US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Feb. 4 for "Busbar and battery laminate" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,366, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Busbar and battery laminate" was invented by Tetsuji Omura (Hyogo, Japan) and Masaya Ugaji (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes: a plurality of batteries stacked together; and a busbar that electrically connects the plurality of batteries with each other. The busbar has: a main body that extends along axis X along which the batteries are stacked together; and a plurality of connectors that protrude from the main body along an axis that intersects with the axis along which the batteries are stack...