ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,773, issued on June 2, was assigned to PANASONIC ENERGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Sealed battery" was invented by Yoshihiro Shibutani (Osaka, Japan), Shota Yatomi (Tokushima, Japan) and Yukishige Inaba (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is for inhibiting ignition when an abnormality occurs in a battery. A sealed battery, which is one example of an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: an electrode body; a bottomed tubular outer housing can that accommodates the electrode body; and a sealing body that plugs an opening section of the outer housing can. The outer housing can or the sealing body h...