US Patent Issued to SAIC MOTOR on March 24 for "Battery module and electric vehicle" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,336, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAIC MOTOR CORPORATION LIMITED (Shanghai).

"Battery module and electric vehicle" was invented by Kewei Lu (Shanghai), Dingxian Zhou (Shanghai), Zhao Li (Shanghai), Dong Xu (Shanghai) and Pengfei Zhao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes: a plurality of cells; and a cell restraining structure having an internal frame and an external shell fit with the internal frame to form a plurality of chambers for receiving the plurality of cells respectively so as to package and manage the cells. The internal frame includes an elastic element forming at least one first surfac...