Abstract: An inductive heating device is structured such that a coil base and ferrites placed under a heating coil in the vertical direction are flushed with each other at their lower surfaces and are directly placed on a heat dissipation plate. A heat conductive member is charged between the ferrites and an electrical insulating member sandwiched between the heating coil and the ferrites, at least at a portion thereof, so that thickness variations in the ferrites are absorbed thereby, which realizes a state where they are thermally coupled to each other from the heating coil to the heat dissipation plate.

Abstract: To reduce the air exhausted to outside a main body after cooling a heat generating component from being taken in again from an intake port. The flow of cooling wind cooled the heat generating component is discharged from an exhaust port at other than a first peripheral wall with the flow bent inside the main body. When rectified inside the main body and discharged from the exhaust port, the cooling wind grows to a flow speed of a certain extent to become an exhaust air that a flowing direction is clearly defined, so that it is less likely to be taken in again from the intake port, it is less likely to be subjected to the influence of obstacles of the exhaust port, use can be made in a kitchen cabinet of the intake and exhaust air at the back side, and it is satisfactory and is less likely to be damaged without involving sense of unpleasantness by the exhaust air to the user.

Abstract: Plural induction heating coils for inductively heating to-be-heated object are provided under a top plate on which to-be-heated object is placed, and plural inverter circuits for supplying high-frequency currents to the plural induction heating coils, respectively, are adapted to be cooled by cooling air flows from cooling portions, and placed in a longitudinal row along the cooling air flows, in air-flow blowing path spaces through which cooling air flows from the cooling portions are blown, so as to facilitate cooling designing for an induction heating device and to improve the cooling performance of the induction heating device.

Abstract: A heating cooker of the present invention includes a plurality of light emitting indicator units. The light emitting indicator units each have a temperature sensing unit that senses an ambient temperature of a light emission source. Therefore, deterioration of the light emission source of each of the light emitting indicator units can be suppressed to realize a further reduction in thickness, and to improve visibility of the indicator sheet.

Abstract: In a non-contact power transmission device according to the present invention, a non-contact power receiving device includes a changeover portion for opening and closing the connection between a power receiving coil and a load device which is supplied with electric power from the power receiving coil, the power receiving coil being adapted to output electric power by receiving a high-frequency magnetic field from an induction heating apparatus used as a feeding apparatus, wherein a power-reception-side control portion for controlling opening/closing operations of the changeover portion is adapted to control the opening/closing operations of the changeover portion, in order to adjust the electric power supplied to the load device from the power receiving coil.

Abstract: A non-contact power receiving device utilizes, as a power-supply device, an induction heating device equipped with a load-temperature detecting function of detecting light from a load to detect the temperature of the load and of controlling an induction heating operation when the temperature of the load is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature, wherein an electric-power-reception-side control portion in the non-contact power receiving device is adapted to cause a light emitting portion to emit light to operate the load-temperature detecting function in the induction heating device for controlling the supply of electric power from the induction heating device to the non-contact power receiving device, when the value detected by a state detection portion is equal to or more than a set value.

Abstract: A heating cooker of the present invention is structured such that, an indicator sheet of a light emitting indicator unit has a light transmitting portion that transmits light of a light emission source and a light blocking portion that is provided away from a heating unit than the light transmitting portion is and that blocks the light of the light emission source, and that the light emission source is disposed below the light blocking portion. Thus, uneven shining of the indicator sheet can be suppressed, and the effect of heat from a heating target cooking vessel to the light emission source can be suppressed, whereby a further reduction in thickness of the heating cooker can be realized.

Abstract: A contactless power feeder of the present invention includes: a top plate which is mounted with a load; a primary coil which is arranged below the top plate and generates a high-frequency field; an inverter which feeds high-frequency power to the primary coil; a control part which controls the inverter; and a load discriminating part which determines whether the load is an object to be heated that is a metal container such as a pot and should be induction-heated, or a power receiving device provided with a secondary coil that is electromagnetically coupled with the primary coil, wherein the control part is configured to control the inverter in accordance with a result of determination by the load discriminating part.

Abstract: The present invention provides an operation device which has a stable operation feeling with a simple configuration and has a high reliability and an excellent operability. An electrode terminal portion which is arranged just below an operation region on a top plate made of a material having an electric insulating property, and serves as an electrostatic capacity type touch switch has a detection portion which comes into close contact with a back surface of the operation region, a spring portion which has an elastic force pressing the detection portion to the back surface of the top plate, and a slide portion which is movably retained in the guide holder.

Abstract: In an induction heating coil according to the present invention, in order to reduce heat losses for increasing the thermal efficiency and, also, in order to improve the heat resistance for ensuring safety, with a simple structure, a coil portion for performing induction heating on an object to be heated is constituted by a plurality of conductor wires which are made of a metal conductor and are wound spirally in substantially the same plane, and a space portion having at least an adhesive property and an insulation property which is adapted to adhere and secure adjacent conductor wires of the plurality of conductor wires wound spirally, with predetermined spacing provided therebetween, such that the conductor wires form an integrated disk shape.

