Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an electric wire bundle that is formed by joining a plurality of terminal-equipped electric wires to each other, the terminal-equipped electric wires being formed by connecting terminal fittings to one end of electric wires having conductors covered with insulator covers, the method including: heating the insulator covers in the plurality of terminal-equipped electric wires to expand the insulator covers; and ultrasonically joining the plurality of conductors to each other by applying ultrasonic vibration to the plurality of conductors exposed from the plurality of terminal-equipped electric wires while the insulator covers are expanded.

Abstract: There is provided a connector including: a housing including a cylindrical wall portion; and a hollow annular front holder attached to the cylindrical wall portion to surround an outer periphery thereof. The front holder includes: a pair of first locking portions and a pair of operating portions arranged that are arranged to face with each other in a radial direction of the front holder. The connecter is configured such that: in a state where the front holder is fitted externally on the cylindrical wall portion, the pair of first locking portions is engaged with the cylindrical wall portion; and in response to an operation of displacing the pair of operating portions to approach with each other in the radial direction, the pair of first locking portions is displaced to release an engagement between the front holder and the cylindrical wall portion.

Abstract: A communication terminal owned by a user who desires to use a charging device for an electric vehicle transmits a charging start command for the charging device. The communication terminal transmits the charging start command and an authentication key to a charging control device. When the authentication key is received, the charging control device attached to an outlet of the charging device authenticates the communication terminal, and when the authentication succeeds, the charging control device controls the charging device to start charging.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a connector and a manufacturing method or a connector. The connector includes: a terminal fitting; and a housing holding the terminal fitting. The housing includes a first resin molded body in which at least a part of the terminal fitting is embedded, the first resin molded body being made of a first material, and a second resin molded body in which at least a part of the first resin molded body is embedded, the second resin molded body being made of a second material. The first material has a linear thermal expansion coefficient smaller than that of the second material.

Abstract: A connector device includes a connector housing including a plurality of terminal accommodating chambers, a plurality of terminals accommodated in the plurality of terminal accommodating chambers, and a plurality of electric wires configured to be welded to the respective one of the plurality of terminals. A laser radiation through hole is formed in side walls, each forming the terminal accommodating chambers, the laser radiation through hole being configured to allow the plurality of terminals and the plurality of electric wires to be welded with each other inside the terminal accommodating chambers, and the laser radiation through hole is configured to allow laser light emitted from a laser welding machine disposed outside the connector housing to enter one of the plurality of terminal accommodating chambers.

Abstract: A connector fitting structure including: a first connector; and a second connector. The first connector includes a guide groove provided in a first housing. The guide groove includes: a first groove portion extending along a connector fitting direction; a second groove portion formed to gradually increase in width from a side of the first groove portion toward a side of the second connector; and a connection portion that connects the first groove portion and the second groove portion. The second connector includes a projection portion provided on a second housing and inserted into the guide groove. The projection portion has a recessed portion formed on a front end side of the projection portion and on at least one side surface of the projection portion that faces groove side surfaces of the guide groove.

Abstract: A conductor member with cooling structure includes a conductor plate, a groove member formed of an insulation resin, having a shape in which a flow path groove configuring part of a refrigerant flow path in which refrigerant flows and extending along at least a partial shape of the conductor plate in a length direction; a metal cover as a cover made from metal to configure the refrigerant flow path by blocking a groove opening of the flow path groove in the groove member, the metal cover being overlapped by the conductor plate; a pair of refrigerant inlet/outlet ports provided in the metal cover; and a thermal conduction material being sandwiched between the metal cover and the conductor plate to be in close contact with the metal cover and the conductor plate.

Abstract: An electrical connection box includes an auxiliary housing of a tubular shape interposed between a first housing and a second housing in a state where a second terminal is in complete contact with a first terminal. The auxiliary housing includes a holding portion that positions and holds the first terminal with respect to the first housing and a guide portion that guides the second terminal toward the first terminal in a state where the auxiliary housing is disposed on an opening side of the first housing.

Abstract: There is provided a connector including a seal member that seals a gap between an opening inner wall of an opening and a peripheral edge of a cover. The seal member includes a body portion having an annular shape along the peripheral edge of the cover, an extending portion that extends from an end portion of the body portion on a side of an outside along a cover surface of the cover, and a protruding portion that protrudes in a direction of intersecting with an extending direction of the extending portion and extends from the extending portion along the cover surface. The cover includes a recessed fitting portion into which the extending portion and the protruding portion of the seal member are fitted.

Abstract: A busbar module includes: busbars fixed to battery cells of a battery module; a plate-like flexible circuit body; and a case that accommodates the circuit body and the busbars, in which the circuit body includes a trunk portion extending in a first direction in which the battery cells are arranged, and branch portions branching from the trunk portion and connected to the busbars, the branch portion includes a base portion, a fixed portion fixed to the busbar, and an intermediate portion extending from the base portion to the fixed portion is the first direction, a first end portion of the trunk portion has a first through-hole, and the case includes a first protrusion and locks the first end portion with the first protrusion to hold the circuit body in a state where the intermediate portion is flexurally deformed.

