Abstract: The present invention provides an AC generator for a vehicle, in which a resin case (26) includes convex portions (33) formed on an outer circumferential surface of the resin case (26) so as to extend in an axial direction of the resin case (26) to be brought into pressure-contact with an inner circumferential wall surface of a counter drive-side bearing housing portion (24), and convex portions (34) formed on an inner circumferential surface of the resin case (26) so as to be opposed to the convex portions (33). The concave portions (34) allow displacement of the convex portions (33) in a radially inward direction of the resin case (26). By an elastic force generated by the displacement of the convex portions (33), the resin case (26) is integrated with the counter drive-side bearing housing portion (24).

Abstract: To provide an AC generator equipped with a voltage regulation device capable of cost reduction in terms of both of manufacture and device, a voltage regulation device for the AC generator, and a method for manufacturing the same. In an AC generator equipped with a voltage regulation device 16 for regulating the magnitude of output voltage, the voltage regulation device 16 is composed of: a molded body 15 having a plurality of insert conductors; and a circuit component 14 mounted on the molded body 15 and electrically connected to the insert conductors, and in the voltage regulation device 16, an extended-portion-for-jumper 19ae is integrally provided in a part of the insert conductor 19a.

Abstract: A mold clamping mechanism including a fixed platen and a movable platen is disclosed. The fixed platen includes upper and lower, left and right through-holes for allowing passage of tie-bars therethrough, and a cutout for separating the through-holes into mold-side holes and opposite-mold-side holes. The fixed platen is divided by the cutout into a mold-side part and an opposite-mold-side part. The mold-side part is provided with main leg part connected to the bed.

Abstract: The present invention provides an automotive rotary electric machine that can suppress unnecessary disengagement of a protective cover by increasing supporting strength for the protective cover. The automotive rotary electric machine according to the present invention includes: a rectifier and a voltage regulator that are disposed outside a first axial end of a casing; and a resin protective cover that is formed so as to have a cup shape that is constituted by a bottom portion and a cylindrical peripheral wall portion, and that is mounted onto a casing so as to cover the rectifier and the voltage regulator. The protective cover is held by a circuit board of the rectifier by coupling by snap-fitting a plurality of projections that are disposed so as to protrude from an inner circumferential wall surface of the peripheral wall portion to a plurality of projection-engaging portions that are formed on an outer peripheral wall surface of the circuit board so as to be separated circumferentially.

Abstract: A winding assembly includes: slot-housed portions housed inside each of the slots of the stator core so as to form pairs that line up in an inner layer and an outer layer relative to a slot depth direction; first return portions at a first axial end of the stator core that link end portions of the slot-housed portions housed in the inner layer inside each of the slots and end portions of the slot-housed portions housed in the outer layer inside the slots that are (N?M) slots away; and second return portions at a second axial end of the stator core that link end portions of the slot-housed portions housed in the outer layer inside each of the slots and end portions of the slot-housed portions housed in the inner layer inside the slots that are (N+M) slots away.

Abstract: A regulator of a vehicle AC generator is formed of an IC regulator of a mold package type and a regulator holder having an IC regulator mount portion. A press-fit fitting structure (140A, 230A, 140C, or 230D) is provided between an attachment plane of the IC regulator mount portion (110A) and an attachment plane of the IC regulator (200A) or between an inner wall surface of the IC regulator mount portion and an outer wall surface of the IC regulator.

Abstract: The stator winding has winding assemblies that are disposed in a stator core so as to be stacked in three or more layers in a radial direction such that slot-housed portions line up in single columns in a slot depth direction inside slots, and radial widths of return portions of the winding assemblies that are mounted so as to be stacked in a radial direction are made sequentially narrower in order of return portions of a winding assembly that is positioned centrally, return portions of a winding assembly that is positioned on an inner circumferential side, and return portions of a winding assembly that is positioned on an outer circumferential side.

Abstract: An automotive alternator rectifying apparatus includes a circuit board that connects a positive-side rectifying element mounted to the positive-side heatsink and a negative-side rectifying element mounted to the negative-side heatsink to configure a bridge circuit. The circuit board includes a tubular lead guiding portion that includes a lead insertion aperture; and a terminal that is disposed so as to extend outward in an aperture direction of the lead insertion aperture from an exit edge portion of the lead insertion aperture, and to which is connected a lead that is subject to connection that is inserted through an entrance of the lead insertion aperture and that extends outward from an exit, and the lead insertion aperture is formed such that cross-sectional area thereof becomes gradually smaller from the entrance toward the exit.

Abstract: A speaker array apparatus for outputting sound beams of a plurality of channels based on audio signals of the plurality of channels, includes a directivity control section that controls a directivity of at least one of the sound beams of the channels so as to generate one or more pairs of the sound beams of the channels having roughly the same directivity, and a frequency characteristic applying section that applies a frequency characteristic to the audio signal corresponding to one of the sound beams of the channels in the one or more pairs to change a sound image localization position of the one of the sound beams of the channels in the one or more pairs.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit, a gloss level measuring section, and a fixation condition setting section. The gloss level measuring section measures a gloss level of an image portion and a gloss level of a non-image portion in a recording medium after fixation, and separately measures, as the gloss level of the image portion, a first gloss level indicative of a gloss level of a chromatic toner image and a second gloss level indicative of a gloss level of a black toner image. The fixation condition setting section sets the fixation condition for the fixing unit so that the first gloss level and the second gloss level approach respective different target gloss levels, on the basis of a measured value of the first gloss level and a measured value of the second gloss level and a measured value of the gloss level of the non-image portion.

