US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Sept. 30 for "External connection bus bar and wiring module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,580, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"External connection bus bar and wiring module" was invented by Shuya Ikeda (Osaka, Japan), Osamu Nakayama (Osaka, Japan), Katsushi Miyazaki (Osaka, Japan) and Mitsutoshi Morita (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external connection bus bar to be connected to a storage element group having a plurality of storage elements and having an output electrode terminal for outputting electric power to an external circuit includes a main body portion ...