Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Denso Corporation

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Aisin Corporation

Fujitsu Corporation

Fujitsu Ten Limited

Fujitsu Vlsi Limited

Takashi Matsumoto

Yoji Onaka

Hiroyuki Okano

Osamu Morimoto

Kosuke Miyawaki

Shigeyoshi Matsui

Hiroki Murakami

Takanori Koike

Susumu Yoshimura

Takamasa Uemura

Hiroaki Nakamune

Takeshi Hatomura

Akitoshi Minemura

Shoji Yamada

Hiroki Fukuoka

Shinji Kouda

Naoki Hakamada

Hirohito Matsui

Mizuo Sakai

Norihiro Yoneda

Rihito Adachi

Makoto Tanishima

Kenta Tabuchi

Kazuya Onuki

Daisuke Ito

Akira Ishibashi

Hiroshi Kato

Yasuhiro Yoshida

Daigo Ando

Toshiaki Yoshikawa

Tomohito Ono

Shintaro Watanabe

Shinya Sano

Ryota Akaiwa

Tatsuhiko Mizutani

Hirofumi Koge

Yoshio Yamashita

Masashi Matsumoto

Hiroto Hashimoto

Tomoya Fukui

Masayuki Oishi

Yoshiaki Sano

Masato Ikemoto

Taketo Takeuchi

Katsuyuki Yasukouchi

Kenichi Sakoda

Shinichiro Minami

Yoshitada Yamagishi

Toshio Hanazawa

Masayuki Ikemoto

Kazuhiro Miya

Hideki Takahara

Akira Takamori

Ken Takeda

Yoshinari Nakagawa

Masayoshi Nakagawa

Takuya Komatsu

Makito Seki

Faming Sun

Toshinori Nakamura

Akifumi Kurokawa

Satoshi Miyanaga

Takefumi Komaki

Shotaro Miwa

Jun Kawakami

Akiyoshi Katayama

Junichi Sugawara

Takahiro Hori

Yu Hirai

Masachika Kawa

Takahito Nozawa

Naoki Takahashi

Eito Saito

Takeru Yamamoto

Yoshiaki Ushita

Susumu Fujihara

Yasuhide Katagase

A rotary electric machine including a stator and a rotor. The stator includes: (a) a stator core provided with a plurality of teeth are spaced apart by a plurality of voids; (b) a plurality of coils which are wound on the teeth, and which are disposed in the voids, and (c) a plurality of mold resin portions which fill the voids, and which cover the coils. The mold resin portions have respective resin surfaces which are substantially flush with protruding surfaces of the respective teeth, and which cooperate with the protruding surfaces to constitute an inner circumferential surface of the stator. At least some of the mold resin portions have grooves which are provided in the resin surfaces thereof, and which extend in an axial direction parallel to the axis.

Rotary electric machine

In a stator, a stator winding is provided in a stator core and includes phase windings. A neutral-point bus bar is connected to a coil end portion of the stator winding in a radial direction thereof. The coil end portion includes first and second end portions that are joined together. The first tip end portion extends in a fixed direction in the circumferential direction. The second tip end portion extends in a direction opposite the fixed direction in the circumferential direction. The neutral-point bus bar includes a main body portion extending in the circumferential direction and connection portions extending in the radial direction from the main body portion. The connection portions are respectively connected to the phase windings in a state in which the connection portions do not protrude further towards a side opposite the stator core than the main body portion in the axial direction is.

Stator

A CPU is configured to executes a filter regeneration process, a firing process, and a stopping process. The CPU is configured to stop rotation of a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine mounted on a vehicle on the condition that the vehicle is decelerating after termination of the firing process in the stopping process.

Controller and method for controlling vehicle

A rotary electric machine rotor includes a rotor core having magnet holes formed therein, a permanent magnet inserted in each of the magnet holes, and an end plate arranged at an axial end face of the rotor core and having one or more fixing holes via which the permanent magnet is exposed to the outside in an axial direction. One or more fixing pieces extend from the periphery of the fixing hole. The fixing piece has an inclined part that extends in a direction approaching the center of the permanent magnet when advancing to the outside in the axial direction, and is in contact with the permanent magnet, thereby pressing the permanent magnet in both the axial direction and a lateral direction orthogonal to the axial direction.

Rotor of rotary electric machine

An air-sending device includes a housing including an inlet air passage communicating with an air inlet and an outlet air passage communicating with an air outlet, a first partition plate partitioning an interior of the housing into the inlet air passage and the outlet air passage, a bell mouth disposed around an opening defined in the first partition plate, and an impeller disposed over the first partition plate across the bell mouth and having a rotation axis that extends in a direction that intersects the first partition plate. The impeller suctions air into the inlet air passage from the air inlet, and blows out air from the air outlet through the outlet air passage. The inlet air passage guides air from the air inlet to the opening along the first partition plate, and has an air-passage wall.

Air-sending device, and air-conditioning apparatus including the air-sending device

Provided is a rotary electric machine including a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a refrigerant passage. An axial direction of the rotor is along the horizontal direction. The stator is placed around the rotor and includes a tubular stator core. The stator core includes: a communication passage via which an inner peripheral surface of the stator core communicates with an outer peripheral surface of the tubular stator core such that the communication passage guides the refrigerant from the inner peripheral surface of the stator core to the outer peripheral surface of the stator core; and a projection portion provided on the outer peripheral surface of the tubular stator core such that the projection portion extends in the axial direction of the tubular stator core. The projection portion is placed downward in the gravitational direction from an opening of the communication passage on the outer peripheral surface.

