermined opening position, the valve device further including a gear wheel to which rotational driving force of a rotational driving source is transmitted and a rack section having rack teeth provided thereon for meshing engagement with the gear wheel and configured to convert rotational movement of the gear wheel into linear movement and move together with the valve body. The locking mechanism for a valve device includes: a ball abuttable with a wall face of the rack section; and a spring member configured to press the ball toward the wall face; the valve body being retained by frictional force generated when the ball is pressed against the wall face of the rack section.

Abstract: A carburetor comprises an intake path, a constant volume fuel chamber and a fuel nozzle. The intake path is connected to an intake port of an engine, and is opened and closed by a throttle valve. The constant volume fuel chamber is provided below the intake path, constantly stores a certain amount of fuel, and has an upper space connected to an air vent. An upper end of the fuel nozzle opens to the intake path to spray fuel of the constant volume fuel chamber to the intake path. The fuel nozzle is connected to a fuel passage communicating to the underneath of a fuel level of the constant volume fuel chamber, and a fuel pump which feeds fuel to the fuel nozzle is interposed in the fuel passage.

Abstract: Provided is a shut-off valve fault diagnosis device that performs fault diagnosis of a first shut-off valve that is disposed immediately after a gaseous fuel tank and a second shut-off valve that is disposed immediately before a regulator in a gaseous fuel supply system. The shut-off valve fault diagnosis device includes a diagnosis processing unit that performs a valve-shutting control of the first shut-off valve, performs a valve-shutting control of the second shut-off valve after a predetermined time has passed since the valve-shutting control of the first shut-off valve, and performs fault diagnosis of the first shut-off valve and the second shut-off valve based on a variation tendency in a fuel pressure between the first shut-off valve and the second shut-off valve after performing the valve-shutting control of the second shut-off valve.

Abstract: A semiconductor control device is provided with: a plurality of semiconductor modules each having a cooling member and a semiconductor element; a circuit board mounted with a control element that controls the plurality of semiconductor modules; and a case in which the plurality of semiconductor modules and the circuit board are respectively mounted. The case is provided with a cylindrical sidewall that forms an internal space within the case, and on both ends of the sidewall, a first opening and a second opening are correspondingly formed to be opposite to each other. The plurality of semiconductor modules include a first semiconductor module mounted on the sidewall on a side of the first opening, and a second semiconductor module mounted on the sidewall on a side of the second opening. The circuit board is positioned between the first semiconductor module and the second semiconductor module, in the internal space.

Abstract: Provided are a transfer roller cleaning apparatus that has a supply roller that is immersed in the carrier liquid in a carrier liquid vessel; a cleaning roller that is rubbed and rotated on the supply roller and the transfer roller, and supplies the carrier liquid received from the supply roller to a surface of the transfer roller; and a carrier liquid circulation device which includes the carrier liquid vessel, supplies the carrier liquid in a storage tank to the carrier liquid vessel using a pump, and sends the carrier liquid overflowed from the carrier liquid vessel back to the storage tank via an overflow liquid recovery path, so as to constitute a carrier liquid circulation path and an electronic photograph printer configured by providing the same.