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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a locking device which provides strong holding power as soon as or just after a companion member is inserted into a housing element, to obtain high reliability.SOLUTION: A locking device 14 comprises a supporting plate 34 which includes an accommodating mechanism 48 for a companion member which is fixed to a vehicle body. A companion member 46 can be locked to the accommodating mechanism 48 via a lock hook 36 which is swingable with respect to the supporting plate 34, and the locking device 14 detachably fixes a roof part of a vehicle, which is slidable with respect to the accommodating mechanism 48, to the companion member. The lock hook 36 is slidable toward substantially the same sliding direction of the companion member from a front latched position to a rear latched position and is swingable to substantially vertical with respect to the sliding direction from a locked position to a released position.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simply detect information regarding an operating state of an internal-combustion engine of an automobile, particularly, in the case of an auxiliary automobile heater. SOLUTION: An auxiliary automobile heater 10 is provided with a control device 22 having a terminal 30 for a power supply line 32 that is guided from a battery 34 of the automobile to the control device 22. The control device 22 is configured to detect changes in voltage of the terminal 30 in order to detect information that "starting of an internal combustion engine 36 of the automobile is achieved" depending on the changes in voltage. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an independent air-conditioning module avoiding a loss due to a long heat-transfer-medium pipe or a pressure loss due to a long air duct, in which a weight distribution inside an automobile is uniform. SOLUTION: The automobile, particularly, the independent air-conditioning module 10 for a commercial vehicle includes a latent heat reservoir 14 filled with heat via a compressed cooling medium circuit and designed so that the heat is discharged via a heating medium circuit, and a heating medium/air-heat exchanger 20 that can transmit heat to air to be cooled from the heating medium in the heating medium circuit. A shape of the independent air-conditioning module 10 has a maximum length L and a maximum height H. A center of gravity S of the independent air-conditioning module 10 positions at least within approximately a center range of the maximum length L. The center of gravity S of the independent air-conditioning module 10 positions within the lower half of the maximum height H in the state that the module 10 is mounted. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PURPOSE: To surely ignite flame-retardant gas mixtures burner even when oxygen content in exhaust gas is small, by providing a baffle barrier at a specified distance measured from a nozzle's jetting port in nozzle's jetting direction of a fuel jetting nozzle, with the baffle barrier extending in the direction almost perpendicular to the center axis of the fuel jetting nozzle. CONSTITUTION: With the help of pilot flame in a first zone 2a, the gas mixtures in a second zone 2b in a combustion chamber burns with sure. The gas mixtures in the second zone 2b contains the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine introduced through an inlet 10 as its main fuel. The oxygen content of the exhaust gas, the amount of exhaust gas, and the flow rate of exhaust gas fluctuate largely dependent on the operation condition of the internal combustion engine. A baffle barrier supports mixture of fuel and exhaust gas in the second zone 2b of the combustion chamber 2 by the turbulence of flow generated in the gas mixtures by the baffle barrier 5. During combustion operation of a burner 1, the baffle barrier 5 is heated red, and the heat radiated from the baffle barrier 5 increases inverse-flame ability of the flame at a root zone of the flame based on position of the baffle barrier 5. Thus, a stable flame is maintained even when the exhaust gas of low oxygen content comes in through the inlet 10.
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PURPOSE: To enhance heat exchanging efficiency while making compact a heat exchanger by providing a combustion chamber surrounded by a heat exchanger having inner fins wherein the heat exchanger of a heating device surrounded by heat transfer liquid flow has a quadrangular design and a flat bottom. CONSTITUTION: Inner fins 9 extend radially inward and each fin has a free end 11 located on a circle having center representative of the central axis 12 of a heat exchanger 3 and the combustion chamber 2 of a heater 1. Consequently, the free ends 11 of the inner fins 9 define an inner space 13 of substantially circular cross-section in the heat exchanger 3. The inner space 13 contains the combustion chamber 2 defined by combustion tubes 14. Various types of baffle 21 exist on the outer wall surface of a heat exchanger defining a flow passage 22 for liquid heat exchanging medium 5 formed between adjacent pairs of battle 21 for guiding the flow of the medium 5. Major part (about 80%) of the flow of the medium 5 entering through an inlet area 19 passes directly to the closed end 8 of the heat exchanger 3 and the remaining 20% passes to the outer wall surface thereof.
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PURPOSE: To restrain discharge of toxic substance and stabilize combustion in a burner type vehicle auxiliary heating device by deciding air ratio based on the flame temperature measured in a combustion chamber. CONSTITUTION: The sensor 10 of a flame temperature detecting device 8 is arranged in a combustion chamber 2, extendingly provided from the flame root to the extreme end part of the flame, and detects the flame temperature and inputs to a device 9. The device 9 obtains the air ratio λ from a graph indicating relation of the flame temperature and the air ratio. By the air ratio λ, the ratio of an air quantity supplied to a burner 3 to the fuel quantity supplied to it is controlled. By this constitution, the discharge quantity of toxic substance can be restrained and combustion can be stabilized.
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PURPOSE: To perform test easily and quickly by operating each operating component and evaluating the presence of the failure of the component based on the operation result. CONSTITUTION: A testing device 1 has an operation button 3 that is connected to the equivalent input of a heater control device 2 by a connection line 4. By pressing the operation button 3 of the testing device 1, a control pulse is sent to the heater control device 2. In the heater control device 2, a monitoring switch 5 switches on the working component to be tested individually and executes the process of operation test successively in each case.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nozzle which can be manufactured at low cost, has a small thermal conductivity compared to metal, generates advantageous characteristics related to a flow state of combustion air. SOLUTION: The nozzle 20 having a flow passage 54 for connecting an air inflow range 50 to an air outflow range 52 and spraying liquid fuel comprises a ceramic material, and an air guide means 56 for turning inflow air is provided within the air inflow range 50. The air guide means 56 is formed integrally with the nozzle 20, and is used for e.g. a vehicle heating system. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable an effective air conditioning during driving and air conditioning during standing still for a rear area. SOLUTION: A system for heating and cooling the interior of a motor vehicle, having a refrigerating circuit with a first air conditioning device (10) which is designed to heat or cool the front area of the interior, and with a second air conditioning device (12) which is designed to heat or cool the rear area of the interior. The first air conditioning device (10) has a first evaporator (14) and the second air conditioning device (12) has a second evaporator (16). The second air conditioning device (12) also has a first heat exchanger (18) which is connected via a heat transfer medium circuit (30) to a latent cold storage device (20) which can be charged with cold by a third evaporator (22) which can be connected to the refrigerating circuit. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT