Abstract: A battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells each including a metal layer and a heat seal layer, the plurality of battery cells having a laminate film in which an electrode body is accommodated and a heat seal layer in a peripheral edge portion is joined; a case in which the battery cells are accommodated in a state of being laminated in a thickness direction; and a heat conductive member provided on an inner wall of the case so as to be in contact with the metal layer exposed from the peripheral edge portion and configured to dissipate heat from the battery cells.

Abstract: A battery module comprising: a plurality of battery cells; and a container containing the battery cells, wherein the container includes a housing containing the battery cells; and a plate-shaped member thermally connected to the housing and partitioning a space in which the battery cells of the housing are accommodated into a plurality of spaces, wherein the plate-shaped member includes a thermally conductive elastic body and a thermally conductive plate disposed on one or both sides of the thermally conductive elastic body.

Abstract: A case constituting an outer shape of a second cooler disposed between the battery cells and containing a second fluid having a lower thermal conductivity than the first fluid therein is constituted by a buffer member capable of expanding and contracting in accordance with a flow rate of the second fluid in the case, and the control unit increases a flow rate of the second fluid to be supplied to the second cooler when the temperature of the battery cell is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value than when the temperature of the battery cell is lower than the threshold value.

Abstract: A battery module includes a battery cell and a heat dissipation member that is in contact with a battery cell case. The battery cell includes an electrode body including plural layered structures layered one on another, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and the battery cell case that hermetically encloses the electrode body inside the battery cell case. The battery cell case includes at least a metal layer and a fusion resin layer disposed at the inner face side of the metal layer and has an exposed portion, at which the metal layer is exposed, at at least part of the outer face of the battery cell case. The heat dissipation member is in contact with the exposed portion.

Abstract: A battery cell includes: an electrode body including plural layered structures, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a battery cell case that hermetically encloses the electrode body inside the battery cell case. At least one of the current collector in the positive electrode or the current collector in the negative electrode has, on a peripheral portion of a surface thereof, an uncoated portion at which the mix is not coated. A current collector of which the distance from the surface of the battery cell case is the greatest among current collectors each having an uncoated portion has a first uncoated portion, and the first uncoated portion extends to the outside of the battery cell case, thereby forming a first exposed portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a bipolar battery with which thermal deterioration of the electrode body due to the generation of heat of tabs can be suppressed.

Abstract: In a model coupler that detachably couples vehicles, energization between the vehicles in train organization is stabled regardless of curvature of a rail. A support member is swingable in line with the coupling part by extending from an attachment base side attached to a model vehicle toward a front end side facing the coupling partner and providing a front end under the coupling part. One energization part is attached to the support member and includes a first contact point formed on the attachment base side and a second contact point formed on the front end side. The first contact point is in contact with a first power collection member of the model vehicle, and the second contact point is in contact with a fourth contact point of the other energization part of the coupling partner.

Abstract: A battery pack case, including: a battery cell housing part made of metal, the battery cell housing part being configured to accommodate, from one side in a second direction, a battery cell in a state in which a plurality of the battery cells are stacked in a first direction perpendicularly intersecting the second direction and are compressed in the first direction, and the battery cell housing part being configured to support a restoring force of the battery cell; and a flow path forming part made of resin, the flow path forming part being provided integrally with the battery cell housing part, the flow path forming part being disposed at another side, in the second direction, of the battery cell, and the flow path forming part configuring a part of a cooling air flow path part through which battery cell cooling air flows.

Abstract: Disclosed is a bipolar battery with which thermal deterioration of the electrode body due to the generation of heat of tabs can be suppressed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a bipolar battery with which thermal deterioration of the electrode body due to the generation of heat of tabs can be suppressed.

Abstract: A battery case includes a housing configured to accommodate a battery stack, and an abutting wall portion that is cast integrally with the housing on an inner side of the housing. The abutting wall portion is configured to bear a load from the battery stack accommodated in the housing. The battery case further includes a reinforcing part that is made of a material more rigid than the abutting wall portion and that is cast into the abutting wall portion by enveloped casting.

Abstract: A battery case configured to accommodate one or a plurality of battery cells, and includes a metal plate portion and a resin portion. The metal plate portion is made up of a plurality of metal plates that is part of the battery case. The resin portion that is another part of the battery case connects the metal plates by being interposed between the metal plates. The metal plates include a first metal plate and a second metal plate. The first metal plate includes a first overlapping portion and the second metal plate includes a second overlapping portion, the first overlapping portion and the second overlapping portion being overlapped with each other across the resin portion. The first overlapping portion includes one or more contact protrusions protruding toward the second overlapping portion. The second overlapping portion is in direct contact with the one or more contact protrusions.

