Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100055993 | Power supply unit - A power supply unit | 03-04-2010 |
20110045329 | POWER-SUPPLY DEVICE - The power-supply device includes: a battery assembly composed of a plurality of batteries each having a positive electrode at one end of the battery and a negative electrode at the other end of the battery, said batteries overlapped with each other in a manner that electrodes having the different polarities are adjacent to each other; a plurality of bus bars connecting the batteries in series by connecting the adjacent electrodes having the different polarities in the battery assembly; and a terminal having an electric contact part attached to each bus bar, and a wire connecting part continued to the electric contact part, and attached to an electric wire connected to a voltage measuring device for measuring a voltage of the battery. The electric contact part includes a pair of clipping pieces disposed with a gap from each other, and connected to the bus bar by press-inserting the bus bar into between the clipping pieces. | 02-24-2011 |
20110080058 | Electric junction box and power supply device having the same - An electric junction box, having a terminal portion positioned in the connector engagement portion and arranged perpendicular to a direction along which case members attach each other, which can be assembled easily without increasing the number of components and manufacturing cost is provided. Also, a power supply device having the above-described electric junction box is provided. The electric junction box includes: a box main body having a connector engagement portion and an upper case attached to a lower case in an overlapping relationship; and a bus bar received in the box main body. The lower case includes a bottom wall portion, a positioning wall and peripheral walls. The bus bar includes the terminal portion positioned in the connector engagement portion, a positioning plate portion and a mount portion. The peripheral wall includes a cutout portion allowing the positioning plate portion to move into and out from the lower case. | 04-07-2011 |
20110080059 | Electric junction box and power supply device having the same - A downsized electric junction box and a power supply device having the same are provided. The electric junction box includes: a box main body including a connector engagement portion to be engaged with a connector and relay mount portions for mounting relays; and a wiring unit received in the box main body including mount portions mounted on a bottom wall of a lower case of the box main body and a plurality of terminal portions positioned inside the connector engagement portion and extending from the mount portions. A terminal positioning portion of the lower case includes a planar wall positioning the terminal portions on a surface thereof, extending walls extending from between the adjacent terminal portions, and parallely-projecting walls each projecting from an end of the extending wall in parallel with the planar wall. The mount portion includes a cutout portion through which the parallely-projecting wall is passed. | 04-07-2011 |
20120015550 | POWER UNIT AND BATTERY CONNECTOR - [Problem] To provide a power unit and a battery connector configured to reduce costs by automatizing an arrangement of the electric wire. | 01-19-2012 |
20120208410 | BUSBAR - A busbar includes a battery connecting portion and a wire connecting portion as a circuit body connecting portion. The battery connecting portion connects electrodes of two batteries to each other. The wire connecting portion is continued to the battery connecting portion, and connected directly with an electric wire so as to overlap a core wire of an electric wire thereon. The wire connecting portion includes a welding portion which the core wire of the electric wire is welded to, and a bridge portion connecting the welding portion and the battery connecting portion. A cross-sectional area of the bridge portion along an intersecting direction intersecting a direction of connecting the welding portion and the battery connecting portion is formed to be smaller than a cross-sectional area of the welding portion along the intersecting direction. | 08-16-2012 |
20120231640 | BATTERY CONNECTING STRUCTURE - The present invention is to provide a battery connecting structure to prevent a joint between a terminal and an electric wire from getting wet with water. The battery connecting structure includes a plurality of bus bars connecting a plurality of batteries in series by connecting a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the adjacent battery, said batteries overlapped with each other in a manner that the positive electrode and the negative electrode are arranged in the straight line alternately; a plurality of terminals respectively overlapped with each bus bar; a plurality of electric wires respectively connected with each terminal; and a plate receiving them. The plate includes a plurality of first receiving portion for receiving each bus bar and each terminal overlapped with the bus bar, a second receiving portion for receiving the electric wires connected to each terminal, and a plurality of third receiving portion for leading each electric wire connected to each terminal from each first receiving portion to the second receiving portion. Further, a bus bar connecting and a wire connecting portions of each terminal are received in each first receiving portion. | 09-13-2012 |
