Abstract: The present disclosure provides a joining technique capable of improving strength and reducing electrical resistance of a connecting portion that performs heterometal interjunction in a sealed battery. A mode of the sealed battery disclosed herein includes an electrode body, a battery case, a positive electrode internal terminal, a positive electrode external terminal, a negative electrode internal terminal, and a negative electrode external terminal. In the sealed battery, in a connecting portion between the negative electrode internal terminal and the negative electrode external terminal, an upper end of the negative electrode internal terminal and the negative electrode external terminal are stacked with a plated layer interposed therebetween and, at the same time, the negative electrode internal terminal and the negative electrode external terminal are joined to each other via the plated layer.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body and a mounted component provided in the vehicle body. The vehicle body includes a pair of side member, a first crossmember, a second crossmember, and a bracket. The side members extend in the vehicle front-rear direction, and the side members are provided on the opposite sides across the mounted component in the vehicle right-left direction when the side members are viewed from above in the vehicle up-down direction. The first crossmember extends in the vehicle right-left direction such that the first crossmember is joined to surfaces of respective inner walls of the side members. The second crossmember extends in the vehicle right-left direction at a position closer to the mounted component than the first crossmember such that the second crossmember penetrates through the respective inner walls. The mounted component is connected to the first crossmember and the second crossmember via the bracket.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a joining technique capable of improving strength and reducing electrical resistance of a connecting portion that performs heterometal interjunction in a sealed battery. A mode of the sealed battery disclosed herein includes an electrode body, a battery case, a positive electrode internal terminal, a positive electrode external terminal, a negative electrode internal terminal, and a negative electrode external terminal. In the sealed battery, in a connecting portion between the negative electrode internal terminal and the negative electrode external terminal, an upper end of the negative electrode internal terminal and the negative electrode external terminal are stacked with a plated layer interposed therebetween and, at the same time, the negative electrode internal terminal and the negative electrode external terminal are joined to each other via the plated layer.

Abstract: A vehicle lamp control device includes: an imaging unit that takes an image ahead of a host vehicle; a target analysis unit that detects target objects ahead of the host vehicle based on the information obtained from an imaging unit configured to take an image ahead of the host vehicle; and a tracking unit that determines a specific target object from the target objects detected by the target analysis unit and to detect displacement of the specific target object based on a detection result of an luminance analysis unit configured to detect luminance of each of a plurality of individual areas ahead of the host vehicle based on information obtained from the imaging unit. A light distribution pattern to be formed by a light source unit of a vehicle lamp is determined based on the detection result of the luminance analysis unit and a detection result of the tracking unit.

Abstract: An assembled battery includes a plurality of battery cells stacked in a first direction, each battery cell including a terminal on a surface facing a second direction that intersects the first direction, and a busbar being welded to the terminal. A manufacturing device includes: a plurality of pressing pieces arranged along the first direction, a tip of each of the pressing pieces in the second direction facing the respective terminal with the busbar interposed between the pressing piece and the terminal; a rotor that extends along the first direction and that is rotated by an actuator, the rotor being engaged with the pressing pieces and being configured to press the pressing pieces against the busbars when rotated about an axis; and a welder that welds the busbars and the terminals. The welder welds the busbars to the terminals while the rotor presses the busbars against the terminals.

Abstract: A handcart may include a chassis unit and a container unit configured to be detachably attached to the chassis unit. The chassis unit may include a front wheel unit rotatably supporting a front wheel; a rear wheel unit rotatably supporting a rear wheel; a chassis frame extending in a front-rear direction and supporting the front and rear wheel units; and a prime mover configured to rotate at least one of the front wheel and the rear wheel as a drive wheel. The container unit may be selected from a group including at least a first container unit and a second container unit. The first container unit may include a first container and a first container frame extending in the front-rear direction and supporting the first container. The second container unit may include a second container and a second container frame extending in the front-rear direction and supporting the second container.

Abstract: A handcart may include a chassis unit and a container unit configured to be detachably attached to the chassis unit. The chassis unit may include a front wheel unit rotatably supporting a front wheel; a rear wheel unit rotatably supporting a rear wheel; a chassis frame extending in a front-rear direction and supporting the front and rear wheel units; and a prime mover configured to rotate at least one of the front wheel and the rear wheel as a drive wheel. The container unit may be selected from a group including at least a first container unit and a second container unit. The first container unit may include a first container and a first container frame extending in the front-rear direction and supporting the first container. The second container unit may include a second container and a second container frame extending in the front-rear direction and supporting the second container.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer chip having a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers so as to face each other, each of the plurality of internal electrode layers being stacked via each of the plurality of dielectric layers, an external electrode that is provided on an end face of the multilayer chip, contacts each end of at least a part of the plurality of internal electrode layers, and includes a co-material, the end face being an end of the multilayer chip in a direction in which the plurality of internal electrode layers extend, and a projection portion that is provided between the external electrode and the multilayer chip and has a projection shape toward the external electrode from the multilayer chip. A main component of the projection portion is ceramic including at least Ba, Ca and Ti.

Abstract: Disclosed is a manufacturing method of a battery pack in which multiple battery cells are stacked, and electrodes of adjacent battery cells of the battery cells are connected by a bus bar, the bus bar having two holes that are smaller than the electrodes, and the bus bar being disposed such that the holes overlap the electrodes respectively. The manufacturing method includes welding the bus bar and one of the electrodes, then welding the bus bar and another one of the electrodes in an intermediate region between the two holes of the bus bar, and subsequently welding the bus bar and the other one of the electrodes in an end region adjacent to the intermediate region of the bus bar.

