US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on July 8 for "Power supply device, electric vehicle comprising said power supply device, and power storage device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,051, issued on July 8, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power supply device, electric vehicle comprising said power supply device, and power storage device" was invented by Go Yamashiro (Hyogo, Japan), Hiroyuki Takahashi (Hyogo, Japan) and Kazuhiro Harazuka (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply device includes a plurality of battery cells each having a prismatic exterior can, heat-shrinkable films having insulating property and each covering one of the plurality of battery cells, a plurality of separators interposed between the plurality of battery cells, a battery stack constituted by the...