US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on July 8 for "Battery module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,046, issued on July 8, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Battery module" was invented by Go Yamashiro (Hyogo, Japan) and Shingo Ochi (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The battery module includes a plurality of batteries stacked together, and separator disposed between an adjoining two of the plurality of batteries and configured to insulate between the adjoining two of batteries. Separator includes thermal conduction suppressor and position regulator. Thermal conduction suppressor has lower thermal conductivity than position regulator and suppresses thermal conduction between the adjoining two of batt...