ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,107, issued on July 8, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Bus bar and cell stack" was invented by Tetsuji Omura (Hyogo, Japan) and Shingo Kume (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bus bar has: a first joint part connected to an output terminal of the first cell; a second joint part connected to an output terminal of the second cell; and a projection that is disposed between the first joint part and the second joint part and protrudes in a stacking direction in which the cells and the bus bar are stacked. The projection has a first inclined part extending from the first joint ...