US 6,982,131 B1
Structure for electrode terminals of battery module
Shinji Hamada, Toyohashi (Japan); Izumi Yamamura, Toyohashi (Japan); Noriyuki Fujioka, Kosai (Japan); Shuhei Marukawa, Toyohashi (Japan); Toyohiko Eto, Toyota (Japan); Keiji Shukuya, Nagoya (Japan); and Yoshiaki Ogata, Toyohashi (Japan)
Assigned to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka (Japan); and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi (Japan)
Filed on Oct. 06, 2000, as Appl. No. 9/684,421.
Application 09/684421 is a continuation in part of application No. 29/119908, filed on Mar. 10, 2000, granted, now D437287, filed on Feb. 06, 2001.
Claims priority of application No. 11-288796 (JP), filed on Oct. 08, 1999; and application No. 2000-104256 (JP), filed on Apr. 06, 2000.
Int. Cl. H01M 2/02 (2006.01); H01M 2/06 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 429—148 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
9. A sealed, prismatic, rechargeable battery comprising:
a prismatic battery case having longitudinal opposite end walls;
at least one first rib formed protruding from each of said longitudinal opposite end walls of the prismatic battery case parallel to a short-side direction of the end walls;
at least one second rib formed protruding from each of said longitudinal opposite end walls of the prismatic battery case parallel to the long-side direction of the end walls; and
at least one first rib of said at least one first rib and at least one second rib of said at least one second rib intersecting with one another at an inner surface area of said longitudinal end walls removed from edges of said longitudinal end walls.