Abstract: A device temperature regulator is provided with a gas passage part that guides a gaseous working fluid evaporated in a device heat exchanger to a condenser, and a liquid passage part that guides a liquid working fluid condensed in the condenser to the device heat exchanger. The device temperature regulator is provided with a supply amount regulator that increases or decreases a supply amount of the liquid working fluid supplied to the device heat exchanger. The supply amount regulator decreases the supply amount of the liquid working fluid to the device heat exchanger such that a liquid surface is formed in a state where the gaseous working fluid is positioned at a lower side lower than a heat exchanging portion exchanging heat with a temperature regulation target device in the device heat exchanger, when a condition for keeping the temperature regulation target device at a temperature is satisfied.

Abstract: In a heat pump system, when a heat-shock determination portion determines that a difference between a coolant temperature in a coolant flow path and a coolant temperature in a heat source flow path is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature, a flow-path switching portion mixes the respective coolants flowing through at least a bypass flow path and the heat source flow path together to flow into the coolant flow path.

Abstract: A display apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a light source section that outputs a light beam of a plurality of predetermined colors; an image data processing section that generates a sub-frame image of a single color by dividing a unit frame into a plurality of sub-frames, on the basis of an input image signal, and generates a sub-frame image of a mixed color based on the image signals of at least two colors; a display device that modulates the light beam based on the sub-frame images generated by the image data processing section; and a light source control section that causes the light source section to output the light beam of the color corresponding to the sub-frame image of the single color, in a selected period, and causes the light source section to output the light beams of the at least two colors sequentially.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle air-conditioning device in which cooperative work with a power source is appropriate, which is easy to follow when the power source is restarted, and which reduces a driving force of a compressor at the time of restarting the power source. The vehicle air-conditioning device is provided with a refrigeration cycle. The refrigeration cycle has a compressor that is driven by a power source which may stop temporarily. The refrigeration cycle provides a low temperature and/or a high temperature. A high-temperature system and/or a low-temperature system is provided as a thermal buffer. The refrigeration cycle is provided with electric expansion valves which can be fully closed. The vehicle air-conditioning device is also provided with a control device, which fully closes the electric expansion valves when the compressor is temporarily stopped and which controls the electric expansion valves to the previous opening position when the compressor is restarted.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a device temperature controller includes filling an inside of a circuit with working fluid by connecting a filling port of the circuit to a container that stores gas phase working fluid. The circuit constitutes a thermosiphon heat pipe and allows the working fluid to circulate in the circuit. In the filling, the working fluid inside the circuit is cooled by a cooling source. An inside temperature of the circuit is decreased to be lower than an inside temperature of the container, and thereby an inside pressure of the circuit is decreased to be lower than an inside pressure of the container.

Abstract: A first thermosiphon circuit includes a first evaporator configured to cool a first target device by a latent heat of evaporation of a working fluid that absorbs a heat from the first target device, and a first passage communicating with the first evaporator. A second thermosiphon circuit includes a second evaporator configured to cool a second target device by a latent heat of evaporation of a working fluid that absorbs a heat from the second target device, and a second passage communicating with the second evaporator. A main condenser includes a first heat exchanger provided in the first passage and a second heat exchanger provided in the second passage, and is configured to allow the working fluid flowing through the first heat exchanger, the working fluid flowing through the second heat exchanger, and a predetermined cold energy supply medium to exchange heat with each other.

Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a high-pressure side heat exchanger, a low-pressure side heat exchanger, a temperature-adjustment target device to be temperature-adjusted with a high-pressure side refrigerant, an exterior heat exchanger exchanging heat between the high-pressure side refrigerant or a low-pressure side refrigerant and outside air, a switching portion configured to switch between a heat dissipation mode in which the high-pressure side refrigerant dissipates heat into the outside air in the exterior heat exchanger and a heat absorption mode in which the low-pressure side refrigerant absorbs heat from the outside air in the exterior heat exchanger, a cooling request operation portion, and a controller configured to control an operation of the switching portion to perform the heat absorption mode when the cooling request operation portion operates to request cooling of the air and the temperature-adjustment target device needs to be warmed up.

