Abstract: A waste heat energy recovery system has a refrigerant cycle and a Rankine cycle. When the cycle operation is changed from the refrigerant cycle to the Rankine cycle, an expansion device is started after the pump is started. When the cycle operation is changed from the Rankine cycle to the refrigerant cycle, the expansion device is stopped after the pump is stopped.

Abstract: A radiator for a vapor-compression refrigerant cycle and a condenser for a Rankine cycle are integrated to construct a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger includes a core portion for performing a heat exchange, and is disposed to have a first function portion used as the radiator and a second function portion used as the condenser. A function ratio changing ratio includes a displacement member such as a plunger disposed in a header tank of the heat exchanger, and changes a ratio between the first function portion and the second function portion. For example, the displacement member partitions an inner space of the header tank into two space parts when both the vapor-compression refrigerant cycle and the Rankine cycle are operated, and does not partition the inner space when only one of the vapor-compression refrigerant cycle and the Rankine cycle is operated.

Abstract: A fixing device comprising a fix member for touching an unfixed image on a recording medium, and a press member for being pressed against the fixing member, so as to fix the unfixed image on the recording medium by transporting the recording medium through a nip between the fix member and the press member, wherein (100·K1)?(K2)?(320·K1) where K1 is a heat transmission coefficient of the press member and K2 is a heat transmission coefficient of the fix member. With this arrangement, it is possible to transmit heat to toner and the recording medium in a short time. Thus, it is possible to attain high-speed printing.

Abstract: It is sought to insulate a stator body and lead lines of coils from one another and provide a coil wiring member for a movable magnet type linear motor, which provides for good operability of interconnecting the lead lines and inexpensive in price. In a movable magnet type linear motor comprising a stator having coils and a mover mainly having permanent magnets and movable in the longitudinal direction of the stator, a coil wiring member according to the invention is made of a non-conductive material, has a gutter-like shape open at the top and is fitted in a groove formed in the stator body such as to cover the inner groove surfaces.

Abstract: It is sought to simplify the arrangement of the drive power switching system for an acoustic apparatus, thus permitting immediate switching of the drive power. A drive power switching system comprises driven gears always in mesh with a main drive gear located between a first and a second gear and a rocking member rotatably supporting the driven gears. The inter-axis distance between the axes of rotation of the first and second gears, is set to a length, in which the driven gears can be meshed with both the first and second gears as they are revolved together with the revolution of the rocking member.

Abstract: It is sought to insulate a stator body and lead lines of coils from one another and provide a coil wiring member for a movable magnet type linear motor, which provides for good operability of interconnecting the lead lines and inexpensive in price.

Abstract: A sash door for automobiles (20R, 20L, 50R, 50L) includes a door inner panel (21), a sash body (23, 53) joined to an upper portion of the door inner panel, and a door outer panel (22). The sash body consists of a plurality of plate-shaped frame components (31, 32, 33, 34, 61, 62, 63, 64). The dimensions and thicknesses of the frame components are freely set to improve yields. The frame components are joined to one another. In order to eliminate portions of excessive thickness and reduce the weight of the sash body, the thickness of at least one of the frame components is made different from the thickness of the other frame components.

Abstract: A fixer (heater) includes a heat roller and a pressure roller pressing each other. The fixer heats a heated material by passing the heated material through a press region where the heat roller and the pressure roller meet. The fixer further includes an external heat roller heating the pressure roller from outside the pressure roller. A transit time taken for any given point on the heated material to pass through the press region is less than or equal to 2.3×10−2 sec. The surface temperature, T1 (° C.), of the heat roller and the surface temperature, T2 (° C.), of the pressure roller satisfy T1-T2≦100 (° C.), and preferably satisfy T1-T2≦70 (° C.). The load on the heat roller is reduced, and so is the power consumption.

Abstract: A radiator for a vapor-compression refrigerant cycle and a condenser for a Rankine cycle are integrated to construct a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger includes a core portion for performing a heat exchange, and is disposed to have a first function portion used as the radiator and a second function portion used as the condenser. A function ratio changing ratio includes a displacement member such as a plunger disposed in a header tank of the heat exchanger, and changes a ratio between the first function portion and the second function portion. For example, the displacement member partitions an inner space of the header tank into two space parts when both the vapor-compression refrigerant cycle and the Rankine cycle are operated, and does not partition the inner space when only one of the vapor-compression refrigerant cycle and the Rankine cycle is operated.

