ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,653, issued on May 5, was assigned to Panasonic intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Battery and method for producing same" was invented by Kazumichi Shimizu (Osaka, Japan), Koji Funami (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroshi Takasaki (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a battery including: a battery can including a cylinder portion including an opening edge portion at one end portion thereof and a bottom portion closing the other end portion of the cylinder portion; an electrode body housed in the cylinder portion; and a sealing member fixed to the cylinder portion to seal an opening of an opening edge p...