Abstract: A vehicle thermal management system includes a switching portion that switches between a state in which a heat medium circulates through a heat-medium cooling heat exchanger and a state in which the heat medium circulates through a heat-medium heating heat exchanger with respect to each of an engine heat-transfer portion and a heat-generating device, a flow-rate adjustment portion that adjusts the flow rate of the heat medium for each of a heat-medium outside-air heat exchanger and the engine heat-transfer portion, an air-conditioning requesting portion that makes a cooling request for an air cooling heat exchanger to cool the ventilation air as well as a heating request for an air heating heat exchanger to heat the ventilation air, and a controller that controls an operation of at least one of the switching portion, a compressor, and the flow-rate adjustment portion based on presence/absence of the cooling request and presence/absence of the heating request from the air-conditioning requesting portion.

Abstract: A controller of a thermal management system for a vehicle controls a first switching valve and a second switching valve to set a battery warming-up state in which a heat medium circulates between a battery-temperature adjustment heat exchanger and a heat-medium heating heat exchanger, and the heat medium does not circulate between a coolant-coolant heat exchanger and a heat-medium heating heat exchanger when both a battery and an engine need to be warmed up. In contrast, the controller controls the first switching valve and the second switching valve to set an engine warming-up state in which the heat medium circulates through between the coolant-coolant heat exchanger and the heat-medium heating heat exchanger while the heat medium does not circulate between a battery-temperature adjustment heat exchanger and the heat-medium heating heat exchanger when a temperature of the battery exceeds a target battery warming-up temperature in the battery warming-up state.

Abstract: Charging of an electrical storage device is completed by operation-starting time while increasing a percentage of a charging time of the electrical storage device in a first time period as compared to a percentage of the charging time in a second time period when the first time period and the second time period are included within a period from when a user sets the operation-starting time to the operation-starting time. A temperature adjustment device is operated such that a temperature of the electrical storage device at the operation-starting time falls within a target temperature range while increasing a percentage of an operating time of the temperature adjustment device in the first time period as compared to a percentage of the operating time in the second time period when the first time period and the second time period are included within the period from when the user sets the operation-starting time to the operation-starting time.

Abstract: When a defrosting of an exterior heat exchanger is performed, a refrigeration cycle device switches to a refrigerant circuit, in which a refrigerant discharged from a compressor dissipates its heat at an interior condenser and the exterior heat exchanger, the refrigerant dissipating the heat at the interior condenser and the exterior heat exchanger is decompressed by a battery expansion valve, and then the refrigerant decompressed by the battery expansion valve evaporates at a battery heat exchanger to be drawn into the compressor. Thus, the heat absorbed by the refrigerant from a secondary battery via a battery ventilation air can be used to defrost the exterior heat exchanger, while sufficiently heating the interior ventilation air at the interior condenser.

Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning apparatus includes: a heat exchanger adjustment unit which adjusts the flow rate of at least one of a heat medium and outside air flowing through a heat medium-to-outside air heat exchanger in such a way that a temperature related to a surface temperature of an air-cooling heat exchanger approaches a first target temperature, and a refrigerant flow rate adjustment unit which adjusts the flow rate of a refrigerant discharged from the compressor in such a way that a temperature related to a temperature of blast air, which has been adjusted in at least one of the air-cooling heat exchanger and an air-heating heat exchanger and which is blown out into a vehicle interior, approaches a second target temperature. Accordingly, a surface temperature of the air-cooling heat exchanger and the temperature of the blast air into the vehicle interior can be properly controlled.

Abstract: A vortex prevention device is capable of preventing creation of air entrained vortex and also provides a double suction vertical pump having such a vortex prevention device. The vortex prevention device is used in combination with the double suction vertical pump which is installed in an open channel and has an upper suction opening and a lower suction opening. The vortex prevention device includes a plate member as a vortex prevention structure arranged above the upper suction opening. The plate member is arranged away from the upper suction opening such that a passage is formed between the plate member and the upper suction opening.

Abstract: A temperature control system includes an on-vehicle battery, on-vehicle air conditioner, and a controller. The on-vehicle battery is charged using an external power supply located outside of the vehicle. The on-vehicle air conditioner controls the temperature of the vehicle interior and the temperature of the on-vehicle battery. The controller operates the on-vehicle air conditioner in an intermittent operation mode so as to control the temperature of the on-vehicle battery, when the on-vehicle battery is charged using the external power supply.

