US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 31 for "Electrode manufacturing method, electrode current collector, and electrode" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,391, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Electrode manufacturing method, electrode current collector, and electrode" was invented by Yusuke Kintsu (Miyoshi, Japan), Tetsuya Mimura (Chiryu, Japan), Haruka Shionoya (Toyota, Japan), Yasuhiro Sakashita (Toyota, Japan), Takeshi Kondo (Kariya, Japan), Tomoyuki Tasaki (Kariya, Japan) and Yuta Kawamoto (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode is manufactured by forming an active material layer on a surface of an electrode current collector, forming a groove portion on a surface of the active material layer, and peeling off a part of th...