US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on May 27 for "Power supply device and vehicle and power storage device having same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,948, issued on May 27, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power supply device and vehicle and power storage device having same" was invented by Naotake Yoshida (Hyogo, Japan), Eri Kohira (Hyogo, Japan) and Kazuhiro Harazuka (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power supply device includes: battery stack in which a plurality of battery cells each having electrode terminal formed on a top surface thereof are stacked; a pair of end plates respectively covering end surfaces in a stacking direction of battery stack; fastening member that fastens the pair of end plates to each other; and insulating member inte...