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20090053591 | POWER SOURCE DEVICE - A power source device includes a battery assembly which includes a plurality of batteries each having a positive electrode at one end and a negative electrode at the other end, a plurality of connecting members, each of which connects the positive electrode of one battery and the negative electrode of the other battery of the battery assembly, the one and the other batteries adjoining each other, and a plate to which the connecting members are attached, and the plate adapted to the battery assembly. The battery assembly and the plate include a positioning section that relatively positions the battery assembly and the plate. The battery assembly and the plate include a plate displacement section that displaces the plate so that the connecting members relatively abut against the corresponding positive electrodes and negative electrodes of the battery assembly when the plate is mounted on the battery assembly. | 02-26-2009 |
20100288532 | BUSBAR FOR RESIN BASE OF BATTERY CONNECTION BOARD - A busbar for being accommodated in a case includes a metal plate, a regulating portion and a connected portion. The regulating portion is provided at a part of an edge of the metal plate. The regulating portion has a burr extending in a direction opposite to an inserting direction in which the busbar is inserted into the case. The regulating portion is adapted to come in contact with a part of an inner wall of the case so as to regulate a position of the busbar. The connected portion is provided at a part of the edge of the metal plate. The connected portion has a burr extending in the inserting direction. The connected portion is adapted to be disposed so as not to contact the inner wall of the case. | 11-18-2010 |
20100323236 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS - A power supply apparatus is equipped an assembled battery, a case that accommodates the assembled battery, and a connecting mechanism that is attached to an outside of the case, wherein the connecting mechanism connects two selected cells. The connecting mechanism includes a fixation portion and a disconnection portion. The fixation portion includes a first conductive plate that is directly connected to a positive electrode terminal of one of the two selected cells, and a second conductive plate that is directly connected to a negative electrode terminal of the other of the two selected cells, wherein the fixation portion is attached to the case. The disconnection portion is removable from the fixation portion, electrically connects the first conductive plate to the second conductive plate when attached to the fixation portion, and electrically disconnects the first conductive plate from the second conductive plate when removed from the fixation portion. | 12-23-2010 |
20120094538 | CONNECTOR - A downsized, low-cost connector which can prevent an external force applied to an electric wire from transmitting to an electrical connection portion is provided. The connector includes a terminal connected to an end of an electric wire and a housing receiving the terminal. The terminal includes an electrical connection portion and a wire connection portion electrically connected with a mating terminal and a core wire of the electric wire, respectively. The wire connection portion includes a bottom wall positioning the core wire of the electric wire on a surface thereof and a pair of crimping pieces crimped to the core wire. The housing includes: a housing main body arranged to receive an end of the electric wire and the terminal connected thereto; and a cover body mounted to the housing main body so as to sandwich the electric wire between the cover body and the housing main body. | 04-19-2012 |
20120183833 | BATTERY CONNECTION PLATE - A battery connection plate has a plurality of bus bars provided on a base plate section and is to be attached to a battery assembly containing a stacked plurality of batteries so that the bus bars are connected to terminals on the batteries. The base plate section has a wiring member attachment section to which a plurality of signal output wires connected to the bus bars can be wired, and window sections through which bosses can be inserted are formed on wiring paths of the signal output wires at the wiring member attachment section. The signal output wires are wired so as to bypass or wind around the bosses inserted into the window sections, and then the bosses are pulled out from the window sections, and thereby surplus length sections are formed on the signal output wires. | 07-19-2012 |
