US Patent Issued to Samsung SDI on Aug. 4 for "Cell connection unit for a battery module" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,648, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Cell connection unit for a battery module" was invented by Alexander Rock (Trofaiach, Austria), Fritz Haring (Bruck an der Mur, Austria), Stefan Brandstatter (Gratwein-StraBengel, Austria) and Thomas Brandner (Rosental, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell connection unit (CCU) for connecting a plurality of aligned battery cells of a battery module and a battery module including the CCU, the CCU including a plurality of busbars, each busbar of the plurality of busbars being connected to cell terminals of at least two battery cells of the pl...