Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho

Hideki Hori

Yoshito Kato

Shigetaka Nagamatsu

Kenji Tsuchiya

Shuichi Sunahara

Masao Kawase

Masataka Takeda

Ikumitsu Kohara

Satoshi Kaseda

Shigeru Umehara

Akira Taga

An electrode winding apparatus and method of detecting displacement between a strip-shaped electrode and a strip-shaped separator when stacking and winding the strip-shaped electrode and the strip-shaped separator is described. A winding shaft is configured to wind the strip-shaped electrode and the strip-shaped separator, and a guide member is configured to stack the strip-shaped electrode and the strip-shaped separator before the strip-shaped electrode and the strip-shaped separator are wound around the winding shaft. An imaging device is disposed so as to photograph a portion in which the strip-shaped electrode and the strip-shaped separator are stacked between the guide member and the winding shaft from a side on which the strip-shaped separator is stacked. The imaging device is configured to photograph the strip-shaped separator and the strip-shaped electrode through the strip-shaped separator.

Electrode winding apparatus

A sealed battery includes: a battery container having in at least an end portion thereof an opening portion, and a container folded-back portion formed in a peripheral edge of the opening portion; a lid having in its outer periphery a lid folded-back portion, and being attached to the opening portion of the battery container; a junction portion in which the container folded-back portion and the lid folded-back portion are integrally joined by a double-rolled seam method; a first seal member closing a first gap between a distal end portion of the container folded-back portion clamping a distal end portion of the lid folded-back portion and an inside of a folded curve portion of the lid folded-back portion; and a second seal member closing a second gap between the distal end portion of the lid folded-back portion and an inside of a folded curve portion of the container folded-back portion.

Sealed battery, and vehicle equipped therewith

An operation control system for automated guided vehicles conveying articles along an unmanned conveying system. This operational control system comprises a first travel path loop and a second travel path loop along which a first group and a second group of the automated guided vehicles are automatically travelled. A common travel path is provided along which the automated guided vehicles of both the first and the second group are travelled, to enable a transfer of articles between the groups of automated guided vehicles. Also a correlating unit for correlating one automated guided vehicle of the first group with another automated guided vehicle of the second group, and a transfer control unit for controlling the transfer of the articles between the automated guided vehicles are provided. The transfer control unit permits only a transfer of articles between automated guided vehicles correlated with each other by the correlating unit.

Operation control system for automated guide vehicles

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Hideki Hori