A header includes a plurality of branch tubes and a header manifold. If refrigerant flowing into the header manifold forms a pattern of annular flow or churn flow, tips of the branch tubes inserted into the header manifold pass through a liquid-phase portion having a thickness &#x3b4; [m] and reach a gas-phase portion. The thickness &#x3b4; [m] of the liquid-phase portion is defined as &#x3b4;=G&#xd7;(1&#x2212;x)&#xd7;D/(4&#x3c1;&#xd7;U), where G is a flow speed [kg/(ms)] of the refrigerant, x is a quality of the refrigerant, D is an inside diameter [m] of the header manifold, &#x3c1;is a liquid density [kg/m] of the refrigerant, Uis a reference apparent liquid speed [m/s] that is a maximum value within a range of variation in an apparent gas speed of the refrigerant flowing into a flow space of the header manifold. The reference apparent liquid speed U[m/s] is defined as G(1&#x2212;x)/&#x3c1;.

Air-conditioning apparatus and method of using air-conditioning apparatus

A heat exchange unit includes a housing having an inflow air passage communicating with an air inlet, and an outflow air passage communicating with an air outlet, a first partition plate that partitions an inside of the housing into the inflow air passage and the outflow air passage, a bellmouth disposed around an opening formed in the first partition plate, a centrifugal fan disposed on the first partition plate via the bellmouth, and a heat exchanger disposed on a downstream side of the centrifugal fan in the housing. The air inlet is open at any surface of the housing having the inflow air passage. The air outlet is open at any side surface of the housing having the outflow air passage. The inflow air passage is formed between a fan inlet and a main plate closest to the fan inlet to reach a rear surface. The fan inlet is an air inlet of the centrifugal fan.

Heat exchange unit and air-conditioning apparatus including the same

The air-conditioning apparatus includes a heat exchanger including a plurality of heat transfer tubes and a header manifold an axial fan and a refrigerant circuit. When the distance from the center of the flow space in the horizontal plane is represented on a scale of 0 to 100%, where 0% represents the center of the flow space and 100% is the position of the wall surface of the header manifold, among the plurality of branch tubes located within a height range that allows the blade to rotate, the majority of the branch tubes located at or below the height of the boss are connected to the header manifold such that their distal ends are positioned at 0 to 50% of the distance from the center, and the majority of the branch tubes located above the height of the boss are connected to the header manifold such that their distal ends are positioned at more than 50% of the distance from the center.

Air-conditioning apparatus

A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor, a stator core, coils, and insulating sheets. A discharge port that discharges coolant is provided on an outer circumferential face of the rotor. The stator core includes an annular or cylindrical yoke, and teeth disposed on an inner circumferential face of the yoke in a circumferential direction with spaces. The stator core is disposed encompassing an outer circumference of the rotor. A slot-wall-face channel is provided on a wall face of the stator core defining a slot, and configured to open as to the slot for the coolant to flow through. The coils are wound on the teeth. The insulating sheet is disposed in the slot and interposed between the stator core and the coil, and is configured with at least part of the slot-wall-face channel open as to the coil.

Rotating electrical machine with channel in stator slot walls

A finless heat exchanger includes two headers and a plurality of heat transfer tubes spaced apart from each other and arranged side by side. The two headers each have a plurality of insertion holes, to which both ends of the heat transfer tubes are fitted and connected. The heat transfer tubes each include straight portions extending in a direction orthogonal to an arrangement direction, in which the heat transfer tubes are arranged, and turning portions. The straight portions and the turning portions are alternately and continuously arranged.

Finless heat exchanger and refrigeration cycle apparatus

A tooth of a stator is divided into two tooth segments, and an inter-segment gap is formed between the segments. The inter-segment gap is open toward a slot which is a space between adjacent teeth. A cooling fluid is sent to the inter-segment gap from an in-rotor-core flow channel of a rotor core, and the sent cooling fluid directly contacts and cools a coil conductor wiring in the slot.

In a refrigerant circuit of an air conditioning device, an upper heat source side heat exchanger having a large heat load and a lower heat source side heat exchanger having a small heat load are connected in parallel between an expansion device and a suction side of a compressor. Additionally, the refrigerant circuit of the air conditioning device is provided with a branch circuit configured to distribute refrigerant to each of the upper heat source side heat exchanger and the lower heat source side heat exchanger, and the branch circuit is configured to supply the upper heat source side heat exchanger with refrigerant of lower quality than that of the refrigerant supplied to the lower heat source side heat exchanger.

Refrigerant circuit

A heat exchanger and an air-conditioning apparatus that exhibit high performance, and also provide reliability in strength and corrosion resistance. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of fins each including a fin collar formed in a short cylindrical shape by perforating a flat base plate, the plurality of fins being stacked by serially connecting fin collars of the respective fins, the serially connected fin collars being bonded to form a conduit line and a fin core, the conduit line including a resin layer formed on an inner surface thereof. The heat exchanger also includes a reinforcing member having a length corresponding to a length of the conduit line from one end to the other end thereof, to improve rigidity of the conduit line.

Heat exchanger and air-conditioning apparatus

A heat exchanger includes first and second headers connected to end portions of heat transfer tubes. The second header includes a header pipe defining a flow space that communicates with the heat transfer tubes and, when the heat exchanger acts as an evaporator, allows refrigerant in a two-phase gas-liquid state to pass through the flow space into the heat transfer tubes. A bypass pipe is disposed between an entrance portion and the first header. The entrance portion has an entrance distance L between a connection end portion connected to a refrigerant pipe and a central axis of the bypass pipe. The entrance distance L of the entrance portion satisfies L&#x2265;5di, where di is an inner diameter of a flow space of the header pipe on an orthogonal plane orthogonal to a direction of refrigerant flow. The bypass pipe is inserted in the flow space of the entrance portion.

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