ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,401, issued on March 25, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Busbar module" was invented by Yuta Matsunaga (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hideki Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A busbar module includes: busbars fixed to battery cells of a battery module; a plate-like flexible circuit body; and a case that accommodates the circuit body and the busbars, in which the circuit body includes a trunk portion extending in a first direction in which the battery cells are arranged, and branch portions branching from the trunk portion and connected to the busbars, the branch portion includes a base portion, a fixed portion fixe...