Abstract: An induction heating device according to the present invention includes: an induction heating coil 10 with a conductor 100 wound around a predetermined axis line AL; a member 11 including at least one soft magnetic material 110, the at least one soft magnetic material 110 being disposed at or on an outer side of each of axial end portions 102 of the induction heating coil 10 in an extending direction of the axis line AL; and a heating object 2 disposed on an inner side of the induction heating coil 10 and the member 11, the heating object 2 being configured to be heatable by induction heating using a magnetic flux from the induction heating coil 10.

Abstract: A control method, a controller, and a control system including a converter and the controller are provided to improve load responsiveness of control by the converter. The converter has a primary circuit that includes a voltage generation circuit for generating a square wave and a resonant circuit for converting a waveform of the generated square wave, and a secondary circuit that is electromagnetically coupled to the primary circuit and that generates an induced electromotive force. The controller controls the voltage generation circuit by a control target power factor. To implement power factor-based control, the controller controls the voltage generation circuit, based on a derived power factor derived from an active power and an apparent power relevant to the resonant circuit in the primary circuit or a derived power factor derived from a phase of the primary circuit.

Abstract: A control method, a controller, and a control system including a converter and the controller are provided to improve load responsiveness of control by the converter. The converter has a primary circuit that includes a voltage generation circuit for generating a square wave and a resonant circuit for converting a waveform of the generated square wave, and a secondary circuit that is electromagnetically coupled to the primary circuit and that generates an induced electromotive force. The controller controls the voltage generation circuit by a control target power factor. To implement power factor-based control, the controller controls the voltage generation circuit, based on a derived power factor derived from an active power and an apparent power relevant to the resonant circuit in the primary circuit or a derived power factor derived from a phase of the primary circuit.

Abstract: A magnetic circuit component includes a magnetic core and a coil formed by winding a conductor around the magnetic core. The magnetic circuit component includes a magnetic material section that is formed from a soft magnetic material, and that covers a part of a surface of the coil or the entire surface of the coil and is disposed away from the magnetic core.

Abstract: A wire throttle adjustment device 1 for performing open-close adjustment of a throttle valve by pull operation of a wire 2. The wire throttle adjustment device 1 includes an operation member 10 connected to an end part 2A of the wire 2 and configured to perform the pull operation of the wire 2. The operation member 10 includes an action part 11 that is elastically deformable by the pull operation of the wire 2 in a fully-opened state of the throttle valve. The action part 11 includes an elastically-deformable elastic arm part 12 configured to swing together with the operation part 15 and extending from the pivotally-supported part 14, and the end part of the wire 14 is connected to a tip part of the elastic arm part 12.

Abstract: A structure for preventing the falling of a fastening nut of a portable power working machine that can reliably prevent loss of the nut while suppressing the production and component costs, allows for easy operation of attaching a nut anchor member to a cover, and can increase the maintenance property, suppress damage and failures, increase the durability, and reduce the size and weight; and a method for attaching the fastening nut to a cover are provided.

Abstract: An induction heating apparatus includes: a core that has a pair of magnetic poles and transfers magnetic flux; a coil generating magnetic flux; conductors adjacently provided on both left and right sides of the magnetic poles; and lateral magnetic members formed of a magnetic material and arranged on an outer side of end portions of the object so as to extend along the end portions. The conductors shut off the magnetic flux that flows from a center portion of the heating object, taking a detour to the end portions, permit the magnetic flux to concentrate on the center portion, and accelerate temperature rise. The lateral magnetic members introduce the magnetic flux that propagates from one surface to the other surface, detouring around the end portions to thereby mitigate the magnetic flux density in the end portions and suppress overheating.

Abstract: A chainsaw includes a chainsaw body, a guide bar and a saw chain. The chainsaw body includes an oil tank, an oil pump to supply oil stored in the oil tank to a sliding portion between the guide bar and the saw chain, a first extension chamber arranged above the oil tank and a second extension chamber arranged above the first extension chamber. The oil tank communicates with the first extension chamber via a first flow path, the first extension chamber communicates with the second extension chamber via a second flow path and a vent hole communicating with the outer space is formed in the second extension chamber.

Abstract: The need for maintenance regarding wire stretching and position displacement between a throttle valve and an operation member is eliminated. A wire throttle adjustment device 1 is for performing open-close adjustment of a throttle valve by pull operation of a wire 2. The wire throttle adjustment device 1 includes an operation member 10 connected to an end part 2A of the wire 2 and configured to perform the pull operation of the wire 2. The operation member 10 includes an action part 11 that is elastically deformable by the pull operation of the wire 2 in a fully-opened state of the throttle valve. The action part 11 includes an elastically-deformable elastic arm part 12 configured to swing together with the operation part 15 and extending from the pivotally-supported part 14, and the end part of the wire 14 is connected to a tip part of the elastic arm part 12.

Abstract: A magnetic circuit component includes a magnetic core and a coil formed by winding a conductor around the magnetic core. The magnetic circuit component includes a magnetic material section that is formed from a soft magnetic material, and that covers a part of a surface of the coil or the entire surface of the coil and is disposed away from the magnetic core.

