Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Tetsuya Yamada

Ken Suitou

Shingo Enami

Satoru Yoneda

Takashi Yamada

Mitsuru Isogai

Hideji Hayashi

Yoshikazu Fukutani

Akio Fujii

Toshio Sakata

Yoshifumi Kosagi

Tatsuya Ito

Taku Adaniya

Hiroshi Fukasaku

Minoru Mera

Junya Yano

Takuro Yamashita

Tetsuro Ito

Shinichi Okuyama

Taizou Oonishi

Satoshi Okada

Takao Kawasaki

Shinya Sato

Kenji Maemura

An electric compressor includes an inverter housing accommodating an inverter, a compressor housing accommodating a compression mechanism and an electric motor, and a seal member having an annular shape and interposed between an end surface of a peripheral wall of the compressor housing and an end surface of the inverter housing. The compressor housing has the peripheral wall in which the inverter is disposed. The seal member is retained to the inverter housing by a retaining structure which is disposed inside the peripheral wall of the compressor housing. The retaining structure includes a first projection and a second projection. The first projection is formed on the seal member and projects radially inward. The second projection is formed on the inverter housing. The first projection is located between the second projection and the end surface of the inverter housing so as to restrict movement of the seal member in a direction.

Electric compressor

An inverter includes a bus bar as a wiring and a ferrite core that covers the bus bar to absorb electromagnetic noise from the bus bar. The bus bar and ferrite core are integrated by mold forming using a resin material in a state of exposing a part of the ferrite core.

On-vehicle electronic device and motor-driven compressor

A stator core includes an insertion hole that has an opening in an outer peripheral surface of the stator core and a bent portion in the stator core. A cluster block includes an insertion piece, which is inserted into the insertion hole via the cornered portion. The cluster block is attached to the stator core by engaging the insertion piece with the insertion hole.

Motor-driven compressor and mounting method for motor-driven compressor

A motor-driven compressor includes a shell, an electric motor, a first conductor electrically connected to an external power source, a second conductor electrically connected to the electric motor, a connector connecting the first conductor and the second conductor and a connector case. The connector case has a first case member, a second case member, a first and a second seal members interposed between the first and the second case members, a hole through which the first conductor is inserted and a third seal member sealing between the first conductor and the connector case. A first main seal of the first seal member and a second main seal of the second seal member cooperate to form a cylindrical seal portion for sealing the second conductor that is inserted through the cylindrical seal portion when the first and the second seal members are joined.

Motor-driven compressor

A motor-driven compressor includes an electric motor having a stator core, a compression mechanism driven by the electric motor, a motor housing accommodating the electric motor, and a cluster block engaged with the stator core in the motor housing. The stator core of the electric motor and the motor housing are assembled by shrink fit. The cluster block accommodates a connecting terminal for electrical connection between a conductor connected to a motor drive circuit and a lead wire drawn from the electric motor. The cluster block has a terminal hole for receiving the connecting terminal and has an opening that is provided separately from the terminal hole.

Motor-driven compressor and method for manufacturing the same

A motor-driven compressor includes a connector to which a first and second conductors are connected, and a connector case receiving the connector. The connector case includes a first case member and a second case member. A seal member is provided between the first and second case members. The first case member has a first sealing surface extending along the periphery of the first case member. The second case member has a second sealing surface extending along the periphery of the second case member and facing the first sealing surface. The seal member includes a main seal portion for sealing between the first sealing surface and the second sealing surface. The main seal portion has a first peripheral seal portion for sealing the periphery of the first conductor inserted therethrough and has a second peripheral seal portion for sealing the periphery of the second conductor inserted therethrough.

A motor-driven compressor includes a compression mechanism, an electric motor, a compressor housing, a conductive member, a terminal base, an insulating member, a connection terminal, a wire assembly, a terminal housing, first and second holes formed through the terminal housing and first and second seal members. The conductive member extends from the inside to the outside of the compressor housing and connected electrically to the connection terminal at a terminal connection. The wire assembly has a core wire connecting electrically between the connecting terminal and the electric motor, and an insulator covering the core wire. The terminal housing disposed in the compressor housing covers the terminal connection. The wire assembly has an insulating tube covering the insulator, wherein both ends of the insulating tube are opened for communicating with the inside and the outside of the terminal housing through a clearance formed between the insulating tube and the insulator.

A fixing device is provided with first and second fixing members each having an elastic member, a heater for heating at least one of the first and second fixing members and a controller. The first and second fixing members are abutted against each other so that the elastic members contact with each other. A sheet carrying an image of a developer is passed between the first and second fixing members, whereby the developer is fixed onto the sheet. The controller corrects fixing conditions including a fixing speed and a fixing temperature in accordance with an integrated energizing time that is an integrated value of an energizing time of the heater.

Fixing device capable of correcting fixing conditions in accordance with an integrated energizing time

In a belt type fixing apparatus having a heat roller temperature sensor that detects the temperature of a heat roller that contains a heater for heating a fixing belt, and a fixing belt temperature sensor that is set to contact a pressure roller and indirectly detects the temperature of the fixing belt, the heater that heats the fixing belt is controlled in such a way that the temperature detected by the heat roller temperature sensor matches the target temperature of the heat roller that is set based on the temperature detected by the fixing belt temperature sensor.

Image forming apparatus and fixing apparatus

The present invention provides a drive device having slip stoppers that can reliably prevent skewed movement of or damage to a belt. The drive device pertaining to the present invention has a roller, a drive roller, a belt that is suspended and moves over these rollers, and slip stoppers that are mounted to the roller and prevent the belt from moving in a skewed fashion. The slip stopper comprises a base into which the roller is inserted, a first wall that is located on the edge of the base that faces the belt and that is essentially perpendicular to the inner surface of the base and a second wall that extends outward continuously from the first wall and is tilted toward the other edge of the base.

Drive device, and fusing device and transfer device including said drive

A fusing device has a pair of fusing rollers of which at least one is covered by an elastically deformable layer of heat resistant material with the fusing rollers being brought into contact with each other; a recording material guide member and a pre-heating member having a plane-shaped heating surface opposite to the recording material guide member on an upstream side recording material which maintains a toner image away of a nip portion where the fusing roller make contact. While the recording material which maintains the toner image is guided on said recording material guide member, the toner image is heated by means of the pre-heating member and passed through the nip portion. The fusing device is set to satisfy the relationship of 0&lt;F&lt;0.5.theta..sup.2 +0.05.theta. for an angle .theta.(.degree.) formed by a straight line connecting the nip portion with the edge of the recording material insertion side of the pre-heating member in the vertical plane on the rotating axis of the pair of fusing rollers and a straight line connecting the nip portion with the edge of the recording material insertion side of the recording material guide member as well as for a combined force F (kg).

Fusing device, a heating device, and a method for fusing a toner image

A fusing belt type heat fusing device has a rotating fusing roller, a driven heating roller, an endless fusing belt wrapped and stretched around the two rollers, a pressure roller that applies pressure to the fusing roller through the fusing belt, and a separation agent application and tension transmission element that applies an offset suppression separation agent to the fusing belt in addition to transmitting tension to the fusing belt. The separation agent application and tension transmission element is installed so as to make contact with the fusing belt at an upstream side of the heating roller in the rotation direction of the fusing belt between the fusing roller and the heating roller and at a position closer to the heating roller than a center position between the fusing roller and the heating roller.

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Aichi-ken, Japan

Tetsuya Yamada