US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS on June 17 for "Battery pack and battery pack manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,595, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Battery pack and battery pack manufacturing method" was invented by Nobuyuki Yamazaki (Okazaki, Japan), Yoshinori Shibata (Nagoya, Japan) and Seiichi Sakuramoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack manufacturing method according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes stacking battery cells, pressurizing a battery cell group provided by stacking the battery cells in a stacking direction, measuring positions of cell terminals of the battery cells included in the pressurized batter...