ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,955, issued on May 27, was assigned to Vehicle Energy Japan Inc. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Secondary cell module" was invented by Akira Irie (Hitachinaka, Japan), Sadayuki Aoki (Hitachinaka, Japan), Kazunori Ojima (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Osamu Kubota (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This secondary cell module has: a plurality of unit cells, each having a pair of positive and negative electrode terminals; a first bus bar providing an electrical connection between unit cells; and a second bus bar disposed on at least two unit cells of the plurality of unit cells and electrically connected to an external terminal. In add...