Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yazaki Corporation

Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kenji Iida

Makoto Kobayashi

Akihiro Kosaki

Masaaki Iwabe

Yoshiaki Ichikawa

Shigeyuki Ogasawara

Yoshinobu Furuya

Shigeru Fukuda

Shinsuke Azuma

Shigeto Ozaki

Hirotaka Torikai

Kohshi Katoh

Soichiro Hozumi

Tetsuya Nagai

Masatoshi Hada

Osamu Oda

Takashi Sugimoto

Takenori Kobayashi

Akira Takinami

Takuya Fujimura

Takanori Kumagai

Yasutoshi Mizuno

Isao Nakagawa

Toshiyuki Hara

Haruki Uno

Ryunosuke Seki

Teruhiko Kojima

Ran Wang

Yoshiaki Fujiwara

Kaoru Tsuge

Motonari Tejima

Wataru Sakuma

In the vehicle seat, rear suspension members are provided at two positions spaced away from each other in a lateral direction on an edge of a seat cushion near a seatback, and support the seat cushion while the seat cushion is suspended from a seat cushion support frame so that the seat cushion is movable in the lateral direction. A front suspension member is provided at one position or two positions spaced away from each other in the lateral direction on ahead of the rear suspension members, and supports the seat cushion while the seat cushion is suspended from the seat cushion support frame so that the seat cushion is movable in the lateral direction.

Vehicle seat for supporting seat cushion while permitting lateral movement

A controller in a vehicle seat system is configured to execute a first pivot control to cause the second seatback to pivot at a first pivoting speed, a second pivot control to cause the second seatback to pivot at a second pivoting speed that is greater than the first pivoting speed, and a first determination process to determine, during execution of a tilt control, whether the second seatback will interfere with the first seatback. If the controller determines, during execution of the tilt control, that the second seatback will interfere with the first seatback, then the controller causes the first seatback to pivot and executes the first pivot control in at least a part of a pivoting process of the second seatback.

Vehicle seat system

A vehicle seat includes an air bag, and a controller. The air bag is for holding a posture of an occupant and configured to inflate as air flows in or deflate as air flows out of the air bag. The controller is configured to receive an input of a signal based on a steering angle of the vehicle and to control inflation or deflation of the air bag based on the signal. The controller is configured to enable an active-support mode to cause air to flow inside the air bag in response to the steering angle becoming greater than or equal to a predefined given angle.

Vehicle seat

An electricity storage device includes: a first battery stack () including a plurality of cells that are aligned in a first direction; a second battery stack (to) including a plurality of cells that are aligned in a second direction different from the first direction, the second battery stack being placed under the first battery stack; and a duct for coolant. The duct is disposed along the first battery stack and is positioned between the first battery stack and the second battery stack.

Electricity storage device and vehicle

A power storage apparatus includes a power storage module having a plurality of power storage elements which are aligned in one direction; a device placed adjacently to the power storage module in the direction of the alignment of the power storage elements; a high-voltage cable used in charge and discharge of the power storage module; and a support structure configured to support the high-voltage cable at a plurality of points to position the high-voltage cable along a reference path. The high-voltage cable is configured to electrically connect an electrode terminal of the power storage module to the device. The electrode terminal is one of two electrode terminals of the power storage module and is located on a farther side of the power storage module from the device.

Power storage apparatus

An electricity storage device includes a first battery stack (), a second battery stack (to), and a case () that accommodates the first battery stack and the second battery stack. Each of the first battery stack and the second battery stack includes a plurality of cells () that are aligned and the second battery stack is placed under the first battery stack. The supporting member () that supports the first battery stack is placed between the first battery stack and the second battery stack and is fixed to the case.

A junction block () includes a generally rectangular flat plate portion () attached to a side surface of an assembled battery. A control device () is disposed over a portion of the flat plate portion () which includes a middle of the flat plate portion () and which is positionally biased toward a lower side end of the flat plate portion (). A connector-connecting portion () is provided in one of the four corners of the flat plate portion () that is a rear end corner of an upper side end opposite the lower side end of the flat plate portion (). A rib () and a connector-connecting portion () are provided at a location on the flat plate portion () at which the rib () and the connector-connecting portion () clamp the electric power cable () that is connected to the connector-connecting portion () and that is laid along the upper side of the flat plate portion ().

Junction block, and vehicle

A connection unit includes a first relay connected between a first electrode of a first battery and a first power feed line towards a vehicle load, a second relay connected between a second electrode of the first battery and a second power feed line towards the vehicle load, a third relay and a current limiting resistor connected in series between the second electrode of the first battery and the second power feed line, a fourth relay connected between an electrode of a second battery having a polarity identical to the polarity of the first electrode and the first power feed line towards the vehicle load, and a conductor line connecting an electrode of the second battery having a polarity identical to the polarity of the second electrode with the second electrode of the first battery. There can be provided a connection unit suppressed in the number of components, suitable for usage in a vehicle incorporating a plurality of power storage devices, and a vehicle incorporating the connection unit.

Connection unit and vehicle incorporating the same

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Nagoya, Japan

Kenji Iida