US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on June 30 for "Washer for an electrical energy store, electrical energy store, arrangement and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,115, issued on June 30, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Washer for an electrical energy store, electrical energy store, arrangement and motor vehicle" was invented by Matthias Braig (Unterhaching, Germany), Markus Poetzinger (Munich) and Philip Raettich (Stoettwang, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washer to be arranged in a mechanical connection between an energy storage module and a housing of an electrical energy store for a motor vehicle includes an axial hole for receiving a connector and axially opposing bearing surfaces for pressing against metal contact surfaces of the energy storage module and ...