US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on March 25 for "Buffer member and power storage module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,313, issued on March 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Buffer member and power storage module" was invented by Goro Fujita (Osaka, Japan), Shota Norimine (Osaka, Japan), Tetsuji Omura (Hyogo, Japan), Mitsutoshi Tajima (Hyogo, Japan) and Shingo Kume (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power storage module includes at least one power storage device, and a buffer member arranged with the power storage device in a first direction X. The buffer member includes a hard part having a predetermined hardness and a soft part softer than the hard part, the hard part and the soft ...