US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on July 14 for "Negative electrode for secondary batteries, and secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,169, issued on July 14, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Negative electrode for secondary batteries, and secondary battery" was invented by Kyohei Sakamoto (Osaka, Japan), Nobuhiko Hojo (Osaka, Japan) and Masaki Hasegawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This negative electrode for secondary batteries is provided with a negative electrode mixture that contains a negative electrode active material, an additive and a conductive agent. The negative electrode active material contains an Si-containing material; the additive contains an alkali metal sulfate salt; and the conduc...