ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,346, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Battery pack" was invented by Yasuaki Sakagawa (Hyogo, Japan) and Keisuke Shimizu (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a secondary battery and a battery case that houses the secondary battery. The battery case includes an exhaust section that exhausts gas exhausted from the secondary battery to outside of the battery case. The exhaust section includes at least one slit that is opened along with deformation of the exhaust section occurring in accor...