Abstract: A detector includes a detection winding, a detection winding measurement section, and a detection section. A magnetic core has a hole penetrating the magnetic core along a non-uniform cross section. The detection winding includes a wire inserted into the hole and surrounding a periphery of a detection region that is a part of the non-uniform cross section and has a magnetic flux density different from an average magnetic flux density of the non-uniform cross section. The detection winding measurement section performs a measurement relating to an electromotive force induced by the detection winding. The detection section detects a magnetic bias, a magnetic saturation, or an amount of magnetic flux in the magnetic core based on a measurement result of the detection winding measurement section.

Abstract: A structure for preventing the falling of a fastening nut of a portable power working machine that can reliably prevent loss of the nut while suppressing the production and component costs, allows for easy operation of attaching a nut anchor member to a cover, and can increase the maintenance property, suppress damage and failures, increase the durability, and reduce the size and weight; and a method for attaching the fastening nut to a cover are provided.

Abstract: A chainsaw includes a chainsaw body, a guide bar and a saw chain. The chainsaw body includes an oil tank, an oil pump to supply oil stored in the oil tank to a sliding portion between the guide bar and the saw chain, a first extension chamber arranged above the oil tank and a second extension chamber arranged above the first extension chamber. The oil tank communicates with the first extension chamber via a first flow path, the first extension chamber communicates with the second extension chamber via a second flow path and a vent hole communicating with the outer space is formed in the second extension chamber.

Abstract: A resonant current limiting device, for a resonant current passage having a loop shape including at least one capacitor and a wiring passage with at least one inductor or inductance component, includes: an electric storage element connected in series with the capacitor; a driving power source; and a voltage controller that charges and discharges an electric charge in the electric storage element, which is supplied from the driving power source, controls a terminal voltage of the electric storage element to be a predetermined instruction voltage, and restricts a resonant current component flowing through the wiring passage.

Abstract: A reactor includes a magnetic core and a plurality of coils disposed adjacent to each other and electrically connected to each other. The plurality of coils includes an intermediate coil inducing a magnetic flux which does not interlink with an end of the magnetic core, and magnetic paths forming at least two closed magnetic paths run through a portion inside the intermediate coil.

Abstract: In a current detection circuit, a first circuit is connected between a first terminal and a second terminal, and a second circuit is connected between a third terminal and a fourth terminal. The second terminal and the fourth terminal are commonly connected. When a first current flows between the first and second terminals, voltage drop occurs in the first circuit. A current control circuit controls the first current to make an application voltage between the first and second terminals substantially same as an application voltage between the third and fourth terminals. When the first circuit has voltage drop same as the second circuit, the first current has the amount proportional to the second current. A detection circuit detects a current flowing between the first terminal and the third terminal by detecting the first current controlled by the current control circuit or the second current.

Abstract: In a power conversion apparatus, a secondary winding is connected between main terminals of one of two circuit elements included in a main series circuit, and a voltage applied to a primary winding induces a voltage in a secondary winding in a direction from a first main terminal of a secondary winding, which is disposed at a low-potential side of the main series circuit, toward a second main terminal of a secondary winding, which is disposed at a high-potential side of the main series circuit. A rectifying unit blocks a current flowing from the high-potential side of the main series circuit toward the low-potential side of the main series circuit in a current path that includes the secondary winding and bypasses one of the two circuit elements included in the main series circuit.

Abstract: Provided is a portable power working machine that is designed to suppress mixing of dust into air sucked into an air intake system of an air-cooled internal combustion engine mounted as a driving power source for working units, for example, and reliably prevent an air cleaner provided to the air intake system of the internal combustion engine from being clogged with dust, and thus eliminate the necessity of frequently cleaning the air cleaner. An air intake port of an air intake passage is arranged on the opposite side of the internal combustion engine with respect to a straightening passage formed around a cooling fan, so that, of the air released from a discharge port of the straightening passage, at least part of air released toward the opposite side of the internal combustion engine with respect to the straightening passage is taken into the air intake passage via the air intake port.

Abstract: In a power converter, at least two main current paths each including an inductor and a transistor are connected between input terminals, and at least two storage circuits each including capacitors are correspondingly connected to branch nodes of the main current paths. Diodes are connected between the storage circuits. The transistors of the main current paths are interleaved. When one of the transistors is turned off, a current flowing in the corresponding inductor flows into the corresponding storage circuit to turn on the diodes and to charge the capacitors of the corresponding storage circuit. When another one of the transistors is turned off, a current flowing in the corresponding inductor flows into the corresponding storage circuit to turn on the diodes and charge the capacitors of the corresponding storage circuit.

Abstract: A series circuit of a diode Da1, capacitors Ca1, Ca2 and a diode Da2 is connected in parallel to a series circuit of switching elements S1 and S2. A common junction between the capacitors Ca1 and Ca2 is connected to an emitter of the switching element S2. A series circuit of a switching element Sa1 and a diode Da3 is connected between a cathode of the diode Da1 and a cathode of the diode Da2. A series circuit of a diode Da4 and a switching element Sa2 is connected between an anode of the diode Da1 and the ground. A reactor La1 is connected between a source of the switching element Sa1 and a drain of the switching element Sa2.