An electrode is provided with a metal terminal extending from a battery module main body, a bolt which has an expanded section configuring a retaining section at a rear end portion and penetrates the metal terminal upward, and an insulating body which insulates the metal terminal and the battery module case one from the other. The insulating body is provided with a drop preventing section which abuts at least a lower surface of the expanded section of the bolt and prevents the bolt from dropping from the metal terminal.

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›1.independentA battery module connected by a bus bar, comprising:na metal terminal extending from a body of the battery module and connected to said bus bar;a rive…+4

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IPC · International Patent Classification

Section H — Electricity

H01M2/30
H01M2/20
H01M2/02

USPC · US Patent Classification

429/178

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Patrick Ryan

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Type	Document	Date
related publication	US 20120264006 A1	18 Oct 2012

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