Abstract: The conduction breaking device includes a conductive body, a fixed blade, an arc-extinguishing chamber, a gas generator, a cutting member, and a cutting delaying portion. The fixed blade and the arc-extinguishing chamber are located on one side of the cuttable portion with respect to a thickness direction of the cuttable portion in the conductive body. The gas generator is located on the opposite side of the cuttable portion with respect to the thickness direction. The cutting member is arranged between the cuttable portion and the gas generator and includes a movable blade. The cutting delaying portion is provided at the movable blade and configured to allow a part of an area of the cuttable portion that is, in the width direction, closer to the center than the edges are to the center to be cut after the other parts are cut.

Abstract: A conduction-breaking device breaks conduction between a pair of devices in an electric circuit. The conduction-breaking device includes a conductive body having a cuttable portion, an arc-extinguishing chamber having a pair of fixed blades, a gas generator, a cutting member having a pair of movable blades, and a deforming mechanism. When the cuttable portion is cut at two positions by the fixed blades and the movable blades, the cuttable portion forms a separated piece, which is separated from the electric circuit, and first and second remaining portions, which remain connected with the electric circuit. The separated piece has cut ends at opposite ends. The deforming mechanism deforms the separated piece such that the cut ends of the separated piece are located on a leading side in a moving direction of the cutting member with respect to a part of the separated piece between the cut ends.

Abstract: A battery pack comprises: a battery holding member provided to have battery holding holes and configured to bind a plurality of batteries; a first bus bar arranged to electrically connect with terminals on the first side of the respective batteries; a second bus bar arranged to electrically connect with terminals on a second side in the axial direction of the respective batteries; a bus bar holding member configured to hold the second bus bar and constitute a wall surface on the second side of the casing; and a sealing sheet member configured to have a plurality of terminal exposing holes formed corresponding to the respective batteries and cause peripheries of the respective terminal exposing holes to come into contact with the end faces of the respective batteries, so as to prevent leakage of a gas from inside of the casing toward the second bus bar. The sealing sheet member has a deformation dividing part provided around at least part of the plurality of terminal exposing holes.

Abstract: The conduction breaking device includes a conductive body, a fixed blade, an arc-extinguishing chamber, a gas generator, a cutting member, and a cutting delaying portion. The fixed blade and the arc-extinguishing chamber are located on one side of the cuttable portion with respect to a thickness direction of the cuttable portion in the conductive body. The gas generator is located on the opposite side of the cuttable portion with respect to the thickness direction. The cutting member is arranged between the cuttable portion and the gas generator and includes a movable blade. The cutting delaying portion is provided at the movable blade and configured to allow a part of an area of the cuttable portion that is, in the width direction, closer to the center than the edges are to the center to be cut after the other parts are cut.

Abstract: A breaker includes conductors, each including an elongated flat cut portion, cutting chambers arranged in correspondence with the cut portions, a single cutting member that includes blades to cut the cut portions in the cutting chambers, a gas generator that generates gas to move the cutting member toward the cut portions, and an arc attenuation portion located between the two cut portions that are adjacent to each other. The conductors are located between two devices. Each cut portion is cut to form two separated cutting ends and electrically disconnect the devices. The arc attenuation portion attenuates an arc generated between the two cutting ends of one of the two adjacent cut portions and the two cutting ends of the other cut portion.

Abstract: A resistance connecting device includes a case inside of which a chamber is formed. The chamber includes inside an activating unit, a gas generating unit, a first connecting portion, and a second connecting portion. The first connecting portion and the second connecting portion extend from the inside to the outside of the case in a mutually separated state and are exposed in the chamber. The activating unit is held at a first position that does not cause contact with either of the connecting portions when the gas generating unit has not been activated and moves up to a second position to cause contact with both of the connecting portions as a result of activation of the gas generating unit. The activating unit, at the second position, functions as a resistor having a predetermined electrical resistance, and connects the connecting portions to one another.

