US Patent Issued to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES on April 15 for "Alkali metal electrode treatment agent, electrolytic solution for alkali metal secondary battery, alkali metal electrode, alkali metal secondary battery, and module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,336, issued on April 15, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Alkali metal electrode treatment agent, electrolytic solution for alkali metal secondary battery, alkali metal electrode, alkali metal secondary battery, and module" was invented by Shigeaki Yamazaki (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshiko Kuwajima (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alkali metal electrode treatment agent including an acrylate represented by the following general formula (1):wherein X, Y and Rf are as defined herein and/or a polymer containing an acrylate represented by the general formula (1) as a part or all of its constituent units. Als...