Denso Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

Tokai Kogyo Company Limited

Satoshi Ito

Kengo Sugimura

Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Yuichi Kami

Shuichi Hirata

Hiroyuki Miyauchi

Makoto Taniguchi

Shin Kusase

Satoshi Suzuki

Etsuhisa Yamada

Hiromi Sakai

Hidefumi Aikawa

Naoki Kato

Takuya Fuse

Daiji Furuhashi

Masashi Ikemura

Yuuji Hidaka

Hideaki Sato

Ryo Michikawauchi

Yu Ofune

Shinya Kasamatsu

Akiya Shichijoh

Nobuhiro Ide

Takeshi Okada

Kazuhiro Maeno

Kazuhiro Tada

Yosuke Michikoshi

Shintaro Goto

Yuya Mizuma

Terukazu Hiroe

Hirotaka Kamijo

Hiroya Hasegawa

Tatsuhito Matsumoto

Hiroaki Kojima

Takamasa Nodo

Nana Nakajima

Kosuke Shiratori

Kengo Hara

Kunikazu Sato

Masanari Numata

Atsushi Inaba

A system includes: a low-temperature circuit having a chiller and in which a cooling water circulates therethrough; a heat dissipation unit for dissipating heat to an air; a refrigeration circuit in which a refrigerant circulates and for absorbing heat from the cooling water to the refrigerant at the chiller and dissipating heat from the refrigerant at the heat dissipation unit; a ratio adjusting device for adjusting a heat dissipation unit passing ratio; and a controller for controlling an heat transfer amount adjusting apparatus capable of adjusting the heat transfer amount in the refrigeration circuit and the ratio adjusting device. If it is predicted that the temperature of the cooling water decreases, the controller controls the apparatus so that the heat transfer amount is increased and controls the ratio adjusting device so that the ratio is decreased, before the temperature of the cooling water flowing through the chiller decreases.

In-vehicle temperature control system

The refrigeration cycle device includes a compressor, an outside heat exchanger, a cooling pressure reducing unit, an evaporator, a branch portion, a cool down pressure reducing unit, a temperature adjusting unit, a merging portion, a bypass passage, and a first on-off valve. The temperature adjusting unit includes a temperature adjusting heat exchange unit and adjusts a temperature of a temperature adjustment target object. During a cooling and cool down mode, the outside heat exchanger functions as a radiator, and the evaporator and the temperature adjusting heat exchange unit function as heat absorbers. During a target object warm up mode, the refrigerant discharged from the compressor is guided to the temperature adjusting heat exchange unit via the bypass passage, and the heat of the discharged refrigerant is used as a heat source for heating the temperature adjustment target object.

Refrigeration cycle device

A refrigeration cycle device including a first pressure reducing valve, a first evaporator that exchanges heat between the refrigerant decompressed in the first pressure reducing valve and air, a second pressure reducing valve that is disposed in parallel with the first pressure reducing valve; a second evaporator in which the refrigerant decompressed in the second pressure reducing valve to absorbs heat from a battery; a third pressure reducing valve that reduces the pressure of the refrigerant evaporated in the second evaporator; and a controller configured to control opening degrees of the second pressure reducing valve and the third pressure reducing valve. The controller performs a limit control for controlling the opening degree of the second pressure reducing valve to an opening degree of smaller one of a battery cooling opening degree and an air cooling opening degree.

A refrigeration cycle device includes a compressor, a radiator, an air-conditioning heat exchanger, a cooling heat exchanger, an air-conditioning decompression unit, a cooler-unit decompression unit, a refrigerant flow rate detector, and a controller. The radiator is configured to radiate heat of refrigerant discharged from the compressor. The air-conditioning heat exchanger absorbs heat from air to evaporate the refrigerant. The cooling heat exchanger is arranged in parallel with the air-conditioning heat exchanger in the flow of refrigerant. The air-conditioning decompression unit adjusts a decompression amount of the refrigerant flowing into the air-conditioning heat exchanger. The cooler-unit decompression unit adjusts a decompression amount of the refrigerant flowing into the cooling heat exchanger. The controller controls the operation of the cooler-unit decompression unit so that the flow rate of the refrigerant detected by the refrigerant flow rate detector exceeds a predetermined reference flow rate.

