Denso Corporation

Shinjirou Shimizu

Yoshimitsu Inoue

Hiroshi Okada

Teruhiko Kameoka

Manabu Yamada

Kiyoshi Iwade

Takahiro Souki

Hitoshi Noguchi

Yousuke Yamamoto

Hideki Kimura

Naoya Hata

Yuka Sugiura

Masaki Itagaki

A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided which works to control an electric motor to start the engine through a belt transmission system. The control apparatus restricts rotation of the electric motor so as to keep a speed of the electric motor below a speed at which the electric motor is capable of producing a maximum torque until a given period of time passes since the electric motor is actuated to start in the motor mode. This enables the electric motor to generate the maximum torque when it is required to crank the engine.

Control apparatus for internal combustion engine

A battery pack includes battery modules each having a battery cell and a battery case housing the battery cell therein. The battery modules are stacked in a stacking direction so that a cooling passage for allowing a cooling medium to flow is defined between opposed surfaces of adjacent battery cases. One of the opposed surfaces has first ribs projecting toward the other of the opposed surfaces and extending parallel to each other along the one. The other of the opposed surfaces has second ribs projecting toward the one of the opposed surfaces and extending parallel to each other along the other. In the cooling passage, the first ribs and the second ribs intersect each other and end portions of the first ribs and end portions of the second ribs are in contact with each other in the stacking direction.

Battery pack with cooling passage

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Kariya, Japan

Shinjirou Shimizu