Abstract: In a rotor of a rotary electric machine including a pair of gutter-shaped concave portions which are formed along a side surface positioned at the outside of an axis of field-magnet core components so as to install and protect a pair of lead wires, balance-correction concave portions formed by a molding die are provided at shoulders of claw-shaped magnetic poles being nearest to the gutter-shaped concave portions in claw-shaped magnetic poles arranged at positions which are evenly separated at least in a circumferential direction with respect to the pair of gutter-shaped concave portions.

Abstract: A drum washing apparatus for washing an interior of a mixer drum carried on a mixer truck includes a washing liquid supply hose for supplying a washing liquid; a washing pipe connected to the washing liquid supply hose, a tip end portion of which is inserted into the interior of the mixer drum through an open end of the mixer drum; and an ejection portion provided in the washing pipe to eject the washing liquid into the mixer drum. The washing pipe is adapted to be capable of moving in response to an externally applied external force.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus performs image formation of a target image with the use of a first color gamut as a standard color gamut for image formation. The image forming apparatus includes a storage section, a color conversion section, and an image forming section. The storage section stores a color expansion table indicating a second color gamut wider than the first color gamut. The color conversion section converts, when a color in the target image is present outside the first color gamut, a color value of the color in the target image to a color value of a coloring material used for image formation on the basis of the color expansion table. The image forming section performs image formation of the target image on the basis of the color value of the coloring material.

Abstract: An automotive rotary electric machine has a cooling fan including a flat ring-shaped mounting base plate fixed to a rotor, and a plurality of fan blades arranged in a row circumferentially such that each stands on a surface of the mounting base plate, the fan blades having an S-shaped cross-sectional shape that displaces gradually forward in a direction of rotation from a trailing edge that is an outer circumferential edge toward a leading edge that is an inner circumferential edge, and in which an arc shape near the trailing edge that is convex forward in the direction of rotation and an arc shape near the leading edge that is convex rearward in the direction of rotation are connected smoothly.

Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes: a terminal to which a vehicle-side connector is connected; a hood portion surrounding the terminal; a protection cover functioning with a purpose of holding or protecting constituent components of the in-vehicle device; and a damper mechanical portion formed integrally with the protection cover and installed on a periphery of the hood portion. The damper mechanical portion has an cuter wall portion linked to a base portion of the protection cover and an inner wall portion spaced. apart from an outer surface of the hood portion and held on an inner side of the outer wall portion.

Abstract: An optical module that outputs a wavelength multiplexed optical signal is disclosed. The optical module provides at least first to third optical source, a wavelength multiplexer, a polarization rotator, and a polarization multiplexer. The optical sources each outputting first to third optical signals with a wavelength different from others. The wavelength multiplexer multiplexes the first optical signal with the third optical signal. The polarization rotator rotates the polarization vector of one of the multiplexed first and third optical signals and the second signal by substantially 90°. The polarization multiplexer multiplexes the polarization rotated optical signal with the second optical signal.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle AC generator which enables the common use of components and the use of the same molding die for molded bodies to enable a significant reduction in fabrication cost. The vehicle AC generator includes a molded body (45) having the same outer shape. On one surface side of the molded body, a capacitor body including a capacitor element built therein is electrically connected to an insert conductor, and a resistor (44) is electrically connected to the insert conductor only when a device main body is provided outside of the AC generator. On another surface side of the molded body, the device main body is electrically connected to the insert conductor only when the device main body is provided in the AC generator.

Abstract: A vehicle AC generator capable of enhancing a cooling effect by increasing an air volume of cooling air is obtained. The AC generator includes: a casing having a ventilation port on an outer periphery; a stator installed in the casing; a rotor supported in the stator in a rotatable manner; a fan installed oppositely to the ventilation port in the casing and rotated integrally with the rotor; and a protrusion formed on a surface of the casing opposing a tip end of the fan at a position adjacent to an outer periphery of the ventilation port of the casing.

Abstract: A photodetector 1A comprises an optical element 10, having a structure including first regions and second regions periodically arranged with respect to the first regions along a plane perpendicular to a predetermined direction, for generating an electric field component in the predetermined direction when light is incident thereon along the predetermined direction; and a semiconductor multilayer body 4 having a quantum cascade structure, arranged on the other side opposite from one side in the predetermined direction with respect to the optical element, for producing a current according to the electric field component in the predetermined direction generated by the optical element 10; while the quantum cascade structure includes an active region 4b for exciting an electron and an injector region 4c for transporting the electron, the active region 4b being formed on the outermost surface on the one side of the injector region 4c in the quantum cascade structure.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle AC generator which enables the common use of components and the use of the same molding die for molded bodies to enable a significant reduction in fabrication cost. The vehicle AC generator includes a molded body (45). On one surface side of the molded body, a capacitor body (43) including a capacitor element built therein is electrically connected to an insert conductor. On another surface side of the molded body, a resistor (44) is electrically connected to the insert conductor only when a device main body is provided outside of the AC generator, and the device main body is electrically connected to the insert conductor only when the device main body is provided in the AC generator.