Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, Inc.

Toyota Battery Co., Ltd.

Yuki Sato

Motoki Hiraoka

Hiroshi Yanagimoto

Masataka Asai

Masahiro Uchimura

Syoichi Tsuchiya

Tsuyoshi Asano

Yozo Uchida

Takayuki Aoki

Masahiro Kato

Nobuyuki Ishigure

Ryusuke Ohta

Toshihiko Kosugi

Nozomi Tateyama

Tadashi Usuya

Shinji Hara

Takamitsu Ito

Yosuke Hatada

Shinji Matsubara

Naoki Hasegawa

Hirofumi Iisaka

Hideki Asadachi

Fusayoshi Miura

Tsuyoshi Ehara

Akio Nishiyama

Atsushi Murase

Hiroki Usui

Satoshi Nakashima

Kensuke Akamatsu

Shigeru Matsumoto

Yasuaki Nagano

Takayasu Yoshioka

Yoshitaka Shimmei

Yoshitaka Shinmei

A lid body includes a terminal member of at least one of a positive electrode and a negative electrode, a sealing plate including an attachment hole for attaching the terminal member, and a sealing material containing a thermoplastic resin and an inorganic filler. The terminal member is inserted into the attachment hole and attached to the sealing plate in a state in which the sealing material is joined to a peripheral portion of the attachment hole. Here, as the inorganic filler, an inorganic substance having a volume change rate of 20% or less after being immersed for 7 days in a test electrolyte, which is prepared at 65° C., and which contains 1200 ppm of water and 1 M of LiPF, and moreover in which a volume ratio of a solvent thereof satisfies a relationship of ethylene carbonate:diethyl carbonate:dimethyl carbonate=1:1:1, is used.

Lid body and sealed battery

A method for producing a power storage device includes an insert-molding step of making a resin member by insert-molding with respect to a terminal member inserted in an insertion hole of a lid. In this insert-molding step, the insertion hole of the lid is placed in front of a gate, and a molten resin is injected through the gate to flow in an opposite gate-side space in a cavity through the insertion hole, allowing the molten resin to spread over the entire cavity, to form the resin member.

Method for producing power storage device

The laminated battery disclosed herein includes an electrode body, an outer casing made of a laminated film which accommodates the electrode body, and an electrode terminal. The outer casing has a weld portion in which inner surfaces of the laminated films are stacked and welded together in a peripheral edge of space which accommodates the electrode body. The electrode terminal passes between the laminated films stacked on each other in the weld portion and is inserted into the outer casing, one end of the electrode terminal is electrically connected to the electrode body, and another end of the electrode terminal is exposed to outside of the outer casing. In addition, at least a part of the electrode terminal inserted into the outer casing is plate-shaped. In the plate-shaped portion, a surface-roughened portion having a notch portion is provided at a position of the weld portion.

Laminated battery

Provided is a lid body including: a terminal member being mainly made up of a first metal; a sealing plate mainly made up of a second metal; and a sealing material. The sealing plate has a mounting hole for attaching the terminal member. The terminal member is inserted into the mounting hole and is attached to the sealing plate in a state where the sealing material is joined to a peripheral edge portion of the mounting hole. With as αa coefficient of linear expansion at 25° C. of the sealing material, αas a coefficient of linear expansion at 25° C. of the first metal and αas a coefficient of linear expansion at 25° C. of the second metal, α≤α≤αis satisfied, where αis the higher value and αis the lower value from among the αand α.

A lever operation device includes an operation lever which rotates integrally with a steering wheel of a vehicle and receives operations at least in upward and downward directions and around which a predetermined region is set so as to prevent the operation lever from contacting with a leg of a user seated in a driver's seat when the steering wheel is rotated to a maximum steering angle, and an operation portion that is arranged on the operation lever so as not to be located out of the region and includes plural operating positions each assigned an executable function.

Lever operation device

A lever operation device includes a housing, a lever portion which is attached to the housing and on which a first rotation operation about a first shaft is performed, a magnet attached to a tip portion of the lever portion, a magnetic sensor that is arranged in the housing so as to be located on extension from the tip portion, and a detent portion provided on the lever portion and includes a detent tip end portion and an elastic portion, the detent tip end portion generating a detent by moving with a tilt in a direction of the first rotation operation from a direction of extension from the tip portion of the lever portion and coming into contact with a detent surface of a detent wall arranged on the housing, and the elastic portion applying an elastic force to the detent tip end portion.

A switch device includes a switch body, which is attached to and rotated integrally with an irregularly-shaped steering unit, and a lever unit, which is held pivotally about a switch body. The lever unit includes a lever shaft including a base, which extends in a direction intersecting the steering shaft, and an arm, which is formed integrally with the base and extends in a direction that differs from the direction in which the base extends. The lever unit also includes a lever head at the distal end of the lever shaft, and the lever head extends from the lever shaft in the width direction, which intersects an axial direction.