Abstract: A first illumination device includes a light source that emits light having directivity, and a uniform illumination optical system including a first fly-eye lens that includes a plurality of lenses two-dimensionally arranged and allows light based on emitted light from the light source to pass through the first fly-eye lens. An illumination target region has a planar shape having a side extending along a direction substantially parallel to a long-axis direction or a short-axis direction of an intensity distribution shape of emitted light from the light source, and a periodic direction of an array of the lenses in the first fly-eye lens is inclined with respect to the long-axis direction or the short-axis direction.

Abstract: A thermal management device for a vehicle includes heat medium circuits, a reserve tank, and a connector. The heat medium circulates through the heat medium circuits separately. The reserve tank is configured to separate an air bubble contained in the heat medium from the heat medium. The connector allows the reserve tank to come in communication with the heat medium circuits selectively. As such, an occurrence of the heat loss in the degassing performed in the reserve tank can be suppressed with the thermal management device for a vehicle including the heat medium circuits.

Abstract: A cooling device includes: an evaporator cooling a cooling object by evaporating a heat medium in a liquid phase by a heat exchange between the cooling object and the heat medium; a condenser, disposed above the evaporator, radiating a heat of the heat medium to an external fluid by condensing the heat medium in a gas phase by a heat exchange between the heat medium and the external fluid; a gas-phase passage for guiding the gas-phase heat medium from the evaporator to the condenser; and a liquid-phase passage for guiding the liquid-phase heat medium from the condenser to the evaporator. Further, the gas-phase passage includes a rising portion on one side of the cooling device in a predetermined direction orthogonal to a vertical direction and at least a part of the rising portion rises above surroundings.

Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes a compressor, an air-refrigerant heat exchanger that exchanges heat between air and refrigerant, an expansion valve decompressing the refrigerant, a heat medium-refrigerant heat exchanger that exchanges heat between a heat medium and the refrigerant, a cold-heat utilization device that utilizes cold heat of the heat medium, and a hot-heat utilization device that utilizes hot heat of the heat medium. A refrigerant flow switching valve is provided to switch between a heat-medium cooling mode of cooling the heat medium in the heat medium-refrigerant heat exchanger, and a heat-medium heating mode of heating the heat medium in the heat medium-refrigerant heat exchanger.

Abstract: A cooling device for a vehicle is configured as a thermosiphon that performs heat transfer by a working fluid sealed in a sealed container to cool a target object. The cooling device includes an evaporator and an outdoor condenser. The evaporator forms a part of the sealed container, and evaporates the working fluid by absorbing heat of the target device. The outdoor condenser forms a part of the sealed container, and is disposed above the evaporator. The outdoor condenser is located adjacent to a cabin space with respect to a vehicle body around the cabin space. The outdoor condenser is fixed to the vehicle body or a member provided adjacent to the cabin space with respect to the vehicle body, and condenses the working fluid by radiating heat of the working fluid vaporized in the evaporator to an outside air.

Abstract: A display apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a light source section that outputs a light beam of a plurality of predetermined colors; an image data processing section that generates a sub-frame image of a single color by dividing a unit frame into a plurality of sub-frames, on the basis of an input image signal, and generates a sub-frame image of a mixed color based on the image signals of at least two colors; a display device that modulates the light beam based on the sub-frame images generated by the image data processing section; and a light source control section that causes the light source section to output the light beam of the color corresponding to the sub-frame image of the single color, in a selected period, and causes the light source section to output the light beams of the at least two colors sequentially.

