US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 5 for "Honeycomb type lithium ion battery" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,600, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Honeycomb type lithium ion battery" was invented by Masaharu Senoue (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a honeycomb type lithium ion battery capable of suppressing short-circuiting due to cracks. The honeycomb type lithium ion battery has an anode, a cathode, and a separator layer, wherein the anode has a plurality of through holes extending in one direction, the separator layer has partition separator layers and insulating film separator layers, the cathode has inner areas disposed inside the through holes via the partition separator layers...