ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,894, issued on May 27, was assigned to Prime Planet Energy & Solutions Inc. (Tokyo).
"Power storage module" was invented by Yasumasa Kojima (Kasai, Japan), Takashi Inamura (Himeji, Japan) and Takatoshi Kageyama (Kakogawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a stack, a plurality of power storage cells are stacked. A resin plate is placed on the stack. A flexible printed circuit board is placed on the resin plate and has an electric circuit electrically connected to the plurality of power storage cells. A thermistor element is provided on the electric circuit and is in contact with one power storage cell of the plurality of power s...