US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS on Nov. 18 for "Power storage device contained by expansion restraint module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,311, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Power storage device contained by expansion restraint module" was invented by Hiroki Nagai (Ama-gun, Japan), Takaaki Matsui (Toyota, Japan), Takafumi Nose (Nagoya, Japan), Koichiro Isobe (Toyota, Japan) and Ryoichi Wakimoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power storage device includes a plurality of power storage cells. An end surface portion of a case has an aspect ratio of 1.4 or more. At least a part of a first region between a lower end of a sealing part projected image and an upper end of a...