US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on Dec. 16 for "Battery module comprising side separator with a biasing portion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,286, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Battery module comprising side separator with a biasing portion" was invented by Takuya Egashira (Hyogo, Japan) and Hiroshi Takata (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Battery module includes: battery stack including a plurality of batteries; constraining members made of metal and each having flat surface portion extending in stacking direction of batteries along battery stack, constraining members sandwiching the plurality of batteries in stacking direction; and side separators that insulate constraining members and battery stack from each other...