Abstract: A propeller fan according to the present disclosure includes a rotation shaft and a blade rotating around the rotation shaft. At the same position in an axial direction of the rotation shaft, a first locus connecting a leading edge of the blade and an outer peripheral end of the blade is tilted with respect to a second locus connecting a center of the rotation shaft and the leading edge so that the outer peripheral end side is inclined toward a trailing side. Alternatively, a third locus connecting a root of the blade and the outer peripheral end of the blade is tilted with respect to a fourth locus connecting a center of the rotation shaft and the root so that the outer peripheral end side is inclined toward the trailing side.

Abstract: A hydrogen storage alloy suitable for a negative electrode of an on-board alkaline storage battery, an alkaline storage battery using this hydrogen storage alloy, and a vehicle; wherein a fine-grained hydrogen storage alloy is used for an alkaline storage battery that has a crystal structure of an A2B7-type structure as a main phase and is represented by a general formula: (La1-aSma)1-bMgbNicAldCre (where suffixes a, b, c, d, and e meet the following conditions: 0?a?0.35, 0.15?b?0.30, 0.02?d?0.10, 0?e?0.10, 3.20?c+d+e?3.50, and 0<a+e), and an alkaline storage battery using this hydrogen storage alloy for a negative electrode. A vehicle also includes this alkaline storage battery as an electricity supply source for a motor.

Abstract: Magnets are arranged at intervals along a stroke direction with an interposed space. Magnetic pole surfaces of adjacent ones of the magnets have opposite poles. A detector is arranged with a gap in a gap direction against a magnetic pole surface of each of the magnets and acquires a sine signal and a cosine signal as detection signals of phases corresponding to the positions of the magnets, based on a change in a magnetic field received from the magnets according to movement of the detector relative to the detection object in the stroke direction. A signal processor acquires the sine signal and the cosine signal from the detector, generates, based on the sine signal and the cosine signal, an arctangent signal corresponding to a stroke amount of the detection object relative to the detector, and acquires the arctangent signal as a position signal.

Abstract: To provide an indoor unit that can suppress an increase in pressure loss, and that can reduce ventilation resistance in an air passage. The heat exchanger of the indoor unit includes a first portion and a second portion. In a cross section parallel to an axis of rotation of a centrifugal fan at a point where a distance between an outer edge of the centrifugal fan and an inner edge of the heat exchanger is smallest, an inner edge of the first portion and an inner edge of the second portion are arranged parallel to the axis of rotation, and the inner edge of the first portion is arranged radially outward of the inner edge of the second portion. In the cross section, a horizontal distance L1 is smaller than a horizontal distance L2, and a horizontal distance L3 is greater than a horizontal distance L4.

Abstract: A propeller fan according to the present disclosure includes a rotation shaft and a blade rotating around the rotation shaft. At the same position in an axial direction of the rotation shaft, a first locus connecting a leading edge of the blade and an outer peripheral end of the blade is tilted with respect to a second locus connecting a center of the rotation shaft and the leading edge so that the outer peripheral end side is inclined toward a trailing side. Alternatively, a third locus connecting a root of the blade and the outer peripheral end of the blade is tilted with respect to a fourth locus connecting a center of the rotation shaft and the root so that the outer peripheral end side is inclined toward the trailing side.

Abstract: To provide a cross flow fan that can achieve a reduction in fan input and a reduction in noise. Therefore, a negative pressure surface of each of blades of a cross flow fan has a convex part. In a cross section C, the convex part of the blade is located on an inner circumferential side of an outer edge of the blade and on an outer circumferential side of an outermost circle of virtual circles tangent to both the negative pressure surface of the blade and the positive pressure surface of the adjacent blade, the convex part and a portion of the negative pressure surface on the inner circumferential side of the convex part are connected by a straight part, and the straight part is a tangent to both the convex part and the portion of the negative pressure surface.

Abstract: An air sending device includes: a housing; a fan motor; a fan configured to generate an air current; a motor support base provided upstream of the fan and the fan motor in a flow direction of the air current, and supporting the fan motor; and a rectifying member provided upstream of the motor support base, protruding in a direction from the motor support base toward the upstream side, and having a rectifying surface configured to change the flow direction of the air current such that the air current flows toward an inner circumferential region of the fan. The rectifying surface of the rectifying member includes an upstream-side distal end surface formed spherically, and a main surface located between the upstream-side distal end surface and the motor support base, forming an outer peripheral surface of the rectifying member, and tapered in a direction away from the motor support base.

Abstract: An air sending device is provided with a cross flow fan including an impeller in which a plurality of blades is arranged annularly. Each of the blades includes a pressure surface, a suction surface, an inner peripheral end face, and an outer peripheral end face. The pressure surface of the blade satisfies the following relationship: a curvature of a second pressure-surface side curved surface>a curvature of a third pressure-surface side curved surface>a curvature of a first pressure-surface side curved surface. When a first, a second, and a third pressure-surface side area of a surface of part of a pressure surface side of the blade are projected on a chord line connecting the inner and outer peripheral end of the blade, a length of the third pressure-surface side area>a length of the first pressure-surface side area>a length of the second pressure-surface side area.

