US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Chemical on April 7 for "Film-like graphite, manufacturing method for same, and battery using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,178, issued on April 7, was assigned to Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (Tokyo).

"Film-like graphite, manufacturing method for same, and battery using same" was invented by Kenji Hirano (Tokyo), Keisuke Wada (Tokyo), Tomoyoshi Yamashita (Tokyo), Norimichi Kawabe (Tokyo), Takuya Suzuki (Tokyo), Miwa Yanagidate (Tokyo) and Kouhei Takatani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A film-like graphite that satisfies the following condition (1) or condition (2) described below. Condition (1): a graphite crystal orientation degree P is 96% or more with respect to a film plane. Condition (2): a graphite crystal orientation degree P is 94% or more wi...