US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, MEKTEC on July 14 for "Electricity storage module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,249, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MEKTEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electricity storage module" was invented by Yuki Ohira (Nisshin, Japan), Satoshi Tabara (Miyoshi, Japan), Shunsuke Tomita (Minato-ku, Japan) and Tsukasa Watanabe (Minato-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electricity storage module includes a plurality of electricity storage cells, a plurality of resin frames, and a bus bar module. Each of the electricity storage cells includes a pair of external terminals. The bus bar module includes a plurality of bus bars and a bus bar case. The resin frame includes a retaining portion c...