Battery unit
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakashi NOZAWA, Kenjiro SHIBA
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Abstract
A unit is equipped with a main battery, a pair of third wires that are connected to the main battery, a system main relay that is arranged on the third wires, a pair of fourth wires that is connected to the third wires between the system main relays and the main battery to the converter, a converter that is connected to the fourth wires, a case for accommodation, a main connector that connects the wire to a pair of first wires outside the case, and a sub-connector that connects the converter to a pair of second wires outside the case.
Claims4
A battery unit configured to be connected to a pair of first wires and a pair of second wires,
- the first wires being located outside the battery unit, the first wires being wires extending to an electric power control unit configured to supply electric power to a motor for running,
- the second wires being located outside the battery unit, and the second wires being wires extending to a sub-battery configured to supply electric power to an auxiliary machine,
- the battery unit comprising:
- a case;
- a main battery including a pair of electrodes;
- a pair of main connectors exposed from the case, the main connectors being respectively connected to the first wires;
- a sub-connector exposed from the case, the sub-connector being connected to the second wires;
- a pair of third wires connected to the main battery, the electrodes, and the main connectors, in the case;
- system main relays respectively arranged in the third wires, the system main relays respectively including switches configured to switch between conduction and non-conduction of the third wires;
- a converter;
- a pair of fourth wires connected to the third wires between the system main relays and the main battery to the converter;
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- a pair of fifth wires connected to the sub-connector and the converter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.