Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130052513 | WIRING MEMBER AND BATTERY CONNECTION UNIT - A wiring member comprises (a) a groove in which an electrical wire is arranged, (b) a lid operable to close an opening of the groove; and (c) a hinge adapted to connect the lid to a side wall of the groove such that the opening of the groove is allowed to be opened and closed by the lid. The side wall comprises a hinge-forming portion where the hinge is provided, and a projecting portion continuing to the hinge-forming portion, provided adjacent the hinge and protruding either inward or outward of the groove with reference to the hinge-forming portion. The projecting portion prevents the hinge-forming portion from being inclined when the opening of the groove is closed by the lid. | 02-28-2013 |
20130071721 | COVER MEMBER AND POWER SOURCE HAVING THE SAME - A cover member is attached to a bus bar module. The bus bar module includes: a plurality of bus bars respectively connecting batteries adjacent to each other of a battery assembly composed of a plurality of batteries overlapped with each other; a main body to which the bus bars are attached, and overlapped with the battery assembly; a plurality of positioning projections and a plurality of locking portions provided on the main body. The cover member includes: a plurality of cover portions arranged in parallel to an overlapping direction X of the batteries, and covering the bus bars; and a plurality of elastically deforming portions movably connecting the cover portions adjacent to each other. Each of the cover portions includes: a positioning hole into which the positioning projection is inserted; and a lock receiving portion with which the locking portion is locked. | 03-21-2013 |
20130075131 | SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR BOSS - There is provided a support structure for a boss of a resin molded product. A plurality of cylindrical bosses stands up from one surface of a base plate to support a component. A plurality of reinforcing ribs extends radially from an outer circumferential surface of at least one of the bosses. The reinforcing ribs are arranged so as to be spaced apart from each other at a regular interval in a circumferential direction of the at least one of the bosses. Building-up portions are formed only on corner portions in which the outer circumferential surface of the at least one of the bosses and the reinforcing ribs intersect with each other. | 03-28-2013 |
20130095696 | FUSE UNIT - A fuse unit includes a first connection part to which power is fed and a second connection part to be connected with a mating terminal. The second connection part includes a bolt connection portion to which the mating terminal is connected by a bolt and a connecter connection portion to which the mating terminal is connected by a connector. | 04-18-2013 |
20130099912 | VEHICULAR DISPLAY UNIT - A vehicular display unit includes: a main display disposed in a forward position of a driver and adapted to display vehicle information; an external display, other than the main display, disposed in the forward position of the driver, adapted to display vehicle information and having a screen functioning as an operation portion; and a display mover mechanism including a gear belt disposed on a circumferential track and configured to move the external display in a vehicle forward-rearward direction by a circumferential movement of the gear belt, and a gear mechanism configured to transmit a driving force of a driving source to the gear belt. | 04-25-2013 |
20130102205 | FUSE UNIT, MOLD STRUCTURE, AND MOLDING METHOD USING MOLD STRUCTURE - A mold structure includes a fixed mold and a movable mold to bury a bus bar having a main body circuit unit with a tuning-fork terminal along with molding of a resin molded product. The fixed mold and the movable mold being joined together are configured to nip a terminal base of the tuning-fork terminal between a terminal base receiving portion of the fixed mold and a terminal base abut portion of the movable mold in a state where the tuning-fork terminal is protruded outside a cavity which is formed by mold main body portions of the fixed mold and the movable mold being joined together and into which resin is injected. | 04-25-2013 |
20130114240 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device comprises a first light source that emits light, a background panel including a translucent portion to which light emitted from the first light source is entered and from which transmitted light is existed, the translucent portion provided in at least a portion of the background panel; and a dial including a transparent portion to which at least a portion of the transmitted light existed from the translucent portion is entered, the transparent portion provided in at least a portion of the dial. | 05-09-2013 |
20130122728 | CONNECTOR - In a connector, a flange portion is provided at an end portion of an electric wire fixing portion. A rib is provided on outer surface of the electric wire fixing portion. A biding band winding space is provided between an end of the rib and the flange portion. An interval therebetween has a width equal to a width of the binding band. The electric wire is fixed by the binding band wound on the binding band winding space. A band passing hole is formed between the end of the rib and the flange portion. A plurality of side ribs are symmetrically provided at both sides of the rib. The binding band is inserted through the band passing hole, in response to a volume of the electric wire or in response to a size of a radius of curvature of the electric wire led out from the connector housing. | 05-16-2013 |