20120212232 | BUSBAR FOR BATTERY ELECTRODE POST CONNECTION AND BATTERY VOLTAGE MONITOR USING THE SAME - A busbar for battery electrode post connection with a terminal for voltage detection is provided. Both ends of a length direction of a rectangular thin plate of a conductive metal are left and an elongated opening is formed in a center. Two holes through which an electrode post of one battery and an electrode post of an adjacent battery are inserted are respectively formed in the rectangular thin plates of both sides around the elongated opening of the center. A terminal for voltage detection is extended integrally to the rectangular thin plate from an edge of the rectangular thin plate. The two holes overlap in a state of where the rectangular thin plate is folded in two with respect to the elongated opening. The terminal for voltage detection can be erected from the rectangular thin plate by folding the terminal for voltage detection in a vertical direction. | 08-23-2012 |
20120224309 | POWER SOURCE CIRCUIT SHUT OFF APPARATUS - A power source circuit shut off apparatus shuts off a circuit of a battery assembly in which plural battery cells connected in series are arranged in parallel. The power source circuit shut off apparatus includes a housing, a pair of bus bars that is arranged in the housing and is connected to the adjacent battery cells respectively, a switch section that is adapted to conduct electrical connection or disconnection between the pair of bus bars, and a retaining member which is formed on the housing and is configured to be retained to a resin frame part of a side surface of the battery cell. | 09-06-2012 |
20120231638 | WIRING MEMBER - A wiring member is provided that can suppress an influence due to deviation of a position of connection as much as possible so as to maintain a good wiring state. The wiring member | 09-13-2012 |
20120295485 | BATTERY CONNECTOR - A battery connector includes: a plurality of terminals, each of which is to be connected to each electrode of a plurality of batteries; and a case which contains the plurality of terminals therein. The case includes a terminal fixing part in which the plurality of terminals are fixed, and an insulating cover which is supported to be displaced to a closing position at which an open face of the terminal fixing part is covered by the insulating cover. A wire guide is formed in an outer surface of the insulating cover in the closing position. | 11-22-2012 |
20120306474 | BATTERY CONNECTOR - A battery connector includes: a plurality of terminals, each of which is to be connected to each electrode of a plurality of batteries; a plurality of voltage detection terminals, each of which is connected to respective one of the terminals, and includes a wire connection part to be connected to an electric wire; and a case which contains the plurality of terminals and the plurality of voltage detection terminals therein. Adjacent terminals of the terminals are fixed in the case to be spaced from each other, and an individual wire path of a wire routing part is provided between the adjacent terminals. Each of the voltage detection terminals is fixed so as to incline the wire connection part with respect to the individual wire path and to locate the wire connection part more interiorly than an edge of the case. | 12-06-2012 |
20130217262 | TERMINAL BLOCK STRUCTURE - An instrument box and a terminal block including a resin housing and a bus bar are provided. The resin housing has a housing body fixed to a box wall surface; and a bus bar housing formed integrally with the housing body and inserted into an insertion hole of the box wall surface. The bus bar has a bus bar body inserted into the insertion hole with fitted in the resin housing and housed in the bus bar housing; a first terminal connecting portion on one side of the bus bar body to connect with the cable terminal end outside the instrument box; and a second terminal connecting portion on another side of the bus bar body to connect with the terminal inside the instrument box. | 08-22-2013 |
20130307660 | FUSE SECURING STRUCTURE FOR POWER SOURCE CIRCUIT CUTOFF DEVICE - Provided are: a plug body including a main body housing, a fuse having a pair of terminals protruding outside the main body housing with the fuse being accommodated in the main body housing, and a cover attached to the main body housing; a circuit accommodating body configured to accommodate a pair of terminals on a mating side connected to the pair of terminals of the fuse; a rotatable lever connected to the plug body and the circuit accommodating body and configured to connect and disconnect between the pair of terminals of the fuse and the pair of terminals on the mating side; and a fuse biasing portion configured to bias the fuse accommodated in the main body housing toward the cover. | 11-21-2013 |
