US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on May 26 for "Battery module" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,433, issued on May 26, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Battery module" was invented by Taijyu Morishita (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Battery module includes: battery stack in which a plurality of batteries are stacked; and separator disposed between the adjacent batteries, the separator having displacement absorbing material in contact with a surface intersecting a stacking direction of any one of the plurality of batteries. Positions of both ends of battery stack in the stacking direction are fixed, and battery stack is disposed."

The patent was filed on Jan. 20, 2021, under Application No. 1...