A static matrix model in a viscoelastic body is generated for each environmental temperature condition. A generalized Maxwell model is generated for each environmental temperature condition using a matrix of the static matrix model. A spring coefficient and a damper viscosity coefficient of a material test piece is identified as a function of a strain rate norm based on a measurement result of the material test piece using a temperature-time conversion rule. An average strain rate of a part is identified as a function of a displacement rate vector. A dynamic spring coefficient and a damper viscosity coefficient of the part are identified as a function of a component of the displacement rate vector. A generalized Maxwell model for analysis is generated by applying the dynamic spring coefficient and the damper viscosity coefficient identified as the function of the component of the displacement rate vector to the generalized Maxwell model.

Model generation method

A refrigerant cycle device includes a compressor, a radiator, a first expansion valve, a second expansion valve, a first evaporator, a second evaporator, and a controller. The controller is configured to switch between a first evaporator priority control and a second evaporator priority control. During the first evaporator priority control, the controller controls a throttle opening of the second expansion valve based on at least one of a temperature of a first evaporator, a temperature of a refrigerant flowing through the first evaporator, and a temperature of an air having exchanged heat in the first evaporator. During the second evaporator priority mode, the controller controls the throttle opening based on a refrigerant state of the second evaporator. When the at least one of the temperatures is equal to or greater than a switching temperature, the second priority mode is switched to the first priority mode.

Refrigeration cycle device for vehicle

A refrigeration cycle device includes a heating unit, an air-heating expansion valve, an outdoor heat exchanger, an air-cooling expansion valve, an indoor evaporator, and a cooler-unit expansion valve, a cooler unit, and a refrigerant circuit switching unit. In a heating series cooler-unit mode, refrigerant is circulated in order of the heating unit, the air-heating expansion valve, the outdoor heat exchanger, the cooler-unit expansion valve, and the cooler unit. In a heating parallel cooler-unit mode, refrigerant is circulated in order of the heating unit, the air-heating expansion valve, and the outdoor heat exchanger, and refrigerant is circulated in order of the heating unit, the cooler-unit expansion valve, and the cooler unit.

A fuel pump is connected to a suction filter which is provided with a filter connecting portion having a cylindrical hole and a projecting portion protruding radially inward from an inner peripheral wall of the cylindrical hole. The fuel pump suctions the fuel filtered by the suction filter. The fuel pump is provided with a suction port having multiple suction openings at a side of the suction filter so as to suction the fuel therethrough, and a pump connecting portion provided at outer side of the multiple suction openings and connected with the filter connecting portion. The pump connecting portion has an outer peripheral wall of which outer shape corresponds with a shape of the inner peripheral wall, and a dent portion denting inward from the outer peripheral wall, which the projecting portion is engaged with.

Fuel pump and fuel pump module

During a normal operation, a refrigeration cycle device is switched to a refrigerant circuit in which heat contained in a high-pressure refrigerant flowing out of an interior radiator is stored in a heat storage member. When frost is formed on an evaporator, the refrigeration cycle device is switched to another refrigerant circuit in which the exterior heat exchanger is heated and defrosted using heat stored in the heat storage member as a heat source. The heat storage member uses a material formed by adding W (tungsten) as an additive to VO(vanadium dioxide) which is a transition metal oxide having a property of a phase transition between a metal and an insulator. The heat storage member effectively stores or dissipates heat depending on a temperature zone of the refrigerant, thereby suppressing an increase in energy consumption of a compressor.

