US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 18 for "Battery pack, vehicle equipped with battery pack, and replacement method of battery blocks in battery pack" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,320, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery pack, vehicle equipped with battery pack, and replacement method of battery blocks in battery pack" was invented by Masakazu Habu (Toyota, Japan), Koichi Ichikawa (Kasugai, Japan) and Juni Yasoshima (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of battery blocks, the battery blocks being arrayed adjacent to each other in a stacking direction that is set in advance. After two or more of the battery blocks are replaced with multiple replacement battery blocks that have been refres...