US Patent Issued to HONDA MOTOR on Sept. 15 for "Battery module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,588, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to HONDA MOTOR Co. LTD (Tokyo).

"Battery module" was invented by Hidemasa Usui (Saitama, Japan), Yosuke Yoshizawa (Saitama, Japan) and Masanari Higuchi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module according to the present invention includes: a cell stack including a plurality of battery cells that are stacked; a pair of end plates disposed at opposite ends of the cell stack in a stacking direction of the cell stack; and a buffer interposed at least between the battery cells or between the battery cell and the end plate, the buffer comprising an outer frame-forming elastic memb...