Patent 10297813 was granted and assigned to Panasonic on May, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An electrode member includes a substrate portion formed of a metal thin plate, a connection portion connected to the electrode terminal of a cell, and a fuse for electrically connecting the substrate portion to the connection portion. In the plane orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the cell, the length of the fuse is greater than the width of the connection portion.