US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on May 19 for "Battery module" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,628, issued on May 19, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Battery module" was invented by Maito Heki (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Battery module includes: cell stack in which the plurality of cells each having output terminal are arrayed; bus bar that electrically connects output terminals of cells to each other, and bus bar plate that covers the surface of cell stack on which output terminal is disposed, that includes opening at a position overlapping with respective output terminals, bus bar plate in which bus bar is disposed in opening. When one of bus bar plate and cell stack is a first member...