Abstract: A cooler cools a target equipment by evaporation latent heat of working fluid. A cold-heat heat exchanger condenses the working fluid by radiating heat of the working fluid using cold heat of low-temperature and low-pressure refrigerant circulating in a refrigeration cycle. An air-cooled heat exchanger condenses the working fluid by radiating heat of the working fluid using cold heat of outside air. The cooler, the cold-heat heat exchanger, and the air-cooled heat exchanger are connected by a gas pipe and a liquid pipe. An outside air temperature detector detects an outside air temperature. A saturation temperature detector detects a saturation temperature of the working fluid circulating in a thermosiphon circuit. A heat radiation controller controls an amount of heat radiated from the working fluid flowing through the cold-heat heat exchanger so that the saturation temperature of the working fluid becomes higher than the outside air temperature.

Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes: a first expansion valve that decompresses a refrigerant flowing out of a high-pressure side heat exchanger; an exterior heat exchanger that exchanges heat between the refrigerant flowing out of the first expansion valve and outside air; a second expansion valve that decompresses the refrigerant flowing out of the exterior heat exchanger; a low-pressure side heat exchanger arranged in series with the exterior heat exchanger; a cooler core that exchanges heat between the heat medium cooled by the low-pressure side heat exchanger and air to be blown into a vehicle interior to cool the air; and a controller configured to switch between a heat absorption mode and a heat dissipation mode by adjusting an amount of decompression in each of the first expansion valve and the second expansion valve.

Abstract: A method for presenting a sound, a non-transitory recording medium, a sound presentation system, and a terminal apparatus capable of improving the comfort of a user are provided. A communication unit obtains an announcement sound announced from an utterer to a user in an airplane and a degree of importance of the announcement sound. Next, an in-flight broadcasting priority control unit determines, on the basis of the obtained degree of importance, whether to present the announcement sound to the user. If the in-flight broadcasting priority control unit determines that the announcement sound is to be presented to the user, an in-flight broadcasting control unit transmits the announcement sound to an entertainment terminal used by the user.

Abstract: A vehicular heat management device includes a first heat source, a second heat source, a heater core, a first heat medium pathway, a second heat medium pathway, a heater core pathway, a switching portion, and a control unit. The first heat source is provided in the first heat medium pathway, and the second heat source is provided in the second heat medium pathway. The heater core is provided in the heater core pathway. The switching portion switches between flowing connection and flowing disconnection. The control unit performs at least one of a switching control and a second heat source control when a temperature of the heat medium of the heater core pathway is at or above a predetermined temperature. In the switching control, the switching portion connects the second heat medium pathway to the heater core pathway. In the second heat source control, the second heat source generates heat.

Abstract: A vehicular heat management system includes a heat medium circuit, a heat source portion, and a device. A heat medium cooling an engine circulates in the heat medium circuit. The heat source portion heats the heat medium. The device is configured to function and heat the heat medium when the heat medium flowing into the device is at or above a predetermined temperature. When the engine is being warmed up, heat generated by the heat source portion is supplied to the device in preference to the engine. According to this, since the heat generated by the heat source portion is supplied to the device in preference to the engine when the engine is being warmed up, the engine can be warmed up early.

Abstract: An illumination device includes a light source section, an optical element, and a driver. The light source section includes a laser light source. The optical element includes a periodic structure, and is disposed in an optical path of light emitted from the light source section. The driver vibrates the optical element to cause a vibration direction to be inclined to a periodic direction of the periodic structure of the optical element.

Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes a light valve that modulates illuminating light on the basis of image data to output the modulated light, an illuminating unit including a light source, and a plurality of optical members for illumination that generate the illuminating light on the basis of light from the light source to guide the illuminating light to the light valve, a projection lens that projects the modulated light from the light valve on a projection surface, and allows detection light to enter from a direction opposite to a travelling direction of the modulated light, and an imaging device that is disposed at a location optically conjugated with the light valve, and allows the detection light to enter through the projection lens. The plurality of optical members for illumination have optical property of reducing a noise component that affects the detection light and arises inside the illuminating unit.