US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on May 26 for "Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,372, issued on May 26, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Kensuke Watanabe (Hyogo, Japan), Taiki Nonaka (Hyogo, Japan) and Akira Nishida (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprises: a separator that has an adhesive on at least one surface thereof; and an electrode that has a core and an electrode mix layer, and that is configured so that the electrode mix layer abuts the adhesive. The electrode mix layer is configured so that the density, in the thickness-direction, of a porous body increases from ...