Nippon Soken, Inc.

Denso Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Masaru Tsunokawa

Sadahisa Onimaru

Mitsuo Inagaki

Yukikatsu Ozaki

Mikio Matsuda

Takahisa Suzuki

Hajime Ito

Toshio Morikawa

Manabu Kato

Hiroo Yoshikawa

Hirohito Matsui

Hiroki Ishii

Akihisa Kokubo

Toshihiro Nagata

Toshinao Aoki

Toshihiro Ohshima

Kazuyori Yamada

Hisayoshi Ota

A fuel cell has multiple cells, the multiple cells including a first cell having a first fuel gas flow path, and a second cell having a second fuel gas flow path and a sensor that measures a specific parameter value relating to a decrease in concentration of fuel gas in the second fuel gas flow path.

Fuel cell, fuel cell system, and control method of fuel cell system

A heating apparatus for a vehicle includes a pump for circulating cooling water in a cooling water circuit, a heating heat exchanger for heating air blown into a passenger compartment of the vehicle using cooling water as a heating source, and a throttle valve disposed at a discharge side of the pump. In the heating apparatus, when the temperature of cooling water is low and heating capacity for heating the passenger compartment is insufficient, an opening degree of the throttle valve is reduced by a control unit. Therefore, heat is generated from the throttle valve and the pump so that the temperature of cooling water is increased. Thus, heating capacity of the heating apparatus can be improved without using a manual operation.

Heating apparatus for vehicle

A viscous liquid heater is composed of a housing having a heat chamber filled with viscous liquid, a rotor disposed in the heat chamber and a rotary plate movable to change volume of the heat chamber. The rotor rotates in the heat chamber and shears the viscous liquid to generate heat. The temperature of the heat chamber is controlled by changing volume of the heat chamber.

Viscous liquid heater

A refrigerating system of a gas injection type having first and second stage pressure reducers 3 and 5, between which a separator 4 is arranged, and a conduit 10 for introduction of a gaseous refrigerant separated at a separator 4 into a compressor 1. A by-pass conduit 11 is connected to a refrigerating system so that the second stage pressure reducer 5 is by-passed. An ON-OFF control valve 12 is arranged in the by-pass conduit. The control valve 12 is switched to an opened condition during a low load of the air conditioning system, which makes a pressure difference low between the outlet of the separator 4 and an evaporator 6, which prevent gas injection from being executed. A control valve can also be arranged in a gas injection conduit 10, which controls an amount of the gas injection in accordance with a ratio (compression ratio) of an outlet pressure to an intake pressure in such a manner a reduction of a gas injection amount is obtained when a value of the compression ratio is lower than a predetermined value, thereby preventing over-compression from occurring.

Refrigerating system

When heating the passenger compartment of a vehicle during cold weather, an air switching outlet is operated to allow the entry of outside air with an interior blower being operated to facilitate the entry of the outside air. A condenser door is operated to close an air passage of the condenser and a bypass passage is opened so that outside air flows to the passenger compartment of the vehicle while bypassing the condenser. Further, only a defogging outlet is opened and the incoming air is blown out from this defogging outlet toward the windshield of the vehicle so that a low humidity air curtain is formed proximate to the inner surface of the windshield. After completing the warm-up of the heat pump cycle, the condenser door is switched such that the air blown in by the blower passes the interior condenser to start the heating of the passenger compartment.

Vehicular air temperature control system having excellent windshield

A method of control of a car air-conditioner which prevents condensation and fogging on window glass occurring at the initial start of a slow starting heat pump system, without dehumidification by a large amount of ventilation as in the past, by driving an absorbent fan simultaneously with the start of a heating operation by the system so as to remove the moisture from the air in the passenger compartment by a small amount of an absorbent, starting a low level of ventilation when the heat pump system has finished warming up, ending the dehumidification by the absorbent within a relatively short time, and starting the regeneration of the absorbent by supplying power to a heater.

Method of control for car air-conditioner

A gas-liquid separator for a heat pump type air conditioning system using a gas-injection cycle, which system can switch its mode of operation between heating and cooling modes, includes a reservoir for receiving refrigerant in a gas-liquid two-phase flow, an exit port which opens at a upper portion of the reservoir and allows a refrigerant gas to flow out of the reservoir, first and second ports which are provided at a upper part within the reservoir above the level of a refrigerant liquid and allows the refrigerant to flow into and out of the reservoir. A first refrigerant path for allowing the first port to fluidly communicate with the refrigerant liquid in the reservoir, a second refrigerant path for allowing the first port to fluidly communicate with the refrigerant gas above the level of the refrigerant liquid in the reservoir, a third refrigerant path for allowing the second port to fluidly communicate with the refrigerant liquid in the reservoir, and a fourth refrigerant path for allowing the second port to fluidly communicate with the refrigerant gas above the level of the refrigerant liquid in the reservoir are provided within the reservoir. The second and third refrigerant path open when a refrigerant enters the reservoir through the first port, and the first and fourth refrigerant path open when a refrigerant enters the reservoir through the second port.

Gas-liquid separator for a heat pump type air conditioning system using

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Okazaki, Japan

Masaru Tsunokawa