US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on April 14 for "Lithium-ion battery electrodeposition detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,270, issued on April 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Lithium-ion battery electrodeposition detection method" was invented by Kenji Sato (Wako, Japan) and Atsushi Tamai (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium-ion battery electrodeposition detection method includes: a positive-electrode SOC map generation step of irradiating a lithium-ion battery with an X-ray, performing an X-ray diffraction measurement of a positive-electrode active material layer, and generating a positive-electrode SOC map that indicates a distribution of a charging depth along a thickness direction of the positive-electrode active...