ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,631, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Restraining member and power storage device" was invented by Akinori Saito (Kariya, Japan), Shinji Suzuki (Kariya, Japan) and Yuya Sato (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A restraining member includes a pair of interposing portions, a plurality of pressurizing portions, and a pair of pressing portions. Each pressurizing portion has the shape of which a dimension in a third direction perpendicular to both a first direction and a second direction is longer than a dimension in the first direction and a dimension in the second direction and is in con...