Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Atsuhiro Naganuma

Satoyoshi Oya

Kentaro Shibuya

Masashi Bando

Kenji Watanabe

Shintaro Uchida

Noboru Sato

Junichi Kikuchi

Satoyoshi Ohya

Masashi Bandoh

A battery holding device is configured to hold a capacitor including at least one storage cell and includes a cell holder and a heater wire. The cell holder is provided at a side surface of at least one storage cell and has a concave-convex surface facing the at least one storage cell. The concave-convex surface has a protrusion contacting the at least one storage cell. At least a portion of the heater wire is embedded in the cell holder.

Battery holding device

A battery system includes a plurality of electric rechargeable cells which are stacked in a row and conductive members which electrically connect the electric rechargeable cells together. The electric rechargeable cells each has a gas exhaust port, and a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal which are disposed in such a manner as to hold the gas exhaust port therebetween. The battery system includes a gas exhaust member connected to the gas exhaust ports, a partition holding member which establishes partitions between the gas exhaust member and the positive electrode terminals and the negative electrode terminals in such a manner as to cover them and on which the conductive members are provided, and a voltage control circuit which is attached to an outer surface side of the partition holding member in a position which confronts the gas exhaust member and controls voltages of the electric rechargeable cells.

Battery system

There is provided a discharge controller for a multiple cell battery that has a plurality of storage cells connected in series with each other. A discharge path from the storage cell is connected a load. The discharge controller includes: cell voltage detection units for detecting respective cell voltages of the storage cells; a switch group comprising a plurality of switches each connected between the storage cells; and a control unit for performing ON/OFF control on the respective switches individually in response to detection results detected by the cell voltage detection units so as to form the discharge path from the storage cell to the load.

Discharge controller

A battery power supply system () for suppressing the overall temperature variation of a plurality of battery module groups (to) includes a box () having a cooling air inlet () on one end face and a suction fan () within a section at the other end, and a battery assembly () installed in an intermediate section within the box (). The battery assembly () includes a plurality of battery module groups (to). Each of the battery module groups (to) includes a plurality of rod-shaped battery modules (). When a gap between outer peripheral faces of two adjacent rod-shaped battery modules () of the first battery module group (), which is closest to the cooling air inlet (), is a, and a gap between the outer peripheral face of the rod-shaped battery modules () of the first battery module group () and the outer peripheral face of the adjacent rod-shaped battery modules () of the second battery module group () is b, the ratio a/b of the gaps a and b is set so that 1.0&#x3c;a/b&#x2266;2.0.

Battery-driven power source apparatus

A high-voltage electrical equipment case is arranged between a driver's seat and a front passenger's seat which are placed in parallel in a transverse direction, whereby in the event that the battery which is a heavy article is accommodated in this high-voltage electrical equipment case, a necessity is obviated of disposing the battery underneath a rear seat. Moreover, the high-voltage electrical equipment case can be disposed near an air conditioner that is installed in a front part of a vehicle.

High-voltage electrical equipment case arranging structure

A battery-type power supply unit includes a plurality of rod-shaped battery modules having a plurality of batteries connected together in series. Held tightly between two opposing ends of two batteries is an insulating ring having annular recesses into which these two ends can fit. Each battery module runs through and is supported by two plate-shaped members that are kept vertical on a base plate by frame members. Each plate-shaped member is an assembly of a plurality of grommets formed from two split halves. Connections between bus-bars and positive and negative electrodes of the battery modules can move toward and away from the positive and negative electrodes.

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Wako, Japan

Atsuhiro Naganuma