US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on March 17 for "Battery module, power supply device comprising battery module, and electric vehicle and power storage device comprising power supply device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,729, issued on March 17, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Battery module, power supply device comprising battery module, and electric vehicle and power storage device comprising power supply device" was invented by Tomonori Kunimitsu (Hyogo, Japan), Masato Nakayama (Hyogo, Japan), Junya Yano (Hyogo, Japan) and Taisuke Hamada (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes battery stack including a plurality of stacked battery cells, a pair of end plates disposed at both end parts in a stacking direction of battery stack, bind bar in which the pair of end plates are coupled, and electron...