Abstract: In this inverter-integrated electric compressor, the circuit board of an inverter device is divided into: a main circuit board having a shape and size that can be housed within an inverter housing section; and a sub-circuit board that is electrically connected to the main circuit board. The main circuit board is affixed and installed to boss sections at at least the (four) corners, and is also affixed and supported by electrical components mounted to the circuit board. The sub-circuit board has a flaring shape from the front end side to the back end side, and is affixed and installed to boss sections at three front/back points in a space below the main circuit board to the back of a bottom section inclined downwards toward the back from the front of the inverter housing section.

Abstract: An inverter-integrated electric compressor for which an inverter device is integrally incorporated, with a main circuit board being housed while the four corners thereof are supported by boss parts at locations above high-voltage electrical components and semiconductor switching elements. The multiple high-voltage electrical components are arranged in parallel along one side of the main circuit board at one side of an inverter housing part, with one side of the main circuit board being supported from below by the upper surface of these components. The multiple semiconductor switching elements are arranged in parallel along the other side opposing the one side of the main circuit board, at the other side of the inverter housing part, with the other side of the main circuit board being supported from below by multiple lead terminals extending upwards.

Abstract: Provided is an inverter circuit board to which a P-N terminal is attached firmly and attached such that stress applied to the circuit board can be distributed, making it possible to prevent detachment of the P-N terminal or damage to the circuit board or any components mounted thereon. Also provided is an inverter-containing electric compressor. A P-N terminal (29) via which DC power is inputted is attached to this inverter circuit board (23), on which an inverter circuit (22) is mounted. The P-N terminal (29) is provided with the following: a pair of pins; a busbar of a prescribed length joined perpendicularly to one end of each pin; a resin molded member formed integrally with the pair of pins and the busbars; and surface-mounting terminals, soldered to the surface of the circuit board, and through-hole terminals, inserted into and soldered to through-holes (23A) in the circuit board, said terminals being provided on the pair of busbars.

Abstract: Provided is a remotely operated manipulator which can be applied to a space which is wider on a back side than at an opening part, which has a simple structure, high stiffness, and high reliability. The remotely operated manipulator of the present invention includes: a circular base fixed to a wall surface; a beam which rotates on the circular base; a trolley which moves on the beam; and a mast which is raised and lowered with respect to the trolley and is mounted with a tool unit at a tip. Stiffness is improved by directly fixing the beam to the wall surface by a beam fixing device. Further, a work region is expanded by mounting a bending mast on the tip of the mast.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an inverter-integrated electric compressor which, even with the connector of a power source-side cable configured to be connected directly to a P-N terminal on a circuit board, reduces the stress on the circuit board by support by a high voltage electric component and can implement this support with high precision.

Abstract: Provided is an inverter-integrated electric compressor which uses the filter circuit as the substrate to eliminate a bulbar connection, improves assembly properties of the inverter device, optimizes the substrate structure, and makes the inverter device more compact and economical. In this inverter-integrated electric compressor, the inverter device is provided with multiple high-voltage electrical components which configure a noise removal filter circuit, a power substrate on which a power element is mounted, a control substrate on which a control circuit is mounted, and a filter circuit substrate which configures the filter circuit by the multiple high-voltage electrical components being connected in a pattern and mounted thereon, wherein the high-voltage electrical components, the power substrate, the control substrate and the filter circuit substrate are configured to be so as to be unitized together and housed and arranged in an inverter housing unit.

Abstract: Provided is an inverter-integrated electric compressor which comprises an inverter device having a simplified configuration, reduced size and weight, and decreased cost, and which has improved assembly properties and assembly precision, and improved productivity. In this inverter-integrated electric compressor, a P-N terminal is provided on the inverter device main substrate, and a power source-side cable can be connected to the P-N terminal by inserting a connector provided at one end; by arranging and mounting multiple high-voltage electric components on the back of the main substrate in the area where the P-N terminal is arranged, a filter circuit is provided on the main substrate. The multiple high-voltage electric components are integrally coupled via fitting units provided on the housing cases of one another and are arranged in a prescribed position on the back of the main substrate with a positioning means provided on one of the housing cases.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an inverter-integrated electric compressor in which a DC power input system is simplified as a configuration for directly connecting a power source cable connector to a P-N terminal on a substrate, stress caused to the substrate can be reduced even in this case, and damage to the substrate and mounting components can be prevented. In the inverter-integrated electric compressor, a P-N terminal for inputting high-voltage DC power is provided on a main substrate of an inverter device, a power source cable can be connected by inserting a connector into the P-N terminal, the connector being provided to one end the terminal, an electrical component constituting the inverter device is placed on the opposite side of the P-N terminal to sandwich the main substrate therebetween, and the stress caused to the main substrate when the connector is inserted is borne by the electrical component.

Abstract: Provided is an inverter-integrated electrical compressor in which an inverter device has fewer components and a simpler configuration, is more compact, and is lower in cost, and the electrical compressor is made smaller, more lightweight, and lower in cost, with only one substrate being used and the need being eliminated for a large installation surface having a raised partitioning wall on which a semiconductor switching element is installed.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an inverter-integrated electric compressor that has improved inverter device assemblability with respect to a housing, allows for improved productivity and reduced manufacturing costs, and allows an inverter device, and thus the electric compressor itself, to be made more compact and lightweight. Provided is an inverter-integrated electric compressor (1), wherein an inverter device (7) is provided with a resin structure (12) formed as a single unit with a housing section for high-voltage system components and a circuit board assembly section, and by assembling a power system circuit board, a control system circuit board (15), a busbar, a plurality of high-voltage system components that make up the inverter device (7), and the like onto the resin structure (12), the inverter device (7) is made into a unit (34) and this unit (34) is assembled onto and integrated with the inverter housing section (8).