20130126205 | POWER SOURCE CIRCUIT SHUTOFF APPARATUS - In a power source circuit shutoff apparatus, with the lever rotated from a connector mating start position to a connector mating completion position, a pair of first signal terminals and a pair of second signal terminals are brought into on-state after a pair of first main terminals and a pair of second main terminals are brought into on-state. With the lever rotated from the connector mating completion position to the connector mating start position, a pair of first main terminals and a pair of second main terminal are brought into off-state after a pair of first signal terminals and a pair of second signal terminals are brought into off-state. The pair of first signal terminals and the pair of second signal terminals are each disposed along a straight line extending in a direction perpendicular to a rotational spindle direction of the lever. | 05-23-2013 |
20130144418 | PLANAR MANUFACTURING DRAWING PRODUCTION SUPPORT DEVICE, PLANAR MANUFACTURING DRAWING PRODUCTION SUPPORT METHOD, PLANAR MANUFACTURING DRAWING PRODUCTION SUPPORT PROGRAM AND BRANCH ANGLE DESIGN SUPPORT DEVICE - The present invention aims to improve accuracy of a planar manufacturing drawing used to instruct manufacture of a three-dimensional structure in a planar form. According to path plan information is acquired by a path plan information acquisition unit | 06-06-2013 |
20130147491 | METHOD FOR DETECTING INSULATING STATE OF FLOATING POWER SUPPLY, AND DEVICE THEREFOR - When, in a state where an AC ground fault occurred on the secondary side of a three-phase inverter circuit, a flying capacitor reaches a continuous charging state while forming a charge circuit including a ground fault resistance due to an AC ground fault, the ground fault resistance due to an AC ground fault is obtained using the same method as that for a positive-side ground fault resistance or a negative-side ground fault resistance due to a DC ground fault. Even if, in the state where the flying capacitor reaches the continuous charging state, a switching duty ratio of respective semiconductor switches of the three-phase inverter circuit varies, a value of a ground fault resistance due to an AC ground fault can be accurately obtained without using the data of the switching duty ratio of respective semiconductor switches of the three-phase inverter circuit. | 06-13-2013 |
20130155520 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY DEVICE - A head-up display device includes an indicator configured to emit a display light, a lower casing to which the indicator is mounted, an upper casing which is mounted to an upper portion of the lower casing, a pair of support portions which are provided on the lower casing and extend toward the upper casing, guide grooves which are formed on the support portions at opposite sides thereof, and a reflective mirror which is inserted and mounted to the lower casing toward a bottom surface of the lower casing while both lateral edges of the reflective mirror are engaged with the guide grooves, to reflect the display light emitted from the indicator and guide the reflected display light to a windshield of a vehicle. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155521 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY DEVICE - A headup display device includes a driving mirror configured to reflect a display light irradiated from an indicator to guide the reflected display light to a windshield of a vehicle. The driving mirror includes a base plate fixed to a bottom surface of a casing, a pair of opposite support plates which are upright on the base plate, a holder pivotally supported by the opposite support plates, a reflective mirror held by the holder, a driving motor configured to pivot the holder to change an angle of the reflective mirror, and a positioning projection provided on the support plate and protruding in a mounting direction of the base plate to the bottom surface of the casing. A holding recessed portion is formed on the casing to allow an insertion of the positioning projection therein and hold the positioning projection at a predetermined position. | 06-20-2013 |
20130164996 | CONNECTOR - A connector includes a housing to be inserted into a receiving chamber of an initiator, a plurality of terminal receiving chambers which are opened to a distal end face of the housing in parallel with each other in a row, and terminals respectively provided with pin inserting parts into which pins in the receiving chamber are inserted, and respectively received in the terminal receiving chambers. Each of the pin inserting parts has an elastic contact piece which is elastically contacted with the pin which has been inserted into the pin inserting part thereby to hold the pin in the pin inserting part. The terminals are received in the terminal receiving chambers so that the elastic contact pieces push the pins in a direction which is the same as a direction to which the terminal receiving chambers are arranged. | 06-27-2013 |
20130165000 | TERMINAL FITTING - A terminal fitting is mounted on a terminal accommodation chamber formed in a connector housing by being engaged with an elastically deformable lance provided in the terminal accommodation chamber. The terminal fitting includes a bite resistance increasing part that is formed only at an upper portion of a hole edge engagement end face of an engaging hole to be engaged with the lance and increases a bite resistance to the lance. An lower portion of the hole edge engagement end face is flat. The bite resistance increasing part has a wave-shaped part that is formed by partially pressing the hole edge engagement end face. | 06-27-2013 |
