US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Battery pack and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,079, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Battery pack and vehicle" was invented by Ryo Matsuda (Toyota, Japan), Yoshihiko Hiroe (Toyota, Japan) and Taro Matsushita (Toyokawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells and a plurality of separator portions. The battery cells are stacked together in a first direction and each configured to include a first end portion located at one end in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a second end portion located at the other end in the second direction, and an intermediate portion prov...