US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on Aug. 19 for "Power supply device, and electric vehicle and electrical storage device each equipped with same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,853, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power supply device, and electric vehicle and electrical storage device each equipped with same" was invented by Hiroshi Takata (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a power supply device that is configured to dispose each of battery cells at an ideal position while stacking the battery cells to form a battery stack, the power supply device including: battery cells each having an outer covering can in a prismatic shape and having a constant cell thickness; end plates paired for covering both side end surfaces of the battery stack in wh...