US Patent Issued to AGC on April 21 for "Sulfide solid electrolyte and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,351, issued on April 21, was assigned to AGC Inc. (Tokyo).

"Sulfide solid electrolyte and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Naoki Fujii (Tokyo), Kosho Akatsuka (Tokyo), Manabu Nishizawa (Tokyo) and Hideaki Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sulfide solid electrolyte to be use in a lithium-ion secondary battery includes an argyrodite crystal structure represented by LiaPSbHac (where 5less than equal toaless than equal to7, 4less than equal tobless than equal to6, and 0greater thancless than equal to2, and Ha represents a halogen element), in which in an X-ray diffraction spectrum using a Cu-KAlpha ray, the a...