US Patent Issued to HONDA MOTOR on March 25 for "Lithium ion secondary battery electrode and method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,303, issued on March 25, was assigned to HONDA MOTOR Co. LTD (Tokyo).

"Lithium ion secondary battery electrode and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Masahiro Ohta (Saitama, Japan) and Takuya Taniuchi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a lithium ion secondary battery electrode that occurrence of short-circuit and contamination can be reduced and the method for manufacturing such a lithium ion secondary battery electrode. An electrode used for a lithium ion secondary battery includes a current collector formed of a metal porous body. The current collector has a mixture layer impregnated with a...