US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 14 for "Battery pack" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,228, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Battery pack" was invented by Masaki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Shinya Nakayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes: a lower case including a bottom plate, a front wall, a rear wall, a left wall, and a right wall; and an upper cover, wherein a battery pack internal space is formed, a plurality of battery modules are an odd number and are aligned in the front-rear direction in an even number of rows in the left-right direction, at least one of the front wall and the rear wall includes: a step portion; a protruding wall portion; and a recessed w...