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20090062011 | REMOTE GAME SYSTEM AND REMOTE GAME MACHINE - A remote game system has a game machine, which has a manual operation unit receiving a manual operation instruction, and a remote controller. The remote controller communicates with the game machine through a communication network, and controls operation of the game machine through the communication network. The game machine has an exclusion unit, and when one of a remote operation instruction for playing a game from the remote controller and a manual operation instruction for directly playing the game from the manual operation unit has been received, inhibits one of the remote operation instruction or the manual operation instruction. | 03-05-2009 |
20090089397 | MULTICAST CONTROL APPARATUS, MULTICAST CONTROL SYSTEM, AND MULTICAST CONTROL METHOD - A multicast control apparatus includes: a delivery instructing unit, responsive to a first one of received viewing requests, to instruct delivery to a first external apparatus of the content data; a delivery determining unit to determine whether a corresponding number of deliveries of the content data exceeds a delivery limit; calculating units to calculate (1) a time necessary to create a cache of a copy of the content data and (2) a remaining time before viewing of the content data delivered from the first external apparatus is finished; a control unit to set a second and subsequent ones of the received viewing requests to a wait state if the delivery limit is exceeded by the first received viewing request, and to instruct creation of the cache to a second external apparatus if the necessary time is shorter than the remaining time. | 04-02-2009 |
20100087170 | MESSAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD AND MESSAGE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A message transmission method includes storing message data whose message contents change depending on a value of a parameter in a storage unit, acquiring the value of the parameter based on an operation of a called party when a second terminal device receives a call from a first terminal device, determining the contents of the message based on the acquired parameter value and the message data, and transmitting the message whose contents are determined to the first terminal device. | 04-08-2010 |
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20080314657 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS - The present invention is intended to provide a power supply apparatus which is sized down and lighter. | 12-25-2008 |
20100055962 | Electric connection box - The present invention is to provide an electric connection box, which can easily attach electric components to an attachment portion of box body. The electric connection box includes a box body having the attachment portion attaching the relay on an upper surface of the box body, and a relay fixed on the box body. The attachment portion includes a tube, a plurality of openings and a plurality of holding portions arranged in the opening. The tube inserts the relay into an inside thereof, and stands from the upper surface. The opening passes through the tube | 03-04-2010 |
20110261498 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT - There is provided a power supply circuit, in which cost reduction is realized by reducing the number of electric wires. An inverter | 10-27-2011 |
20120009447 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - A power supply device, which is simply assembled and in which a cell assembly and a measuring section are freely inserted and detached, is provided. A power supply device | 01-12-2012 |
20130237078 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT DISCONNECTION DEVICE - A power supply circuit disconnection device includes: a first connector housing ( | 09-12-2013 |
20150380836 | CONNECTION STRUCTURE OF CONDUCTOR AND FLAT CABLE, AND POWER SUPPLY DEVICE USING THE CONNECTION STRUCTURE - In a connection structure, a conductor connection terminal part which can connect to a connection end of the conductor in any position in a direction perpendicular to the arrangement direction of the conductor and a cable connection terminal part which is connected to a core wire of a flat cable are formed on a connection terminal, and by connecting the cable connection terminal part to either one of core wires of the flat cable, a connection position of the connection end of the conductor with the conductor connection terminal part is relatively displaced. | 12-31-2015 |
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20130010449 | WIRE ROUTING DEVICE - A wire routing device includes a wire housing part, a terminal housing chamber part, and a plurality of wire lead-out parts. The terminal housing chamber part includes a plurality of terminal housing chambers. Each of the wire lead-out parts couples one of the housing grooves with one of the terminal housing chambers. Each of wire surplus length absorption spaces is formed inside of a substantially rectangle abcd defined by a section bc of an outer wall of the voltage detection wire housing part located at a side of the terminal housing chamber and a section ad of a wall of the housing groove which faces the section bc, which are cut by a line ab and a line cd. | 01-10-2013 |
