Abstract: A tape cartridge is installed detachably on a cartridge installation portion of a tape printing apparatus in a predetermined detachable direction. The tape printing apparatus includes a detection portion which detects closing of an opening/closing cover provided on the cartridge installation portion. The tape cartridge includes a displacement input portion. When the opening/closing cover is displaced from an open state to a closed state in a state where the tape cartridge is installed on the cartridge installation portion, the displacement input portion receives displacement of a detection-target element provided on the opening/closing cover to be displaced according to the displacement of the opening/closing cover, and the displacement output portion actuates a detection element of the detection portion according to displacement of the opening/closing cover to be further displaced in the same direction from the open state to the closed state.

Abstract: A tape cartridge is detachably installed on a tape printing apparatus provided with a detection portion which detects attribute information of the tape cartridge installed on a cartridge installation portion on which the tape cartridge is installed. The tape cartridge includes a wound printing tape and a core shaft. In the tape cartridge, the core shaft is positioned at an inner peripheral side of the wound printing tape, and the core shaft includes a detection object which faces the detection portion when the tape cartridge is installed on the tape printing apparatus.

Abstract: A tape cartridge to be mounted in a tape printing apparatus including plural push switches which project from a mounting circumferential wall includes plural detection target portions that is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the tape cartridge and to be opposed to the plural respective push switches when the cartridge is mounted in or unmounted from a cartridge mounting unit of the tape printing apparatus. Each of the plural detection target portions has a slide portion that extends in the mounting/unmounting direction and operates the associated push switch while sliding when the cartridge is mounted in the cartridge mounting unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a guide device for guiding print medium onto a take-up roll in a printing system. The guide device comprises a first guide member presenting a substantially planar surface for limiting or preventing lateral deviation of a printed medium output from the printing system as the medium moves along a transport path towards a take-up roll for winding or taking up a length of the medium. The first guide member is stationary in use. A position of the first guide member is adjustable in a direction transverse to the transport path for setting the position to limit or prevent lateral deviation of the medium along the transport path. The guide device further comprises a second guide member presenting a support surface configured and arranged to support the medium thereon as the medium travels along the transport path towards the take-up roll. The first guide member and the second guide member are preferably integrally formed as a guide unit.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport unit which includes a transport roller pair which transports a medium in a transport direction, a printing unit which prints onto the medium, a winding unit which winds the printed medium, and a tension application unit which applies a tension to the medium at a position between the transport roller pair and the winding unit. The tension application unit includes a pair of arms which are capable of rotating. A tension bar is supported on one end of the arms and comes into contact with the medium. The bar is rotated from an upper limit position to a lower limit position by transportation of the transport unit being performed two or more times.

Abstract: A printer includes a printing unit that performs printing on a printing medium; a winding unit that winds the printing medium on which the printing is performed by the printing unit; and a frame unit which is positioned between the printing unit and the winding unit on a feeding path of the printing medium, in which in a case where the printing medium is not wound by the winding unit, a receiving member for receiving the printing medium is detachably mounted to the frame unit, and in a case where the printing medium is wound by the winding unit, the receiving member is detached such that the frame unit comes in contact with the printing medium.

Abstract: A printing assembly comprises a medium support surface, a guide assembly and a carriage support structure for moveably supporting a print head carriage on the guide assembly. The guide assembly is arranged to move the print head carriage in a carriage plane, which carriage plane is parallel to the medium support surface. The guide assembly comprises a guide beam; and a guide rail arranged on the guide beam. The guide rail and the guide beam each extend in a scanning direction. The printer carriage support structure comprises a guide frame arranged on the guide rail and the guide frame is moveable in the scanning direction and extends in the scanning direction between a first support position and a second support position. The guide frame is supported on the guide rail at said first support position and at said second support position. A carriage frame is moveably supported on the guide rail through the guide frame.

Abstract: A dot recording apparatus executes recording of dots that are included in a common region using a plurality of main scan passes, and, in each main scan pass, executes a first recording, which records a supercell, which is a mass of dot groups in which at least a portion of a boundary line is not parallel to either the main scanning direction or the sub-scanning direction, and a second recording, which records dots so as to be smaller than the supercell, which is recorded in the first recording, in positions in the main scanning direction that differ from positions in the main scanning direction, which the first recording executed.

Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus including a fixed section; a movable section that is mounted to be displaceable with respect to the fixed section; a rail section which has a planar portion, in which a plane is formed in a reference direction, and in which the planar portion is fixed to the movable section; and a carriage on which a head that is able to discharge a liquid is mounted and which is mounted on the rail section to be movable in the reference direction, in which the movable section is displaced with respect to the fixed section so as to rotate the rail section about an axis extending in the reference direction.

Abstract: A waste liquid container is mounted on a mounting portion including a discharging portion discharging waste liquid and an apparatus-side terminal portion in accordance with movement in a mounting direction. The waste liquid container includes a waste liquid containing chamber which is capable of containing the waste liquid, a connection opening which is opened in the mounting direction in a shape of being connectable to the discharging portion, and a container-side terminal portion which is electrically connected to the apparatus-side terminal portion at the time of being mounted on the mounting portion. In a state of being mounted on the mounting portion, the container-side terminal portion is disposed lower than the connection opening in a posture of being inclined with respect to the mounting direction.

Abstract: A transfer relief plate (02) comprises a base plate (021) which is divided into four regions having identical areas by a first axis (x) and a second axis (y). A plurality of strip-like protrusions are disposed on the base plate (021) and there is an interval between any two adjacent strip-like protrusions. The first axis (x) is in parallel with a stretching direction (x1) of the transfer relief plate (02), and the second axis (y) is in parallel with a non-stretching direction (y1) of the transfer relief plate (02). The plurality of strip-like protrusions comprise a first strip-like protrusion (022) which is disposed in any one of the four regions.

Abstract: A security element for securing security papers, value documents and other data carriers, has a lenticular image that, from different viewing directions, displays at least two appearances. The lenticular image includes a lens grid composed of a plurality of microlenses and a laser-sensitive motif layer arranged spaced apart from the lens grid. The laser-sensitive motif layer comprises, in two or more motif layer sub-regions, different markings introduced by the action of laser radiation and that, when the motif layer is viewed with the lens grid, produce at least two appearances. The lens grid is divided into two or more lens grid sub-regions in which the microlenses each comprise differently refractive lens surface forms. The different lens grid sub-regions are congruent with the different motif layer sub-regions, and the markings of the motif layer sub-regions being produced by laser impingement of the lens grid sub-regions.

Abstract: A hybrid security device for security documents and the like, with the microstructure for a first optically variable device (OVD) and the microstructure for a second OVD mutually interlace or interspersed. The first microstructure has a height profile that differs from that of the second microstructure by more than 0.5 microns. Suitable fabrication processes for the hybrid security device are also disclosed.

Abstract: A document (15) includes at least: one first image (5) including at least one photoluminescent pigment which is invisible under illumination in visible light and is visible under illumination by at least one first source (20) of non-visible light emitting in the short ultraviolet domain, one second image including at least one photoluminescent pigment which is invisible under illumination in visible light and is visible under illumination by at least one second source of non-visible light emitting in the long ultraviolet domain, one layer, named a filtering layer, arranged facing the second image and including at least one material, named a filtering material, suitable for allowing the wavelengths emitted by the first source of non-visible light to be filtered without preventing the first image from being seen under illumination by the first light source.

Abstract: A cover for a writing instrument having a body, a protrusion, and a decorative element. The body has a first end, a second end, an inner surface, an outer surface, and a space bounded by the inner surface. The space is operatively arranged to hold a writing instrument. The protrusion has a first end and a second end, where the first end is secured to and extends upwardly from the second end of the body. The decorative element has an extension member extending downwardly, where the extension member is secured to the second end of the protrusion. The body further includes at least one hinge means extending longitudinally about the body and at least one latch.

Abstract: A system of pointillist painting, including a colorant dispenser having a syringe configured for storing a liquid colorant, and a colorant dispensing tip operable to be moved to successive specified positions on a painting surface, where the colorant dispenser is operable to apply specified amounts of a liquid colorant to the painting surface and creating a plurality of colorant dots each having a two-dimensional coverage and three-dimensional profile at the specified positions on the painting surface; and an air nozzle coupled to the colorant dispensing tip operable to controllably direct a controlled puff of pressurized air at least one of the plurality of colorant dots already deposited on the painting surface to modify at least one of the two-dimensional coverage and three-dimensional profile thereof is disclosed.

Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein may be useful for use in a wheel assembly. In this regard a wheel assembly may comprise a wheel base with a center axis, a side rim disposed about a circumference of the wheel base, wherein the side rim includes a frustoconical radially inward surface, and a lock ring comprising a single unitary member. The lock ring may secure the side rim onto the wheel base, the lock ring preventing the side rim from sliding axially with respect to the wheel base, wherein a frustoconical radially outward surface of the lock ring comprises a first angle with respect to the frustoconical radially inward surface of the side rim.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a vehicle bearing apparatus includes a method for manufacturing a hub ring. The hub ring includes a seal facing surface, a flange portion, and a shaft body portion. The flange portion includes a thin portion, a thick portion, bolt holes, a thin portion outer surface, a thick portion outer surface, and bolts. The flange portion protrudes outward from the shaft body portion. The thick portion is formed on an outer side with respect to the bolt holes in the flange portion, and the thin portion is formed on an inner side with respect to the thick portion in the flange portion. In the method for manufacturing the hub ring, machining is performed on the thick portion outer surface by using the seal facing surface subjected to grinding, as a reference surface, after the bolts are fitted into the flange portion.

Abstract: A castor for movable objects, in particular a bed castor, at least includes a running wheel, a fork receiving the same one, a guiding tube which is swiveling with respect to the fork via at least one bearing, a lock provided on the side of the fork as well as a brake system which is rotation-proof and can be operatively connected to the running wheel. The brake system includes an essentially cylindrical fixing element which is profiled on one side and can be operatively connected to a polygonal safety element on the side of the fork for forming the rotation lock.

Abstract: Axle shaft assemblies for use with a vehicle include a shaft formed from a first material having a first modulus of elasticity for providing the shaft with a flexibility adapted to withstand side impacts and resist deformation. A first end member can be engaged with a first end of the shaft, and a second end member can be engaged with the second end of the shaft. The end members can be formed from a second material having a second modulus of elasticity greater than the first, such that the end members are adapted to withstand a rotational force. The end members can include splined connectors, hub flanges, and other similar components. The resulting axle shaft assembly can thereby include modular combinations of materials having low and high moduli of elasticity.

Abstract: A hybrid tire cord has more uniform physical properties, and improved strength and fatigue resistance. The hybrid tire cord can easily be manufactured. The hybrid tire cord includes a nylon primarily twisted yarn and an aramid primarily twisted yarn, wherein the nylon primarily twisted yarn and the aramid primarily twisted yarn are secondarily twisted together, and after untwisting of the secondary twisting of the hybrid tire cord having a predetermined length, a length of the aramid primarily twisted yarn is 1.005 to 1.025 times a length of the nylon primarily twisted yarn.

Abstract: An airless tire includes a tread ring having a cylindrical form and a ground contact surface. The tread ring has multiple through holes and a reinforcing body such that the through holes are penetrating through the tread ring in a thickness direction of the tread ring and formed at intervals along a tire circumferential direction and that the reinforcing body includes a first reinforcing body extending in the tire circumferential direction in regions between adjacent through holes, and the first reinforcing body is formed such that the first reinforcing body has end portions in the tire circumferential direction and that the end portions terminate without being exposed from inner peripheral surfaces of the through holes.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion provided with crown main grooves, center axial grooves and center blocks including a siped center block with a first sipe. The siped center block has a pair of substantially v-shaped opposite first and second block side walls each having an outwardly protruding vertex. The first sipe has a wavy configuration at least partially. One end of the first sipe is positioned on one side in the tire circumferential direction of the vertex of the first block side wall, whereas the other end of the first sipe is positioned on other side in the tire circumferential direction of the vertex of the second block side wall.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion provided with blocks divided by main grooves extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction, and axial grooves connecting between the main grooves. The blocks include a siped block. The siped block is provided with a first sipe extending in the tire axial direction across the block, and second sipes respectively disposed in regions subdivided by the first sipe. Each of the second sipes is a closed sipe whose both ends are closed, and the maximum depth of the second sipe is less than the maximum depth of the first sipe.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion provided with blocks divided by main grooves extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction, and axial grooves connecting between the main grooves. The blocks include a siped block. The siped block has a first block side wall and a second block side wall respectively extending along the main grooves on both sides thereof. The siped block is provided with a first sipe extending from the first block side wall to the second block side wall. In the top view of the siped block, the first block side wall and the second block side wall are substantially V-shaped to have a vertex protruding outwardly of the block. One end of the first sipe is positioned on one side in the tire circumferential direction of the vertex of the first block side wall, whereas the other end of the first sipe is positioned on the other side in the tire circumferential direction of the vertex of the second block side wall.

Abstract: In a pneumatic tire according to one embodiment, at least one land portion provided on a tread portion includes a first lateral groove traversing the land portion, and a second lateral groove ending inside the land portion, these lateral grooves being arranged at intervals along a tire circumferential direction. A land portion section located between the first lateral groove and the second lateral groove includes a first inclined surface portion in a chamfered shape at an edge portion extending along the first lateral groove, a second inclined surface portion in a chamfered shape at an edge portion extending along the second lateral groove, and, at one edge portion in a tire width direction, a third inclined surface portion in a chamfered shape intervening between the first inclined surface portion and the second inclined surface portion to connect the two and extending along the tire circumferential direction.

Abstract: A tire 2 includes: a pair of beads 10 including cores 28; chafers 22, disposed near the beads 10, which are brought into contact with a rim; an inner liner 18 disposed inward of a carcass 32 in an axial direction; and an insulation 20 disposed between the carcass 32 and the inner liner 18 in the axial direction. The chafers 22 include bottom surfaces 22a that are brought into contact with the rim in portions inward of the cores 28 in a radial direction. The insulation 20 includes insulation lower portions 20a disposed between the cores 28 and the bottom surfaces 22a of the chafers 22 in the radial direction. The inner liner 18 includes inner liner lower portions 18a disposed between the cores 28 and the bottom surfaces 22a of the chafers 22 in the radial direction.

Abstract: A tire pressure management system includes a control valve assembly. The control valve assembly directs pressurized air from a first fluid conduit when in a first position and provides fluid communication between a source of pressurized air and the first fluid conduit when in a second position. A deflate member is in fluid communication with the control valve assembly or the first fluid conduit. The deflate member includes an orifice having a constant cross-sectional area which is sized to maintain a predetermined pressure in a fluid control circuit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for locating the installation position of at least two wheels (2a-2d) on a vehicle (1). A first radio signal of a first first sensor (4a) which is mounted on a wheel and a second radio signal of a second first sensor (4b) which is mounted on another wheel of the at least two wheels are received. Furthermore, a first measurement value of a first second sensor, which measures an angular position of a first wheel, is received, and a second measurement value of a second second sensor (5c), which measures an angular position of a second wheel of the at least two wheels, is received.

Abstract: A tire sensing system of kinetic parameters is provided, including: at least one wave-emitting source configured to rotate with a tire, and emit at least one detection wave towards an internal surface of said tire; at least one wave sensor configured to rotate with said at least one wave-emitting source, and output a measurement signal according to a physical parameter of said at least one detection wave being reflected off said internal surface; and a processing unit configured to receive said measurement signal, record at least two instants in time during which said at least one detection wave sweeps across the footprint of said tire, and compute a kinetic parameter of said tire with said at least two instants.

Abstract: A system for increasing stiffness and/or strength of a light-duty machine component having propensity for flexing along an elongated axis is provided. The system includes a pair of receptacles disposed on the machine component, wherein each of the receptacles is located in a spaced apart relation to one another and disposed parallel to the elongated axis. The system further includes at least one backing member corresponding to a distance between the pair of receptacles. The backing member is configured to define at least a pair of openings therethrough. The pair of openings is configured to axially align with the pair of receptacles defined on the machine component. The system further includes a plurality of fasteners such that at least one fastener is received in each pair of axially aligned receptacles and openings for releasably securing the backing member to the machine component.

Abstract: A support of a vehicle, in particular of a motor vehicle, is provided with a recess for accommodating a container that is embodied as an air equalization container. The container has connecting points, which are located in a first plane of the container and are designed to connect to the support. The container is designed as a supporting component, and further includes other connecting points in a second plane that is spaced apart from the first plane, the other connecting points being formed for the connection to the support of the vehicle.

Abstract: Suspension for a wheeled vehicle provided with at least one wheel and a frame, having at least one elastic element functionally combinable between the wheel and frame is disclosed. The suspension has at least one hydro-pneumatic spring functionally combined in series with the elastic element so that the equivalent spring modulus (Keq) of the elastic element and hydro-pneumatic spring is variable as a function of the distance between the frame and wheel. The hydro-pneumatic spring is shaped and sized to behave also as an energy dissipator in series to the elastic element.

Abstract: An isolation portion for a suspension member may include a substantially monolithic material configured to couple to a connected end of each of a first link and second link of the suspension member. The substantially monolithic material may be configured to dampen a vibration between the first link and the second link.

