ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,265, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Battery module" was invented by Taijyu Morishita (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes: battery stack in which a plurality of batteries are stacked; end plate provided outside battery at an end in a stacking direction of the plurality of batteries; and end separator provided between battery at the end and end plate, end separator including first support member that supports a peripheral edge of a surface intersecting the stacking direction of battery at the end, and second support member that supports a central part of th...