Abstract: A cell case includes (i) first and second metal plates constituting a first part of the cell case and placed such that the first and second metal plates are separated from each other (ii) a resin portion provided between the metal plates such that the resin portion connects the first and second metal plates. The first metal plate and the second metal plate include a first overlapped portion and a second overlapped portion, respectively, such that the first overlapped portion and the second overlapped portion overlap with each other via the resin portion. The first overlapped portion includes a hook. The second overlapped portion has an opening. The hook is formed to be caught on the opening to restrict relative displacement between the first metal plate and the second metal plate along a direction where the first metal plate and the second metal plate are separated from each other.

Abstract: Disclosed is a bipolar battery with which thermal deterioration of the electrode body due to the generation of heat of tabs can be suppressed.

Abstract: In a model coupler that detachably couples vehicles, energization between the vehicles in train organization is stabled regardless of curvature of a rail. A support member is swingable in line with the coupling part by extending from an attachment base side attached to a model vehicle toward a front end side facing the coupling partner and providing a front end under the coupling part. One energization part is attached to the support member and includes a first contact point formed on the attachment base side and a second contact point formed on the front end side. The first contact point is in contact with a first power collection member of the model vehicle, and the second contact point is in contact with a fourth contact point of the other energization part of the coupling partner.

Abstract: A low-temperature cooling water channel formed in the internal combustion engine includes a water jacket that covers at least one portion of a wall surface of an intake port. The intake port has a cooled wall surface that is covered by the water jacket, and a non-cooled wall surface that is not covered by the water jacket. An airflow control valve is provided on an intake-air upstream side of the cooled wall surface. The airflow control valve is configured to be capable of changing a ratio between a flow rate of intake air that flows along the side of the cooled wall surface and a flow rate of intake air that flows along the side of the non-cooled wall surface. The airflow control valve is preferably configured as a tumble control valve (TCV).

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium has stored therein a simulation program that causes a computer to execute a process including arranging an agent in a virtual space that includes one or a plurality of places where guide information is set, the agent having perception information and behaving according to the perception information in the virtual space; updating the perception information of the agent according to guide information that is provided according to the position of the agent in the virtual space; and deteriorating the perception information, degree of the deteriorating being determined on the basis of at least any one of a behavior of the agent and an attribute of the agent.

Abstract: A cylinder block (10) includes an inter-bore flow passage (14) between adjacent bores (12). Each inter-bore flow passage (14) is formed by closing an opening-side groove portion (15) continuous from a cylinder block deck face and a bottom-side groove portion (16) with the use of a lid member (20) made of copper, and the lid member (20 is laser-welded to a groove wall face of the opening-side groove portion (15). Before the laser-welding, the lid member (20) has recesses (26) that are interspersed in a direction, in which a laser beam travels, at any one of connected portions at which the lid member (20 is connected to the groove wall face of the opening-side groove portion (15).

Abstract: To provide a controller that can slow down progression of deterioration of an internal combustion engine caused by repeated occurrence of LSPI. An index value of the degree of deterioration of the internal combustion engine caused by LSPI is calculated. If the index value exceeds a first threshold, when the temperature of cooling water that cools a part of the peripheral wall of a cylinder that is close to a combustion chamber is lower than a threshold temperature, and the internal combustion engine is running in a determined operational region set in a low speed and high load region, the proportion of fuel injection by an in-cylinder injection valve is reduced to increase the proportion of fuel injection by a port injection valve compared with before the index value exceeds the first threshold, thereby suppressing occurrence of LSPI.

Abstract: A low-temperature cooling water channel formed in the internal combustion engine includes a water jacket that covers at least one portion of a wall surface of an intake port. The intake port has a cooled wall surface that is covered by the water jacket, and a non-cooled wall surface that is not covered by the water jacket. An airflow control valve is provided on an intake-air upstream side of the cooled wall surface. The airflow control valve is configured to be capable of changing a ratio between a flow rate of intake air that flows along the side of the cooled wall surface and a flow rate of intake air that flows along the side of the non-cooled wall surface. The airflow control valve is preferably configured as a tumble control valve (TCV).