Abstract: Provided is a separation and recovery apparatus for continuously separating and recovering, from a resin mixture containing a resin containing a hydrolyzable polymer and a resin containing a nonhydrolyzable polymer, a hydrolytic component a of the hydrolyzable polymer A and the nonhydrolyzable polymer B, the apparatus including: a crushing unit that crushes the resin mixture a melting/discharging unit that melts a crushed product obtained by the crushing unit to form a fluid and discharges the fluid at a high pressure; and a hydrothermal reaction treatment unit that continuously subjects the fluid discharged from the melting/discharging unit to a hydrothermal reaction treatment, wherein, in the melting/discharging unit, the hydrolyzable polymer A is hydrolyzed, and the hydrolytic component a thereof is dissolved and transferred into water permeating a sintered alloy diaphragm, thereby separating the nonhydrolyzable polymer B.

Abstract: A communication device includes a communicator that is mounted in a mobile body and functions as a wireless access point, a power supplier configured to supply electric power at least to a driver that causes the mobile body to travel, a detector configured to detect the electric energy of the power supplier, and a controller configured to control at least one of communication strength and communication quality of the communicator based on the electric energy detected by the detector.

Abstract: A communication device includes a communicator controller. The communication controller configured to cause a communicator to communicate with a terminal device in a first mode or a second mode, in which the first mode is a mode in which communication conditions are better than in the second mode, and, when the communication controller has acquired permission information indicating that communication in the first mode is permitted according to completion of processing of a first procedure different from a second procedure required for communication in the second mode in response to a request from the terminal device, the communication controller causes the communicator to communicate with a terminal device associated with the permission information in the first mode.

Abstract: To provide a battery connecting body and a power supply device capable of maintaining a state where a cover portion covers a connecting member. A bus bar module includes a plurality of bus bars that each connects electrodes of adjacent ones of a plurality of batteries arranged such that the electrodes thereof are arranged on a straight line to electrically connect the plurality of batteries in series and a casing that houses the plurality of bus bars. The casing includes a plurality of bus bar housing portions that each house each of the bus bars and the cover portions that each cover an opening of each of the bus bar housing portions, and the cover portions are each retained by the bus bar.

Abstract: The bus bar module includes: bus bars for connecting the batteries in series by connecting the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the adjacent batteries; a plurality of terminals electrically connected to the electrodes of the batteries; and a case for housing the bus bars and the terminals. Each terminal includes: a terminal main body on which an insertion hole is provided for inserting the electrode of the battery; and a projecting section projecting from a part of a peripheral edge of the terminal main body in a surface extending direction of the terminal main body. The terminal is arranged so that a projecting direction of the projecting section is along an arranging direction of the batteries.

Abstract: A busbar holding structure holds at least one of plural busbars to a wires routing body. The plural busbars electrically connect plural cell batteries constituting a battery assembly. The busbar holding structure includes a bottom wall, a partition wall erected from a portion of a peripheral edge of the bottom wall, a lock portion provided on the partition wall and configured to lock a side end portion of the busbar on the wires routing body, and a first projection that projects perpendicularly from the bottom wall and is to be fitted in a through-hole provided in the busbar. A fitting gap between the first projection and the through-hole is set so as to restrict an inclination angle of the busbar with respect to the first projection and to thereby prevent the busbar from being unlocked from the lock portion.

Abstract: A busbar holding structure holds at least one of plural busbars to a wires routing body. The plural busbars electrically connect plural cell batteries constituting a battery assembly. The busbar holding structure includes a bottom wall, a partition wall erected from a portion of a peripheral edge of the bottom wall, a lock portion provided on the partition wall and configured to lock a side end portion of the busbar on the wires routing body, and a first projection that projects perpendicularly from the bottom wall and is to be fitted in a through-hole provided in the busbar. A fitting gap between the first projection and the through-hole is set so as to restrict an inclination angle of the busbar with respect to the first projection and to thereby prevent the busbar from being unlocked from the lock portion.

Abstract: A rotation preventing structure of a terminal bus bar of a battery connector includes a battery pack that includes a pack case in which a battery assembly having arranged batteries is accommodated, a battery connector that is mounted to the battery pack, a terminal bus bar that is formed on the battery connector and has a configuration where an external connection bus bar is fastened to a bolt fixed to one end portion of the terminal bus bar and an electrode of the battery at one end of the arranged batteries is fastened to the other end portion of the terminal bus bar, opposing wall parts that are formed on a case of the battery connector and hold the terminal bus bar, and a pair of support projections that is formed on an end plate of the pack case and holds the opposing wall parts.

Abstract: An insulative cover for covering a case of a busbar module is provided. The insulative cover includes a central cover and side covers. The central cover covers a voltage detection wire accommodating part of the case. The side covers cover busbar accommodating parts of the case. And the side covers are provided at opposite sides of the central cover with hinges between the central cover and the side covers, respectively. In a state where the side covers are folded onto the central cover through the hinges respectively, one and the other of the side covers are locked to each other with a first locking mechanism, respectively.

Abstract: A battery connector includes: a plurality of terminals, each of which is to be connected to each electrode of a plurality of batteries; a plurality of voltage detection terminals, each of which is connected to respective one of the terminals, and includes a wire connection part to be connected to an electric wire; and a case which contains the plurality of terminals and the plurality of voltage detection terminals therein. Adjacent terminals of the terminals are fixed in the case to be spaced from each other, and an individual wire path of a wire routing part is provided between the adjacent terminals. Each of the voltage detection terminals is fixed so as to incline the wire connection part with respect to the individual wire path and to locate the wire connection part more interiorly than an edge of the case.

