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AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsYohei UEMURA, Sayaka MORIMOTO, Ryosuke YAGI, Kouki SAKAKIBARA
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A battery module in embodiment includes two cell blocks electrically connected in series and a bus bar, and each of the cell blocks includes a plurality of battery cells electrically connected in parallel. The bus bar forms one or more intra-block connection portions each of which connects two corresponding battery cells belonging to a same cell block to each other for each of the cell blocks, and forms a plurality of inter-block connection portions each of which connects two corresponding battery cells belonging to different cell blocks to each other. In the bus bar, the resistance of each of the intra-block connection portions is higher than the resistance of any of the inter-block connection portions.
A battery module comprising:
A bus bar that connects a plurality of batteries of two cell blocks to each other in a battery module, the battery module including the two cell blocks each of which includes the batteries electrically connected in parallel to each other, the two cell blocks being electrically connected in series to each other, wherein
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