US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Materials on March 17 for "Negative electrode material, battery, production method for negative electrode material, and manufacturing method for battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,185, issued on March 17, was assigned to Mitsubishi Materials Corp. (Tokyo).

"Negative electrode material, battery, production method for negative electrode material, and manufacturing method for battery" was invented by Yoshinobu Nakada (Saitama, Japan), Naoki Rikita (Tokyo), Jie Tang (Ibaraki, Japan) and Kun Zhang (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve performance. A negative electrode material is a negative electrode material for a battery, and includes carbon, tungsten trioxide, and silicon particles (33) including silicon, and in the silicon particles (33), a ratio of the amount of Si in Si2p derived from ele...