US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Dec. 23 for "Linked battery module and linked battery pack" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,171, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Linked battery module and linked battery pack" was invented by Hirotaka Ogino (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linked battery module includes a first battery module and a second battery module having a same configuration. The first battery module includes: a battery stack that includes rectangular batteries stacked in a row in a thickness direction; a restraint member on one side that restrains one side, in a Y direction, of the battery stack; a restraint member on the other side that restrains the other side, in...