Abstract: In the method for manufacturing the battery module according to this invention, after a pair of welding upper/lower electrodes 21, 22 or 23, 24 are arranged in contact on the cases 16, 16 of adjacent unit cells 10a, 10b of a plurality of unit cells aligned in a line, a welding current is passed between the pair of welding upper electrodes 21, 23 from a welding power source while both ends of the unit cells 10a, 10b, 10c are pressurized by pressurizing members 31, 32 under a prescribed pressure. Thus, Joule heat is generated at the contact portion between the bottom of the outer case 16 of the unit cell 10a and the positive polarity terminal 18 of the unit cell 10b so that the contact portion melts. Accordingly, the bottom of the outer case 16 of the unit cell 10a and the positive polarity terminal 18 of the unit cell 10b are welded to each other at the contact portion.

Abstract: A power supply apparatus including a plurality of power modules, a holder-case, and a fan. The holder-case is box-shaped with a first surface plate and second surface plate as two surfaces, and contains a plurality of power modules arranged laterally, parallel, and in the same plane. A plurality of walls are provided between the plurality of laterally arranged power modules, and divide the holder-case interior into a plurality of rows of partitions. One row of power modules is disposed in each partition row. The power supply apparatus uses the fan to divide and induce air flow through flow inlets formed in the first surface plate into the plurality of partitions, and expels air out exhaust outlets formed in the second surface plate to cool power modules disposed inside each partition.

Abstract: A battery module of the present invention comprises an annular connecting member 10 having an aperture 14 at a position corresponding to a cap 8 provided on a sealing plate 7 and between the sealing member 7 of one cell B and a bottom of a can 6 of the other cell A. The annular connecting member 10 comprises an annular base portion 11 having its outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the opening portion of the can 6, a convex portion 12 with bottom protruding upward or downward alternately from the annular base portion 11, and a projection 13 projecting from the bottom of the convex portion 12. Thereby, the connecting portion between the cell A and the cell B has a collecting path of a length between both projections 13, namely, a length between the sealing plate 7 of the cell B and the bottom of the can 6 of the cell A, whereby the voltage drop across the connecting portion decreases, resulting in a battery module having high operation voltage.

Abstract: A battery unit comprises a plural number of cells. The cells are provided with temperature sensors adjacent thereto respectively. One cell is provided with one temperature sensor adjacent thereto, but all of the cells are not provided with temperature sensors; so that the total number of temperature sensors is less than the total number of cells. Cells provided with temperature sensors adjacent thereto, respectively, and cells not provided with any temperature sensor are mixedly connected. The temperature sensors are divided into a plural number of temperature sensor blocks, and an abnormal temperature of a cell is detected by comparing resistance values of the temperature sensor blocks with one another.

Abstract: The power supply apparatus has a plurality of power modules, a holder-case, and a fan. The holder-case is box shaped with a first surface plate and second surface plate as two surfaces, and contains a plurality of power modules arranged laterally, parallel, and in the same plane. Walls are provided between the plurality of laterally arranged power modules, and divide the holder-case interior into a plurality of rows of partitions. One row of power modules is disposed in each partition row. The power supply apparatus uses the fan to divide and induce air flow through flow inlets in the first surface plate into the plurality of partitions, and expels air out exhaust outlets in the second surface plate to cool power modules disposed inside each partition.

Abstract: An assembled storage battery unit of the collective type includes a plurality of storage batteries assembled as a unit. The storage batteries each include positive and negative electrodes layered through a separator and contained in a bottomed parallelepiped battery casing filled with electrolyte and a closure plate welded to an upper opening end of the battery casing to seal the interior of the battery casing. The battery casings each are integrally formed with a plurality of vertical ribs spaced in parallel at one side wall thereof faced to the corresponding side wall of the battery casing adjacent thereto. The vertical ribs of each of the battery casings are coupled with the corresponding vertical ribs of the battery casing adjacent thereto to form a plurality of vertical ventilation spaces.

Abstract: A battery module of the present invention comprises an annular connecting member 10 having an aperture 14 at a position corresponding to a cap 8 provided on a sealing plate 7 and between the sealing member 7 of one cell B and a bottom of a can 6 of the other cell A. The annular connecting member 10 comprises an annular base portion 11 having its outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the opening portion of the can 6, a convex portion 12 with bottom protruding upward or downward alternately from the annular base portion 11, and a projection 13 projecting from the bottom of the convex portion 12. Thereby, the connecting portion between the cell A and the cell B has a collecting path of a length between both projections 13, namely, a length between the sealing plate 7 of the cell B and the bottom of the can 6 of the cell A, whereby the voltage drop across the connecting portion decreases, resulting in a battery module having high operation voltage.

