Sony Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kei Tashiro

Hiroaki Sato

Atsushi Takahashi

Toshio Takeshita

Nobuhito Ebine

Yoshihito Tamesue

Takashi Kondou

Yoshiyuki Katsuno

Shiro Nagaoka

Tatsuhiko Ikehata

Yoichi Miyajima

Kuniaki Takahashi

Osamu Nagashima

Hideyuki Sato

Tsuyoshi Hagiwara

Hisashi Aoki

Tatsuro Abe

Kiyotaka Murata

Yukio Tsuchiya

Shoichi Shintani

Hideki Kamiya

Hiroshi Shinozaki

Masatoshi Ookubo

Takashi Tsuda

Hiroyuki Irikura

Junya Fukumoto

Takahisa Yoneyama

Hiroto Yoshihara

Takahiro Furuya

Toshiyuki Okada

Toyokazu Aizawa

Yoshihiro Sato

Masatsugu Honma

Yoshiyuki Niijima

Jun Ootsubo

Bin Qi

Tsutomu Inaba

Takatoshi Kamei

Yoshihiro Egashira

Akihiko Kubota

An imaging module includes an electric cable including a plurality of wirings, an imager having an imaging surface intersecting an axial direction of a distal end of the electric cable, and a flexible wiring board configured to electrically connect the imager and the electric cable. The wiring board includes a plurality of extending portions that extend from at least three portions of a connection portion connected with the imager. At least one wiring pad to which at least one of the plurality of wirings of the electric cable is connected is provided in each of the plurality of extending portions.

Imaging module and imaging device

In case a similar component-to-be-loaded is erroneously loaded on a main body side apparatus, contact of terminals are avoided. To this end, a video camera (main body side apparatus)has a main body side terminal, and a battery pack (component-to-be-loaded)has a battery side terminal (component-to-be-loaded side terminal). In the vicinity of the battery side terminal of the component-to-be-loaded, a discriminating tabis provided, and a blocking portionis provided in the vicinity of the main body side terminal of the video camera (main body side apparatus) for determining whether or not its loading is permitted based on the combination of concave and convex engagement with respect to the above-mentioned discriminating tab, and when the loading is not permitted due to the interference between the blocking portion and the above-mentioned discriminating tab, an electric connection between the main body side terminal and the battery side terminal (component-to-be-loaded side terminal) is not to be established.

Method for preventing erroneous loading of component-to-be-loaded on main body side apparatus, component-to-be-loaded and battery pack

A battery of the type having a length, a width, a thickness, a top and bottom and sides. Three electric terminals are separated by ribs, with a third rib spaced from the other two, and with the first rib being wider than the third rib. The top has concave portions separated from each other, disposed at respective sides of the battery and each opening to outside the battery.

A battery charger includes a battery attachment section configured to have a rechargeable battery releasably attached thereto. The battery attachment section includes a flat attachment surface having a width corresponding to a width of a bottom surface of a case of the battery to be charged and a length greater than a length of the bottom surface of the case of the battery to be charged; a plurality of locking hooks provided on the attachment surface; a charger terminal configured to contact a terminal of the battery to be charged, the charger terminal including a plurality of plate-shaped contact pieces configured to be inserted into engaging grooves of the battery to be charged; and an attachment projection adjacent to the attachment surface and configured to secure the battery to the charger.

Battery device and electronic apparatus

A battery apparatus of the type having a length, a width and a height, top and bottom surfaces substantially perpendicular to the height direction. First and second side surfaces, that include curved surfaces, are disposed between the top and bottom surfaces, and front and rear end portions are disposed between the top and bottom surfaces and also disposed between the first and second side surfaces. A plurality of electric contact portions are exposed through terminal windows; and a battery cell is electrically connected to at least one of the electric contact portions. The front end portion includes first and second level surfaces, with the second level surface being lower than the first level surface; and wherein the terminal windows are disposed in the second level surface.

A secondary battery for an electronic appliance, including a battery cell. The battery cell has a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte in a pack. A positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal are led out from the same side face of the pack. A metallic battery can accommodates the battery cell therein such that the side face from which the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are lead out is faced towards the opening side. A lid, made of a synthetic resin, in which terminal parts to be connected to the electrodes of the electronic appliance upon being connected to the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are faced outwardly, plugs the opening of the battery can, the battery cell being accommodated in the battery can upon being adhered onto an inner face thereof.

Secondary battery

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kei Tashiro