US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on Dec. 16 for "Power source device, and vehicle and power storage device each equipped with same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,302, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power source device, and vehicle and power storage device each equipped with same" was invented by Yusuke Fujii (Aichi, Japan), Yoshimitsu Tashiro (Hyogo, Japan) and Takuya Egashira (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power source device includes: battery stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked; a pair of end plates that each have a plate shape having a main surface and a side surface intersecting the main surface, are formed with plate screw hole on the side surface, and are arranged on both side end surfaces of battery stack; a...