Abstract: In the method for manufacturing the battery module according to this invention, after a pair of welding upper/lower electrodes 21, 22 or 23, 24 are arranged in contact on the cases 16, 16 of adjacent unit cells 10a, 10b of a plurality of unit cells aligned in a line, a welding current is passed between the pair of welding upper electrodes 21, 23 from a welding power source while both ends of the unit cells 10a, 10b, 10c are pressurized by pressurizing members 31, 32 under a prescribed pressure. Thus, Joule heat is generated at the contact portion between the bottom of the outer case 16 of the unit cell 10a and the positive polarity terminal 18 of the unit cell 10b so that the contact portion melts. Accordingly, the bottom of the outer case 16 of the unit cell 10a and the positive polarity terminal 18 of the unit cell 10b are welded to each other at the contact portion.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a method of producing a hydrogen absorbing alloy electrode which is solid and enables a metal hydride storage cell, using the hydrogen absorbing alloy electrode, with high discharge characteristics in high-rate discharge and in low temperature and a long cycle life. To achieve this, the hydrogen absorbing alloy electrode is produced by firstly generating a first powder by giving a surface treatment to a hydrogen absorbing alloy powder in an acid solution, secondly generating a mixed material by mixing the first powder with a second powder which is composed of a metal which does not absorb hydrogen and/or an alloy which does not absorb hydrogen, thirdly attaching the mixed material to a base plate, and fourthly baking the base plate for sintering the mixed material attached to the base plate.

Abstract: A lead frame magazine conveying device including magazine guides that guide the lead frame magazine to be conveyed. The magazine guide comprises a fixed guide and a movable guide which is a bar attached at the end of a swing lever. When the movable guide is brought into contact with one side of the lead frame magazine, the swing lever is tightened by a screw so as not to swing, thus turning the movable guide so as to be immovable, making it possible to smoothly guide the lead frame magazine in cooperation with the fixed guide which is in contact with another side of the lead frame magazine.

Abstract: A lead frame magazine conveying device including vertically provided magazine loader and unloader sections and an elevator system which transfers the lead frame magazine between the magazine loader and unloader sections after bringing the magazine to lead frame receiving or feed out positions. The conveying device further includes a magazine pressing assembly which presses and corrects the attitude of the magazine in the elevator so that the elevator can move the magazine after its attitude is corrected properly by the magazine pressing assembly.

Abstract: A device for picking up, via suction, a lead frame from a lead frame magazine and placing it on a guide rail so that the lead frame is fed to a bonding machine. This device includes a plurality of lead frame suction nozzles disposed in at least two parallel rows such that one row of the two parallel rows of the lead frame suction nozzles is movable toward and away from an other row of the lead frame suction nozzles. In addition, the lead frame suction nozzles in each of the two rows can be moved closer to and away from each other within each of the rows.

Abstract: A lead frame magazine conveying device including magazine guides that guide the lead frame magazine to be conveyed. The magazine guide comprises a fixed guide and a movable guide which is a bar attached at the end of a swing lever. When the movable guide is brought into contact with one side of the lead frame magazine, the swing lever is tightened by a screw so as not to swing, thus turning the movable guide so as to be immovable, making it possible to smoothly guide the lead frame magazine in cooperation with the fixed guide which is in contact with another side of the lead frame magazine.

Abstract: A lead frame magazine conveying device including vertically provided magazine loader and unloader sections and an elevator system which transferred the lead frame magazine between the magazine loader and unloader sections, and the conveying device further including a a shutter that is movable back and forth so as to come into contact with or close to a magazine which has been transferred onto the magazine unloader section, thus preventing the magazine from falling over and from dropping from the magazine unloader section.

Abstract: Novel 3-amino-4-homoisotwistane derivatives of the formula, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group or a C.sub.3 -C.sub.5 alkenyl group, and R.sub.2 is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group or a C.sub.3 -C.sub.5 alkenyl group, or non-toxic pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which are very valuable as medicines for the treatment of virus-caused diseases and as antiviral agents for animals and useful for the treatment of parkinsonean disease.