Abstract: A battery adhesion-fixation structure includes battery cells, a holder, an adhesive agent, bus bars, and an insulator. The holder includes holder holes for holding the battery cells therein. The adhesive agent adheres the battery cells with the holder within the holder holes. The bus bars electrically connect the battery cells with each other. The insulator intervenes between the bus bars and the holder. The bus bars include a bus-bar hole, and a terminal tab. The bus-bar hole faces face-to-face to an electrode terminal of the battery cells. The terminal tab projects into the bus-bar hole to be electrically connected with the electrode terminal. The insulator includes a face, and a dent opening in the face. The face opposes to the holder. The dent opens in the face, and accommodates the adhesive agent overflown toward the insulator therein.

Abstract: A conduction breaking device is provided that uses gas from a gas generator to move a cutter block in the thickness direction of a cuttable portion, thereby cutting the cuttable portion between the moving cutter block and a cutting edge portion of a cutting chamber. The cutter block is attached to the cuttable portion such that, before generation of gas by the gas generator, a part of the cutter block is located in the cutting chamber and at a position close to the cutting edge portion in a direction along the surface of the cuttable portion.

Abstract: A battery module of the present invention includes: a battery group configured of a plurality of cylindrical batteries; a holder configured to retain the battery group so that the respective batteries are bundled in parallel to each other; and a casing being closed by the holder and including a storing space for housing the battery group, wherein the casing includes an opposing wall portion facing the holder, the opposing wall portion includes hole portions that retain the batteries by peripheries or inner circumferential surfaces of the hole portions, and guiding portions formed on the peripheries or the inner circumferential surfaces of the hole portions and configured to guide the batteries by causing the batteries to come closer to centers of the hole portions, such that central axis lines of the batteries pass through the centers of the hole portions, upon when the batteries are inserted into the storing space.

Abstract: A bus bar module of the present invention is disposed on one end side of each battery in a battery group consisting of a plurality of batteries having terminals at their ends in a longitudinal direction. The bus bar module includes a bus bar made of a conductive metal and electrically connecting the terminals of the respective batteries in the battery group; and an insulating laminate portion that is laminated, at least on an inner surface of the bus bar, among the inner surface facing the ends of the batteries and an outer surface on an opposite side of the inner surface of the bus bar. The insulating laminate portion has an insulating material comprising thermoplastic elastomer and/or rubber.

Abstract: A battery pack comprises: a battery holding member provided to have battery holding holes and configured to bind a plurality of batteries; a first bus bar arranged to electrically connect with terminals on the first side of the respective batteries; a second bus bar arranged to electrically connect with terminals on a second side in the axial direction of the respective batteries; a bus bar holding member configured to hold the second bus bar and constitute a wall surface on the second side of the casing; and a sealing sheet member configured to have a plurality of terminal exposing holes formed corresponding to the respective batteries and cause peripheries of the respective terminal exposing holes to come into contact with the end faces of the respective batteries, so as to prevent leakage of a gas from inside of the casing toward the second bus bar. The sealing sheet member has a deformation dividing part provided around at least part of the plurality of terminal exposing holes.

Abstract: A bus bar holding member comprises a plurality of bus bars arranged to connect terminals of respective batteries in each battery array group in parallel, and a resin support member comprising a resin stacking section which is stacked on a surface of the plurality of bus bars and a resin intervening section which intervenes between the plurality of bus bars to electrically insulate the plurality of bus bars from each other. The bus bar comprises a base plate on which the resin stacking section is stacked, and a jagged edge formed along an edge of the base plate. The jagged edge is formed in a wavy shape crossing a reference line, which is a straight line along an array direction of the batteries in each battery array group between an adjacent pair of the battery array groups.

