US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on Oct. 14 for "Battery module, and electric vehicle and power storage device equipped with battery module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,804, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Battery module, and electric vehicle and power storage device equipped with battery module" was invented by Junya Yano (Hyogo, Japan), Tomonori Kunimitsu (Hyogo, Japan), Masato Nakayama (Hyogo, Japan) and Taisuke Hamada (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a battery module, end plates disposed at both ends of battery stack are connected by binding bars. Electrode terminals of respective battery cells and voltage detection circuit of electronic circuit block are connected by a plurality of voltage detection lines. Electronic circuit block is di...