ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,165, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PANASONIC ENERGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Battery pack and method for producing same" was invented by Kazuaki Fukutome (Hyogo, Japan) and Hiroshi Arikawa (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes a plurality of secondary battery cells, a battery holder, a circuit substrate, and an outer case, in which the battery holder is divided into a plurality of divided holders, each of the divided holders forms a fitting structure for fitting the divided holders to each other at an interface for joining the divided holders together, the battery holder forms a substrate holding ar...