US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on April 22 for "Secondary battery and method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,653, issued on April 22, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Secondary battery and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Naoto Akizuki (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yusuke Tanji (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Keisuke Nishimoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary battery that includes a wound electrode assembly in which a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode are wound about a winding axis; and a current collecting tab at a first end of the wound electrode assembly along a direction of the windin...