US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Fuel cell module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,181, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Fuel cell module" was invented by Daisuke Ishikawa (Seto, Japan) and Shuji Kawamura (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell module includes a fuel cell stack, and a container that has a frame structure in which a polyhedron is composed of a plurality of main beams, and houses the fuel cell stack. The container has a vertical length and a horizontal length different from each other in side view. At least one main beam among the main beams includes a plurality of fastening points that are arranged along a longitudinal direction of the at lea...