ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,849, issued on March 24, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Sealing structure for battery" was invented by Jihong Liu (Osaka, Japan), Takahisa Aoyama (Osaka, Japan), Hayato Tsuda (Osaka, Japan) and Masamichi Sukegawa (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing structure for a battery includes a plate shaped member having a through hole, a polymer molding, and an electrode. The polymer molding has a tube portion provided along an entire edge of the through hole, and a base portion provided on the tube portion. The electrode has a column portion disposed on an inner periphery of the tube portion, and a ...