BATTERY

Organization Name

TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor(s)

Satoshi Fujimura of Toki-shi (JP)

Yuki Sato of Toyota-shi (JP)

Yozo Uchida of Toyota-shi (JP)

Nozomi Tateyama of Okazaki-shi (JP)

Masahiro Uchimura of Miyoshi-shi (JP)

Masataka Asai of Toyota-shi (JP)

Shigeru Matsumoto of Toyohashi-shi (JP)

Takashi Takimoto of Kosai-shi (JP)

Shunsuke Nakamura of Hamamatsu-shi (JP)

Keitaro Machida of Hamamatsu-shi (JP)

BATTERY

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18617697 titled 'BATTERY

Original Abstract Submitted

In a battery, a lid member of a battery case is provided with a terminal part and a resin member. The terminal part has a terminal plate-shaped portion located inside the battery case, which extends wider than a through hole along an inner surface of the lid member. The resin member has an inner resin plate-shaped portion located between the inner surface of the lid member and the terminal plate-shaped portion. The lid member, on the inner surface side around the through hole, includes a protruding portion defined by a protruding inner surface joined to the inner resin plate-shaped portion and protruding toward the inside of the battery case relative to a non-protruding inner surface farther from the through hole than the protruding inner surface. Side surfaces of the protruding portion and the terminal plate-shaped portion do not project outward beyond a side surface of the inner resin plate-shaped portion.