US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on Feb. 4 for "Power supply device, electric vehicle equipped with said power supply device, and power storage device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,365, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Daito, Japan).

"Power supply device, electric vehicle equipped with said power supply device, and power storage device" was invented by Nao Kogami (Hyogo, Japan) and Hiroyuki Takahashi (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply device includes a battery block formed by stacking a plurality of battery cells in a thickness with separator interposed between corresponding battery cells, a pair of end plates disposed on respective end faces of the battery block, and a binding bar coupled to the pair of end plates to fix the battery block in a compressed state ...