Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Takatoshi Morimitsu

Hirotaka Komura

Kunihiro Iwamoto

Yuta Itozawa

Yutaro Takagi

Junya Ota

Toshinori Okura

Takeo Shirabe

Yoshihiro Okuda

Yoshitaka Hada

Yutaka Masugi

Shiyogo Nakamura

A telescopic device includes an expandable tubular structure and an inner-side guide member disposed inside the tubular structure. The tubular structure includes an outer belt and an inner belt. The outer belt and the inner belt each have a plurality of first protrusions and holes arranged in a row in the longitudinal direction. The inner-side guide member has a first spiral groove extending along the plurality of first protrusions. When the inner-side guide member rotates in one direction, the outer belt and the inner belt are sent out, so that they are spirally wound while being engaged with each other, and the tubular structure extends. The first spiral groove has a body and an end portion extending from the body toward the root of the inner-side guide member. The distance between the end portion of the first spiral groove and the main part of the first spiral groove is small.

Telescopic device

A delivery shelf system includes a shelf extending from an exterior to an interior of a building, and a returnable box (RB) stored and slidably supported in the shelf. A first recessed part (FRP) is provided in an indoor-side end part of RB and a second recessed part (SRP) is provided in an outdoor-side end part thereof; a locking mechanism including a projecting part configured to be pressed and inserted into FRP or into SRP is provided at the indoor-side end part of the shelf; the projecting part is inserted into FRP while RB is stored in the shelf, so that RB is locked to the shelf; and when the projecting part is retracted from FRP by releasing the locking and RB is pulled out from the shelf into inside the building, the projecting part is inserted into SRP and the pulled-out RB is thereby stopped.

Delivery shelf system and its control method

The spiral advance/retreat actuation device includes a first strip material, a second strip material, an inner guide member as a strip material guide unit, an outer cylindrical wall, and a strip material storage container. The strip material storage container includes a first storage chamber that spirally stores a first strip material that has transitioned from a cylindrical configuration state to a separated state, and a second storage chamber that spirally stores a second strip material that has transitioned from a cylindrical configuration state to a separated state. The inner bottom surface of the first storage chamber and the inner bottom surface of the second storage chamber are sloped so as to descend as they move away from the axis.

Spiral advance/retreat actuation device

An assembled battery includes: a plurality of batteries; a holder having a holder part configured to hold outer circumferential surfaces of the batteries inserted in the battery through-holes; and a plurality of adhesive bodies that combine the batteries and inner circumferential surfaces of the holder part with each other. Each of the inner circumferential surfaces includes: a posture restricting portion configured to restrict a posture of each battery; a departing portion configured to depart from each battery around the whole circumference of the battery even when the battery takes any posture within the range; and a liquid-pouring groove connected from the second surface to the departing portion, and every adhesive body includes a whole-circumferential combined portion where the departing portion and the departing-portion opposing portion of each battery are combined with each other around the whole circumference.

Assembled battery, battery module, and manufacturing method for assembled battery

An assembled battery includes: a holder including a plurality of cell hold portions each having a first surface and a second surface facing an opposite side to the first surface and each having a holding hole, which is a hole penetrating through between the first surface and the second surface, and a connection portion that connects the plurality of cell hold portions to each other; a plurality of cells each having an outside diameter smaller than an inside diameter of the holding hole and inserted into the holding hole of each of the plurality of cell hold portions; and an adhesive provided so as to be solidified in a gap between an outer peripheral surface of a part of the cell which is placed inside the holding hole and an inner peripheral surface of the cell hold portion which constitutes the holding hole.

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Takatoshi Morimitsu