ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,576, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HONDA MOTOR Co. LTD (Tokyo).
"Battery module" was invented by Shigemitsu Akutsu (Saitama, Japan) and Shinji Fujimoto (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a battery module capable of applying a uniform surface pressure to a stack. Provided is a battery module including: a cell stack in which solid battery cells are stacked; end plates that are disposed at both ends of the cell stack in a stacking direction; and pressurizing plates that are fastened to the end plates on an outer side of the end plates in the stacking direction, the pressurizing plates abutting on the end pl...