Abstract: An objective of the invention is to provide a multilayered flow passage member that enhances fluid measurement accuracy of an ultrasonic fluid measurement apparatus and an ultrasonic fluid measurement apparatus using the multilayered flow passage member. When fusible projections 20 are fused by a heating head 21 while partition plates 11 are inserted into side plates 13 and 14, a fused state provided by the heating head 21 changes according to either side of each of the partition plates 11, because fuse surfaces at leading ends of the respective fusible projections 20 are sloped in the vertical direction. An outermost end of each of fusible projections 25 that first contacts the heating head 21 is first fused. During a course of the fusible projections 25 being fused toward their roots, the partition plates 11 are pressed against ends of respective insert holes 17a that are on the opposite side of the outermost ends that are first fused.

Abstract: An acoustic matching member is fitted to a main body in a pair of ultrasonic transmitter/receivers. The acoustic matching member includes a matching member equipped with a porous body adhered tightly to an acoustic-wave emission surface of the main body. A dense layer is stacked on a surface of the porous body and includes a thermosetting resin and first flowability-diminishing particles. A sidewall member is adhered tightly to the acoustic-wave emission surface and an end face of the porous body.

Abstract: An inductive heating device is structured such that a coil base (5) and ferrites (6) placed under a heating coil (4) in the vertical direction are flushed with each other at their lower surfaces and are directly placed on a heat dissipation plate (12A). A heat conductive member (8) is charged between the ferrites (6) and an electrical insulating member (9) sandwiched between the heating coil (4) and the ferrites (6), at least at a portion thereof, so that thickness variations in the ferrites (6) are absorbed thereby, which realizes a state where they are thermally coupled to each other from the heating coil (4) to the heat dissipation plate (12A).

Abstract: To reduce the air exhausted to outside a main body after cooling a heat generating component from being taken in again from an intake port. The flow of cooling wind cooled the heat generating component is discharged from an exhaust port 21 at other than a first peripheral wall 19 with the flow bent inside the main body. When rectified inside the main body and discharged from the exhaust port 21, the cooling wind grows to a flow speed of a certain extent to become an exhaust air that a flowing direction is clearly defined, so that it is less likely to be taken in again from the intake port 20, it is less likely to be subjected to the influence of obstacles of the exhaust port, use can be made in a kitchen cabinet of the intake and exhaust air at the back side, and it is satisfactory and is less likely to be damaged without involving sense of unpleasantness by the exhaust air to the user.

Abstract: The invention relates to a planar heat generating element for use on steering wheels of automotive vehicles and motorboats, and a problem of the invention is to adjust a temperature portion of a planar heat generating element which is attached to a steering wheel, so as to enhance the sensation of using the steering wheel by the user when he or she grips thereon.

Abstract: A heating cooker of the present invention is structured such that, an indicator sheet 29 of a light emitting indicator unit 25 has a light transmitting portion 29a that transmits light of a light emission source 28 and a light blocking portion 29b that is provided away from a heating unit 23 than the light transmitting portion 29a is and that blocks the light of the light emission source 28, and that the light emission source 28 is disposed below the light blocking portion 29b. Thus, uneven shining of the indicator sheet 29 can be suppressed, and the effect of heat from a heating target cooking vessel to the light emission source 28 can be suppressed, whereby a further reduction in thickness of the heating cooker can be realized.

Abstract: A heating cooker of the present invention includes a plurality of light emitting indicator units 25. The light emitting indicator units 25 each have a temperature sensing unit 29 that senses an ambient temperature of a light emission source 28. Therefore, deterioration of the light emission source 28 of each of the light emitting indicator units 25 can be suppressed to realize a further reduction in thickness, and to improve visibility of the indicator sheet 30.

Abstract: The present invention provides an operation device which has a stable operation feeling with a simple configuration and has a high reliability and an excellent operability. An electrode terminal portion which is arranged just below an operation region on a top plate made of a material having an electric insulating property, and serves as an electrostatic capacity type touch switch has a detection portion which comes into close contact with a back surface of the operation region, a spring portion which has an elastic force pressing the detection portion to the back surface of the top plate, and a slide portion which is movably retained in the guide holder.

Abstract: By removably disposing a fluid cutoff device in a gas piping, a gas cutoff management function for remote cutting-off/return, etc., can be added to an existing flow measuring unit, and a communicating portion can make bidirectional communications, so that by transmitting an acceptance state of a remote operation from the external device to the external device, higher reliability and safety can be realized, and by detecting use with the fluid cutoff device removed, safety can be further improved while unauthorized use is prevented.

Abstract: Plural induction heating coils for inductively heating to-be-heated object are provided under a top plate on which to-be-heated object is placed, and plural inverter circuits for supplying high-frequency currents to the plural induction heating coils, respectively, are adapted to be cooled by cooling air flows from cooling portions, and placed in a longitudinal row along the cooling air flows, in air-flow blowing path spaces through which cooling air flows from the cooling portions are blown, so as to facilitate cooling designing for an induction heating device and to improve the cooling performance of the induction heating device.