US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on June 30 for "Electrode ink quality determination method, and measurement system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,420, issued on June 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Electrode ink quality determination method, and measurement system" was invented by Shinsuke Chokyu (Tokyo), Kazutoshi Mameda (Tokyo), Nobuyoshi Muromoto (Tokyo) and Tsuyoshi Kokusho (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present invention, an electrode ink has formed therein: a primary aggregate in which ionomers are adsorbed around catalyst carriers, and as a result thereof, aggregation between catalyst carriers is prevented; and a secondary aggregate that is formed when catalyst carriers aggregate with each other. In an electrode ink quality determination...