US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 23 for "Battery module" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,711, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery module" was invented by Kunimitsu Yamamoto (Kasugai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a battery module with high volumetric efficiency. A battery module comprising stacked and connected unit cells each comprising a power generation element, a cathode terminal, and an anode terminal disposed on the opposite side of the cathode terminal of the power generation element, wherein a connection laminate layer including a resin layer, a metal layer and a resin layer in this sequence, is disposed between the unit cells, and wherein the metal...