US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on Sept. 29 for "Battery module and battery system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,756, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Battery module and battery system" was invented by Hiroaki Saitou (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toyoki Iguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module has a plate-like battery and a case in which the battery is contained. The case includes plane portions sandwiching planar portions of the battery, and a side-surface portion opposing a side surface of the battery and connected with the plane portions with a first side therebetween. The side surface portion of the case has a curving-regulating structure extending from a second side oppos...