ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,217, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).
"Battery module" was invented by Keiichiro Kobayashi (Nisshin, Japan), Hiroki Ishii (Kakogawa, Japan) and Eiji Kawasaki (Kasai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protrusion is formed to protrude from a separator to a side opposite to a plurality of battery cells along a second direction. A restraint member includes: a binding bar extending in a first direction; and an abutment member located on the plurality of battery cells side with respect to the binding bar, the abutment member being in abutment with the separator at a first position and a ...