20130020987 | BATTERY PACK CONTROLLER - The assemblability of LA terminals with electric wires is improved. The electric wires of the main wiring lines of a precharge circuit are laid on the front surface of a base plate, LA terminals connected to the electric wires are clamped to the relay terminal portions of a main relay mounted on the rear surface, by screws together with main-circuit bus bars, each of the LA terminals has a wing portion protruded beyond the protuberant height of an electric-wire connection portion, an electric wire is bent and disposed to extend from the front surface side of the base plate toward the relay terminal portion, a terminal accommodation portion in which the LA terminals are accommodated is provided at a part extending from the electric-wire bent portion to the relay terminal portion, and bottomed grooves into which the wing portions are inserted are formed in the terminal accommodation portion. | 01-24-2013 |
20130035004 | LEVER-EQUIPPED CONNECTOR UNIT - The prevent invention provides a lever-equipped connector unit, which comprises a housing being capable of receiving a terminal; a lever rotatably coupled to the housing, and formed in a horseshoe shape; and a counter housing engageable with the housing, wherein the lever has a pair of arm plates configured to sandwich the housing and having a cam portion therein, wherein the counter housing has a peripheral wall engageable with the housing, and a pair of driven pins being slidably engageable with the cam portion and formed in the both outer surfaces of the peripheral wall, and wherein the housing engages with the counter housing as the driven pin proceeds into the cam portion, and the lever rotates from its stand-by state. | 02-07-2013 |
20130062098 | TERMINAL BLOCK FOR VEHICLE-MOUNTED BATTERY ASSEMBLY - There is provided a terminal block for a vehicle-mounted battery assembly. The terminal block is attached to a total positive/negative terminal block which is attached to the vehicle-mounted battery assembly. An external extraction positive-side fastening portion and an external extraction negative-side fastening portion are positioned at different heights. A terminal cover is configured to cover the external extraction positive-side fastening portion. The terminal cover includes a fitting portion fitted into the terminal block for the vehicle-mounted battery assembly, a hinge portion engaged with the fitted portion, an arm portion engaged with the hinge portion, and a cover body engaged with the arm portion. The arm portion has a predetermined length, so that by hinge operation of the hinge portion, the cover body covers both the external extraction positive-side fastening portion and the external extraction negative-side fastening portion which are positioned at different heights. | 03-14-2013 |
20130065412 | CONNECTOR ENGAGEMENT BODY - A connector engagement body includes: a first connector including a first signal terminal and a first power supply terminal; a second connector including a power supply terminal locking portion, a signal terminal locking portion, a second signal terminal, and a second power supply terminal; and a lever including a signal terminal releasing portion, a power supply terminal releasing portion, a power supply terminal locked portion, and a signal terminal locked portion. The lever is engaged with the first connector and the second connector and causes a mating force and a separating force to act between the first connector and the second connector by moving between a mated position and a separated position relative to the first connector and the second connector. | 03-14-2013 |
20130206559 | POWER SOURCE CIRCUIT SHUTOFF DEVICE - A power source circuit shutoff device includes: a base housing including a first mating wall and a cam pin; a lever housing including a second mating wall; and an operation lever rotatably supported to the lever housing and having a cam groove for guiding the cam pin. The base housing and the lever housing are set to a lever mating start position in which the first mating wall and the second mating wall are partly overlapped with each other and the cam pin is entered into the cam groove of the operation lever, and a rotation of the operation lever moves the cam pin in the cam groove to thereby cause a mating force between the first mating wall and the second mating wall. The base housing and the lever housing respectively have restriction ribs. | 08-15-2013 |
20140087591 | BUSBAR PLATE - A busbar plate includes a busbar plate main body and total plus/minus terminal blocks. The busbar plate main body includes a terminal accommodating chamber part having a plurality of terminal accommodating chambers. The total plus/minus terminal blocks are externally attached to terminal accommodating chambers at two ends of the busbar plate respectively, and are formed of terminal block main bodies and busbars. One ends of the busbars are fastened to total plus/minus terminals in the terminal accommodating chambers at the two ends, the other ends of the busbars are fastened to an adjacent module or a connecting busbar of an external equipment. Flexible resin material is used for the busbar plate main body, and high strength resin material is used for the terminal block main bodies. | 03-27-2014 |
