US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 24 for "Active material, anode layer, battery, and methods for producing these" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,782, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Active material, anode layer, battery, and methods for producing these" was invented by Mitsutoshi Otaki (Susono, Japan), Jun Yoshida (Mishima, Japan), Masanori Harata (Kariya, Japan), Yasuhiro Yamaguchi (Kariya, Japan), Kota Urabe (Kariya, Japan) and Tatsuya Eguchi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein a volume variation due to charge/discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrat...