Yazaki Corporation

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.

Takao Ota

Kazuya Harakawa

Katsuya Maruyama

Yoshihiro Terada

Takeshi Hara

Atsushi Okoshi

Ryuji Ideno

Masahiro Takamatsu

Shinichi Yanagihara

Yoshiaki Ichikawa

Terumitsu Sugimoto

Yukinari Naganishi

Takeshi Koyama

Takao Shoji

Atsushi Nakata

Yoshiaki Nakayama

Akira Baba

Takeo Hayashi

Tomonori Ohashi

Takuya Minezaki

Kazuya Sato

Kazumi Nagasawa

Tatsumi Tashiro

Masato Kume

Kazuaki Mukasa

Tsuyoshi Uchikura

Satoshi Yoshinaka

Takashi Odajima

Junya Iwata

Akihiro Koyama

Hideaki Saitoh

Hirohito Habara

A circuit body includes: a plurality of conductors and a substrate having flexibility and provided with the conductors, in which the substrate includes a battery wiring portion which is routed along each row of electrodes and where one ends of the conductors are respectively connected to bus bars, and a pair of connector connecting portions in which the other ends of the conductors provided in respective battery wiring portions are located, the pair of connector connecting portions include a connector mounting portion where the pair of connector connecting portions are guided from opposite directions, and in the connector mounting portion, the other ends of the conductors of the pair of the connector connecting portions are alternately arranged and an arrangement order corresponds to the potential order of the bus bars connected to the conductors.

Circuit body and battery module

A battery monitoring unit includes a plurality of voltage detection lines, a flexible printed circuit board extending in a stuck direction of single batteries, an electronic circuit connected to one end portions of the plurality of the voltage detection lines so as to detect voltage of each of the single batteries and mounted on the flexible printed circuit board, a plurality of busbar fixing portions formed integrally with the flexible printed circuit board and to which the plurality of the busbars are fixed respectively, and communication lines disposed in the flexible printed circuit board so as to connect between the electronic circuit and a battery ECU.

Battery monitoring unit

A conductor module includes a wiring member, a plurality of bus bars, a plurality of locking pieces, and a reinforcing member. A plurality of wirings and through-holes are formed in the wiring member. The bus bar is electrically connected to one of two electrode terminals. The two through-holes are formed in a first opposing region opposing one end face between both end faces of the bus bar opposing each other in a width direction with an electrical connection portion where the bus bar and the wiring are electrically connected interposed therebetween. The locking piece is formed integrally with the bus bar, is arranged in the through-hole, has a distal end positioned radially outward of the through-hole, and fixes the bus bar to the wiring member. The reinforcing member reinforces the wiring member, and is formed to surround the through-hole.

Conductor module

A conductor module includes a wiring member, a plurality of bus bars, and a plurality of locking pieces. The wiring member is formed in a film shape with flexibility, and a plurality of wirings and through-holes are formed therein. The bus bar is electrically connected to one of two electrode terminals. The two through-holes are formed in a first opposing region opposing one end face between both end faces of the bus bar opposing each other in a width direction of the bus bar with an electrical connection portion where the bus bar and the wiring are electrically connected interposed therebetween when viewed from the width direction. The locking piece is formed integrally with the bus bar, is arranged in the through-hole, has a distal end positioned radially outward of the through-hole when viewed from an axial direction of the through-hole, and fixes the bus bar to the wiring member.

A battery monitoring device includes a plurality of voltage detection line, each of which configured to be electrically connected to an electrode of a respective one of a plurality of unit batteries in a battery assembly, the battery assembly being constituted by the unit batteries, a plurality of electronic circuits, each of which configured to be connected to a respective one of the voltage detection lines and to detect a voltage of a corresponding one of the unit batteries, a plurality of voltage detection substrates configured to be mounted to the unit batteries respectively, wherein each of the voltage detection lines and each of the electronic circuits are mounted on a respective one of the voltage detection substrates, and a communication line that connects the plurality of voltage detection substrates and a battery control unit.

Battery monitoring device

A battery state detector includes a main unit configured to detect a state of one battery assembly in a battery pack storing therein a plurality of battery assemblies each including a plurality of battery cells arranged in rows, a subunit configured to detect a state of a battery assembly in the battery pack other than the battery assembly that is a detection target of the main unit, and a first communication line that connects the main unit with the subunit. The main unit is connected to a controller configured to control the battery pack via a second communication line that is separate from the first communication line.

Battery state detector

A ground connection structure is a structure for collectively connecting, to a body of a vehicle, a plurality of grounding wires which are connected to respective electrical components installed in the vehicle. The ground connection structure includes: a connection box to which the plurality of grounding wires are connected; a grounding terminal part connected to the vehicle in an electrically conducting state; and an electrically conducting connection part having one end connected to the connection box and the other end connected to the grounding terminal part, the electrically conducting connection part connecting the connection box and the grounding terminal part in an electrically conducting manner. The electrically conducting connection part is made of a low-inductance material having low inductance.

Ground connection structure

A vehicle interior illumination device for controlling illumination in a vehicle interior includes an operation input portion configured to receive an instruction operation of either lighting or light adjustment by a user, a first state detection portion configured to detect a first state representative of a getting-off preparation of the user, a second state detection portion configured to detect a second state representative of a getting-off completion of the user, and a light adjustment degree setting portion configured to shift the illumination to a preset light adjustment degree including off when the first state and the second state are detected.

