US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on Jan. 20 for "Power supply device, electric vehicle using same, and power storage device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,306, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power supply device, electric vehicle using same, and power storage device" was invented by Hiroyuki Takahashi (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power supply device is a power supply device to be fixed to a power supply target equipment. Power supply device includes: a plurality of battery cells each having a prismatic outer covering can; a pair of end plates that covers both side end faces of a battery stack in which the plurality of battery cells are stacked; lower plate that covers a lower face of the battery stack; a plurality of fastening...