ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,222, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Battery module" was invented by Toshiyuki Ariga (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a battery module including: multiple cylindrical batteries each including: a shaft core; a set of wound electrodes including an electrode stack wound around the shaft core and including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte provided between the positive and negative electrodes stacked; a first fastener provided at a first axial end of the shaft core; and a second fastener provided at a second axial end of the shaft core, adjacent ones...