US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Sept. 1 for "End cap assembly for a cylindrical battery can" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,860, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"End cap assembly for a cylindrical battery can" was invented by Kazumichi Shimizu (Osaka, Japan), Takeshi Nagao (Osaka, Japan) and Shinya Geshi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electricity storage device to be disclosed includes: an electrode assembly including a first electrode and a second electrode; a can accommodating the electrode assembly and including a bottomed tubular shape with an opening provided at one end; and a sealing material joined to the one end of the can to seal the opening. The sealing mater...