ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,066, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TEIJIN Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Separator for non-aqueous secondary battery and non-aqueous secondary battery" was invented by Megumi Sato (Osaka, Japan), Rika Kuratani (Osaka, Japan), Yu Nagao (Osaka, Japan), Masato Okazaki (Osaka, Japan) and Satoshi Nishikawa (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the invention provide a separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery, including a porous substrate; and a heat-resistant porous layer that is provided on one side or on both sides of the porous substrate, and that contains a binder resin and barium sulfate particles, in which an...