Abstract: A spring for a suspension is described. The spring includes: a spring chamber divided into at least a primary portion and a secondary portion, and a fluid flow path coupled with and between the primary portion and the secondary portion. The fluid flow path includes a bypass mechanism, wherein the bypass mechanism is configured for automatically providing resistance within the fluid flow path in response to a compressed condition of the suspension.

Abstract: A torsion beam suspension capable of preventing a rapid change in rigidity at a connection portion between a trailing arm and a torsion beam is provided. The present invention is a torsion beam suspension 100 including an upper member 10 and a lower member 20, and including right and left trailing arms 50 configured to include a pair of trailing arm configuration members 11 and the pair of lower members and configured to extend in a longitudinal, direction of a vehicle body and to be swingable in a vertical direction and a torsion beam 16 which is disposed between the right and left trailing arm configuration members the upper member 10. The lower member includes an upper connection 21 and a beam joint portion 22 inclined from the upper connection 21 to a bottom portion of the U-shaped cross section of the torsion beam and joined with the torsion beam.

Abstract: An anti-roll bar device with a variable rigidity has a first arm assembly having multiple first joining units, a second arm assembly having multiple second joining units, and a variable rigidity unit mounted between the first arm assembly and the second arm assembly and having multiple abutment portions and a variable rigidity coefficient. The first and second joining units are staggered with each other annularly and abut the abutment portions. When a vehicle passes a bumpy terrain, a slight force is exerted on the variable rigidity unit and is absorbed by the variable rigidity unit, such that the vehicle can be kept from tilting and shaking up and down. When the vehicle is in cornering, a larger force is exerted on the variable rigidity unit to increase a rigidity of the variable rigidity unit, such that the variable rigidity unit can transfer torques to keep the vehicle from tilting.

Abstract: A mechanism is provided for controlling the internal air-quality of a vehicle. Responsive to determining that a speed of a vehicle fails to be above the predetermined low-speed threshold, a determination is made as to whether an internal air-quality from an internal air-quality sensor is better than the external air-quality from an external air-quality sensor. Responsive to the internal air-quality being better than the external air-quality, a ventilation control mechanism is signaled to utilize a recirculating-air mode, wherein the ventilation control mechanism either stays in an already initiated recirculation-air mode or switches to the recirculating-air mode. Responsive to the internal air-quality being worse than the external air-quality, the ventilation control mechanism is signaled to utilize a fresh-air mode, wherein the ventilation control mechanism either stays in an already initiated fresh-air mode or switches to the fresh-air mode.

Abstract: An air conditioning device has an electric blower, an air conditioning case, a cooling heat exchanger, and a partition wall. The electric blower has an electric motor, a fan, and a blowing case. Air from the blowing case flows toward the vehicle interior through the air conditioning case. The cooling heat exchanger is disposed in the air conditioning case. The partition wall is disposed on an upstream side of the cooling heat exchanger in the air conditioning case and partitions an inside of the air conditioning case into a first ventilation path and a second ventilation path. The blowing case is connected to a portion of the air conditioning case located on the upstream side of the cooling heat exchanger. The portion of the air conditioning case supports the partition wall formed along a flow direction of a main flow of the air blowing from the blowing case.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a high voltage equipment-accommodation portion, a cooling mechanism, and a discharge passage. The high voltage equipment-accommodation portion is provided behind a seat and includes a high voltage equipment. The cooling mechanism cools the high voltage equipment with cooling air introduced from an outside of the high voltage equipment-accommodation portion and diffuses in the high voltage equipment-accommodation portion the cooling air which has cooled the high voltage equipment. The discharge passage connects a lower end part of the high voltage equipment-accommodation portion and a vicinity of a floor surface in the vehicle interior. The cooling mechanism is configured to discharge the cooling air in the high voltage equipment-accommodation portion downwardly to the vehicle interior via the discharge passage.

Abstract: A vehicle includes an air conditioning system, a high voltage equipment, a cooling fan, and an intake duct. The air conditioning system is to condition air in an interior of the vehicle which has a vehicle height direction. The cooling fan is to send cooling air which has passed through the air conditioning system to the high voltage equipment. The cooling fan has an intake port. The intake duct is connected to the intake port from upward in the vehicle height direction to supply the cooling air to the cooling fan. A lowermost part of the intake port in the vehicle height direction is positioned higher than a lowermost surface of a duct flow path of the intake duct in the vehicle height direction.

