A battery pack includes a plurality of stacked single battery cells, a case for housing the plurality of stacked single battery cells, and a vehicle body fastening member for fastening the case to a vehicle body frame, wherein the vehicle body fastening member is provided separately from case, is connected to at least one of two side wall parts opposing each other in a width direction of the case by a hooking structure facing an upper surface and a lower surface of the side wall part, and is provided independently at a plurality of arbitrary positions along a length direction of the case.

The present disclosure relates to a shift bracket that is coupled to a top plate of a cover panel for covering a floor tunnel and to which a shift lever unit is attached on an upper side. The shift bracket includes: a base plate to which the shift lever unit is attached; and a front leg, portion and a rear leg portion that are coupled to the base plate and the top plate of the cover panel and hold the base plate with a space being provided upward in a vehicle vertical direction from the top plate. An ECU is disposed in the space between the top plate of the cover panel and the base plate.

A bearing arrangement for mounting a wheel and an electric motor or generator having a stator and a rotor to a vehicle, the bearing arrangement comprising a sealing element and a bearing block, wherein the bearing block includes a first coupling element for coupling to a first radial wall of the rotor and the wheel, and a second coupling element for coupling to the stator and/or the vehicle, with a first bearing mounted between the first coupling element and the second coupling element to allow the first coupling element and the second coupling element to rotate relative to each other, wherein the first coupling element includes a mounting flange having a bolt hole arranged to extend through the mounting flange for receiving a bolt at a first aperture of the bolt hole for coupling the rotor and the wheel to the first coupling element, wherein the sealing element is arranged to be mounted over a second aperture of the bolt hole for inhibiting the ingress of dirt through the bolt hole.

A system for controlling from a path of a first vehicle a second vehicle to a complementary path, the system comprising a first vehicle sub-system having a memory for time and (X, Y) position co-ordinates of the first vehicle's path; a GPS receiver for determining time and actual (X, Y) position coordinates of the first vehicle, means for comparing the first vehicle's actual position with path position at determined times as test path errors and means for transmitting the test path errors and a second vehicle sub-system having a memory for time and (X, Y) position coordinates of the second vehicle's path; a GPS receiver for determining time and actual (X, Y) position coordinates of the second vehicle, means for receiving the test path errors, means for computing a modified path of the second vehicle taking account of the test path errors and means for controlling the second vehicle.

An electrical family car, including: an electrically driven motor; and wheels with a radius larger than 90 cm. In such cars one of the dominating energy losses is directly related to the car axial to wheel friction. The car efficiency could therefore be increased by increasing the car wheel diameter which could yield a larger traveling distance for the same axial to wheel friction related energy loss.

A transmission unit includes: input shafts, each of the input shafts being provided with a shift driving gear thereon; output shafts, each of the output shafts being provided with a shift driven gear configured to mesh with a corresponding shift driving; a motor power shaft configured to rotate together with one of the output shafts; and an output unit configured to rotate with one of the output shafts at different speeds and configured to selectively engage with one of the output shafts so as to rotate together with one of the output shafts. A power transmission system including the transmission unit and a vehicle including the power transmission system are also provided.

A vehicle body structure includes a first middle floor unit for a gasoline vehicle and a second middle floor unit for a hybrid vehicle, and the first and second middle floor units are made interchangeable with each other. A front floor unit and a rear floor unit are made shareable by the gasoline vehicle and the hybrid vehicle. That is, the front floor unit and the rear floor unit can be regarded as a platform. Additionally, the second middle floor unit includes a housing, and an IPU is stored in an interior of the housing.

Disclosed are a power connector of a thermostat and a manufacturing method thereof. A power connector for a thermostat an exemplary embodiment of the present invention connected with a lead wire included in a cartridge heater to supply power to the cartridge heater, the power connector for a thermostat including: a main body including an end connected with an external power terminal; two bus bar terminals including opposite ends partially protruding from an opposite end of the main body while ends of the bus bar terminals are inserted into the main body; a lower cover including one end connected with the main body at a lower portion of the main body, and formed therein with an insertion hole in which a lead wire of the cartridge heater is inserted; a ring terminal mounted inside the lower cover corresponding to the insertion hole to be connected with each bus bar terminal, wherein the lead wire inserted into the insertion hole is inserted and fixed into the ring terminal; and an upper cover coupled with the lower cover at a lower portion of the lower cover, wherein one end of the upper cover is connected with one end of the main body.

Disclosed herein is an article comprising a first metal layer; a second metal layer that is chemically different from the first metal layer; and a third metal layer disposed between the first metal layer and the second metal layer and contacting both the first metal layer and the second metal layer; where the third metal layer is chemically similar to either the first metal layer or the second metal layer; where at least two metal layers that are chemically similar are welded together through a clearance opening located in a metal layer that is not chemically similar to the at least two metal layers.

Disclosed are a power connector of a thermostat and a manufacturing method thereof. A power connector for a thermostat an exemplary embodiment of the present invention connected with a lead wire included in a cartridge heater to supply power to the cartridge heater, the power connector for a thermostat including: a main body including an end connected with an external power terminal; two bus bar terminals including opposite ends partially protruding from an opposite end of the main body while ends of the bus bar terminals are inserted into the main body; a lower cover including one end connected with the main body at a lower portion of the main body, and formed therein with an insertion hole in which a lead wire of the cartridge heater is inserted; a ring terminal mounted inside the lower cover corresponding to the insertion hole to be connected with each bus bar terminal, wherein the lead wire inserted into the insertion hole is inserted and fixed into the ring terminal; and an upper cover coupled with the lower cover at a lower portion of the lower cover, wherein one end of the upper cover is connected with one end of the main body.