Abstract: An indoor unit includes: a casing that has an air outlet and an air inlet, and inside which an air passage is formed; a cross flow fan disposed in the air passage and configured to blow out, through the air outlet, air sucked in from the air inlet; a stabilizer configured to stabilize vortex of air caused by circulation of air and generated inside the cross flow fan upon rotation thereof; and a guide wall having a surface defining an outlet side air passage being a part of the air passage, the part being in downstream of the cross flow fan, wherein the stabilizer has a first surface that defines a surface opposite to the guide wall in the outlet side air passage, and a part of the outlet side air passage is formed such that a distance in a vertical direction from the first surface to the guide wall gradually decreases toward the downstream.

Abstract: A turbo fan includes a main plate and a plurality of blade portions. The plurality of blade portions include a plurality of first blade portions and a plurality of second blade portions. In a case where, in each of the plurality of first blade portions, a length of a virtual straight line connecting a first inner peripheral end part and a first outer peripheral end part is defined as a first chord length, and in each of the plurality of second blade portions, a length of a virtual straight line connecting a second inner peripheral end part and a second outer peripheral end part is defined as a second chord length, the first chord length and the second chord length are not equal to each other at positions separated by a same distance from the main plate in the axial direction of the rotary shaft.

Abstract: An indoor unit includes: a main body having an opening near an air-conditioning target space and attached to an installation section; a panel having an air inlet through which air is suctioned and an air outlet through which the suctioned air is discharged, and covering the opening of the main body; a fan provided to the main body and generating flow of air that is suctioned from the air inlet of the panel and blown out from the air outlet of the panel; a bell mouth provided upstream of the fan in the main body and guiding the air suctioned from the air inlet toward the fan; and an electric component box provided upstream of the bell mouth in the main body, to thereby define an air-flowing space between the electric component box and the bell mouth, and accommodating a control unit that controls operation of the fan.

Abstract: A centrifugal blower having high efficiency and reduced noise is provided. A centrifugal blower to be accommodated in a housing having an air inlet includes a spiral casing having a bell mouth and a centrifugal fan housed in the casing. The bell mouth includes a first region and a second region. The first region is disposed closest to the air inlet. A distance from a rotational axis of the centrifugal fan to a downstream end in the first region is greater than a distance from the rotational axis to the downstream end in the second region. A curvature of a surface of the first region in a cross section including the rotational axis is smaller than a curvature of a surface of the second region in a cross section including the rotational axis.

Abstract: A turbo fan includes a main plate rotationally driven, and a plurality of blade portions arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction on the main plate. The plurality of blade portions include a plurality of first blade portions arranged on one of plate surfaces of the main plate, and a plurality of second blade portions arranged on another plate surface of the main plate.

Abstract: An air conditioner has a casing and a wind direction changing device. The casing has an air inlet, an air outlet, an outer air path wall, and an inner air path wall. The wind direction changing device has an up-down rotation shaft and a deflector. The deflector extends from the up-down rotation shaft toward the outer air path wall. The deflector has an outer air path wall-side end which faces the outer air path wall and has a first arc shape.

Abstract: A centrifugal blower includes a centrifugal fan having a main plate and a side plate facing each other in a direction of a rotation axis, and a casing to house the centrifugal fan. The casing has a peripheral wall extending along an outer circumferential edge of the centrifugal fan, and has a tongue portion at a position on the peripheral wall. A distance between the outer circumferential edge of the centrifugal fan and the tongue portion is smaller on the main plate side of the centrifugal fan than on the side plate side of the centrifugal fan.

Abstract: A blower includes a volute shaped casing having an air inlet, and an impeller including a disk-shaped backing plate, a ring-shaped rim, and a plurality of blades supported between the backing plate and the rim. The impeller is housed in the casing. Each of the blades includes a first blade segment adjacent to the backing plate, and a second blade segment provided between the first blade segment and the rim. Each of the blades has a blade outlet angle at a trailing edge of the second blade segment different from a blade outlet angle at a trailing edge of the first blade segment. At least one of a pressure surface of the second blade segment and a suction surface of the second blade segment includes a flat surface extending toward a leading edge of the second blade segment from the trailing edge of the second blade segment.

Abstract: An outdoor unit for a refrigeration cycle apparatus includes an outdoor heat exchanger arranged around an axis on an upstream side of an airflow with respect to a propeller fan. Further, the outdoor heat exchanger includes a first flat surface portion, a second flat surface portion, and a curved portion connecting the first and second flat surface portions to each other. An airflow directing plate is opposed to an end portion of the outdoor heat exchanger on the propeller fan side from the axis side of the propeller fan. The airflow directing plate is opposed to at least any one of the first flat surface portion and the second flat surface portion without being opposed to the curved portion.

Abstract: A centrifugal blower having high efficiency and reduced noise is provided. A centrifugal blower to be accommodated in a housing having an air inlet includes a spiral casing having a bell mouth and a centrifugal fan housed in the casing. The bell mouth includes a first region and a second region. The first region is disposed closest to the air inlet. A distance from a rotational axis of the centrifugal fan to a downstream end in the first region is greater than a distance from the rotational axis to the downstream end in the second region. A curvature of a surface of the first region in a cross section including the rotational axis is smaller than a curvature of a surface of the second region in a cross section including the rotational axis.

Abstract: An air conditioner has a casing and a wind direction changing device. The casing has an air inlet, an air outlet, an outer air path wall, and an inner air path wall. The wind direction changing device has an up-down rotation shaft and a deflector. The deflector extends from the up-down rotation shaft toward the outer air path wall. The deflector has an outer air path wall-side end which faces the outer air path wall and has a first arc shape.

Abstract: A new variety of grapevine ‘SUNNY HEART’ that has green leaves and berries having a broad ellipsoid shape, red skin, and muscat flavor.