Abstract: A control device of a hybrid vehicle includes: a determiner that determines whether or not a predetermined first condition that efficiency is prioritized is satisfied and whether or not a predetermined second condition that output performance is prioritized; and a control unit that controls an engine and an electric motor in accordance with an accelerator manipulation amount and a determination result of the determiner. When the first condition is satisfied, the control unit controls the driving power source such that the driving power source outputs first driving force in a first driving state where the efficiency is prioritized, and when the second condition is satisfied, the control unit controls the driving power source such that the driving power source outputs second driving force larger than the first driving force in a second driving state where the output performance is prioritized.

Abstract: A throttle valve device includes a body, a valve, a motor, and a cover. The body defines a passage, a motor space, and a connecting portion that connects the motor space to the passage. The motor includes a motor yoke made of a magnetic material, a plurality of magnets that are arranged on an inner circumferential surface of the motor yoke. The plurality of magnets are magnetized in a state where the motor yoke is disposed in the motor space of the body. The plurality of magnets are arranged in a circumferential direction in the motor yoke with a space. The connecting portion is aligned with the space between the plurality of magnets in a radial direction of the motor yoke.

Abstract: A fan control system includes a fan, a first temperature sensor, a calculating unit, a logic controller, and a memory unit. The first temperature sensor continuously senses temperatures of a device during a time period, in order to obtain a plurality of sampled temperatures. The calculating unit selects N1 latest sampled temperatures and N2 latest sampled temperatures from the sampled temperatures, and calculates a first average temperature according to the N1 sampled temperatures and a second average temperature according to the N2 sampled temperatures. N1 and N2 are positive integers. The logic controller is configured to select one of the first average temperature and the second average temperature to output as a compensation temperature. The memory unit is configured to store an operating table, and configured to output a rotational speed control signal to the fan corresponding to the operating table according to the compensation temperature.

Abstract: A turbine vane airfoil and a turbine nozzle that includes the turbine vane airfoil. The turbine vane airfoil includes an airfoil defining a chamber proximate a surface, and an impingement tube. The impingement tube includes a first wall and a second wall. The first wall defines a plurality of first apertures, and each has a first upstream surface portion opposite a first downstream surface portion. The second wall defines a plurality of second apertures, and each has a second upstream surface portion opposite a second downstream surface portion. Each of the first apertures cooperate with a respective one of the second apertures to direct a cooling fluid onto the surface, and the first downstream surface portion of at least one of the first apertures includes a first point that is collinear with a second point of the second downstream surface portion of the respective one of the second apertures.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a valve. In one example, a system may include a cooling arrangement including the valve, wherein the valve is configured to variably adjust coolant flow rates in response to one or more of a coolant temperature and a charge air pressure. The valve includes a transmission pin which may be acted upon via an expansion element and/or a pressure actuator.

Abstract: A system for and method of separating oil from crankcase air is provided. The system includes replacing a standard shaft, such as a water pump shaft, with a breather shaft of the present invention and venting crankcase air through the breather shaft to an outside volume of air, such as in an air box. The breather shaft includes a centrifuge positioned within an interior volume of the crankcase and a first portion extending from the centrifuge through a wall of the crankcase. The centrifuge defines a plurality of inlet passageways extending from an outer surface of the centrifuge towards an interior area of the centrifuge. The first portion of the breather shaft defines a venting passageway extending from the interior area of the centrifuge to a vent opening at a distal end of the breather shaft.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a target drive force calculation unit, an arithmetic unit, a stop holding unit, a power-running-generative drive force calculation unit, and a traveling mode selection unit. The arithmetic unit calculates required drive force and required brake force based on target drive force calculated by the target drive force calculation unit. The arithmetic unit calculates the required drive force by setting the required brake force to stop hold brake force or greater if an engine traveling mode is selected at an immediately preceding timing by the traveling mode selection unit. The arithmetic unit calculates the required brake force by setting the required drive force to less than or equal to power-running-generative drive force calculated by the power-running-generative drive force calculation unit if an electric vehicle traveling mode is selected at the immediately preceding timing by the traveling mode selection unit.

Abstract: Provided is an axial fan including: a rotor blade having a rotation axis along an air-blowing direction; and a casing, wherein the casing includes: an outer frame portion housing the rotor blade; a cylindrical base portion located on the rotation axis; and a fixed blade provided between an inner peripheral surface of the outer frame portion and an outer peripheral surface of the base portion and downstream of the rotor blade in the air-blowing direction, the fixed blade includes a wind receiving surface, and the wind receiving surface in a first cross section, along the air-blowing direction, of the fixed blade has a smaller blade curvature than the wind receiving surface in a second cross section of the fixed blade along a cutting plane line at a position moved in a rotation direction of the rotor blade from a cutting plane line of the first cross section.

Abstract: A device for enabling SOC estimation of at least one battery cell in an electrical energy storage system of a hybrid electric vehicle. The device initiates charging of the battery cell to a first voltage level. The battery cell is charged by an electric machine powered by a combustion engine. The device detects that the first voltage level is reached, initiates stop of fuel injection to the combustion engine. The device initiates discharging of the at least one battery to a second voltage level. The device detects that the battery cell has been discharged to a second voltage level. SOC estimation of the battery cell is enabled when the second voltage level has been reached.

Abstract: A leak detection system is provided with a first window configured to mount at a first opening in a first wall portion in an enclosure (e.g., for a gas turbine engine or other equipment in a power plant). The leak detection system includes a leak sensor configured to transmit a beam through the first window and an interior of the enclosure to obtain sensor feedback. The leak detection system includes a controller configured to evaluate the sensor feedback to monitor for a leak of a hazardous fluid in the enclosure.

