ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,951, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (Tokyo).
"Partition member and assembled battery" was invented by Tatsuhiko Honda (Tokyo) and Naoto Maru (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A partition member which has a thickness direction and a planar direction orthogonal to the thickness direction and which constitutes a partition between single batteries in the thickness direction or between a single battery and a member other than the single battery, wherein the partition member includes a thermal insulation material, and an auxiliary member which is disposed so as to be adjacent to the thermal insulation mat...