US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 8 for "Battery" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,835, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery" was invented by Ryo Kagami (Ichinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To suppress formation of wrinkles at any corner of a joint portion of an exterior body to suppress the breakage of the exterior body, a battery includes: an electrode body that is a quadrilateral in a plan view; and an exterior body housing the electrode body therein, wherein the exterior body has a joint portion along at least three sides thereof in a circumferential end thereof, a spacer is arranged between each corner of the electrode body and an inner surface of the ex...