ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,285, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Power storage device comprising compressible cooler plate" was invented by Shigeyuki Inoue (Toyota, Japan), Shinichiro Mori (Okazaki, Japan) and Kazunari Hiromori (Miyoshi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power storage device includes a lower case having a bottom portion including an inner surface and an outer surface, one or more power storage modules thermally connected to the inner surface of the bottom portion, and a cooler that is provided on a side of the outer surface of the bottom portion and cools the one or more power storage modu...