ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,678, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYODA GOSEI Co. LTD. (Aichi-pref., Japan).
"Battery pack" was invented by Takafumi Oyake (Nagakute, Japan), Masanori Ishigaki (Nagakute, Japan), Tomohisa Harada (Nagakute, Japan), Makoto Kusakabe (Nagakute, Japan), Kosuke Kusaba (Kiyosu, Japan), Satoshi Yoshida (Kiyosu, Japan) and Kohei Fujii (Kiyosu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A partial battery pack structure includes a battery group, heat transfer plates, and a radiator, and is formed by stacking layers. Each layer arranges cylindrical batteries in parallel in a plane. The batteries in adjacent layers have alignment pitches shift...