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: Disclosed is a flame-retardant polyamide resin composition excellent in all of flame retardation, glow-wire characteristic, tracking resistance and mechanical strength, and also in anti-corrosive performance for metals, and suitably be applied to electric/electronic components having metal contacts or metal terminals, such as connectors and so forth. A flame-retardant polyamide resin composition comprising, per 100 parts by weight of polyamide resin (A), 10 to 60 parts by weight of a salt (B) of an aminotriazine compound and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of sulfuric acid, pyrosulfuric acid and organosulfonic acid, and at least one compound (C) selected from the group consisting of hindered phenol-base compound, hydrotalcite and hydroxide of alkaline earth metal, wherein the ratio of comprising (C)/(B) by weight of the component (C) and the component (B) is 0.0005 to 0.2.

Abstract: To provide a flame-retardant polyamide resin composition generally excellent in flame resistance, mechanical characteristics and electrical characteristics, and suitable for electrics/electronics components and vehicles. Used is a flame-retardant polyamide resin composition comprising, a polyamide resin (A), a phosphorus-containing flame retarder (B), and glass fiber having a non-circular cross-section (C), wherein the contents in the composition are 15 to 78% by weight for the polyamide resin (A), 2 to 20% by weight for the phosphorus-containing flame retarder (B), and 20 to 65% by weight for the glass fiber having a non-circular cross-section (C).

Abstract: In a refrigerating device comprising waste heat utilization equipment having: a refrigerating cycle 200 formed by sequentially connecting a compressor 210, a condenser 220, an expansion valve 240, and an evaporator 250; and a Rankine cycle 300 formed by sequentially connecting a heater 310 using the waste heat of a heat generating device (for example, an internal combustion engine) 10 as a heating source, an expansion device 320, the above-mentioned condenser 220, and a pump 330, in which the drive shafts of the compressor 210 and the expansion device 320 are separated from each other. Then, the output of the expansion device 320 is used mainly for generating electricity.

Abstract: Provided is a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin molded article, which contains reinforcing fibers having a given flattened cross-sectional profile, in which the fiber length distribution of the reinforcing fibers is shifted on the side of long fibers, and which is excellent in mechanical strength, heat resistance, dimensional accuracy such as warpage resistance, and surface appearance. A fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin molded article of a thermoplastic resin composition comprising from 70 to 35% by weight of a thermoplastic resin (A), and from 30 to 65% by weight of reinforcing fibers (B) of which the cross section is flattened to have a degree of flatness, as expressed by the formula mentioned below, of at least 2.3, wherein the weight-average fiber length of the reinforcing fibers in the molded article is at least 1 mm: Degree of flatness=major diameter of reinforcing fiber (a)/minor diameter of reinforcing fiber (b).

Abstract: A flame retardant polyamide resin composition having excellent extrudability and moldability, being free of generating a highly corrosive hydrogen halide gas upon combustion, exhibiting very high flame retardancy, having excellent mechanical properties and electrical properties and being suited for use in electrical and electronic parts and parts for automobile electrical equipments, and a molded article thereof are provided. A polyamide resin composition comprising 100 parts by weight of an aliphatic polyamide resin (A) having a viscosity number of 70 to 200 ml/g, 0.1 to 30 parts by weight of a polyphenylene ether-based resin (B), and 5 to 100 parts by weight of flame retardant agent (C) comprising at least the following components (a), (b) and (c); (a) a reaction product of a melamine and a phosphoric acid, (b) a phosphinic acid salt and/or a diphosphinic acid salt, and (c) a metal salt of boric acid, wherein a compounding weight ratio (a):(b):(c) of the flame retardant agent components is 1:(0.5 to 2.

Abstract: There is provided a polyamide resin composition capable of not only maintaining inherent properties of polyamide resins including moldability, mechanical properties, thermal stability, heat resistance and electrical properties but also exhibiting a good flame retardance and an excellent laser marking property, as well as a resin molded product for laser marking which is molded from the composition. The polyamide resin composition for laser marking according to the present invention includes 100 parts by weight of a polyamide resin and 0.1 to 100 parts by weight of a halogen-containing organic compound and/or an antimony compound, wherein when subjecting a molded product obtained from the composition to laser marking, a color tone of a laser-marked portion of the molded product exhibits a darker color than that of a surface of a laser-non-irradiated portion of the molded product.

Abstract: A vapor compression refrigerating apparatus comprises a refrigerating cycle for performing a cooling operation of an automotive air conditioning system, a Rankine cycle for collecting waste heat from an engine of a vehicle to generate an electric power by an electric rotating device driven by an expansion device of the Rankine cycle, and a heat pump cycle for generating heat to supply the generated heat to the engine so that a warming up operation of the engine can be facilitated.

Abstract: In a refrigerating device comprising waste heat utilization equipment having: a refrigerating cycle 200 formed by sequentially connecting a compressor 210, a condenser 220, an expansion valve 240, and an evaporator 250; and a Rankine cycle 300 formed by sequentially connecting a heater 310 using the waste heat of a heat generating device (for example, an internal combustion engine) 10 as a heating source, an expansion device 320, the above-mentioned condenser 220, and a pump 330, in which the drive shafts of the compressor 210 and the expansion device 320 are separated from each other. Then, the output of the expansion device 320 is used mainly for generating electricity.

Abstract: A check valve is provided to each discharge port, which communicates between a corresponding working chamber and a high pressure chamber in an integrated compressor/expander apparatus. A valve mechanism, which is opened in a motor mode, is provided to communicate between the working chamber and the high pressure chamber.

