US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on Sept. 9 for "Power supply device, and vehicle and power storage device each equipped with same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,939, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power supply device, and vehicle and power storage device each equipped with same" was invented by Takashi Yoshida (Hyogo, Japan), Tisato Magara (Hyogo, Japan) and Masato Koutari (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power supply device includes: a battery stack in which a plurality of battery cells each having an electrode terminal on an upper surface of an outer covering can are stacked; and a plurality of bus bars connecting electrode terminals of adjacent battery cells to each other. Bus bar includes window opened through which a part of elec...