ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,267, issued on March 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Battery frame" was invented by Yuya Ishihara (Wako, Japan), Kenta Kishii (Wako, Japan), Hiromitsu Sato (Wako, Japan), Tadahiro Fukushima (Wako, Japan), Masataka Yoshida (Wako, Japan) and Seiji Kosaka (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery frame includes a pair of flat spring plates, a pair of pressing plates, and connecting members connecting the pair of flat spring plates. Each of the flat spring plates includes first regions and a second region. The second region is located inward of the first regions in the stacking direction of a battery cell ...