Abstract: A handcart may include a prime mover, a first ground-contact part, a second ground-contact part, a clutch mechanism configured to switch between a transmission state and a non-transmission state, a differential mechanism configured to switch between a non-locking state and a locking state, a switching unit configured to switch a state of the clutch mechanism and a state of the differential mechanism; and an operation unit. The switching unit may be configured to: in response to a user’s first operation, switch the state of the clutch mechanism between the transmission state and the non-transmission state without switching the state of the differential mechanism, and in response to a user’s second operation, switch the state of the differential mechanism between the non-locking state and the locking state without switching the state of the clutch mechanism.

Abstract: A vehicle lighting system provided in a vehicle includes: a lighting unit configured to emit light toward outside of a vehicle; and a lighting control unit configured to control the lighting unit such that the lighting unit visually presents, to an oncoming vehicle present ahead of the vehicle, predetermined information on traveling support of the oncoming vehicle, based on a vehicle width of the oncoming vehicle and a road width in a lateral region of the vehicle.

Abstract: A light distribution controller includes a computation unit that extracts an index value from a predetermined region to be processed within an image, a pattern determiner that determines a light distribution pattern such that the index value approaches a maximum value, and a lamp controller that controls a light distribution variable lamp so as to form the light distribution pattern. The index value is at least one of a mean intensity of HOG feature values of a plurality of pixels of the region to be processed or an edge gray level proportion indicating, in a local binary pattern (LBP) histogram of the plurality of pixels, a proportion of the number of pixels belonging to a gray level of an edge portion to a total number of the plurality of pixels.

Abstract: A display system is provided in a vehicle and includes: an HUD positioned inside the vehicle and configured so as to display, on the vehicle window, a surrounding environment video indicating the environment surrounding the vehicle; and a display control unit controlling the HUD such that the surrounding environment video is displayed on the window in accordance with prescribed conditions associated to the vehicle or the environment surrounding the vehicle and configured so as to reduce the transmittance of the window.

Abstract: A working machine may include a first ground-contact part, a driving part configured to drive the first ground-contact part, a clutch mechanism configured to be switched between a transmission state and a non-transmission state, a clutch operation part configured to switch a state of the clutch mechanism, a braking mechanism configured to be switched between a braking state and a non-braking state, and a braking operation part configured to switch a state of the braking mechanism. In a case where the state of the braking mechanism is the braking state, the clutch mechanism may be switched from the transmission state to the non-transmission state by operating the clutch operation part, and in a case where the state of the braking mechanism is the non-braking state, the clutch mechanism may not be switched from the transmission state to the non-transmission state even by operating the clutch operation part.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a battery stack composed of a stack of multiple battery cells and a bus bar module fixed to the battery stack. Electrodes are provided on a specific surface of each of the battery cells. The battery stack has a surface composed of the specific surface of each of the multiple battery cells. The bus bar module includes a base member and a bus bar. The base member is fixed on the surface of the battery stack. The bus bar includes a fixed portion fixed to the base member and a first extending portion extending from the fixed portion to a first electrode of the electrodes of each of the multiple battery cells. The first extending portion is welded to the first electrode in a state where stress is applied to the first extending portion in a direction away from the first electrode.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a battery pack of the present disclosure stacks a plurality of battery cells such that one surfaces face the same direction and compresses the battery cells from both sides, inserts the compressed battery cells into the case such that the one surfaces are positioned on an open end side of the case, disposes a plurality of bus bars on the one surfaces of the battery cells so as to overlap the corresponding terminal, moves a pressurizing jig so as to press the bus bars toward a bottom surface of the case from a pressurization start position corresponding to a height position of the terminal of the battery cell farthest from the bottom surface, and bonds each of the plurality of bus bars to the corresponding terminal.

Abstract: A vehicle display system is provided in a vehicle and includes: a first display device configured to project a light pattern onto a road surface outside the vehicle; a second display device inside the vehicle configured to display a predetermined image to an occupant of the vehicle such that the predetermined image is superimposed on a real space outside the vehicle; and a controller configured to control the first display device and the second display device. In a case where both the predetermined image and the light pattern are displayed, the controller causes a distance from the occupant to the predetermined image to match a distance from the occupant to the light pattern.

Abstract: A battery pack manufacturing method according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes stacking battery cells, pressurizing a battery cell group provided by stacking the battery cells in a stacking direction, measuring positions of cell terminals of the battery cells included in the pressurized battery cell group, finding a center straight line passing through a center of a distribution of the positions of the cell terminals, positioning a welding jig configured to decide a position where a bus bar is pressed against at least one of the cell terminals with reference to the center straight line, and welding the bus bar that is pressed against the at least one of the cell terminals, to the at least one of the cell terminals by the welding jig.

Abstract: A method for stack-welding dissimilar metal members by placing a first metal member and a second metal member having a melting point higher than that of the first metal member on top of one another and performing laser welding is provided. The second metal member is placed on the first metal member, and a molten pool in which only the second metal member is melted is formed by applying a laser beam for thermal-conduction welding from above the second metal member. After the molten pool comes into contact with the first metal member and hence the first metal member melts in the molten pool, the molten pool solidifies, so that the first and second metal members and are welded together.

Abstract: An automotive lamp is capable of controlling a light distribution pattern PTN based on an image captured by a camera unit. The automotive lamp is capable of switching between multiple control modes designed with different combinations of the spatial resolution of the light distribution pattern PTN and the update speed of the light distribution pattern PTN.