Patent ID: 8784129
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electric cable connecting construction in which a plurality of battery packs each including a plurality of batteries connected to each other in series are disposed so as to be space apart from each other and general electrodes of the battery packs which lie adjacent are connected to each other by a high-voltage cable having crimp terminals at ends thereof, wherein the high-voltage cable is connected to conductors which are held in resin busbar modules for connection with the general electrodes by fastening the crimp terminals to the conductors through tightening bolts or nuts and two ribs are formed on each of the busbar modules in positions where the crimp terminal is held therebetween so as to limit an entrained rotation of the crimp terminal when the bolt or nut is tightened, and wherein a gap between the two ribs on one of the adjacent battery packs is set so that a difference between the gap and a width of a straight-line portion of the crimp terminal which is connected to the general electrode of the one of the adjacent battery packs is set to a first gap dimension and a gap between the two ribs on the other of the adjacent battery packs is set so that a difference between the gap and a width of a straight-line portion of the crimp terminal which is connected to the general electrode of the other of the adjacent battery packs is set to a second gap dimension which is larger than the first gap dimension.