An air conditioner includes an inside condenser, an outside heat exchanger, an inside evaporator, a refrigerant circuit switcher, and an air passage switcher. The refrigerant circuit switcher is configured to switch a layout of the refrigerant circuit to (i) a first circuit during a heating mode such that the refrigerant releases heat at the inside condenser and is decompressed to evaporate at the outside heat exchanger and (ii) a second circuit during a defrosting mode such that the refrigerant releases heat at the outside heat exchanger and is decompressed to evaporate at the inside evaporator. The air passage switcher is configured to switch the air passage to (i) a first passage during the heating mode such that the air passes through the inside evaporator and the inside condenser and (ii) a second passage during the defrosting mode such that the air bypasses the inside condenser.

Air conditioner, air conditioning system, and air-conditioning controller

A control device of a vehicle has a drive source, a power transmission device having a plurality of rotating elements coupled via a gear and a plurality of friction engagement elements selectively coupling the plurality of rotating elements for transmitting an output of the drive source, and a lubricating device supplying a lubrication oil to the friction engagement elements for lubrication, the control device comprising: a lubrication control portion configured to increase an amount of the lubrication oil to the friction engagement elements from the lubricating device in a booming sound generating region predefined with respect to a drive source rotation speed.

Control device of vehicle

Breakage of a ring core or a bobbin upon injection molding of molten resin is to be prevented in a method of manufacturing a reactor including the ring core. A reactor includes a ring core, a bobbin, a pair of coils, and a plastic cover. The bobbin includes a pair of cylinder portions, and flanges connecting ends of the cylinder portions. The reactor is manufactured by following processes. First protrusions that make contact with an inner circumferential surface of the ring core are provided on outer sides of the flanges along a cylinder axis direction. Second protrusions are provided at positions facing the corresponding first protrusions across the ring core are provided on a cavity surface of a mold that forms the plastic cover by injection molding. The plastic cover is formed by injecting molten resin into the mold while clamping the ring core by the first and second protrusions.

Method of manufacturing reactor

A reactor includes a reactor body and a heat sink. The reactor body includes coil wire wound around a core. The heat sink is fixed to the reactor body through a heat transfer sheet. The heat sink includes a restricting wall for the heat transfer sheet such that expansion of the heat transfer sheet in a first direction is restricted more than expansion of the heat transfer sheet in a second direction. The first direction is an extending direction of the coil wire on a surface of the reactor body, which abuts on the heat transfer sheet. The second direction is an axis direction of the coil wire.

Reactor

A stator for an electric rotating machine includes a stator core that has an annular yoke portion, a plurality of tooth portions, a plurality of connecting portions and a plurality of slots. The tooth portions are separately formed from and assembled to the yoke portion. Each of the tooth portions extends radially inward from a radially inner periphery of the yoke portion. The tooth portions are arranged in the circumferential direction of the yoke portion at predetermined intervals. Each of the connecting portions circumferentially extends to connect a corresponding circumferentially-adjacent pair of the tooth portions. Each of the slots is formed between a circumferentially-adjacent pair of the tooth portions. Moreover, each of the slots is partitioned by a corresponding one of the connecting portions into a radially-outer section and a radially-inner section.

Stator for electric rotating machine

A synchronous machine comprises a stator and a rotor that faces the stator and rotates on a shaft thereof in a circumferential direction. The rotor has magnetic salient poles that generate reluctance torque and magnet-originating magnetic poles that generate magnet torque by using permanent magnets embedded in the rotor. The machine comprises means for shifting a magnetically substantial central position of magnetic flux emanating from the permanent magnets in the circumferential direction, by an electrical angle &#x3c0;/2 plus a predetermined angle &#x394;&#x3b8;, from a reference position taken as a central position between paired magnetic salient poles composing each magnetic pole of the machine among the magnetic salient poles. Hence a maximum amplitude of a sum between a harmonic component of the magnet torque and the reluctance torque is changed from that obtained at the reference position without the shift.

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