US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on Jan. 27 for "Positive electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,195, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Positive electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Hidekazu Hiratsuka (Hyogo, Japan) and Hiroki Watanabe (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each of the Ni-containing lithium-based complex oxide A and the Ni-containing lithium-based complex oxide B contains Ni in an amount of 55 mol % or more relative to the total number of moles of metal elements excluding Li, the Ni-containing lithium-based complex oxide A has an average primary particle diameter of...