US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on April 21 for "Lithium composite oxide sintered plate and all-solid-state secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,309, issued on April 21, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Lithium composite oxide sintered plate and all-solid-state secondary battery" was invented by Tsutomu Nishizaki (Nagoya, Japan), Mizuki Hirose (Nagoya, Japan), Yoshimasa Kobayashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Yuji Katsuda (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a lithium composite oxide which is composed of a lithium composite oxide having a layered rock salt structure containing Li, Ni, Co and Mn. The lithium composite oxide sintered plate has a porosity of 20 to 40%, a mean pore diameter of 3.5 micro metre or larger and an interfacial len...