20130171872 | SHIELD CONNECTOR - An inner terminal connected to a terminal of a core wire and provided with an electric connecting portion electrically connected with a mating terminal is received in an inner housing. The inner housing is incorporated into an outer terminal. The outer terminal is mated with a mating connector in such a state as that the shield member is connected to the outer terminal and the electric connecting portion of the inner terminal is positioned in the outer terminal. The outer terminal has the same configuration as that of an outer terminal of the mating connector, thus making the outer terminals sharable between male and female connectors. | 07-04-2013 |
20130171873 | SHIELD CONNECTOR - An inner terminal is provided with a crimp barrel portion with which a terminal of a core wire is connected and an electric connecting portion to be electrically connected with a mating terminal. The inner terminal is received in an insulation inner housing. The inner housing is set into a terminal body portion. An outer terminal is provided with a shield member connecting portion with which a shield member is connected and a cylindrical portion in which the electric connecting portion of the inner terminal is positioned, the cylindrical portion mated with a mating connector. An impedance adjusting portion is provided between the electric connecting portion and the crimp barrel portion of the inner terminal. | 07-04-2013 |
20130176335 | VEHICULAR DISPLAY DEVICE AND VEHICULAR DISPLAY SYSTEM - A vehicular display device includes a display unit that displays visible information and a light projection unit that guides light including the visible information displayed on the display unit to a predetermined projection surface, and displaying the visible information as a virtual image. The vehicular display device includes a guide display unit and a guide display control unit. The guide display unit indicates a relationship between at least positions of a first display region in which the virtual image is displayed by projection of the light projection unit and a second display region in which detailed information is displayed. The detailed information has an association with a content of particular information that is displayed on the display unit under a predetermined condition. The guide display control unit controls the guide display unit into a display state when the particular information is displayed on the display unit. | 07-11-2013 |
20130178091 | BUSBAR MODULE AND POWER SUPPLY UNIT INCLUDING SAME BUSBAR MODULE - In a busbar module for connecting a plurality of batteries of a battery unit, the batteries are arranged so that electrodes of each of the batteries having different polarities are disposed adjacent to each other. The busbar module includes a plurality of busbars, a plurality of terminals, a plurality of wires, a plurality of plates and a connector. The busbars connect the electrodes adjacent to each other. The terminals are connected to the busbars respectively to detect a voltage of the batteries. The wires are connected to the terminals respectively. The plates accommodate the busbar, the terminals and the wires, and provided above the battery unit. The connector connects the plates together. | 07-11-2013 |
20130180751 | ASSEMBLING STRUCTURE OF BUS BAR - An assembling structure of bus bar is composed of a bus bar and a housing with which the bus bar is assembled. The bus bar is provided with a base portion extended in a band shape, a rectangular-plate-shaped press-fitting piece extended in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the base portion from one end of the base portion, and an extended portion extended from the one end of the base portion and perpendicular to the press | 07-18-2013 |
20130181510 | BATTERY PACK - A battery pack includes a main battery pack and a sub-battery pack. Each of the main battery pack and the sub-battery pack includes a power supply including a plurality of unit cells, a service plug connector including shutoff terminals of the power supply, and an output connector including output terminals of the power supply. The output connector is in a form of a connector capable of being mated with the service plug connector and a power supply connector of a vehicle. | 07-18-2013 |
20130181806 | FUSE UNIT - A fuse unit includes: a bus bar including a plurality of fusible parts interposed between a power supply side terminal and a plurality of load side terminals; and an insulating resin portion formed by insert molding using the bus bar as an insert component. The insulating resin portion includes: first and second resin portions respectively arranged at peripheries on the sides of the power supply side terminal and the load side terminals with respect to the fusible parts; and a plurality of coupling portions coupling the first resin portion and the second resin portion in a position outside each of the fusible parts. Each of the coupling portions is formed such that a reinforcement portion having a lower heat shrinkage rate than the insulating resin portion and having a higher strength than the insulating resin portion is an insert component. The reinforcement portion is provided using the bus bar. | 07-18-2013 |
20130187611 | CELL VOLTAGE EQUALIZER FOR MULTI-CELL BATTERY PACK - Cell voltage equalizer includes voltage detection ICs configured to measure output voltages from cells, respectively; discharge circuits ( | 07-25-2013 |
