US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL on June 17 for "Ni-plated steel foil for nickel-hydrogen secondary battery current collector, nickel-hydrogen secondary battery current collector, and nickel-hydrogen secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,563, issued on June 17, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Ni-plated steel foil for nickel-hydrogen secondary battery current collector, nickel-hydrogen secondary battery current collector, and nickel-hydrogen secondary battery" was invented by Hiroto Unno (Tokyo), Masahiro Fukuda (Tokyo), Naoki Fujimoto (Tokyo) and Tatsuo Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-strength steel foil for the positive and negative electrode current collectors of nickel-hydrogen secondary batteries which uses a light weight and economical steel foil and which is thin and strong and has excellent rust resistanc...