Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of cells, a refrigerant pipe, a plurality of cooling members, and a restraining unit. Each of the cooling members includes a plate-shaped portion interposed between the cells, and a contact portion jutting out from between the cells and contacting the refrigerant pipe. The restraining unit includes a pair of restraining members and a support member supporting the pair of restraining members, the pair of restraining members restraining opposite ends of the plurality of cells arranged with the plurality of cooling members interposed. The cooling members include one or more first cooling members and one or more second cooling members, the one or more second cooling members having a heat capacity higher than the one or more first cooling members and having a greater contact area with the refrigerant pipe than the one or more first cooling members.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells, wherein each of the battery cells is provided with first and second terminals connected to first and second cell electrodes, respectively; a first conductor electrically connecting at least a first and a second battery cell via one of the terminals of each of the first and second battery cells; and an electric heating element arranged to allow heating of at least the first and second battery cells via heating of the first or second terminal thereof. The battery pack includes at least a first metal plate capable of conducting both electric current and heat, wherein the first metal plate forms the first conductor and wherein the electric heating element is arranged onto the first metal plate so as to allow heating of at least the first and second battery cells via the first metal plate and further via the terminals connected to the first metal plate.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a battery module that has a filling portion transformed into a structure in which a battery cell is supported such that swelling pressure generated when swelling occurs is offset without an additional control, or a structure in which the battery cell is efficiently cooled.

Abstract: A heat dissipating structure for a battery is provided between a heat source and a cooling member and enables heat dissipation from the heat source by conducting heat from the heat source to the cooling member. The heat dissipating structure includes: a thermally conductive sheet containing at least one of metal, carbon, and ceramic and settable between the heat source and the cooling member; and a cushion member at least partially covered with the thermally conductive sheet.

Abstract: A gas generator including a first igniter, a second igniter, a partition wall that partitions inside a housing into a first space that contains a first gas generating agent and a second space that contains a second gas generating agent, and an inner cylindrical member that houses the first igniter and includes a communication portion at a first end portion, the gas generator further including a closing member that closes a third space that is formed between an inner wall surface of the inner cylindrical member and an outer wall surface of the fixing portion and that connects the communication portion with the first space, the closing member being inhibited from deforming due to pressure from a side of the first space and allowing deformation due to pressure from a side of the third space that negates a closed state between the first space and the third space.

Abstract: A hydrogen generator having a reforming catalyst that causes hydrocarbon gas and steam to carry out a reforming reaction and reform into a hydrogen rich reformed gas, a reformer that is filled with said reforming catalyst and in which said reforming reaction is carried out, and a combustion chamber for combusting a fuel gas and obtaining reaction heat that is applied to said reforming reaction. At least the reforming region carrying out the reforming reaction is disposed inside the combustion chamber. A steam generator that introduces steam into the reformer is provided outside the combustion chamber.

Abstract: A battery module includes: a battery stack; a restraint member on one side that restrains one side, in a Y direction, of the battery stack and includes a coolant passage on one side through which coolant flows; a restraint member on the other side that restrains the other side, in the Y direction, of the battery stack and includes a coolant passage on the other side through which coolant flows; an end plate on one side that restrains one side, in an X direction, of the battery stack; and an end plate on the other side that restrains the other side, in the X direction, of the battery stack. At least one of the end plates on the sides, includes a coolant passage on end side through which coolant passes, and the coolant passage on the end side communicates with the coolant passages on the sides.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of cells, a refrigerant pipe, a plurality of cooling members, and a restraining unit. Each of the cooling members includes a plate-shaped portion interposed between the cells, and a contact portion jutting out from between the cells and contacting the refrigerant pipe. The restraining unit includes a pair of restraining members and a support member supporting the pair of restraining members, the pair of restraining members restraining opposite ends of the plurality of cells arranged with the plurality of cooling members interposed. The cooling members include one or more first cooling members and one or more second cooling members, the one or more second cooling members having a heat capacity higher than the one or more first cooling members and having a greater contact area with the refrigerant pipe than the one or more first cooling members.

Abstract: A power storage module comprises: a frame body; a plurality of power storage cells accommodated in the frame body; a bridging portion that is provided inside the frame body and connects an upper portion and a lower portion of the frame body to each other; and two flange portions that are provided outside the frame body and project in directions opposite to each other. The two flange portions are located above a central portion of the frame body in a height direction.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a coupling structure of a battery pack, and the objective of the present invention is to provide a battery pack which can stably and easily fix a bus bar. To this end, provided is a battery pack comprising: a base defining the entire bottom surface; a battery module installed on the base; a module fixing part positioned around a side surface and an upper surface of the battery module and coupled to the base; a first bus bar fixing part coupled to the module fixing part; a bus bar disposed on the first bus bar fixing part and electrically connectable to the battery module; and a second bus bar fixing part installed to cover the bus bar and fixed to the first bus bar fixing part.

