US Patent Issued to Teijin, Teijin Automotive Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Battery structure for an electric vehicle" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,468, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Teijin Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) and Teijin Automotive Technologies Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Battery structure for an electric vehicle" was invented by Yoshiki Kashiwagi (Osaka, Japan), Tsukasa Arai (Osaka, Japan), Shota Nagata (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Miyauchi (Osaka, Japan), Masatomo Teshima (Osaka, Japan), Hugh Foran (Auburn Hills, Mich.) and Max Kamiyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle structure includes a battery tray disposed at a lower portion of a center of a vehicle body, and a cross member extending in a vehicle width direction and inserted into the battery tray. T...