US Patent Issued to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, TOYOTA BATTERY .Co. on April 21 for "Method for inspecting a power storage device for short circuit, method for manufacturing the power storage device, and method for manufacturing a connected restrained-device module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,690, issued on April 21, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan) and TOYOTA BATTERY .Co. LTD (Shizuoka-Ken, Japan).

"Method for inspecting a power storage device for short circuit, method for manufacturing the power storage device, and method for manufacturing a connected restrained-device module" was invented by Hiroaki Ikeda (Toyota, Japan) and Toshiki Yoneyama (Toyohashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inspecting a battery for short circuit includes: adjusting batteries, which have been subjected to initial charging and subsequent charging and dischar...