Yazaki Corporation

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Lithium Energy Japan

Naoyuki Horii

Katsuhiro Suzuki

Hiroyuki Morita

Nobuyuki Kawai

Yukihisa Kikuchi

Yuichi Motoshige

Seiji Nemoto

Ryoji Taneda

Masaru Kadoi

Takehide Tone

Teruyoshi Nagano

Bunpei Takemura

A battery module case includes: a first case in which a plurality of first battery cells is held in a stacked state and which includes a first plate formed with a first cutout portion from which an end surface of one of the first battery cells which is adjacent to the first plate is exposed; and a second case in which a plurality of second battery cells is held in a stacked state and which includes a second plate confronting the first plate and formed with a second cutout portion from which an end surface of one of the second battery cells which is adjacent to the second plate is exposed. When the first and the second plates are arranged adjacent to each other, the first cutout portion and the second cutout portion define a passage in which cooling fluid can flow between the first plate and the second plate.

Structure for cooling battery cells accommodated in battery module case

A switching apparatus includes a base, a housing, a main switch for mechanically disconnecting a power supply circuit and an interlock switch for electrically disconnecting the power supply circuit. The switching apparatus also includes a lever which is rotatably supported by one of the base and the housing and also is engaged with an engaging section formed in the other of the base and the housing. The lever causes a wall of the housing to be slid in a depth direction of an annular groove of the base in accordance with a rotation of the lever. The interlock switch is disconnected ahead of the main switch by separating a movable terminal of the interlock switch away from a fixed terminal of the interlock switch when the lever is rotated to cause the housing slid in a direction away from the base.

Switching apparatus provided with switches and lever

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Okazaki, Japan

Naoyuki Horii