Abstract: In an automotive vehicle having a heater for a heating operation for a passenger room of the vehicle with use of waste heat of an engine, a vapor compression refrigerating device comprises a refrigerating cycle for a cooling operation for the passenger room. The vapor compression refrigerating device further comprises a heating cycle (a heat pump cycle, or a hot gas cycle) for performing a heating operation to engine cooling water by using the high temperature and high pressure refrigerant from a compressor device, wherein a control means activates the heating cycle at a predetermined time before starting an engine when an outside air temperature is lower than a predetermined value. Accordingly, the engine has been already warmed up before a driver gets into the vehicle.

Abstract: A low-cost vehicle air-conditioning apparatus for idle stopping vehicles is capable of performing both cooling and heating operations throughout the year. The air-conditioning apparatus includes an engine-driven compressor and engine-driven pump for a heating unit. The air-conditioning apparatus includes a motor-driven compressor and pump. A control unit drives the motor such that the motor-driven compressor is operated when there is a need for cooling and the motor-driven pump is operated when there is a need for heating when the engine is stopped. Battery power is conserved through various methods.

Abstract: Light control glasses are used as window glasses of a vehicle. When the vehicle is parked, voltage is applied to the light control glass, which directly receives solar radiation from the sun, so that a light transmittancy of the light control glass is reduced to reduce the amount of solar radiation entered a passenger compartment of the vehicle.

Abstract: A fluid machine has a compressor device for compressing refrigerant of a refrigerating cycle for an automotive vehicle, an electric rotating device operating as an electric motor for generating a rotational driving force to drive the compressor device or operating as an electric power generator, an expansion device for collecting waste heat from an engine and generating a rotational driving force to drive the electric rotating device and/or the compressor device, and a switching device for connecting or disconnecting the compressor device with or from the expansion device. In the fluid machine, the waste heat from the engine can be always collected by the expansion device, irrespectively whether or not the compressor device is operating for an air conditioning operation.

Abstract: A first evaporator is arranged on a downstream side of an ejector, and a second evaporator is connected to a refrigerant suction inlet of the ejector. A refrigerant evaporation temperature of the second evaporator is lower than that of the first evaporator. The first and second evaporators are used to cool a common subject cooling space and are arranged one after the other in a flow direction of air to be cooled.

Abstract: A fluid machine according to the present invention has an expansion device for collecting waste heat from an internal combustion engine and converting the collected heat energy into mechanical rotational force, an electric rotating device selectively operating as an electric power generator and as an electric motor, and a pump device for pressurizing refrigerant for Rankine cycle, wherein those components are operatively connected with each other by a single rotating shaft. When starting up Rankine cycle, the electric rotating device is operated as the electric motor, so that the pump device is driven to pressurize and pump out high pressure refrigerant. Once the expansion device starts its operation, the electric rotating device is rotated by the expansion device and therefore the operational mode of the electric rotating device is switched over to the power generating mode.

Abstract: A first evaporator evaporates refrigerant, which is outputted from an ejector. A refrigerant outlet of the first evaporator is connected to a suction inlet of a compressor, which is connected to a radiator. A branched passage branches a flow of the refrigerant at a corresponding branching point located between the radiator and the ejector. The branched passage conducts the branched flow of the refrigerant to a suction inlet of the ejector. A flow rate control valve is arranged in the branched passage between a radiator and an ejector on a downstream side of the radiator to depressurize refrigerant outputted from the radiator. A second evaporator is arranged in the first branched passage.

Abstract: A vapor-compression refrigerant cycle system with a refrigeration cycle and a Rankine cycle includes a compressor, a radiator, a gas-liquid separator, a decompression device and an evaporator. In the vapor-compression refrigerant cycle system, a liquid pump is disposed for supplying the liquid refrigerant in the gas-liquid separator to a heater for heating the refrigerant, a cooling means is provided for cooling the liquid refrigerant to be sucked into the liquid pump, and an energy recovery unit for expanding the refrigerant flowing out of the heater is disposed to recover thermal energy in the refrigerant from the heater. When the Rankine cycle is set so that the energy recovery unit recovers the thermal energy, the cooling means cools the liquid refrigerant to be sucked into the liquid pump. Therefore, pumping efficiency of the liquid pump can be effectively improved.

Abstract: An upper opening portion (74, 75) and lower opening portion (76, 77) are arranged in a door body (13b, 14b) located below a side window (13a, 14a), and an air conditioning unit (15, 16) is arranged inside the door body (13b, 14b), and a rotary position of a scroll casing (62, 63) of a blower (56, 57) is selected so that air can flow from the lower opening portion (76, 77) to the upper opening portion (74, 75) at the time of air-cooling and air can flow from the upper opening portion (74, 75) to the lower opening portion (76, 77) at the time of heating.

Abstract: A cold storage tank unit for a refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a cold storage heat exchanger having plural tubes and a pair of first and second tanks connected to longitudinal ends of the tubes, a cold storage material tank which accommodates at least the tubes of the cold storage heat exchanger, and a cold storage material filled in the cold storage material tank. The cold storage material is cold-stored by the refrigerant or is cold-released to cool gas refrigerant evaporated in the evaporator. Furthermore, the second tank has a lower end portion that is positioned lower than a lower end portion of the first tank, and the second tank has a tank capacity capable of storing a predetermined liquid refrigerant condensed by cold storage heat of the cold storage material. The cold storage tank unit can be located between an evaporator and a compressor in the refrigeration cycle apparatus.