US Patent Issued to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS on June 9 for "Terminal component, secondary battery, and method for manufacturing terminal component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,811, issued on June 9, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Terminal component, secondary battery, and method for manufacturing terminal component" was invented by Kosuke Suzuki (Toyota, Japan), Takahiro Sakurai (Nagoya, Japan) and Koshiro Yoneda (Ichinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal component includes a first metal and a second metal overlapped on the first metal. At least three biting portions in which an edge of one of the first metal and the second metal bites into the other metal is provided at an interface where the first metal and the second metal are overlapped."

The patent was...