ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,142, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Power storage device" was invented by Shinichiro Mori (Toyota, Japan), Tatsuma Yahara (Nagakute, Japan), Shigeyuki Inoue (Toyota, Japan) and Kotaro Horiguchi (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The power storage device includes a plurality of power storage stacks, a case, and a protective structure that protects a plurality of power storage cells from a load applied to the case in the vertical direction. The case has a bottom wall, a top wall, and a circumferential wall. The protective structure has a cross member, and a load transfer member locat...