Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Toshihiko Matsuda

Toshisuke Sakai

Shinya Koga

Seiji Urano

Shigeru Narakino

Yoshimitsu Aizono

Kyo Niwatsukino

Toshiyuki Kubota

Fuminori Hirakawa

Makoto Nishida

Youichi Syukuri

Kazuyuki Kasahara

Nobuyuki Goto

Tetsuya Anami

Masashi Yamaguchi

Kazuhiro Seguchi

Masashi Hirose

Motohiko Matsuguma

Toshiaki Kikui

Shiro Yamashita

Yasumasa Fukami

Yasuhiko Ezaki

Takashi Ehara

A cooling device includes a heat-radiating device and a centrifugal pump provided in a closed circulation passage for circulating refrigerant. The centrifugal pump contacts and absorbs heat from heat-generating electronic parts by heat exchange of the refrigerant therein to radiate the heat via the heat-radiating device. The centrifugal pump includes a lower casing that comes into contact with the heatgenerating electronic parts, an upper casing disposed to face the lower casing to form a pump chamber, and an impeller sandwiched between the upper casing and the lower casing. The lower casing includes a recessed conical surface facing the impeller, at least one protrusion provided in a center portion of the recessed conical surface and a contact face with which the heat-generating electronic parts come into contact formed directly below the protrusion on an opposite side of the recessed conical surface.

Cooling device

A cooling device for cooling a heat-generating component includes a circulating passage arranged to have coolant circulate therein, a centrifugal pump including a first case made of metallic material, a second case made of resin material, and an impeller accommodated in the pump chamber, and a radiator provided at the circulating passage and being operable to release heat from the coolant. The first case has a surface arranged to contact the heat-generating component. The second case forms a pump chamber between the first case and the second case. The pump chamber stores the coolant therein. The impeller includes open-type vanes arranged to pressurize the coolant as to have the coolant flow through the circulating passage. The cooling device has a high cooling efficiency as well as a high operating efficiency of the motor while having a simple construction and a small overall size and a small thickness.

Cooling device and an electronic apparatus including the same

Pump

Pump for circulating coolant in electronic devices

Radiator

A vortex flow meter includes a measuring tube in which a fluid is carried, a vortex generator provided in the measuring tube for developing a Karman vortex in the fluid, a magnetic field generator generating a magnetic field across the measuring tube downstream of the vortex generator, a pair of electromotive force measuring electrodes provided downstream of the vortex generator for measuring an electromotive force generated by the Karman vortex passing across the magnetic field, a pair of reference electrodes provided at locations upstream and downstream of the electromotive force measuring electrodes, respectively, for measuring a potential at each location, and a detector circuit electrically connected to the electromotive force measuring electrodes and the reference electrodes for calculating the flow of the fluid from the electromotive force and the potential measured by the reference electrodes. The flow is calculated by subtracting the potential difference of the reference potential measuring electrodes from the electromotive force measured by the electromotive force measuring electrodes. This allows the flow meter to have an increased measuring range, meet a wide range of flow conditions, have a simple construction, and have measurement accuracy.

Vortex flow meter

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Fukuoka, Japan

Toshihiko Matsuda