Vehicle interior illumination device

A curing agent for epoxy resins which comprises cyclohexanetricarboxylic acid anhydride (A) comprising trans,trans-1,2,4-cyclohexanetricarboxylic acid 1,2-anhydride expressed by formula (1) and aliphatic dicarboxylic acid anhydride (B) and an epoxy resin composition which comprises the curing agent and an epoxy resin are provided. The curing agent of the present invention can be handled easily since the curing agent is liquid at the ordinary temperature, exhibits an excellent curing property without addition of a curing accelerator and provides a cured product of an epoxy resin exhibiting excellent transmission of light and heat stability. The epoxy resin composition can be advantageously used for coating materials, adhesives, molded products, resins for encapsulating photo-semiconductors and coating fluids for protective films of color filters constituting liquid crystal display devices (LCD), solid state imaging devices (CCD) and electroluminescence (EL) devices. 

Curing agent for epoxy resins and epoxy resin compositions

Provided is a vibration damping material comprising: a polyester resin containing dicarboxylic acid constitutional units and diol constitutional units; and mica being dispersed in the polyester resin, wherein: (1) a ratio [(A+B)/(A+B)] of a total of (A) a number of the dicarboxylic acid constitutional units having an odd number of carbon atoms in a polyester main chain and (B) a number of the diol constitutional units having an odd number of carbon atoms in the polyester main chain with respect to a total of (A) a number of total dicarboxylic acid constitutional units and (B) a number of total diol constitutional units in the polyester resin is in the range of 0.5 to 1; and (2) an average particle diameter calculated from a volume-based particle diameter frequency distribution of the mica in the vibration damping material is 25 to 500 &#x3bc;m. The damping material has a high versatility, is lightweight, shows an excellent vibration damping property and can be produced easily with a batch mixer.

Damping material and method for production thereof

A connecting structure of a component in a wire harness includes a relay box connected to a circuit at a power supply side and a circuit at a headlamp side, and a control unit connected to the relay box. A connecting section of the relay box is configured to be selectively connected to either one of a headlamp control device and a relay for turning on and off low beam or high beam. Both of the headlamp control device and the relay have terminals of the same shape.

Connecting structure of component in wire harness

The cyclohexanetricarboxylic monoester of the present invention is represented by the following formula 1: wherein R is as defined in the specification. The cyclohexanetricarboxylic monoester is useful particularly as the curing agent for epoxy-containing compounds. A heat-curable resin composition comprising the cyclohexanetricarboxylic monoester and an epoxy-containing compound exhibits an excellent curability without using a curing accelerator and provides a colorless transparent cured product which is little discolored even under a long-term exposure to high-temperature conditions. Such a heat-curable resin composition is suitable as sealing materials for photoelectric transducers such as blue LED and white LED, shaped articles, coating materials, adhesives, etc.

Cyclohexanetricarboxylic monoester and its use

An injection molding apparatus for injection molding a multi-layered article, which comprises; (a) a mold having a cavity block provided with a cavity and a hot runner block, (b) at least a first injection cylinder and a second injection cylinder, (c) a first resin-flow-passage for connecting an inside of the first injection cylinder and the cavity, and (d) a second resin-flow-passage for connecting an inside of the second injection cylinder and the cavity, the injection molding apparatus having a structure in which those portions of the first and second resin-flow-passages which are located within the mold are provided in the hot runner block, and the first resin-flow-passage and the second resin-flow-passage meet with each other in a junction portion upstream to a gate portion opened to the cavity, the injection molding apparatus being provided with back flow means for letting first molten resin in the first resin-flow-passage flow into the second resin-flow-passage after second molten resin is injected into the cavity through the second resin-flow-passage, the back flow means being operable with a pressure which the first molten resin in the first resin-flow-passage exerts on second molten resin in the second resin-flow-passage.

Method of injection molding multi-layered articles

A multi-layered article having a first portion constituted of laminated three resin layers and a second portion extending from the first portion, the first portion being constituted mainly of consecutively laminated resin layers composed of a first resin layer formed of a first resin, a second resin layer formed mainly of a second resin and a third resin layer formed of the first resin, the second portion being constituted of resin layers extending from the first resin layer and the third resin layer which constitute the first portion, the first resin layer constituting the outer surface layer of the multi-layered article, the third resin layer constituting the inner surface layer of the multi-layered article which inner surface layer is opposed to said outer surface layer, the second resin layer being encapsulated with the first resin layer and the third resin layer, the second resin layer having a thickness which decreases towards the second portion, and being discontinued, in a region of the first portion in the vicinity of the second portion.

Multi-layered article

An injection molding apparatus for injection molding a multi-layered article is disclosed. The apparatus comprises; (a) a mold having a cavity block provided with a cavity and a hot runner block, (b) at least a first injection cylinder and a second injection cylinder, (c) a first resin-flow-passage for connecting an inside of the first injection cylinder and the cavity, and (d) a second resin-flow-passage for connecting an inside of the second injection cylinder and the cavity. The injection molding apparatus has a structure in which those portions of the first and second resin-flow-passages which are located within the mold are provided in the hot runner block, and the first resin-flow-passage and the second resin-flow-passage meet with each other in a junction portion upstream to a gate portion opened to the cavity. The injection molding apparatus is provided with a back flow device for letting first molten resin in the first resin-flow-passage flow into the second resin-flow-passage after second molten resin is injected into the cavity through the second resin-flow-passage. The back flow device is operable in response to pressure which the first molten resin in the first resin-flow-passage exerts on second molten resin in the second resin-flow-passage.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takao Ota