Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yuji Kamiya

Akira Maeda

Masahiko Takano

Kentaro Yamamoto

Seiichi Takasaki

Ryoji Taneda

Weng Leong Loo

Hideki Honjo

Yuji Tozuka

Hiroki Kawamura

Masanori Inagaki

A gas compressor includes a compressor unit having a compressor body for compressing gas and an electricity-generation device generating electricity by obtaining a driving force by vaporizing a working fluid utilizing exhaust heat generated by a compressing action in the compressor body and expanding the working fluid so as to utilize the power generated by the electricity-generation device as a power source, and includes a switch device switching between power from the electricity generation device and power from a commercial power supply to supply power to the power consumption equipment, and a control device detecting an electricity-generation amount or a value correlative to the electricity generation amount and switching between the powers by the switch device, thereby generating the power using exhaust heat as a heat source to surely drive an auxiliary machine by a simple configuration regardless of a shortage of the electricity generation amount.

Gas compressor

To improve the exhaust heat recovery efficiency, a compressor includes a heat exchanger for cooling a gas, coolant, water, or oil heated by the compressor during compressor operation by heat exchange with a working fluid, for circulating the working fluid of a Rankine cycle. The Rankine cycle is implemented by the heat exchanger, an expander, a condenser, and a circulating pump to circulate the working fluid through the cycle.

Compressor

A compulsory drive unit ( ) for electrical equipment provided in a vehicle is capable of easily and compulsorily driving the electrical equipment ( ) in the vehicle to check the operation thereof. The compulsory drive unit ( ) brings a power supply unit ( ) into contact with a bus bar ( ) through a conduction hole ( ) of a junction block ( ) to thereby supply the electrical equipment with power from an outside battery (&plus;B) and compulsorily drive the electrical equipment. It is therefore possible to easily check the operation of the electrical equipment, and this significantly improves the operating efficiency.

Compulsory drive unit for electrical equipment in a vehicle

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuji Kamiya