Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Autonetworks Technologies, Limited

Yusuke Isaji

Hitoshi Takeda

Ryoya Okamoto

Hiroshi Shimizu

Kenji Nakagawa

A connection module is configured to be accommodated inside a battery pack including an upper case and a lower case, the connection module including: a plurality of bus bars that electrically connect a device disposed on the upper case side inside the battery pack to a connector disposed on the lower case side inside the battery pack; a plurality of holders that hold the plurality of bus bars, each of the plurality of holders including bus bar holding portions; and a bracket capable of locking the plurality of holders, wherein, in a state in which the plurality of holders that hold the plurality of bus bars are locked to the bracket, the plurality of bus bars are arranged side by side in a left-right direction orthogonal to a vertical direction, a direction orthogonal to the vertical direction and intersecting the left-right direction is assumed to be a front-rear direction.

Connection module

A terminal connection unit has a novel structure that enables advantageously absorbing tolerance between positions of a terminal fitting and a connection portion while also ensuring a good state of connection between the terminal fitting and the connection portion. A terminal connection unit includes: a current-carrying member that has a connection portion for connection to a terminal fitting provided at the terminal end of an electric wire; and a support portion that fixedly supports the current-carrying member. The current-carrying member includes a fixing portion that is fixed to the support portion, and an extendable portion that couples the connection portion and the fixing portion to each other and can extend and contract in the first direction. The support portion includes an attachment portion that is attached to the connection portion and is displaceable in a first direction.

Terminal connection unit

Disclosed is a circuit assembly having a novel structure that enables circuit components to be laid out in a lower case with high design flexibility and higher spatial efficiency. A circuit assembly includes: a lower case for accommodating lower circuit components; an upper case for covering the lower case; upper circuit components attached to the upper case, and a fastening member holder for holding a fastening member for fixing the upper circuit components to the upper case, the fastening member holder being provided in the upper case.

Circuit assembly

Disclosed is a circuit unit with a novel structure that can counter the heat generation by resistors while suppressing an increase in size and cost of the circuit unit. A circuit unit includes a wiring member, a lower case that holds the wiring member, an upper case that covers the lower case, and resistors connected to the wiring member, wherein the upper case include wall portions that surround peripheries of the resistors, and wherein, in a first orthogonal direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the resistors, the separation distance between intermediate portions in the longitudinal direction of the resistors and the wall portions of the upper case is greater than the separation distance between end portions in the longitudinal direction of the resistors and the wall portions of the upper case.

Circuit unit

Provided is a circuit assembly including: a main relay that is to be electrically connected between a load and a battery; a pre-charge circuit connected in parallel with the main relay; and a heat transfer member, wherein the pre-charge circuit includes current-carrying portions that are to be connected to the main relay, and the heat transfer member and the current-carrying portions are in contact with each other.

Provided is an electrical junction box that has a novel structure capable of stably preventing water from intruding into a case while simplifying the operation for connecting the electrical junction box and an external apparatus. An electrical junction box includes a circuit structure that includes a connection terminal for connection to an external apparatus, a case that has an insertion hole and houses the circuit structure, a relay terminal that is connected to the connection terminal, and includes an external connection portion that is inserted into the insertion hole and is exposed to the outside of the case, and a sealing member that is compressed between opposing surfaces of the insertion hole and the relay terminal and seals the insertion hole.

Electrical junction box

Provided is a circuit structure having a novel structure with which the dissipation of heat from a heat generating component can be more reliably promoted with a short heat transfer path. A circuit structure includes: a heat generating component; bus bars connected to connection portions of the heat generating component; an insulating base member configured to hold the heat generating component and the bus bars; and a coolant flow path provided inside the base member and through which a coolant flows, the bus bars being in thermal contact with the coolant flow path.

Circuit structure

A circuit structure includes: an upper case having positioning holes; bus bars that are provided in an inductor disposed in the upper case and that have through holes; terminals that are connected to electric wires and that have bolts disposed thereon that penetrate the through holes; nuts that sandwich the bus bars between the nuts and the terminals by being screwed onto the bolts; and a lower case that is attached to the upper case. The lower case includes: front walls, left walls, and right walls that project upward from the lower case and position the terminals relative to the lower case by coming into contact with the terminals; and case positioning portions that project upward from the lower case and that are inserted into the positioning holes.

A power supply device disclosed by the present specification includes: a first power storage element group that has a pair of first external terminals having different polarities, and includes a plurality of power storage elements; and a second power storage element group that has a pair of second external terminals having different polarities, and includes a plurality of power storage elements. The first power storage element group and the second power storage element group are arranged adjacent to each other in a front-rear direction, the first external terminals are provided at the front edge on the second power storage element group side of the first power storage element group, and the second external terminalsare arranged to be adjacent to the first external terminals at a rear edge on the first power storage element group side of the second power storage element group.

Power supply device

Provided is a terminal block that electrically connects a terminal connection portion provided at a terminal end of a covered wire and a device-side connection portion provided in a device to each other, the terminal block including: a contact placement portion on which the terminal connection portion and the device-side connection portion are disposed in contact with each other; a wire installation portion that is provided continuously with the contact placement portion and on which the covered wire is disposed; and a stress relaxation portion that is disposed between the wire installation portion and the covered wire so as to be elastically displaceable, and that bends and holds the covered wire in a state in which a clearance is provided between the covered wire and the wire installation portion.

Terminal block and wire routing unit

Provided is a clip to be attached to a vehicle body panel having panel surfaces that intersect each other, while separately holding different wire groups in a state of being near each other. The clip disclosed in the present specification includes a first wire holding portion for holding a first wire group; a second wire holding portion for holding a second wire group; a vehicle body attachment portion to be attached to the vehicle body; and a coupling portion for coupling the first wire holding portion and the second wire holding portion. The coupling portion includes a first coupling portion that is continuous with the first wire holding portion and a second coupling portion that is continuous with the second wire holding portion. The first coupling portion and the second coupling portion intersect each other.

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Mie, Japan

Yusuke Isaji