US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 15 for "Battery pack and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,559, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, 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 stacked together, and a case that accommodates the battery cells. The battery cells include an endmost cell disposed at a farthest end on one side in a stacking direction, a first cell disposed adjacent to the endmost cell, and a second cell disposed adjacent to the first cell. Further, the case is configured such that a thermal resist...