US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on July 7 for "Secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,334, issued on July 7, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Secondary battery" was invented by Hiroshi Takabayashi (Hyogo, Japan) and Ryuhei Kai (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wound positive-electrode core body exposed pails are bundled and connected to a positive-electrode collector body. A tape is affixed straddling a separator positioned on the outermost surface of a winding electrode body, and the outermost surface of the wound positive-electrode core body exposed parts. The tape has a porous base material and an adhesive layer provided on the base material. The tape has a region in which the adhe...