US Patent Issued to FDK on Feb. 4 for "Alkaline battery and method of producing negative electrode gel for alkaline battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,340, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to FDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Alkaline battery and method of producing negative electrode gel for alkaline battery" was invented by Yuya Suzuki (Tokyo), Shigeyuki Kuniya (Tokyo), Takeo Nogami (Tokyo), Shingo Anzai (Tokyo) and Shunji Matsui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alkaline battery and a method of producing an alkaline battery that includes a negative electrode gel in which a negative electrode active material made of a zinc alloy and a binder are dispersed in an alkaline aqueous solution. Ultrafine microfibrils form the binder."

The patent was filed on Dec. 17, 2020, under Application No. ...