ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,691, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Energy storage apparatus" was invented by Tsuyoshi Hidaka (Kyoto, Japan), Yasuyuki Iwashima (Kyoto, Japan) and Shun Sasaki (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage apparatus includes a plurality of energy storage devices arranged in a first direction and having electrode terminals on a second direction side intersecting the first direction and a side member disposed on a third direction side intersecting the first direction and the second direction of the plurality of energy storage devices. The side member has a side member p...