US Patent Issued to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS on March 24 for "Secondary battery and method of manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,874, issued on March 24, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Secondary battery and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Yoshitaka Matsumasa (Takatsuki, Japan) and Tomokazu Yamanaka (Kakogawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technique to reduce voids between an electrode tab and a current collecting unit in a portion where the electrode tab and the current collecting unit are welded. The secondary battery manufacturing method disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a secondary battery including an electrode body having an electrode tab and a current collecting unit elec...