Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Masanori Matsuda

Shinji Wada

Toru Ogaki

Yasutomo Kashiwakura

Shinji Kakizaki

Ryu Tate

Yoshikazu Kenmoku

Takeshi Someya

A heater module is configured to be arranged on a side surface of a battery module and includes: a heat equalizing plate; a heater, a heater cover; and a metal stay in this order from the side surface of the battery module. The heater is fixed on the heat equalizing plate, the heater cover includes a heat equalizing plate holding portion and a stay holding portion, the metal stay includes: fastening portions provided on both end portions thereof in a stacking direction of cells and configured to be fastened to the side surface of the battery module; and a bent portion configured to cover a lower surface of the heater cover, and the bent portion of the metal stay is arranged at a location overlapping with the heat equalizing plate holding portion of the heater cover in the stacking direction.

Heater module

A vehicle power source system includes a plurality of module groups each including a plurality of battery modules and disposed separately from each other, and a cooling circuit including a plurality of module group cooling units which are configured to respectively cool the plurality of module groups. The plurality of module group cooling units are connected in series. Each of the plurality of module group cooling units includes a plurality of module cooling units, each of which is configured to cool one or more of the battery modules. In each of the plurality of module group cooling units, the plurality of module cooling units are connected in parallel.

Vehicle power source system

A vehicle includes an electric device, a cover which is configured to cover the electric device, and a cooling circuit which is configured to cool the electric device with a refrigerant. An air-venting member is provided in the cooling circuit. A cover through portion is provided in the cover. The air-venting member is disposed to the cover through portion from an inner side of the cover and is configured such that an air discharging operation is performed from an outer side of the cover.

Vehicle

A high-voltage equipment cooling system for electric vehicle and a high-voltage equipment cooling method for electric vehicle are provided to improve the performance of an air-conditioning unit in the vehicle compartment, while cooling the high-voltage equipment. More specifically, the high-voltage equipment cooling system for electric vehicle includes a motor, a high-voltage equipment, a blowing means for high-voltage equipment, an outlet valve, an air conditioning means, and an air inlet mode selection means, wherein the air outside the vehicle compartment is introduced by the air inlet mode selection meanswhen supplying air cooled by an evaporatorin the air conditioning meansto the high-voltage equipmentusing the blowing means for high-voltage equipment

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Saitama, Japan

Masanori Matsuda