US Patent Issued to MEKTEC on July 15 for "Support member and battery module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,420, issued on July 15, was assigned to MEKTEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Support member and battery module" was invented by Shunsuke Tomita (Tokyo) and Tomoki Kanayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a support member and a battery module in consideration of variations in dimensions of the battery. At the same time, stress concentration on the support member is alleviated. A sliding portion 127 of one of adjacent support cases 121 of the plurality of support cases 121 connected to each other is slidably housed in the main body portion 122 of the other support case 121. Apart of the sliding portion 127 of the one support case ...