Abstract: An inverter module and an integrated-inverter electric compressor using the same, which can eliminate noise interference, noise leakage, and the like attributable to a smoothing capacitor accommodated therein and which can be reduced in size and weight is provided. An inverter module (11) includes a resin module case (17); a power system board (15) provided on a bottom side of the module case (17); and a control board (19) provided on an upper side of the module case (17). A smoothing capacitor (18) connected to a power supply line for the power system board (15) is incorporated into the module case (17), and the smoothing capacitor (18) is electromagnetically shielded with respect to the power system board (15) and the control board (19).

Abstract: Provided are an inter-board connection terminal with which electrical connection between two boards can be simplified, the operability and productivity thereof can be enhanced, and reliability of electrical connection can also be ensured, as well as an inverter and an electric compressor employing the same. An inter-board connection terminal includes a group of numerous metal terminals which is inserted, individually at both tips thereof, into through-holes in boards to electrically connect two boards, wherein paired resin linking members are provided, which have a predetermined space therebetween with respect to the group of metal terminals and which join the group of metal terminals into a single unit by linking the terminals in the form of a row at both tips thereof near the bases of portions to be inserted into the through-holes in the boards.

Abstract: An electric motor is provided with a stator core (3) configured by laminating a required number of annular electromagnetic steel sheets (5) having a plurality of tooth portions (4) around each of which a coil winding is wound, on the inner periphery side, wherein circumferential widths (B) of the tooth portion (4) in the plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets (5) which are laminated on both end. sides of the stator core (3) become gradually narrow coward the respective end portion sides, and the coil winding is directly wound around the tooth portion (4) in which shoulder portions (7) on doth sides in a circumferential direction of the tooth portion (4) which is formed by lamination of the electromagnetic steel sheets (5) are shoulder portions (7) which smoothly change so as to narrow in width in a stepwise fashion toward the respective end portions.

Abstract: An object is to provide a control board, an inverter device, and an integrated-inverter electric compressor that are capable of improving electromagnetic compatibility (EMC property) and improving reliability against input/output of electromagnetic noise, which shows a tendency towards greater complexity and intensity. A control board to which two power systems, that is, a low-voltage power system and a high-voltage power system, are inputs, comprising a low-voltage circuit and a high-voltage circuit, and a low-voltage-side ground region and a high-voltage-side ground region that are formed in correspondence with the circuits, respectively, wherein frame ground regions are provided at a plurality of positions on the control board, and a plurality of communication line patterns connected to the low-voltage circuit are respectively connected to both the low-voltage-side ground region and the frame ground region through capacitance elements with various capacitances.

Abstract: In the regions around a magnetic shielding space, curved portions and having a rounded shape, which protrude toward the interior space of a magnetic shielding space, are formed at ends of a first side and a second side close to a first end and a second end of an outer-periphery side. In the vicinity of angular portions and of the magnetic shielding space that are positioned at both ends of the outer-periphery side, the magnetic flux density for a given cross-sectional area of a channel through which a short-circuit magnetic flux flows is reduced, and thus, the level of the short-circuit magnetic flux is reduced.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit; a first conveying path, along which a recording medium accommodated in a paper feeding cassette is conveyed to the image forming unit; and a second conveying path, along which a recording medium inserted into a manual paper feeding port is conveyed to the image forming unit; wherein the manual paper feeding port is formed at a front side of the image forming apparatus on an upper surface of an apparatus main body and wherein an inclined path obliquely extending from the manual paper feeding port to below and toward a rear of the apparatus main body is also formed, wherein the second conveying path is structured so that a recording medium inserted into the manual paper feeding port can fall into the inclined path due to the weight of the recording medium.

Abstract: A common mode coil can be installed without having to increase the planar area for an inverter accommodating section so that high performance and size reduction and compactness of an inverter device can be achieved.

Abstract: A blow-by gas refluxing device is provided for an engine system including an engine and an intake air passage communicating with the engine for supplying intake air into the engine. The blow-by gas refluxing device includes a plurality of blow-by gas refluxing passages each having an inlet communicating with the engine and an outlet communicating with the intake air passage. The outlets of the blow-by gas passages communicate with the intake air passage at different positions along the length of the intake air passage and each of the blow-by gas passages has a backflow preventing device disposed therein, so that blow-by gas produced in the engine can flow into the intake air passage via at least one of the blow-by gas refluxing passages throughout the entire operational range of the engine.

Abstract: A handlebar switch can include a switch case housing switches, and manipulation members arranged on the switch case and configured to be manipulated by a driver to operate the respective switches. A center portion of the switch case 66 on which the manipulation members are arranged is formed as an expanded section expanded in radial directions of a main body section beyond a right end portion, and a left an end portion of the main body section. The manipulation members are arranged in a center part of the expanded section.

Abstract: An object is to provide an inverter module that can ensure satisfactory anti-vibration strength, moisture resistance, and isolation for each of the upper and lower boards of the inverter module and that can reduce the weight and cost, and to provide an integrated-inverter electric compressor. In an inverter module (21) in which a power system board (23) and a control board (31) are integrated via a resin case (22), the inverter module (21) is configured such that the power system board (23), on which a semiconductor switching device (24) is mounted, is provided at the lower part of the resin case (22) and the control board (31), on which a control-and-communication circuit is mounted, is provided thereabove.