Abstract: A resin molded article has an internal space. The resin molded article includes: a ventilation passage defined to allow the internal space to communicate with an outside of the resin molded article. The ventilation passage includes: a first ventilation passage extending from the internal space in a predetermined direction so as to include a bottom portion; and a second ventilation passage extending from the outside in a direction intersecting the predetermined direction. The first ventilation passage and the second ventilation passage communicate with each other by allowing the bottom portion to communicate with the bifurcated portions provided at an end portion of the second ventilation passage. A portion where the first ventilation passage and the second ventilation passage communicate with each other is narrowest in the ventilation passage.

Abstract: A conductor member with cooling structure is characterized that it includes a conductor member formed of a conductive metal in a strip shape with one end side thereof being connected to a component terminal of a predetermined electrical/electronic member, and the other end side thereof being connected to an electrical connection target of the electrical/electronic member to be energized; a cooling pipe into which refrigerant flows; and a fixing wall as a wall formed of an insulation resin to which the conductor member together with the electrical/electronic member are fixed, and to which the cooling pipe is fixed such that the cooling pipe extends to be in contact with a connection portion of the conductor member connected with the component terminal.

Abstract: A coolant flow path-attached conductive member includes a first component that has one of divided shapes obtained by dividing a band plate member having an internal flow path that allows a coolant to pass at least in a length direction thereof, the first component being made of a conductive metal, one end side of the first component being connected to a component terminal of a predetermined electric/electronic component, the other end side being connected to an electrical connection target of the electric/electronic component, a second component that has the other of the divided shapes and that is combined with the first component to constitute the band plate member, and a pair of coolant ports provided on the band plate member to allow the coolant to flow through the internal flow path of the band plate member constituted by combining the first component and the second component.

Abstract: A connector includes a plurality of electric wires with terminals; a connection portion that retains terminals of the plurality of electric wires with terminals to be collectively connectable to male terminals; and a plurality of housing portions that accommodate the terminals being retained by the connection portion respectively. Each of the plurality of housing portions is provided separately from the connection portion to be attachable to and detachable from the connection portion.

Abstract: A terminal includes: a cylindrical box portion into which a mating terminal is inserted; and a spring portion which extends in a longitudinal direction from a front end portion to a rear end portion of a box portion and deforms in a deflection direction away from the mating terminal when the mating terminal inserted into the box portion comes into contact with the spring portion. The spring portion has a pair of projections projecting outward in a width direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction from a free end portion of the spring portion on a rear end side. The box portion has a holding piece portion formed so as to project from an upper wall constituting the box portion toward the projection, and of which a lower end abuts on the projection to hold the spring portion in a state elastically deformed in the deflection direction from a natural state.

Abstract: A conductor member with a cooling structure includes a cooling pipeline inside which a refrigerant flows, and a conductor member formed by a conductive metal in a band shape, one end side of the conductor member being connected to a component terminal of a predetermined electrical or electronic component, another end side of the conductor member being connected to an electrical connection target of the electrical or electronic component and being configured to be energized, and the cooling pipeline being configured to be fixed so as to be in contact with a connection portion of the conductor member, wherein the connection portion is configured for connection to component terminal.

Abstract: A vehicle display device includes an image display device having a display surface that displays an image, an optical system that projects display light of the image toward a reflection surface in front of a driver, and a control unit, wherein the display surface includes a first region and a second region, wherein the control unit causes the image display device to display a first image when a display position of the image is in the first region, and causes the image display device to display a second image when a display position of the image is in a boundary between the first region and the second region, and wherein the second image is an image having a pattern different from a pattern of the first image, and has a configuration in which a low luminance portion and a high luminance portion are combined.

Abstract: A conductor cooling structure includes a cooling plate formed into a band plate shape made of a conductive metal and being a flat plate like member configured to cool a conductor member with a predetermined electric/electronic component being fixed to a front surface of the cooling plate in such a state that the conductor member is placed on the front surface of the cooling plate, the conductor member configured to be energized with one end side of the conductor member being connected to a component terminal of the electric/electronic component, and the other end side of the conductor member being connected to an electrical connection target of the electric/electronic component, a conductor groove being formed on the front surface of the cooling plate, the conductor groove extending along a shape of a longitudinal direction of the conductor member and formed to have a sufficient depth to accommodate at least a portion of the conductor member in a thickness direction thereof, and a heat transfer member coverin

Abstract: A conductor member with cooling structure includes a conductor member formed of a conductive metal in a strip shape, wherein one end side is connected to a component terminal of an electrical/electronic member, and the other end side is connected to an electrical connection target; a refrigerant case formed of an insulative resin to accommodate refrigerant, wherein a pair of refrigerant inlet/outlet ports are provided in the refrigerant case; and a heat transmission member with a first portion and a second portion that enters the refrigerant case to be connected to the refrigerant case in a state of being in contact with the refrigerant so as to connect the conductor member and the refrigerant case with each other, while receive heat generated in the conductor member by the first portion and transmit the heat from the second portion to the refrigerant flowing in the refrigerant case.

Abstract: An electrical junction box includes: a first housing configured to hold a first terminal having a flat plate shape; a second terminal configured to allow the first terminal to be inserted thereinto such that the second terminal is conductively connected to the first terminal when the first terminal is inserted into the second terminal; and a second housing configured to be engaged with the first housing. The first housing has a first space defining, together with a second space of the second housing, a space configured to accommodate the second terminal. The first space is configured to accommodate a part of the first terminal. When the first housing is engaged with the second housing, the first terminal is allowed to be inserted into the second terminal such that the first terminal and the second terminal are conductively connected.