Abstract: An evaporator includes a hermetically sealed vessel 1A having an inlet 17 and an outlet 16, a refrigerant supply portion 14, in which liquid refrigerant is stored, a heat transfer portion 12, to which the liquid refrigerant stored in the refrigerant supply portion 14 is supplied, heat transfer fins 12A having a heat transfer surface provided in the heat transfer portion 12, a wick 13A provided on the heat transfer surface of the heat transfer fins 12A to transfer the liquid refrigerant supplied to the heat transfer portion 12 towards the outlet 16 by means of capillarity, and a heat radiation fins 15, which is provided on the outer surface of the refrigerant supply portion 14 to prevent the temperature of the refrigerant introduced into the refrigerant supply portion from rising.

Abstract: There is provided with a load calculating device including: a variable acquiring unit configured to acquire, as monitoring variables, a detected value by a sensor monitoring a state of a circuit board and a performance characteristic obtained by a tool monitoring performance of the circuit board; a first storage configured to store a first statistical model that is one of a regression model, an occurrence frequency distribution and a probability distribution; a second storage configured to store a second statistical model that is one of a regression model, an occurrence frequency distribution and a probability distribution; and an arithmetic processor configured to calculate the intermediate variable from the monitoring variables acquired by the variable acquiring unit according to the first statistical model and calculate the physical quantity from calculated intermediate variable according to the second statistical model.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes first and second display devices having first and second display screens held in first and second housings, respectively. The second display screen is provided with a sensor which generates an output signal determining an input area in response to an external predetermined input to the second display screen. The first and second housings are connected together by a connecting mechanism so that an opening angle between the first and second housings can be adjusted. A first interface image is displayed on the second display screen. An instruction input to the interface image is determined on the basis of a sensor output signal. In response to the instruction input, a second display image is displayed in place of the first display image. In response to the instruction input, a second interface image is displayed in place of the first interface image.

Abstract: A magnetic refrigerating device includes: at least one set of double-structured Halbach type magnet including a ring-shaped inner Halbach type magnet and a ring-shaped outer Halbach type magnet which are coaxially arranged one another so that a magnetic field generated by the inner Halbach type magnet is superimposed with a magnetic field generated by the outer Halbach type magnet; a magnetic refrigerant or a magnetic refrigeration working chamber including the magnetic refrigerant therein disposed in a bore space of the inner Halbach type magnet; and a rotating mechanism to rotate the outer Halbach type magnet while the inner Halbach type magnet is stationed.

Abstract: In a cooling apparatus, a heating element is thermally connected to a container that defines a first channel through which a coolant flows. A porous block having a large number of pores is accommodated in the container so as to block the first channel. The porous block has second channels formed in the porous block along the first channel and each having an opening on an upstream side of the first channel. Further, third channels are formed in the porous block along the first channel, each have an opening on an upstream side of the first channel, and communicate with the second channels via the pores.

Abstract: A battery-powered vacuum cleaner is provided with a battery pack that generates heat and is capable of efficiently cooling the battery pack. The battery-powered vacuum cleaner comprises a battery pack (3) including a plurality of secondary batteries, a battery pack container (2) containing the battery pack, a motor (7) driven for operation by power supplied by the battery pack, a fan (5) driven by the motor to suck air, a dust cup (9) for separating dust from air sucked therein by the fan and storing the dust separated from the sucked air, a housing (1) containing the battery pack container, the motor, the fan and the dust cup, and provided with a first suction opening (30) through which external air is sucked, a first airflow duct (32) for guiding the air sucked in by the fun through the dust cup to the motor, and a second airflow duct (36), for guiding air for cooling the battery pack through the battery pack, joined to the first airflow duct at a junction (34) on the upstream side of the fan.

Abstract: A magnetic refrigerating device includes: a magnetic refrigerating unit including a magnetic material “A” exhibiting a magneto-caloric effect that the temperature of the material “A” is increased by the application of a magnetic field and the temperature of the material “A” is decreased by the removal of a magnetic field, a magnetic material “B” exhibiting a magneto-caloric effect that the temperature of the material “B” is decreased by the application of a magnetic field and the temperature of the material “B” is increased by the removal of a magnetic field, a heat conductive material “a” exhibiting higher heat conductivity under the application of a magnetic field and lower heat conductivity under the removal of a magnetic field, and a heat conductive material “b” exhibiting lower heat conductivity under the application of a magnetic field and higher heat conductivity under the removal of a magnetic field, wherein the magnetic refrigerating unit is configured so as to include at least one layered structure

Abstract: A compact and highly efficient hybrid magnetic refrigerator includes a hybrid refrigerating apparatus wherein an evaporator of a vapor compression refrigeration cycle and a heat exchanger of a magnetic refrigeration cycle are thermally connected. The magnetic refrigeration cycle is provided with a magnetic refrigeration unit in which a magnetic substance dissipates and absorbs heat according to the increase and decrease of a magnetic field in order to heat and cool a refrigerant circulating in its vicinity. The heated refrigerant is cooled by the evaporator of the vapor compression refrigeration cycle and the cooled refrigerant is supplied to the heat exchanger cooling the outside air.

