Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Tsutomu Kanetsuna

Kenji Sato

Norio Shimizu

Tsutomu Matsui

Masahiro Sekino

Tatsuya Shinoda

Kengo Kurata

Hideyuki Ishii

Kazuhide Ashida

Kenji Shigehisa

Shun Egusa

Nagaaki Muro

Soichi Hanafusa

Yuusaku Hata

According to one embodiment, a battery includes a case, an electrode group, a lid, an external terminal and an insulating member. The external terminal includes a head section and an axial section extended from the head section. The axial section is caulked and fixed into a through hole in the lid. The insulating member is arranged between the lid and the external terminal. The insulating member includes a bus bar-fixing section.

Battery with insulating member including bus bar fixing section

A power supply connector is provided, which is applicable to both large current charging and low current charging, the power supply connector being able to not only maintain the accuracy of monitoring low current charging and the volumetric efficiency of a board by appropriately arranging two types of connector parts, but also contribute to the downsizing of the power supply connector and improvement of the reliability thereof by striking a balance between the volumetric efficiency and the heat radiation characteristics, and ensure safety in the use of the power supply connector while reducing the cost. Insertion holesand connector pinsthat configure a large current charging connector part are disposed in the vicinity of both ends of the power supply connector. There are disposed a plug insertion holeand low current charging connector pinsthat configure a low current charging connector part held between the insertion holesand the connector pins

Power supply connector

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Yokohama, Japan

Tsutomu Kanetsuna