Abstract: An automobile air-conditioner wherein a total signal corresponding to a thermal load in the passenger compartment of an automobile and a head part total signal corresponding to a thermal load in the vicinity of the head of an occupant of the passenger compartment, then the thus obtained two total signals are used to determine two corresponding states of operation of a component involved in air-conditioning operation, and operation of the air-conditioning component is controlled based on one of the two total signals which is capable of providing an enhanced coolness to the occupant. According to a preferred embodiment, all the components involved in the air-conditioning operation are controlled based on the head part total signal.

Abstract: In an air-conditioner for automobiles, cooled air having passed through an evaporator is immediately introduced through a cooled air bypass passage into the vehicle passenger compartment. The opening of a bypass door disposed in the bypass passage is adjusted based on a head part total signal corresponding to a thermal load in the vicinity of the head of an occupant which is obtained in view of the current discharge mode, or an auxiliary total signal corresponding to a thermal load in the vehicle passenger compartment which is obtained in view of the current discharge mode. With this arrangement, the occupant does never feel excess cold when the discharge mode is changed and hence a feeling of comfortableness toward the air-conditioning can be maintained.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an automobile air-conditioner wherein the direction of solar radiation is determined based on a signal which is obtained by retarding the leading edge of a solar radiation signal and the position of an air-distributing door is controlled according to the thus obtained signal. A signal whose leading and trailing edges are progressively increasing and decreasing, respectively, is used for the calculation of a signal corresponding to the thermal load in the vehicle passenger compartment. The operation of various components of the air-conditioner including a blower is controlled by the result of calculation of the thermal load signal.

Abstract: An automobile air-conditioner controlling apparatus is equipped with a determination means for determining the amount of air bleeding from a defroster outlet, based on at least the outside temperature and the amount of opening of an air-mix door, when the temperature of blown-off air is higher than a predetermined temperature. By the determination means, the blow-off mode of the apparatus is automatically controlled over an expanded range when the outside temperature is low.

Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus for a car including a solar radiation sensor having right and left side elements for receiving solar radiation coming from right and left sides of the car, respectively, an arithmetic device for generating a control signal based upon the outputs from both light receiving elements and a control device for driving a plurality of air conditioning devices on the basis of the control signal.

Abstract: The golf club set according to the present invention consists of plural golf clubs of which the lofts are increased iron a predetermined order, preferably with increments of 3.degree. to 4.degree.. The heads of golf clubs with lofts ranging from 9.degree. to 25.degree. in the set being constructed with a sole plate attached to a shell of a synthetic resin and integrally formed with a core, the heads of golf clubs with lofts ranging from 22.degree. to 31.degree. being constructed with a shell of a synthetic resin, core and sole plate formed integrally with one another, and the heads of golf clubs with lofts ranging from 28.degree. to 50.degree. being constructed with a mass of a high specific gravity synthetic resin and a sole plate molded integrally with each other.

Abstract: An automobile air-conditioning apparatus with air blower control air-conditions the passenger compartment of an automobile by cooling and/or heating air delivered from an air blower into the compartment. During a period in which the compartment starts being cooled, the rate of air flow form the air blower is progressively increased up to an air flow rate in an automatic temperature adjusting mode. The gradient at which the air flow rate is increased is selected dependent on the amount of sunlight applied to the automobile, the temperature of air in the compartment, and the temperature of air at the outlet of an evaporator.

Abstract: A troubleshooting apparatus counts the number of times an abnormality occurs whenever each diagnosed portion of an automobile air-conditioning system repeats an abnormal and a normal status, stores each diagnosed portion in which an abnormality is detected and the number of times the abnormality of each diagnosed portion occurs in a nonvolatile memory, recognizes each diagnosed portion having the number of times the abnormality exceeds a predetermined value at the time of troubleshooting as a fault, and recognizes each diagnosed portion having an abnormality that occurs at the time of troubleshooting as a fault. Abnormalities that occur in conjunction with the dismounting and remounting of diagnosed portions during checking processes are absorbed in the number of times the abnormality occurs within the predetermined value so that a wrong diagnosis can be avoided.

Abstract: The operational temperature TP is determined as a function of the compartment temperature Tr. The blower speed is controlled along the characteristic line, the slope of which varies with the operational temperature TP. When the temperature of engine cooling water reaches a predetermined temperature, the speed of the blower is increased along the slope corresponding to the compartment temperature Tr. When the operational temperature TP is at least the predetermined temperature Tl, the speed of the blower is controlled as a function of time so that any violent increase in the blower speed may be prevented.

Abstract: An automotive air-conditioning system includes an arithmetic unit which provides combined control signals at least on the basis of data representing room temperature, fresh air temperature, set temperature and intensity of insolation; a blower control unit which controls the blowing rate of a blower according to the combined signals; an air mixing control unit which controls the opening of an air mixing door on the basis of the combined signals; a mode changing unit which establishes the defrosting mode, the face mode, the foot mode or the bilevel mode according to a mode changing signal based on the opening of the air mixing door and the temperature of an evaporator; a blowing rate control unit which increases the actual blowing rate of the blower gradually after the actuation of the blower; and a control unit which controls the air mixing door control unit and the mode changing unit on the basis of the temperature of the engine cooling water.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an automotive air-conditioning system comprising an arithmetic means, control means, diagnostic control means and diagnostic setting means. The invention enables one to diagnose whether output devices such as an air mixing door, a compressor or the like are normally operable or not.

Abstract: A temperature control device used in an automobile air conditioner system includes a potentiometer for detecting the opening amount of an air-mix door. The potentiometer is tapped and includes at least one auxiliary resistance connected in parallel with a resistance element of the potentiometer.