Abstract: A first outward passage 22 and a second outward passage 23 are branched from a branch portion 20 to guide refrigerants to a first evaporator 17 and a second evaporator 18, respectively. In the second outward passage 23 with a longer refrigerant flow path of the first and second outward passages 22 and 23, a second decompressor 19 is disposed closer to the branch portion 20 rather than the second evaporator 18 in the second outward passage 23. Further, a part 23b of the second outward passage 23 located on the downstream side of the refrigerant flow with respect to the second decompressor 19 is defined by an inner pipe of a double pipe 28, and a part of a second return passage 26 is defined by an outer pipe of the double pipe 28.

Abstract: In a temperature regulation device, when a control device determines that warming-up operation of an assembled battery is necessary, and when a humidity of an air detected by a temperature/humidity sensor is equal to or lower than a predetermined humidity, a conditioned air that has been drawn from a vehicle interior and heated is blown to the assembled battery through a battery guide passage. When the humidity of the detected air exceeds the predetermined humidity, an air that has been drawn from a vehicle exterior and heated by a vehicle air conditioning apparatus is blown to the assembled battery through the battery guide passage.

Abstract: A fixing apparatus of the present invention includes a fixing rotation member, a rotation drive portion that rotates the fixing rotation member, a cleaning web sheet that cleans a circumferential surface of the fixing rotation member, a cleaning web sheet roller that takes up or feeds out the cleaning web sheet, a swing cam rotationally driven by the rotation drive portion, a rotation transmission portion that transmits a rotation drive force to the cleaning web sheet roller, a one way clutch provided on an input shaft of the rotation transmission portion, and a swing lever connected to the one way clutch and biased so as to be brought into slide contact with the swing cam.

Abstract: In an operation mode for heating battery air, a refrigerant passage switching portion switches over to a first refrigerant passage in which a refrigerant including gas refrigerant flowing out of an interior condenser flows into an auxiliary heat exchanger through a first pipe having a relatively large passage cross-sectional area and a liquid refrigerant flowing out of the auxiliary heat exchanger flows to an inlet of an exterior heat exchanger through a second pipe having a relatively small passage cross-sectional area. Meanwhile, in an operation mode for cooling the battery air, the refrigerant passage switching portion switches over to a second refrigerant passage in which a liquid refrigerant flowing out of the exterior heat exchanger flows into the auxiliary heat exchanger through the second pipe and a gas refrigerant flowing out of the auxiliary heat exchanger flows to a suction port of a compressor through the first pipe.

Abstract: In a refrigeration cycle device, a first evaporator for cooling a first cooling target and a second evaporator for cooling a second cooling target are arranged in parallel between a radiator and an accumulator, a first pressure reducer is arranged upstream of the first evaporator, and a mechanical expansion valve as a second pressure reducer is arranged upstream of the second evaporator. The refrigeration cycle device includes a refrigerant passage through which a portion of a refrigerant flowing out of the radiator flows while bypassing the second pressure reducer and the second evaporator, and is decompressed by a separate pressure reducer from the second pressure reducer, so as to return the refrigerant containing a liquid phase refrigerant to the accumulator, in a cooling operation mode for cooling only the second cooling target.

Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device includes an air heat exchanger that heats air to be blown into an interior of a vehicle compartment using refrigerant discharged from a compressor, a high-stage side expansion valve decompressing the refrigerant flowing out of the air heat exchanger, and a battery heat exchanger that heats air to be blown to a battery using the refrigerant decompressed by the high-stage side expansion valve. In an air heating-warming up mode of heating the air for the interior and the air for the battery, a refrigerant discharge capacity of the compressor is controlled such that an air temperature for the interior approaches a target air temperature, and an opening degree of the high-stage side expansion valve is controlled such that a battery temperature becomes within a predetermined reference temperature range. A selector switch allows a passenger to select which operation of air conditioning or warming-up is prioritized.

