ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,710, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Busbar module" was invented by Tatsuya Oga (Shizuoka, Japan), Hirotaka Mukasa (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kazuhiko Tsuchiya (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A busbar module includes: a plurality of busbars arranged along a first direction and connected to battery cells; and a plate-like circuit body having a plurality of detection lines to be connected to the busbars and having flexibility, in which the circuit body includes a main line portion in which the plurality of detection lines is routed and branch portions, branching from the main line portion and in w...