US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on July 14 for "Power supply device, and electric vehicle and power storage device equipped with this power supply device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,246, issued on July 14, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power supply device, and electric vehicle and power storage device equipped with this power supply device" was invented by Junya Yano (Hyogo, Japan), Masato Nakayama (Hyogo, Japan), Tomonori Kunimitsu (Hyogo, Japan) and Taisuke Hamada (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply device includes battery stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked, and a plurality of battery modules including cell monitor circuits that detect battery information of battery cells, and cell monitor circuits of the battery modules are cascade-connec...