Abstract: A housing for an air-handling system includes a first housing shell and a second housing shell. The first housing shell includes a first casing portion and a tub portion monolithically formed. The tub portion is formed at a bottom of the main housing and includes a floor and a third sidewall. The second housing shell includes a casing portion configured to cooperate with the first casing portion to enclose a source air flow conduit of the main housing. The first housing shell further includes a first engaging feature circumscribing the first casing portion and the tub portion, and the second housing shell further includes a second engaging feature circumscribing the second casing portion. The first engaging feature is configured to cooperate with the second engaging feature to align the first housing shell and the second housing shell.

Abstract: A universal mounting bracket, mounting system and method for an evaporator unit of a refrigeration system in a truck body provides for mounting any one of a selected number of currently available evaporator units.

Abstract: A method for preventing vehicle windscreen fogging or re-freezing includes calculating a windscreen interior surface dew point temperature value and/or windscreen interior surface fogging and/or exterior surface re-freezing probability value, and providing only a sufficient conditioned airflow to the windscreen to prevent the calculated probability value from exceeding a predetermined fogging and/or re-freezing risk threshold value. One or more controllers perform the calculating, and actuate elements of a vehicle HVAC system to provide only a sufficient conditioned airflow to cause a windscreen interior surface temperature value to exceed the windscreen interior surface dew point temperature value or to cause a windscreen exterior surface temperature value to exceed a windscreen exterior surface freezing temperature.

Abstract: An air-handling system for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system comprising includes a main housing, a temperature door, a mode door, and a control mechanism. The temperature door is disposed in a mixing and conditioning section of the main housing to control a temperature of a flow of air to a delivery section of the main housing. The mode door is disposed in the delivery section of the main housing to control a flow of air through an upper conduit and a lower conduit. The control mechanism cooperates with each of the temperature door and the mode door. The control mechanism includes a single actuator configured to independently control each of the temperature door and the mode door to provide independent temperature control for each of a high mode, a low mode, and a mixed mode of operation.

Abstract: A vehicle air conditioner includes a heating refrigerant circuit having: a compressor; an internal condenser; an expansion valve; and an external heat exchanger, and a control device. The compressor compresses and discharges a suctioned refrigerant. The internal condenser releases heat of the refrigerant discharged from the compressor. The expansion valve reduces a pressure of the refrigerant which passes through the internal condenser, and expands the refrigerant. The external heat exchanger exchanges heat between the refrigerant which passes through the expansion valve and external air, and causes the refrigerant after the heat exchange with the external air to return to the compressor.

Abstract: An exemplary electrified vehicle assembly includes a battery pack, a cabin heater, and a coolant loop that communicates liquid coolant from the battery pack to the cabin heater. The cabin heater configured to heat a cabin of a vehicle with thermal energy from liquid coolant.

Abstract: A battery cooling system for a vehicle, to warm up or cool down a battery installed in the vehicle by selectively using a refrigerant and a coolant according to a mode of the vehicle may include a heat exchanger, connected with a refrigerant line of a heat pump system through first and second connection lines, connected with a cooling line of a cooling system for an electric device through a battery cooling line, and configured to selectively eat-exchange between the coolant and refrigerant introduced into the heat exchanger, two first valves disposed in the battery cooling line with the heat exchanger disposed therebetween, and selectively connecting the cooling line and the battery cooling line, a first branch line connected with the refrigerant line through a second valve, and a second branch line selectively connecting the refrigerant line and the second connection line through a third valve and a fourth valve.

Abstract: A refrigeration system for a refrigerated cargo container includes two or more refrigeration circuits, each circuit configured to cool a compartment of the refrigerated cargo container. Each circuit includes a compressor (38) to compress a gaseous flow of refrigerant, a gas cooler (40) in fluid communication with the compressor to cool the compressed flow of refrigerant, and an evaporator (46) located at the compartment and in fluid communication with the gas cooler and the compressor. An electrical generator (34) is operably connected to the compressor of each circuit to drive the compressors and a control system operably connected to the electrical generator and the two or more circuits. The control system is configured to calculate a maximum electrical power generated by the generator, calculate a target electrical load of the components of each circuit, and distribute the available electrical power from the generator to meet the target electrical load of each circuit.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a transparent protective covering to protect a windshield from bugs encountered during travel on highways or freeways. In a preferred embodiment, the invention aims to provide a transparent structure used for the protection of a windshield. The structure according to the invention is comprised of a plurality of transparent films that are coupled together, wherein the transparent film has a first side, a second side, and at least one film removing means at one of the edges of the transparent film. The removing means is provided using a thin string attached to each of the transparent films, which tears the film.