Abstract: The present specification discloses a membrane reactor comprising a reaction region; a permeate region; and a composite membrane disposed at a boundary of the reaction region and the permeate region, wherein the reaction region comprises a bed filled with a catalyst for dehydrogenation reaction, wherein the composite membrane comprises a support layer including a metal with a body-centered-cubic (BCC) crystal structure, and a catalyst layer including a palladium (Pd) or a palladium alloy formed onto the support layer, wherein ammonia (NH3) is supplied to the reaction region, the ammonia is converted into hydrogen (H2) by the dehydrogenation reaction in the presence of the catalyst for dehydrogenation reaction, and the hydrogen permeates the composite membrane and is emitted from the membrane reactor through the permeate region.

Abstract: The invention concerns a vehicle comprising an electricity production unit configured for generating an electrical current, a transformer unit and a fuel storage unit, the production unit comprising at least two fuel cell stacks and a single first electrical connection interface for transmitting the electrical current to the transformer unit. The production unit further comprises a single cooling circuit, an air supply circuit and a single gaseous hydrogen supply circuit for supplying gaseous hydrogen, from the fuel storage unit, to each fuel cell stack. The production unit is separate from the fuel storage unit and connected to the fuel storage unit by a single connection interface, the production unit being removable from the vehicle as an integrated unit independently from the fuel storage unit.

Abstract: An all-solid-state battery includes a body including a solid electrolyte layer, and an anode layer and a cathode layer alternately stacked with the solid electrolyte layer interposed therebetween. A first external electrode is disposed on one side of the body and includes a first electrode layer and a first conductive resin layer disposed on the first electrode layer, and a second external electrode is disposed on another side of the body and includes a second electrode layer and a second conductive resin layer disposed on the second electrode layer. A protective layer is disposed on an entirety of an external surface of the body free of the first and second electrode layers and on the first and second electrode layers, and at least one opening is included in a region of the protective layer disposed on at least one of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer.

Abstract: A battery storage case includes: a temperature adjustment plate having an upper wall portion on which a battery is mounted, a lower wall portion disposed below and spaced apart from the upper wall portion so as to face the upper wall portion, and a connection wall portion connecting the upper wall portion and the lower wall portion to each other, the temperature adjustment plate being integrally formed of an aluminum alloy; and an upper lid connected to the temperature adjustment plate so as to cover the battery mounted on the upper wall portion. The upper wall portion is formed with a flow path forming hole for forming a flow path through which a heat exchange medium for adjusting a temperature of the battery flows.

Abstract: Provided is an electric vehicle equipped with a battery mounted on a vehicle and capable of being charged by supplying electric power from outside of the vehicle; a temperature adjuster configured to adjust a temperature of the battery; and an air conditioner configured to control air-conditioning in a passenger compartment by a predetermined schedule, in which, if both an operating condition of the temperature adjuster and an operating condition of the air conditioner are established, the air conditioner operates after the temperature adjuster operates for a predetermined time.

Abstract: Batteries such as Li-ion batteries are provided that comprise anode and cathode electrodes, an electrolyte ionically coupling the anode and the cathode, and a separator electrically separating the anode and the cathode. In some designs, the electrolyte may comprise, for example, a mixture of (i) a Li-ion salt with (ii) at least one other metal salt having a metal with a standard reduction potential below ?2.3 V vs. Standard Hydrogen Electrode (SHE). In other designs, the electrolyte may be disposed in conjunction with an electrolyte solvent that comprises, for example, about 10 to about 100 wt. % ether. In still other designs, the battery may further comprise anode and cathode interfacial layers (e.g., solid electrolyte interphase (SEI)) disposed between the respective electrode and the electrolyte and having different types of fragments of electrolyte solvent molecules as compared to each other.

Abstract: A storage battery unit includes: a battery module having a plurality of cells, and a module circuit connected to (i) an electric power line and (ii) a communication line; a unit circuit connected to (i) the module circuit by the electric power line and the communication line, and (ii) an electric power conversion device disposed externally; and a casing that accommodates the battery module and the unit circuit. The casing includes a top plate, a bottom plate, and a front plate respectively disposed on a top surface, bottom surface, and front surface of the storage battery unit. The top plate includes a first top plate portion that substantially covers an entirety of the top surface. The front plate includes a first lateral plate portion that substantially covers an entirety of the front surface, and a fixing component. The fixing component is disposed along the first top plate portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rechargeable battery (1) comprising several storage modules (3) for electric current, wherein the storage modules (3) are interconnected via at least one busbar (4), and a cooling device (2), which comprises a single-layer or multi-layer film (5) and with this film (5) lies against the at least one busbar (4), is arranged on the busbar (4).

Abstract: A reformer assembly includes a vortex tube receiving heated fuel mixed with steam. A catalyst coats the inner wall of the main tube of the vortex tube and a hydrogen-permeable tube is positioned in the middle of the main tube coaxially with the main tube. With this structure the vortex tube outputs primarily Hydrogen from one end and Carbon-based constituents from the other end. In some embodiments a second vortex tube receives the Carbon output of the first vortex tube to establish a water gas shift reactor, producing Hydrogen from the Carbon output of the first vortex tube.

Abstract: A battery pack according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of unit modules consecutively disposed in a first direction, a unit cooling member having through-passages while being stacked with the unit modules, and a pressure member to press the unit cooling member. The through-passages of unit cooling members that are adjacent in the first direction are connected to allow a coolant to flow.