Abstract: A waste heat collecting system for an internal combustion engine has an object to collect waste heat from the engine and make most use of the collected waste heat to achieve the maximum effect of improving fuel consumption ratio. The waste heat utilizing system has a waste heat collecting cycle for collecting waste heat from an internal combustion engine and having an expansion device for generating rotational driving force from the collected waste heat, a refrigerating cycle having a compressor device for compressing a refrigerant and a power transmitting means rotationally driven by a driving force generating means and operatively connected to the compressor device to rotationally drive the same. In this system, the expansion device is operatively connected to the compressor device to rotationally drive the same.

Abstract: A fixing device for fixing an image formed on a sheet member is disposed on a transportation path for transporting the sheet member thereon. The fixing device can be attached to or detached from the main body of an image forming apparatus, and a guide member is provided in the image forming apparatus for guiding the fixing device when it is attached to or detached from the main body of the image forming apparatus. The guide member includes an inclined surface on which the fixing device is placed to be guided upward for attachment. If the fixing device is unlocked from the main body of the image forming apparatus at the time of maintenance or the like, the fixing device is moved outwardly along the inclined surface due to its own weight.

Abstract: Record sheets on which an image is formed on the basis of image data supplied from a terminal apparatus, are efficiently discharged to a bin. A post-process section of a digital copier which is used in conjunction with at least first to third computers includes first to third bins, fourth and fifth bins, and a sixth bin, respectively, which are designated for the first, second, and third computers. To each of the bins, a priority of discharging to the bin a record sheet which is to be discharged to another bin is assigned. The section is configured so that, for each of the bins, the number of record sheets housed in the bin can be detected. For example, a record sheet on which an image due to the third computer is drawn is usually housed in the sixth bin. If the sixth bin is full, the record sheet is discharged to one of bins which are not the sixth bin and which are not the first and fourth bins respectively dedicated to the first and second computers, i.e., one of the second, third, and fifth bins.

Abstract: The disk carrier device comprises a carrier roller having a tapered surface with the diameter thereof becoming smaller gradually from the opposite ends towards the center, and a disk guide member integrally formed with a pair of tilted protrusions in the front and rear parts thereof which become gradually lower from the opposite ends towards the center. It is constructed such that the carrier roller is arranged between the pair of tilted protrusions to resiliently clamp the disk between the both tilted protrusions and the carrier roller to thereby carry the disk by the rotation of the carrier roller.

Abstract: An optical switch has an input section for inputting a light beam and movable optical members each comprised of a piezoelectric actuator for inputting the light beam from the input section and for individually switching an optical path of the light beam. Each of the piezoelectric actuators has a piezoelectric body for undergoing oscillating movement and a movable body frictionally driven by oscillating movement of the piezoelectric body. A driving control device drives the piezoelectric bodies of the piezoelectric actuators and controls positions of the piezoelectric bodies to switch the optical path of the light beam. An output section outputs the light beam from the piezoelectric actuators.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a disk player by which position detection of a disk inserted and discrimination about whether the disk is a large one or a small one can be performed through a simple construction. A circuit board is provided either one side of a pair of detection levers which are rotated to be spread/closed while mutually interlocking with insertion of a disk or a disk guide board to which the detection levers are attached and a contact is provided on the other, and a rotary switch is composed of the circuit board and the contact so that through difference in output signal of the rotary switch, position detection of a disk and discrimination about whether the disk is a large one or a small one are performed.

Abstract: When a roller holder attached to a floating chassis of the disk player rotates to raise a carrier roller from a disk non-carrying position to a disk carrying position, a convex portion of the roller holder is engaged with concave portions of the main chassis from above so as to fix the floating chassis to the main chassis in the back and forth directions as well as the right and left directions. The roller holder further rotates about a fulcrum to raise the floating chassis. As a result, the floating chassis is made to abut against another part of the main chassis from below to fix the floating chassis to the main chassis in the vertical direction.

Abstract: A disc transfer apparatus, which relies on a spring force for inserting a disc and on a motor for removing the disc, is provided to prevent the motor from acting as a load when the disc is inserted. A holding mechanism is provided in the disc transfer apparatus for holding a control gear included in a power transmission path (from a two-way motor for moving a pickup and for moving a push-back member), with respect to an upstream gear and a downstream gear without meshing therewith. The control gear is released from the holding mechanism by ejecting means.