ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,891, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Battery case" was invented by Tatsuya Imashioya (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuuji Okamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinya Akizuki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery case that accommodates a battery for an electric vehicle includes a pair of side frames that constitute left and right side walls of the battery case in a vehicle width direction and extend along a vehicle front-rear direction, a cross member that partitions an internal space of the battery case in the vehicle front-rear direction and extends from one of the side frames to the oth...