US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 21 for "Vehicle battery inspection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,383, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle battery inspection device" was invented by Hideki Sakai (Saitama, Japan), Atsushi Sakurai (Saitama, Japan), Tatsuya Hattori (Saitama, Japan) and Yuji Isogai (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle battery inspection device includes a circular ring-shaped rail 10; a vehicle stand 20 that is arranged inside the rail 10, on the vehicle stand 20 the vehicle can self-travel substantially along the axial direction of the rail 10; a vehicle stand driver 30 that movably supports the vehicle stand 20; an X-ray source 40 configured to be movable a...