US Patent Issued to DENSO on May 26 for "Battery pack" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,423, issued on May 26, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Battery pack" was invented by Takahiro Murakami (Toyota, Japan), Hironobu Kawashima (Toyota, Japan), Hiromi Adachi (Toyota, Japan), Takeshi Honda (Toyota, Japan), Ryo Yamakawa (Kariya, Japan), Hidemitsu Watanabe (Kariya, Japan) and Masahiro Sakakibara (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack comprises a battery and a flexible printed circuit board (FPC) utilized to detect a voltage and a temperature of the battery. The FPC comprises a substrate having a front surface and a back surface, a thermistor which detects a temperature of the battery, temp...