20150129299 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTION BOX - An object of the present invention is to provide an electrical connection box in which reduction in weight can be achieved by simplification of the construction, while preventing short-circuiting of a positive electrode side busbar and a negative electrode side busbar. An electrical connection box includes: a positive electrode side busbar connected to a positive electrode of a battery; a negative electrode side busbar connected to a negative electrode of the battery; and a case in which the positive electrode side busbar and the negative electrode side busbar are accommodated. The case includes: a bottom wall; a circumferential wall erected from the bottom wall; and a partition wall erected from the bottom wall. The partition wall is a waterproof partition that partitions a positive electrode side busbar accommodating area and a negative electrode side busbar accommodating area. | 05-14-2015 |
20150303435 | BATTERY CONNECTION BODY AND BATTERY PACK PROVIDED WITH THE BATTERY CONNECTION BODY - A battery connection body includes: connection conductors which electrically connect respective battery cells forming a battery assembly; a casing to which the connection conductors are mounted, and which includes a first side and a second side different from the first side; and first electric wires and second electric wires, which are wired in the casing. The casing includes: a connection conductor mounting portion; a first electric wire housing portion; and a second electric wire housing portion. The connection conductors are mounted to the connection conductor mounting portion from the first side of the casing. The first electric wires are received into the first electric wire housing portion from the first side of the casing. The second electric wires are received into the second electric wire housing portion from the second side of the casing. | 10-22-2015 |
20150380699 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS - The present invention aims to provide a power supply apparatus capable of suppressing a short circuit that occurs between adjacent battery cells. | 12-31-2015 |
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20150136476 | ELECTRICAL DEVICE HAVING BUSBAR WITH FLEXIBLE WELD CRIMP - An electrical device according to the principles of the present disclosure includes a frame, a conductor having a conductive element and an electrically insulating cover disposed about at least a portion of the conductive element, and a busbar mounted to the frame. The busbar includes a busbar body and a weld crimp. The weld crimp has a base, which extends from the busbar body, and a cross-member that is coupled to the base on a side of the base that is opposite the busbar body. The cross-member has a weld portion and a crimp portion. The weld portion intersects the base. The crimp portion intersects the weld portion and has a crimp member that receives the conductor. The crimp member is permanently deformed about the conductor so as to apply a clamping force to the conductor. The conductive element is welded to the weld portion. | 05-21-2015 |
20150205537 | DATA RECORDER - A device capable of continuing to record data even when a volume of data in a storage medium reaches a capacity limit in the middle of recording the data in the storage medium. | 07-23-2015 |
20150229071 | BUSED ELECTRICAL CENTER FOR ELECTRIC OR HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE - A bused electrical center and a method for its construction. The bused electrical center includes a plurality of bus bars, which are housed between a bus bar housing and a filter housing, a filter device and a plurality of interface terminals that couple leads on the filter device to isolation tabs formed on the bus bars. No solder is employed to electrically or mechanically couple the interface terminals to the leads or to the isolation tabs such that the interface terminals are the sole means for electrically connecting the isolation tabs and the leads. | 08-13-2015 |
20150245517 | TRANSPORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - There is provided a transportable electronic device in which a configuration related to a protective cover can be simplified. A transportable digital photo frame includes a cylindrical main unit that is divided into four areas along the circumferential direction, and a tubular cover that houses at least a part of the main unit to protect the circumferential surface of the main unit, the tubular cover having an opening formed in its circumferential surface for exposing one area to the outside. The tubular cover is rotatable relative to the main unit so that the areas protected by the tubular cover can be switched. | 08-27-2015 |