US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on Sept. 23 for "Power supply device, electric vehicle comprising power supply device, and power storage device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,698, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power supply device, electric vehicle comprising power supply device, and power storage device" was invented by Nao Kogami (Hyogo, Japan), Kazuhiro Harazuka (Hyogo, Japan) and Koji Fujinaga (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply device includes: battery block formed by stacking a plurality of battery cells in a thickness with separator interposed therebetween; a pair of end plates disposed on both end surfaces of battery block; and binding bar that is coupled to the pair of end plates and fixes battery block in a pressurized state ...