Switch device

A nano projection structure inspection apparatus herein disclosed includes an inspection light irradiation part and a chromameter. The inspection light irradiation part irradiates inspection light to an inspected surface being a surface of a metal. An imaging optical axis of an imaging element of the chromameter is arranged to be tilted to a regular reflection direction of the inspection light caused by the inspected surface. The chromameter makes the imaging element receive diffusion reflection light, among reflection light of the inspection light from the inspected surface, the reflection light containing regular reflection light and the diffusion reflection light, so as to inspect a nanoscale projection structure on the inspected surface.

Nano projection structure inspection apparatus and nano projection structure inspection method

A lever operation device includes a lever portion on which a first rotation operation about a first shaft is performed, a magnet attached to a tip portion of the lever portion, a magnetic sensor to detect movement of the magnet due to the first rotation operation performed on the lever portion, and a housing including a first room, in which the tip portion is attached, and a second room which is separated from the first room by a wall and in which the magnetic sensor is disposed.

Provided is a method for forming a metal film capable of forming a homogeneous metal film having a uniform film thickness by stably ensuring a fluid pressure of an electrolytic solution during film formation. The method places a substrate on a mount base. While sucking a gas between the substrate and a porous film through which the electrolytic solution can pass from a suction port of a suction passage formed on the mount base, the method brings the porous film into contact with the surface of the substrate. The method interrupts the suction passage while the porous film contacts the surface of the substrate. While interrupting the suction passage, the method allows the electrolytic solution to pass through the porous film while pressing the porous film against the surface of the substrate with a fluid pressure of the electrolytic solution and deposits metal from metal ions in the passed electrolytic solution on the surface of the substrate, thereby forming the metal film.

Film forming method for forming metal film and film forming apparatus for forming metal film

Provided is a device and a method for forming a metal plating film having a thick film thickness by a solid substitution-type electroless plating method. The present disclosure relates to a film formation device for forming a film of a first metal on a plating film of a second metal by a solid substitution-type electroless plating method, comprising: a conductive mounting base; a third metal; an insulating material; a microporous membrane; a plating bath chamber; and a pressing unit, wherein the third metal has an ionization tendency larger than ionization tendencies of the first metal and the second metal, and wherein the insulating material is installed between a base material and the third metal so as to contact respective materials of the base material and the third metal when the base material having the plating film of the second metal is installed.

Film formation device and film formation method for metal plating film

A switch device includes a switch body, which is arranged at the back side of a steering unit, and a lever unit, which is attached to the switch body to allow for switching by a pivotal operation about a first axis, which extends in the axial direction of a steering shaft. The lever unit includes a lever shaft, which extends in a direction intersecting the first axis of the pivotal operation, a lever head, which is arranged at the distal end of the lever shaft and has a larger dimension than the diameter of the lever shaft, and a push operation unit, which allows for switching by a push operation. The push operation unit is arranged so that the operation direction of the push operation is directed toward the first axis.

A lever operation device includes a lever main body on which a first rotation operation about a first shaft is performed, a bracket portion that includes an insertion opening for insertion of the lever main body and a through-hole in communication with the insertion opening, a housing which rotatably holds the bracket portion and on which a detent wall including a detent surface is arranged, and a detent portion that is inserted into the through-hole and includes a detent tip end portion in contact with the detent surface, a detent base end portion in contact with the lever main body inserted into the insertion opening of the bracket portion, and an elastic portion applying an elastic force, which is generated by being sandwiched and compressed by the detent surface and the lever main body, to the detent surface and the lever main body.

Lever operation device and method for manufacturing the same

Provided is a metal film forming apparatus capable of forming a uniform metal film on a surface of a substrate by uniformly pressurizing an electrolyte membrane against the surface of the substrate. The film forming apparatus includes first and second film forming units, a coupling portion that couples the first and second film forming units together, a pressure device including a pressure unit that pressurizes substrates with electrolyte membranes of the respective film forming units via the coupling portion, and a power supply unit adapted to apply a voltage across each anode and each substrate. The film forming units are coupled to the coupling portion via their respective first elastic bodies that elastically deform in the pressurization direction of the pressure unit.

Film forming apparatus for forming metal film

Provided is a film forming apparatus for forming a metal film, capable of uniformly pressurizing a substrate surface with an electrolyte membrane subjected to the fluid pressure of an electrolytic solution containing metal ions during film formation even when an insoluble anode is used. A housing of the apparatus includes a partition member between the anode and the electrolyte membrane, for partitioning a housing chamber into first and second housing chambers. The partition member includes a porous body impregnated with cation exchange resin. The first housing chamber houses the anode insoluble in a first electrolytic solution. The second housing chamber has formed therein a hermetically sealed space in which a second electrolytic solution containing metal ions is enclosed within the housing, by the electrolyte membrane and the partition member. The apparatus is also provided with a pump (pressure unit) that pressurizes the second electrolytic solution in the second housing chamber.

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Nagakute, Japan

Yuki Sato