Abstract: When a refrigerant flow-path switch performs switching to a first refrigerant flow path, an interior condenser heating air blown into an interior as a first temperature-adjustment subject and an auxiliary heat exchanger are connected in parallel, and the auxiliary heat exchanger heats air blown to a battery as a second temperature-adjustment subject. In contrast, when the refrigerant flow-path switch performs switching to a second refrigerant flow path, an interior evaporator cooling air blown into the interior and the auxiliary heat exchanger are connected in parallel, and the auxiliary heat exchanger cools the air blown to the battery. With this arrangement, one common auxiliary heat exchanger can cool or heat the air for the battery, thereby leading to reduction in size of an entire refrigeration cycle device.

Abstract: First circulation portions switch a flow of a heat medium such that one of the heat media for two systems selectively circulates through a radiator flow path or a first bypass flow path. Second circulation portions switch the flow of the heat medium such that the heat media for the two systems selectively circulate with respect to a second flow path group. The first circulation portions and the second circulation portions are adapted to switch the flow of the heat medium so as to form a first circulation circuit for allowing the heat medium to circulate among a first flow path group, the second flow path group, and a first pump, as well as a second circulation circuit for allowing the heat medium to circulate among the first flow path group, the second flow path group, and a second pump.

Abstract: A fixing apparatus of the present invention includes a fixing rotation member, a rotation drive portion that rotates the fixing rotation member, a cleaning web sheet that cleans a circumferential surface of the fixing rotation member, a cleaning web sheet roller that takes up or feeds out the cleaning web sheet, a swing cam rotationally driven by the rotation drive portion, a rotation transmission portion that transmits a rotation drive force to the cleaning web sheet roller, a one way clutch provided on an input shaft of the rotation transmission portion, and a swing lever connected to the one way clutch and biased so as to be brought into slide contact with the swing cam.

Abstract: A fixing apparatus of the invention includes a pressure roller 6 and a fixing roller 7 that make press-contact with each other and an oil roller 8 that makes press-contact with either the pressure roller 6 or the fixing roller 7, and passes a recording sheet through a nip area between the pressure roller 6 and the fixing roller 7 to fix toner on the recording sheet. The fixing apparatus also includes: a pressure roller gear 21 and an oil roller gear 22 that transmit a rotation of a shaft of the pressure roller 6 that makes press-contact with the oil roller 8 to a shaft of the oil roller 8; and a one-way clutch 23 that causes the oil roller 8 to idly rotate in a direction of a driven rotation when the oil roller 8 is driven to rotate by pressing against the pressure roller 6.

Abstract: A fixing apparatus of the present invention includes a fixing rotation member, a rotation drive portion that rotates the fixing rotation member, a cleaning web sheet that cleans a circumferential surface of the fixing rotation member, a cleaning web sheet roller that takes up or feeds out the cleaning web sheet, a swing cam rotationally driven by the rotation drive portion, a rotation transmission portion that transmits a rotation drive force to the cleaning web sheet roller, a one way clutch provided on an input shaft of the rotation transmission portion, and a swing lever connected to the one way clutch and biased so as to be brought into slide contact with the swing cam.

Abstract: A heat pump cycle includes a refrigerant circuit and a coolant circuit. A first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger are disposed between the refrigerant circuit and the coolant circuit. The first heat exchanger includes an exterior heat exchanger that functions as an evaporator in a heating operation, and a radiator for radiating heat of a coolant. The second heat exchanger transmits a heat of high-pressure refrigerant to the coolant in the heating operation. A temperature of refrigerant within the second heat exchanger is higher than a temperature of refrigerant within the first heat exchanger. The heat obtained from the second heat exchanger is supplied to the first heat exchanger through the coolant. Further, the heat obtained from the second heat exchanger is stored in the coolant. In defrosting operation, the coolant that has stored the heat therein is supplied to the first heat exchanger.

Abstract: A battery temperature regulating device includes batteries, inter-battery passages, and a fluid driving device. The batteries are connected to be capable of energization and arranged in a stacking manner. Each of the inter-battery passages is defined between corresponding adjacent two of the batteries. The fluid driving device is configured to flow temperature regulating fluid for regulating temperature of the batteries through the inter-battery passages. Each of the inter-battery passages includes a first inter-battery passage and a second inter-battery passage. Between the corresponding adjacent two of the batteries, a direction in which temperature regulating fluid flows into the first inter-battery passage and a direction in which temperature regulating fluid flows into the second inter-battery passage are different from each other.