US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Dec. 9 for "Stack case and method of assembling stack case" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,501, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Stack case and method of assembling stack case" was invented by Hideharu Naito (Wako, Japan) and Hideo Aizawa (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The stack case includes a main body with a rectangular opening and a lid member covering the opening. A single positioning pin and a protrusion protrude outward of the main body from an edge in the opening of the side portion. The positioning pin inserted into the insertion hole of the lid member supports the lid member rotatably about the axis of the positioning pin. In a state where the positioning pin is inserte...