Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Autonetworks Technologies, Limited

Sumitomo Electric Printed Circuits, Inc.

Masayuki Ueda

Shinichi Takase

Yoshifumi Uchita

Hideo Takahashi

Takayuki Tsumagari

Kouichi Nagamine

A connection module includes a FPC and bus bars connected to the FPC and connecting the electrode terminals of power storage elements that are adjacent to each other. The FPC includes a first wiring portion, a second bus bar mount portion, and a third bus bar mount portion to which the bus bars are connected. The FPC further includes a second expandable/contractable portion and a third expandable/contractable portion. The second expandable/contractable portion is continuous from the second bus bar mount portion and allowed to be expanded and contracted in a direction to be closer to and farther away from the first wiring portion and the third bus bar mount portion. The third expandable/contractable portion is continuous from the third bus bar mount portion and allowed to be expanded and contracted in a direction to be closer to and farther away from the second bus bar mount portion.

Connection module

Growing community of inventors

Aichi, Japan

Masayuki Ueda