Abstract: An electric circuit breaking device includes a housing, which has an accommodating portion, and a bus bar, which extends through the accommodating portion. The housing has a receiving chamber, which has an opening that opens toward the bus bar. The housing also accommodates a cutting blade such that the cutting blade faces the receiving chamber with the bus bar in between. The cutting blade is moved toward the receiving chamber to apply a shearing force to the bus bar, thereby cutting the bus bar. A restraint position is defined in the vicinity of the cutting blade and in an area about the opening of the receiving chamber. The accommodating portion accommodates a block. At the restraint position, the block cooperates with the housing to hold the bus bar, thereby restraining movement of the bus bar.

Abstract: A resistance connecting device includes a case inside of which a chamber is formed. The chamber includes inside an activating unit, a gas generating unit, a first connecting portion, and a second connecting portion. The first connecting portion and the second connecting portion extend from the inside to the outside of the case in a mutually separated state and are exposed in the chamber. The activating unit is held at a first position that does not cause contact with either of the connecting portions when the gas generating unit has not been activated and moves up to a second position to cause contact with both of the connecting portions as a result of activation of the gas generating unit. The activating unit, at the second position, functions as a resistor having a predetermined electrical resistance, and connects the connecting portions to one another.

Abstract: A conduction breaking device is provided that uses gas from a gas generator to move a cutter block in the thickness direction of a cuttable portion, thereby cutting the cuttable portion between the moving cutter block and a cutting edge portion of a cutting chamber. The cutter block is attached to the cuttable portion such that, before generation of gas by the gas generator, a part of the cutter block is located in the cutting chamber and at a position close to the cutting edge portion in a direction along the surface of the cuttable portion.

Abstract: A conduction breaking device includes a conductive body arranged between a pair of devices in an electric circuit, a gas generator, which is arranged away from the conductive body and generates gas, and a cutting member, which is arranged between the conductive body and the gas generator. The cutting member is moved due to gas from the gas generator to cut the conductive body, divides the conductive body into a first cut piece and a second cut piece, which have cut ends separated from each other, and breaks the conduction between the devices. The conduction breaking device includes an arc-extinguishing chamber. In the arc-extinguishing chamber, the conductive body is cut by the cutting member and an arc occurring between the cut end of the first cut piece and the cut end of the second cut piece is extinguished.

Abstract: A sealing layer covers more surely both of a display region and a peripheral region on a substrate. A dummy structure is formed in the peripheral region of the substrate. The dummy structure contains, for instance, at least one of the materials constituting an organic EL display structure. The dummy structure is located in the peripheral region so that the volume per unit area of the sealing layer in the peripheral region is substantially the same as that in the display region.

Abstract: A waterproof rotary mechanism is provided. The mechanism includes a stationary part, a rotary part having a receiver arranged above the stationary part and rotatably supported by the stationary part on a vertical axis as a rotating center thereof, and a clearance forming part fixed to the stationary part and arranged between the stationary part and the receiver. A clearance for suppressing water from entering therein and is formed between the receiver and the clearance forming part.

Abstract: A sealing layer covers more surely both of a display region and a peripheral region on a substrate. A dummy structure (36) is formed in the peripheral region (15) of the substrate. The dummy structure (36) contains, for instance, at least one of the materials constituting an organic EL display structure (18). The dummy structure (36) is located in the peripheral region so that the volume per unit area of the sealing layer (40) in the peripheral region (15) is substantially the same as that in the display region (13).

Abstract: A data converting apparatus and a data converting program are suitable to quantitatively estimate, based on a temporal alteration of a stimulus value, a temporal alteration of a sensitivity brought to human beings. The data converting apparatus includes a decomposing unit subjecting temporal alteration data of a stimulus value to wavelet decomposition to extract plural time-frequency components contained in the temporal alteration data, a weighting unit weighting the plural extracted time-frequency components weighting coefficients which are predetermined based on a relationship between a temporal alteration of a stimulus value and a temporal alteration of a sensitivity of human beings to the stimulus value, and a synthesizing unit subjecting the plural weighted time-frequency components to wavelet synthesis to estimate a sensitivity brought to human beings when the stimulus value is subjected to temporal alteration according to the temporal alteration data.