Abstract: A battery cooling system includes a cooling water circulation circuit for circulating cooling water for cooling the battery, a first heat exchanger for exchanging heat between air and cooling water, a second heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the low-pressure refrigerant of the refrigeration cycle circuit and cooling water, and an ion exchanger for removing impurity ions contained in the cooling water. The first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger are arranged in series in the cooling water circulation circuit. The ion exchanger is disposed on the downstream side of the second heat exchanger in the cooling water circulation circuit.

Abstract: The battery cooling system cools a battery mounted on the vehicle. The battery cooling system includes a cooling water circulation circuit for circulating cooling water for cooling the battery, a first heat exchanger for exchanging heat between air and cooling water, a second heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the low-pressure refrigerant of the refrigeration cycle circuit and cooling water, and an ion exchanger for removing impurity ions contained in the cooling water. The first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger are arranged in series with the cooling water circulation circuit. The ion exchanger is disposed on the downstream side of the second heat exchanger in the cooling water circulation circuit.

Abstract: An electrical source system has an electrical power converter which has a plurality of switching elements and performs an electrical power conversion with first and second electricity storage apparatus; and a control apparatus which controls an operation of the electrical power converter, when the electrical power converter performs the electrical power conversion with one electricity storage apparatus, the control apparatus controls the electrical power converter to change a switching state of one of two switching elements while keeping a switching state of the other one of the two switching elements in an ON state, each of two switching elements constitutes predetermined arm element whose switching state should be changed to perform the electrical power conversion with the one electricity storage apparatus.

Abstract: An electric vehicle includes a motor, an inverter, a battery, a cooler configured to cool the inverter, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute following when abnormality occurs to the cooler: i) set a vehicle speed, at which an induced voltage by the motor becomes at most equal to an input voltage that is input to the inverter from the battery side, as vehicle speed limit, and ii) control the motor such that the electric vehicle travels within a range of the vehicle speed limit.

Abstract: An electrical source system has an electrical power converter which has a plurality of switching elements and performs an electrical power conversion with first and second electricity storage apparatus; and a control apparatus which controls an operation of the electrical power converter, when the electrical power converter performs the electrical power conversion with one electricity storage apparatus, the control apparatus controls the electrical power converter to change a switching state of one of two switching elements while keeping a switching state of the other one of the two switching elements in an ON state, each of two switching elements constitutes predetermined arm element whose switching state should be changed to perform the electrical power conversion with the one electricity storage apparatus.

Abstract: An electric power converter (10) is divided into a main casing (10a) and an auxiliary casing (10b). The main casing (10a) contains a high-voltage circuit (28, 29) through which electric power for driving a motor (83) flows. The auxiliary casing (10b) contains a control circuit (19) configured to control the high-voltage circuit. The auxiliary casing (10b) is connected to the main casing (10a) by a cable (23). The main casing (10a) and the auxiliary casing (10b) are accommodated in a front compartment (2) of a vehicle together with a motor case (3) that accommodates the motor. The main casing (10a) is fixedly mounted on the motor case (3). The auxiliary casing (10b) is arranged so as to be adjacent to the main casing (10a) and is fixed to a body of the vehicle.

Abstract: A power supply system may include a first voltage converter provided between a first power storage device and a power feed line. The first voltage converter may include a first reactor, a first upper switching element, a first lower switching element and a first shutoff device. The first shutoff device may be provided in a first path between the other end of the first reactor and a connection point. The connection point may be a connection point between the power feed line and the second supply line. The first shutoff device may be configured to shut off the first path when short circuit failure occurs in the first upper switching element.

Abstract: An electronic control unit included in a hybrid vehicle is configured to switch between first limp home travel control and second limp home travel control based on a first temperature difference, a second temperature difference, and a state of charge when abnormality occurs to a cooler. The first temperature difference is a value that is obtained by subtracting an element temperature of a first inverter from a first load rate limit temperature at which load rate limitation is applied to a first motor. The second temperature difference is a value that is obtained by subtracting an element temperature of a second inverter from a second load rate limit temperature at which the load rate limitation is applied to a second motor.

Abstract: An electric vehicle includes a motor, an inverter, a battery, a cooler configured to cool the inverter, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute following when abnormality occurs to the cooler: i) set a vehicle speed, at which an induced voltage by the motor becomes at most equal to an input voltage that is input to the inverter from the battery side, as vehicle speed limit, and ii) control the motor such that the electric vehicle travels within a range of the vehicle speed limit.

Abstract: An electronic control unit included in a hybrid vehicle is configured to switch between first limp home travel control and second limp home travel control based on a first temperature difference, a second temperature difference, and a state of charge when abnormality occurs to a cooler. The first temperature difference is a value that is obtained by subtracting an element temperature of a first inverter from a first load rate limit temperature at which load rate limitation is applied to a first motor. The second temperature difference is a value that is obtained by subtracting an element temperature of a second inverter from a second load rate limit temperature at which the load rate limitation is applied to a second motor.