Abstract: A wire arranging device includes bus bars each interconnecting a plus and a minus terminal, in a first and a second terminal row, a first and a second row of bus bar containing rooms in which the bus bars are individually contained, a first and a second tray part respectively connected to the first and the second row of the bus bar containing rooms stacked on each other, first wires of which one ends are connected to the bus bars of the first row and placed on the first tray part, while the other ends are connected to a first connector at a second terminal row side, and second wires of which one ends are connected to the bus bars of the second row and placed on the second tray part, while the other ends are connected to a second connector at a first terminal row side.

Abstract: To provide a battery connecting body and a power supply device capable of maintaining a state where a cover portion covers a connecting member. A bus bar module includes a plurality of bus bars that each connects electrodes of adjacent ones of a plurality of batteries arranged such that the electrodes thereof are arranged on a straight line to electrically connect the plurality of batteries in series and a casing that houses the plurality of bus bars. The casing includes a plurality of bus bar housing portions that each house each of the bus bars and the cover portions that each cover an opening of each of the bus bar housing portions, and the cover portions are each retained by the bus bar.

Abstract: A wire routing device includes a wire housing part, a terminal housing chamber part, and a plurality of wire lead-out parts. The terminal housing chamber part includes a plurality of terminal housing chambers. Each of the wire lead-out parts couples one of the housing grooves with one of the terminal housing chambers. Each of wire surplus length absorption spaces is formed inside of a substantially rectangle abcd defined by a section bc of an outer wall of the voltage detection wire housing part located at a side of the terminal housing chamber and a section ad of a wall of the housing groove which faces the section bc, which are cut by a line ab and a line cd.

Abstract: A busbar plate includes a busbar plate main body and total plus/minus terminal blocks. The busbar plate main body includes a terminal accommodating chamber part having a plurality of terminal accommodating chambers. The total plus/minus terminal blocks are externally attached to terminal accommodating chambers at two ends of the busbar plate respectively, and are formed of terminal block main bodies and busbars. One ends of the busbars are fastened to total plus/minus terminals in the terminal accommodating chambers at the two ends, the other ends of the busbars are fastened to an adjacent module or a connecting busbar of an external equipment. Flexible resin material is used for the busbar plate main body, and high strength resin material is used for the terminal block main bodies.

Abstract: A terminal block for a vehicle-mounted battery assembly, the terminal block being attached to a total positive/negative terminal block which is attached to the vehicle-mounted battery assembly. An external extraction positive-side fastening portion and an external extraction negative-side fastening portion are positioned at different heights. A terminal cover is configured to cover the external extraction positive-side fastening portion. The terminal cover includes a fitting portion fitted into the terminal block for the vehicle-mounted battery assembly, a hinge portion engaged with the fitted portion, an arm portion engaged with the hinge portion, and a cover body engaged with the arm portion. The arm portion has a predetermined length, so that by hinge operation of the hinge portion, the cover body covers both the external extraction positive-side fastening portion and the external extraction negative-side fastening portion which are positioned at different heights.

Abstract: The bus bar module includes: bus bars for connecting the batteries in series by connecting the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the adjacent batteries; a plurality of terminals electrically connected to the electrodes of the batteries; and a case for housing the bus bars and the terminals. Each terminal includes: a terminal main body on which an insertion hole is provided for inserting the electrode of the battery; and a projecting section projecting from a part of a peripheral edge of the terminal main body in a surface extending direction of the terminal main body. The terminal is arranged so that a projecting direction of the projecting section is along an arranging direction of the batteries.

Abstract: An insulative cover for covering a case of a busbar module is provided. The insulative cover includes a central cover and side covers. The central cover covers a voltage detection wire accommodating part of the case. The side covers cover busbar accommodating parts of the case. And the side covers are provided at opposite sides of the central cover with hinges between the central cover and the side covers, respectively. In a state where the side covers are folded onto the central cover through the hinges respectively, one and the other of the side covers are locked to each other with a first locking mechanism, respectively.

Abstract: A wire arranging device includes bus bars each interconnecting a plus and a minus terminal, in a first and a second terminal row, a first and a second row of bus bar containing rooms in which the bus bars are individually contained, a first and a second tray part respectively connected to the first and the second row of the bus bar containing rooms stacked on each other, first wires of which one ends are connected to the bus bars of the first row and placed on the first tray part, while the other ends are connected to a first connector at a second terminal row side, and second wires of which one ends are connected to the bus bars of the second row and placed on the second tray part, while the other ends are connected to a second connector at a first terminal row side.

Abstract: A battery connector includes: a plurality of terminals, each of which is to be connected to each electrode of a plurality of batteries; and a case which contains the plurality of terminals therein. The case includes a terminal fixing part in which the plurality of terminals are fixed, and an insulating cover which is supported to be displaced to a closing position at which an open face of the terminal fixing part is covered by the insulating cover. A wire guide is formed in an outer surface of the insulating cover in the closing position.

Abstract: A busbar plate includes a busbar plate main body and total plus/minus terminal blocks. The busbar plate main body includes a terminal accommodating chamber part having a plurality of terminal accommodating chambers. The total plus/minus terminal blocks are externally attached to terminal accommodating chambers at two ends of the busbar plate respectively, and are formed of terminal block main bodies and busbars. One ends of the busbars are fastened to total plus/minus terminals in the terminal accommodating chambers at the two ends, the other ends of the busbars are fastened to an adjacent module or a connecting busbar of an external equipment. Flexible resin material is used for the busbar plate main body, and high strength resin material is used for the terminal block main bodies.