US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on July 15 for "Secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,394, issued on July 15, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Secondary battery" was invented by Yuta Hirano (Kyoto, Japan), Takaaki Matsui (Kyoto, Japan) and Swati Devi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary battery includes: a positive electrode; a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer on which a film including an organic substance is formed; and an electrolytic solution including a sulfur-containing cyclic compound, a fluorinated cyclic carbonic acid ester, an unsaturated cyclic carbonic acid ester, and a multi-nitrile chain compound. According to a mass ...