Abstract: A carriage arm has a movement locus and supports a head that performs either one of recording information to a disk and reproducing information recorded on the disk. A carriage driving mechanism moves the carriage arm in a radial direction of the disk to perform a positioning of the carriage arm. A guide member changes a direction of air flowing on at least one of a peripheral portion of the disk and a neighboring portion of the peripheral portion toward a center portion of the disk. The guide member is provided in a position where the movement locus of the carriage arm is not blocked in an area of either one of the peripheral portion and the neighboring portion.

Abstract: In a magnetic refrigerator, a permanent magnet unit shaped like a hub is so rotated as to face an annular magnetic unit having magnetic blocks arranged in a circumferential direction. The permanent magnet unit is also arranged to be concentric with a magnetic unit and has an inner and outer diameters substantially equal to those of the magnetic unit. Each of the magnetic blocks has positive and negative magnetic segments alternately arranged with predetermined gaps. As the permanent magnet unit rotates, heat conducting members are inserted into and removed from the gaps between the magnetic segments of the magnetic block. This allows heat generated from the magnetic segments to conduct in one direction.

Abstract: In a heat transporting apparatus, a cylinder is filled with a refrigerant and pistons are arranged in the cylinder, which compress and expand the refrigerant in the cylinder. A magnet unit is movably provided around the cylinder to apply a magnetic field to the cylinder, which is alternately increased and decreased in accordance with a movement of the magnet unit. A thermal accumulator is received in the cylinder, which produces heat depending on one of the increasing and decreasing of the magnetic field at the compression of the refrigerant, and absorbs heat depending on the other of the increasing and decreasing of the magnetic field at the expansion of the refrigerant. Heat exchangers are located in the cylinder, which radiates the heat from the refrigerant and thermal accumulator to an exterior of the apparatus, and absorbs external heat and transfers the heat to the refrigerant and thermal accumulator.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus that comprises a housing, and a circulating path. A heat-generating component is contained in the housing. Liquid coolant for cooling the heat-generating component flows through the circulating path. The circulating path has a first connecting end and a second connecting end connected to the first connecting end. The junction between the first connecting end and the second connecting end is covered with a coolant-absorbent member. The electronic apparatus further includes a leak detection system to alert the user of a fluid leak within the apparatus and a liquid absorption means to absorb any leaking fluid.

Abstract: A battery-powered vacuum cleaner is provided with a battery pack that generates heat and is capable of efficiently cooling the battery pack. The battery pack of the battery-powered vacuum cleaner is cooled by a vacuum cleaner cooling method.

Abstract: A cooling device is applied to cooling an electronic element producing concentrated heat in a case where the electronic element is housed in a portable electronic device such as a notebook PC. The cooling device is provided with an active heat transport element provided with a heat intake portion and a heat outlet portion, which conducts heat from the heat intake portion to the heat outlet portion, a first flow channel disposed upstream of the electronic element in flow of the cooling medium, a second flow channel disposed downstream of the electronic element in the flow of the cooling medium. The heat is by-passed by means of the active heat transport element so that the electronic element is exposed to flow of the cooled cooling medium and effectively cooled thereby.

Abstract: In a disc drive apparatus, a magnetic disc is housed in a casing and rotated by a motor mechanism. A magnetic head for recording information in a disc surface region and for reproducing the recorded information is supported by a carriage arm such that the magnetic head is swingable. Formed on that side of the carriage arm which faces the magnetic disc is a guide portion for guiding the air stream generated on the disc surface such that the air stream is allowed to flow in the longitudinal direction of the carriage arm.

Abstract: An electronic equipment is provided with a fluid device using fluid including an additive, a main body comprising an installation site for installation of the fluid device and a detection part reserving the fluid. The detection part makes the fluid visible by means of the additive or is provided with a detection substance changing its nature when contacting the fluid, thereby leakage of the fluid is detected. The detection part may be further provided with electrodes to measure an electric property change therebetween. The detection part is disposed on either the installation site or the fluid device.

Abstract: A battery-powered vacuum cleaner is provided with a battery pack that generates heat and is capable of efficiently cooling the battery pack. The battery pack of the battery-powered vacuum cleaner is cooled by a vacuum cleaner cooling method.

Abstract: An input device includes: a display unit indicating an image of an input position; a contact position detecting unit detecting a position of an object brought into contact with a contact detecting layer provided on a display layer of the display unit; a contact strength detecting unit detecting contact strength of the object brought into contact with the contact detecting layer; a feature quantity extracting unit extracting a feature quantity related to the detected contact strength; and a special process executing unit comparing the extracted feature quantity with a predetermined threshold, and executing special processes.

Abstract: An input device includes a display unit indicating an image which represents an input position; a contact position detecting unit detecting a position of an object brought into contact with a contact detecting surface of the display unit; a memory storing data representing a difference between the detected position and a center of the image which represents the input position; and an arithmetic unit calculating an amount for correcting the image which represents the input position on the basis of the data stored by the memory.

Abstract: A battery pack includes an outer case, and a plurality of cylindrical lithium ion secondary batteries accommodated in the outer case in vertical N rows and lateral M rows (N rows?M rows), with a gap between the secondary batteries, wherein the outer case has a draft port opened in a first wall facing an outer circumferential surface of the secondary batteries in the first vertical row, and an exhaust port opened in a second wall positioned at the opposite side of the first wall, in each secondary battery in the first vertical row and the second vertical row, a part of the outer circumferential surface, which is at a shorter distance from the first wall than any other parts, faces the draft port of the outer case.