Abstract: A control device is configured to set a target state of charge of a battery and control an internal combustion engine and rotating electrical machine and the charging and discharging of the battery to make the hybrid vehicle run so that the battery state of charge becomes the target state of charge. The control device is further configured to set the target state of charge based on a remaining distance or required time from a current position up to a restricted zone in which operation of the internal combustion engine is restricted and a grace period from a current time to a time at which the restriction of operation of the internal combustion engine in the restricted zone is started.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for blowing out birthday candles are presented. The apparatus may include a rotor comprising at least two blades and attachable to a wind-up launcher for imparting a rotational impulse to the rotor. Each blade of the rotor may include a blade scoop extending from a central hub of the rotor to an outer safety ring positioned around an outer circumference of the rotor and coupled to each of the central hub and the outer safety ring. The blade scoop may have a convex shaped leading edge. The blade may also include a blade overhang for pushing air from the blade scoop out from the rotor. The blade overhang may have a trailing edge positioned below the central hub, with a portion of the blade forming the trailing edge having a tangent that is angled between 30 and 60 degrees below a plane of the outer safety ring.

Abstract: An ENG-ECU performs a specific cylinder fuel cutoff process of stopping combustion of an air-fuel mixture in some cylinders out of a plurality of cylinders of an internal combustion engine and a transmission process of transmitting engine operation information on execution of the specific cylinder fuel cutoff process to an HV-ECU. The HV-ECU performs a torque compensation process of compensating for a decrease in engine torque due to execution of the specific cylinder fuel cutoff process using an output torque of a second MG based on the received engine operation information. The ENG-ECU performs a process of starting the specific cylinder fuel cutoff process in a combustion cycle when a waiting time which includes a time until the HV-ECU receives the engine operation information has elapsed after the transmission process has been performed.

Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus including a travelling control unit configured to control an engine travelling and a non-engine travelling of a hybrid vehicle, and perform switching from the non-engine travelling to the engine travelling in a case where a depression amount of an accelerator of the hybrid vehicle exceeds a predetermined depression threshold while the hybrid vehicle travels based on the non-engine travelling, and a switching suppression unit configured to suppress the switching from the non-engine travelling to the engine travelling by the travelling control unit while the hybrid vehicle travels in a short time depression area where depression of the accelerator does not continue for a period equal to or longer than a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: A fan device that can be attached to a garment body includes a fan, a drive, an operation interface, and a controller. The drive rotates the fan. The operation interface is for a user to switch drive status of the drive. The controller switches the drive status of the drive based on operation on the operation interface by the user. The operation interface includes a first switch and a second switch. The first switch is for switching an air volume of the fan between air volumes of multiple modes. The second switch is for switching a mode to a first mode in which the air volume of the fan is a first air volume which is larger than air volumes that are switched by the first switch.

Abstract: An embodiment system includes an ignition coil including a primary coil and a secondary coil, a high voltage battery selectively electrically connected the primary coil, a low voltage battery selectively electrically connected to the primary coil, and an electric and electronic element provided between the high voltage battery, the low voltage battery, and the primary coil of the ignition coil to selectively supply electric power of the high voltage battery or the low voltage battery to the primary coil.

Abstract: Lubrication systems of an aircraft engine and associated methods are provided. The lubrication system includes a chamber having a fluid inlet for receiving lubricating fluid into the chamber, and a fluid outlet for draining the lubricating fluid from the chamber. The fluid outlet is disposed on a wall defining part of the chamber. A rotor is disposed inside the chamber and interacts with the lubricating fluid inside the chamber. The rotor is rotatable in a rotation direction about a rotation axis. A perforated baffle is disposed in the chamber for interacting with the lubricating fluid inside the chamber. The perforated baffle includes a base attached to the wall of the chamber. The base of the perforated baffle is disposed at an angular position preceding the fluid outlet relative to the rotation direction of the rotor.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a first blow-by gas passage defined in a second wall. The internal combustion engine includes a second blow-by gas passage defined in a third wall. The internal combustion engine includes a third blow-by gas passage defined in a fourth wall. The first blow-by gas passage to the third blow-by gas passage connect an oil chamber and an oil separator to each other. The second wall includes a first connecting path. The fourth wall includes a second connecting path. The first connecting path connects the first crank chamber and the second crank chamber. The second connecting path connects the third crank chamber and the fourth crank chamber to each other. The third wall does not have a passage connecting the second crank chamber and the third crank chamber to each other.

Abstract: A housing element for applications in the manufacturing industry having a casing and a cover both made of metallic material, wherein the casing is provided with a groove and a flat mounting surface and the cover is provided with an end portion having a frustoconical side wall, an oblique annular bottom wall, and a securing system consisting in inserting the end portion of the cover inside the groove of the casing, wherein an interference (i) between a radially outer end of the end portion of the cover and a radially inner end of the flat mounting surface of the casing assumes values of between 0.2 mm and 0.5 mm and an angle (?) defined between the frustoconical side wall of the end portion of the cover and the flat mounting surface of the casing assumes values of between 45° and 80°. The interference and the angle facilitate the insertion of the end portion of the cover inside the groove of the casing.

Abstract: A crosshead assembly for a reciprocating pump. The crosshead assembly has a crosshead and a connecting rod configured to connect with a crankshaft of the reciprocating pump. Trunnions detachably connect with the connecting rod and facilitate pivotable connection of the connecting rod and the crosshead.