Abstract: A semiconductor module includes a semiconductor device; a metal plate portion that includes a first surface on a side of the semiconductor device and has a fastening portion at an end thereof; a molded portion that is formed by molding a resin on the semiconductor device and the metal plate portion, a cooling plate portion that is a separate member from the metal plate portion, is provided on a side opposite to the first surface on the side of the semiconductor device, and includes fins on a side opposite to the side of the metal plate portion; wherein the fastening portion of the metal plate portion is exposed out of the molded portion, and the cooling plate portion includes a fastening portion at a position that corresponds to a position of the fastening portion of the metal plate portion.

Abstract: A heat sink includes a flow path through which a cooling medium that cools a heat-producing body flows, the flow path having two flow path wall surfaces that face each other; and a plurality of columnar fins provided on one of the flow path wall surfaces, which is positioned at a side where the heat-producing body is provided, the plurality of columnar fins including a long columnar fin and a short columnar fin, and the other of the flow path wall surfaces having a recess in which a distal end portion of the long columnar fin is inserted.

Abstract: An electrical power converter is configured to perform an electrical power conversion with two electricity storage apparatuses, the electrical power converter has: four switching elements which are electrically connected in series and which are housed in the electrical power converter such that the four switching elements are located at four corners of a planar quadrangular region respectively; a first conductive path which electrically connects a first and second switching elements among the four switching elements; and a second conductive path which electrically connects a third and fourth switching elements among the four switching elements, wherein the second conductive path intersects with the first conductive path in a planar view.

Abstract: A power module configured to arrange a first electrode on a surface of which a first switching device is bonded, a second electrode on a surface of which a second switching device is bonded, and a third electrode by stacking the first electrode, the first switching device, the second electrode, the second switching device, and the third electrode in this order from the bottom in a stacking direction, characterized by first through third electrode pieces each connected to the first through third electrodes, first and second signal lines each connected to the first and second switching devices, wherein the first through third electrode pieces and the first and second signal lines are provided extending outward in the same plane as the second electrode.

Abstract: A semiconductor module which includes a semiconductor device; a wiring member that is connected to the semiconductor device; a cooling plate that includes a first surface on a side of the semiconductor device and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface and has a fastening portion at an end thereof in a first direction; and a molded portion that is formed by molding a resin on the semiconductor device, the wiring member and the cooling plate, wherein the fastening portion is exposed out of the molded portion, and a terminal portion of the wiring member is exposed out of the molded portion such that the terminal portion of the wiring member extends in a second direction which is substantially perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: A power module configured to arrange a first electrode on a surface of which a first switching device is bonded, a second electrode on a surface of which a second switching device is bonded, and a third electrode by stacking the first electrode, the first switching device, the second electrode, the second switching device, and the third electrode in this order from the bottom in a stacking direction, characterized by first through third electrode pieces each connected to the first through third electrodes, first and second signal lines each connected to the first and second switching devices, wherein the first through third electrode pieces and the first and second signal lines are provided extending outward in the same plane as the second electrode.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: a storage device storing information including settings information configured to an information processing apparatus, attribute management information indicating whether each settings information item is limited information with an update limit to the settings information or non-limited information without an update limit to the settings information, and apparatus specification information for specifying the information processing apparatus; and an information processing apparatus including an input unit reading information from the storage device when the storage device is connected, a determining unit comparing the apparatus specification information read by the input unit with the apparatus specification information for specifying the information processing apparatus stored in a storage unit and determines whether the apparatus settings information read by the input unit is identical to the apparatus settings information of the information processing apparatus, a

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that acquires a display request including a first external apparatus identification information and screen identification information; a storage unit storing external apparatus screen information; an update unit updating the first external apparatus screen information whenever the display request is acquired; a determining unit determining a polling interval for a first external apparatus on the basis of the stored external apparatus screen information; and a transmitting unit transmitting, to the first external apparatus, screen data which includes information of the determined polling interval, wherein, when a second external apparatus identification information item corresponding to the same screen identification information as that in the display request is stored in the storage unit, the determining unit determines the polling interval for the first external apparatus to be less than that for a second external apparatus indicated by the second ext

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives a screen update request including identification information of a screen and a job start request including identification information of a job; a database that defines a relationship between the identification information of the screen, the identification information of the job, and a polling interval corresponding to a degree of association between the screen and the job; a determining unit that determines the polling interval corresponding to the degree of association between the screen and the job on the basis of the identification information of the screen and the identification information of the job received by the receiving unit and the database; and a transmitting unit that incorporates information of the determined polling interval into screen data and transmits the incorporated screen data to an external apparatus that outputs the screen update request.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic device for performing a typical processing by storing a predetermined operating procedure and reproducing the stored operating procedure that controls suspending storing information related to an authentication, which includes a control unit, when an operation requiring a predetermined authentication is performed at the time when the predetermined operating procedure is stored.