US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 26 for "Method for manufacturing battery, battery, and battery intermediate" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,436, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing battery, battery, and battery intermediate" was invented by Yuka Nagata (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a battery includes: a placing step of placing a resin layer along at least one surface in a thickness direction of a current collector terminal; an enclosing step of enclosing the power generation element in an outer body; and a sealing step of sealing the power generation element inside the outer body. The current collector terminal includes a flat terminal portion and a tilted terminal port...