Abstract:
A power control apparatus is applied to a vehicle provided with a receiving port connected with an external power supply device placed outside the vehicle and on-vehicle electrical loads including a second battery which stores power supplied from the external power supply device via the receiving port. The power control apparatus for vehicles has power supply processing means that performs a power supply process for supplying desired power to the loads during a stop of the vehicle. This power supply processing means predicts cost required to supply the desired power, based on future predicted power cost information, in planning a power supply process needed during the stop of the vehicle. This planned power supply process is performed.
Abstract:
A power supply device includes a refrigeration cycle having a compressor, a motor, an inverter-integrated charger, a heat exchanger unit, and a controller having a determining unit. The inverter-integrated charger selectively controls operation of the motor using electrical power of a battery and charge of the battery with external power. The heat exchanger unit cools a cooling-necessary part of the inverter-integrated charger using refrigerant in the refrigeration cycle. When the vehicle is stopped and the battery is charged with the external power, the controller makes the inverter-integrated charger serve as: a charger to perform the charge of the battery; or an inverter to control the operation of the motor, thereby driving the compressor, upon determination that the cooling-necessary part needs to be cooled by the determining unit.
Abstract:
A method of the present invention is a method for manufacturing an optical module (10) including an optical fiber (3) and an optical fiber insertion pipe (2) into which the optical fiber (3) is inserted, and includes a sealing step in which the optical fiber insertion pipe (2) is hermetically sealed. The sealing step includes a contact step, a heating step, and a feeding step. In the contact step, a heat conductor member (5) is provided along and in contact with a side surface of the optical fiber insertion pipe (2), the heat conductor member having a heat conductivity greater than that of an environmental atmosphere of the sealing step and having a heat generating property of generating heat by induction heating, which heat generating property of the heat conductor member is inferior to that of the optical fiber insertion pipe (2) in terms of heat generation amount. In the heating step, the optical fiber insertion pipe (2) thus provided with the heat conductor member (5) is heated by induction heating. In the feeding step, a solder (6) is fed to a feed hole (4) provided in the optical fiber insertion pipe (2). The present invention provides the method in which workability of hermetic sealing is thus improved.
Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing unit and a switching unit. The fixing unit includes an emitting unit that emits light and a housing that houses the emitting unit. The fixing unit fixes a toner image to a recording medium by emitting the light to a surface of the recording medium, the recording medium having the toner image formed thereon and having been transported to a predetermined fixing position that is away from the housing. The switching unit switches a state of the fixing device from a first state in which the housing and the recording medium are positioned away from each other to a second state in which the surface of the recording medium at the fixing position is sealed with the housing.
Abstract:
A semiconductor light detecting element is provided with a silicon substrate having a semiconductor layer, and an epitaxial semiconductor layer grown on the semiconductor layer and having a lower impurity concentration than the semiconductor layer; and conductors provided on a surface of the epitaxial semiconductor layer. A photosensitive region is formed in the epitaxial semiconductor layer. Irregular asperity is formed at least in a surface opposed to the photosensitive region in the semiconductor layer. The irregular asperity is optically exposed.
Abstract:
A power supply apparatus for vehicles is provided. This apparatus includes a battery mounted on a vehicle as well as first and second power transferring means and a power conversion unit. The first power transferring means transfers power between the battery and a first power supply section placed outside the vehicle, in a state where the battery is electrically connected to the power supply section. The second power transferring means transfers power between the battery and the power supply section placed outside the vehicle, in a state where the battery is electromagnetically connected to a second power supply section. The power conversion unit is used commonly in both the first and second power transferring means and used for transferring the power between the battery and the first power supply section and for transferring the power between the battery and the second power supply section.
Abstract:
Provided is an optical transmission module that includes: a semiconductor light emitting element for emitting laser light; a first driving unit for providing a first driving current to the semiconductor light emitting element; a switching unit connected between the semiconductor light emitting element and the first driving unit; and a package for accommodating the semiconductor light emitting element, the first driving unit, and the switching unit. The switching unit includes a first input for receiving a first driving current outputted from at least from the first driving unit, a second input for receiving a second driving current for testing the semiconductor light emitting element, and an output connected to the semiconductor light emitting element. The switching unit connects the first input or the second input to the output.
Abstract:
A photodiode PD1 is provided with an n− type semiconductor substrate 1 with a pn junction formed of a first conductivity type semiconductor region and a second conductivity type semiconductor region. For the n− type semiconductor substrate 1, an accumulation layer 7 is formed on the second principal surface 1b side of the n− type semiconductor substrate 1 and an irregular asperity 10 is formed at least in regions opposed to the pn junction in a first principal surface 1a and in the second principal surface 1b. The regions opposed to the pn junction in the first principal surface 1a and in the second principal surface 1b of the n− type semiconductor substrate 1 are optically exposed.
Abstract:
Prepared is an n− type semiconductor substrate 1 having a first principal surface 1a and a second principal surface 1b opposed to each other, and having a p+ type semiconductor region 3 formed on the first principal surface 1a side. At least a region opposed to the p+ type semiconductor region 3 in the second principal surface 1b of the n− type semiconductor substrate 1 is irradiated with a pulsed laser beam to form an irregular asperity 10. After formation of the irregular asperity 10, an accumulation layer 11 with an impurity concentration higher than that of the n− type semiconductor substrate 1 is formed on the second principal surface 1b side of the n− type semiconductor substrate 1. After formation of the accumulation layer 11, the n− type semiconductor substrate 1 is subjected to a thermal treatment.
Abstract:
A power control apparatus is applied to a vehicle provided with a receiving port connected with an external power supply device placed outside the vehicle and on-vehicle electrical loads including a second battery which stores power supplied from the external power supply device via the receiving port. The power control apparatus for vehicles has power supply processing means that performs a power supply process for supplying desired power to the loads during a stop of the vehicle. This power supply processing means predicts cost required to supply the desired power, based on future predicted power cost information, in planning a power supply process needed during the stop of the vehicle. This planned power supply process is performed.