20130188259 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY - A head-up display includes a first display device, and a second display device which is provided at a position which is different from a position of the first display device. An optical axis identifying device outputs light beams, which are respectively input from the first display device and second display device, in the identical direction. An enlarged-image forming device enlarges respective images which are formed by the light beams which are output from the first display device and the second display device, based on the light beams which are input from the optical axis identifying device, and forms an image by overlapping the images which are enlarged. A moving device moves at least one of the first display device and the second display device along respective optical axis directions thereof. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188260 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY - A head-up display includes a display device and a combiner that has a rear surface brought into contact with an inner surface of a windshield of a vehicle, and reflects a display light rays emitted from the display device by a front surface of the combiner toward a driver in the vehicle. The front surface forms a first arc-shaped optical surface which receives and reflects the display light rays toward the driver so that the driver sees a first virtual image of the display light rays with a set magnification greater than 1 on the outside of the windshield. The rear surface forms a second arc-shaped optical surface which receives and reflects the display light ray toward the driver so that the driver sees a second virtual image which coincides with the first virtual image in terms of the size and position on an outside of the windshield. | 07-25-2013 |
20130192890 | WIRING HARNESS AND ROUTING STRUCTURE OF THE SAME - To provide a wiring harness and a routing structure of the wiring harness able to prevent high temperature and its influence caused by heat generation. A wiring harness includes a harness main body having a plurality of high voltage conducting lines. The high voltage conducting lines are arranged with gaps between the adjacent high voltage conducting lines. Further, the plurality of high voltage conducting lines are arranged to maintain an interval as the gap. It becomes a routing structure of the wiring harness when curved portions of such high voltage conducting lines are directly or indirectly made contact with a shield cover covering the wiring harness. Because the high voltage conducting lines of the wiring harness are arranged with gaps between the adjacent high voltage conducting lines, radiation performance of the wiring harness is better than the wiring harness of which high voltage conducting lines are bundled. | 08-01-2013 |
20130196521 | BATTERY PACK BUSBAR MODULE - Abnormal noise at a battery pack busbar module is prevented. A battery pack busbar module includes busbar accommodating portions each accommodate busbars which connect in series batteries, cover portions coupled by hinges to one of side edges of openings in the busbar accommodating portions to cover the openings, and lock portions to lock the cover portions by bringing first engagement portions provided on the other side edges of the busbar accommodating portions and second engagement portions provided on the cover portions into engagement with each other, and ribs projecting from the cover portions to come into abutment with the busbar accommodating portions are formed in positions spaced away from the lock portions, a height of the ribs being set such that the second engagement portions are not brought into engagement with the first engagement portions when the ribs abut the busbar accommodating portions. | 08-01-2013 |
20130196533 | ELECTRIC CABLE CONNECTING CONSTRUCTION AND ELECTRIC CABLE CONNECTING METHOD - Attaching work of a high-voltage cable is improved. In an electric cable connecting construction of battery packs, the high-voltage cable is connected to conductors held in resin busbar modules for connection with the general electrodes by fastening crimp terminals to the conductors. Two ribs are formed on each of the busbar modules where the crimp terminal is held therebetween to limit an entrained rotation of the crimp terminal. A difference between a gap of the two ribs on one of the adjacent battery packs and a width of the crimp terminal connected to the general electrode is set to a first gap dimension L | 08-01-2013 |
20130202380 | LOCKING STRUCTURE OF SCREW FASTENING BLOCK - A locking structure of a screw-fastening block includes: a screw-fastening block made by providing a screw member for screwing and connecting a bus bar, a terminal, or the like on an upper portion of a screw-fastening block main body; and an electrically connecting block main body having a receiver into which the screw-fastening block is inserted upward side and in which the screw-fastening block is received. Locking portions are provided on both sidewalls of the receiver, and a bottom surface of the screw-fastening block main body is a lock-receiving portion to be engaged with the locking portion. The locking portions are locking arms projected obliquely upward from the both sidewalls, and a tip end of the locking arm is provided with a locking surface for supporting the bottom surface of the screw-fastening block main body, and a projecting piece for supporting a side surface of the screw-fastening block main body. | 08-08-2013 |
20130203922 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR HEAT-RESISTANT ELECTRIC WIRE AND HEAT-RESISTANT ELECTRIC WIRE - The present invention provides: a resin composition for a heat-resistant electric wire, containing from 25 to 60 parts by weight of a polyphenylene ether, from 15 to 42 parts by weight of a polypropylene-based resin, from 8 to 27 parts by weight of a styrene-based elastomer, from 5 to 15 parts by weight of a polyamide, and from 1 to 10 parts by weight of an acid-modified polyolefin, in which the polyamide has a melting point of 201° C. or more; and a heat-resistant electric wire using the composition. | 08-08-2013 |