US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 5 for "Manufacturing apparatus of manufacturing electrochemical cell" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,671, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Manufacturing apparatus of manufacturing electrochemical cell" was invented by Toshinori Okura (Toyota, Japan), Hideto Mori (Nisshin, Japan) and Shinji Suzuki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing apparatus includes a chamber, a pressure reducing device, and a return pipe. The pressure reducing device is configured to reduce the pressure in the chamber. The return pipe includes a first opening, a conduit, and a second opening. The first opening and the second opening are respectively and independently open to the interior of the chamber....