Abstract: A refrigerating cycle apparatus for averting shortages of its refrigerant in a refrigerating cycle and of oil reflux regardless of fluctuations in the progress of freezing in a cold accumulating material. In operation, two solenoid valves are opened and a compressor is activated. The activated compressor causes stagnant refrigerant inside a cold accumulating evaporator to be collected into a receiver. Thereafter, one solenoid valve is closed to let the refrigerant flow only to the cold accumulating evaporator. This makes it possible to circumvent shortages of the refrigerant in the refrigerating cycle and of oil reflux irrespective of varying progress in the freezing status of the cold accumulating material.

Abstract: An inside air/outside air switching case employing a rotary door, since an introduced air flows along an inner surface of a circumferential wall of the rotary door, an air flow guiding portion constructed of a plurality of protruding portions formed in a corrugated shape of concavities and convexities is formed on an inner surface of the circumferential wall of the rotary door. In this way, the air flow directed toward a suction inlet is made uniform by means of the guiding portion, and the air flow noise can be suppressed.

Abstract: A desiccant tank storing desiccant is accommodated in a thermal insulation case, and a desiccant tank-side ventilation duct is formed between the desiccant tank and the thermal insulation case. Ventilation path change-over dampers are provided to switch a ventilation path of the desiccant tank-side ventilation duct to an interior heat release operation path or an exterior heat release operation path. A thermal insulation case accommodates a water tank storing water therein and connected with the desiccant tank through a connection pipe without using valves. A water tank-side ventilation duct is formed between the water tank and the thermal insulation case. Ventilation path change-over dampers are provided to switch a ventilation path of the water tank-side ventilation duct to an interior heat absorption/radiation operation path or an exterior heat absorption/radiation operation path.

Abstract: An automotive air conditioner comprises an offset blower for blowing an air, an evaporator is centrally disposed within a dashboard and receives the air from below, and a heater approximately horizontally disposed above the evaporator. The evaporator inclines downward along the direction of the air flow. A plurality of condensed water guide plates are provided under the evaporator so as to allow a condensed water smoothly flow on the surface of each guide plate and is discharged from the evaporator through a condensed water drain pipe.

Abstract: An evaporator is disposed substantially horizontally at a central portion of an instrument panel in a passenger compartment, and air is blown, by a blower disposed so as to be shifted from the center of the evaporator, so as to flow through the evaporator from the bottom to the top. A heater core is disposed substantially horizontally above the evaporator, and an air outlet mode switching portion for switching an air outlet direction of air, temperature of which is adjusted by the heater core, is disposed above the heater core. Foot air ducts are provided to supply conditioned air, a flow direction of which has been switched by the air outlet mode switching portion, to foot air outlets opening to a foot area of the passenger, and passage portions passing through an outlet side path of a scroll casing of the blower are provided in the foot air duct. In this way, it is possible to reduce the space where the heat exchanger portion is installed.

Abstract: A heat regenerating type cooling apparatus includes a heat regenerating evaporator encased in a case and provided with a tube for a cooling medium and a heat regenerating pack arranged to be in close contact with the outer surface of the tube of the heat regenerating evaporator. The heat regenerating evaporator conducts a refrigeration cycle while a vehicle is running and cools the heat regenerating pack so as to cause a heat regenerating material within the pack to freeze When the vehicle is parked, a blower is operated to cause a current of air that is cooled by the heat regenerating pack due to heat exchange between the current of air and the frozen heat regenerating material in the heat regenerating pack. The cold air is blown out into an objective cooling area, such as a sleeping area of the vehicle, from a blowing port so that the objective cooling area is air-conditioned, and the upper half of the body of a sleeping person in the area is effectively exposed to air-conditioned air.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for growing fruit bodies of Fistulina hepatica which comprises the steps of cutting off some parts of side wall of a cultivation vessel close to the fruit body primordium-forming part on a solid medium contained in the vessel having at least the bottom and side walls to form perforations on the wall, and making the fruit bodies to grow out of the vessel through the perforations. By this method, the large mature fruit bodies can be efficiently obtained in a short period of time.

Abstract: The temperature and velocity of a wind blown from an air-conditioner are controlled in such a manner that a temperature sensation value TS expressed by the following formula becomes a targeted temperature sensation value by using facial skin temperature t.sub.SK and a rate of change in the facial skin temperature, t'.sub.SK : TS=A(t.sub.SK -B)+Ct'.sub.SK, where A is a coefficient in the range of 0.4-1.0; B is a coefficient in the range of 32.8-35.0; and C is a coefficient in the range of 10.0-85.0.

Abstract: A control apparatus for an air-conditioner provided with a flow controlling means which controls the amount of air blown into a room, a temperature control means to which controls the temperature of air blown, a skin temperature detecting means which detects the actual skin temperature of persons in the room, a temperature sensation determining means which determines the actual temperature sensation of persons in the room in accordance with the skin temperature detected above and the rate of change of this detected skin temperature, and an electrical control means which makes the flow control means bring the temperature sensation determined above into line with the target temperature sensation and which makes the temperature control means perform temperature control.

Abstract: A refrigerant apparatus having a compressor, a condenser, a first expansion valve means, a gas-liquid separator, a second expansion valve means and an evaporator. The compressor has a plurality of cylinders one of which is connected with the gas phase of the gas-liquid separator in order to inject the gas coolant into the compressor, other cylinders of the compressor being connected to the evaporator in order to suck the coolant from the evaporator. Since the gas coolant within the gas-liquid separator is injected into the compressor, the cooling capacity of the coolant passing through the evaporator can be expanded so that the cooling capacity of the present invention is increased. Though the gas coolant within the gas-liquid separator which includes no lubricant is sucked toward the compressor, the compressor can be lubricated by the lubricant coolant effectively, because the same compressor sucks the coolant containing lubricant from the evaporator.

Abstract: An air cooling device including a first water spray device, an air cooling part including a filler wherein cooling water sprayed from the first water spray device is brought into direct contact with intake air so that the intake air is cooled by the sprayed water through heat exchange therebetween on the surface of the filler, a first water reservoir that receives and reserves the water dropped from the filler and a cooling tower for rapidly cooling water to be sprayed in the air cooling part to a steady state condition prior to starting of an electrical apparata coupled to the air cooling device and to be cooled thereby. In the cooling tower, water from the first reservoir is sprayed into a second filler and thereby evaporatively cooled. The cooled water is collected in a second water reservoir and circulated therefrom to the first water spray device by means of a pump.

Abstract: A radioactive diagnostic agent for imaging of various organs, particularly of brain, which comprises a radioactive element such as .sup.

Abstract: A radioactive diagnostic agent which comprises deferoxamine, and a physiologically active compound and a radioactive metallic element chemically connected thereto with or without intervention of any other chemical bonding, which is characteristic in having a high stability even after being administered into a human body and showing substantially the same behavior in a human body as said physiologically active compound itself.