US Patent Issued to PANASONIC HOLDINGS on Jan. 13 for "Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for manufacturing non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,680, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for manufacturing non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Hiroshi Takamatsu (Hyogo, Japan), Hiroaki Imanishi (Hyogo, Japan) and Ichiro Murata (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-aqueous electrolyte including a battery case which has an opening and a sealing plate sealing the opening includes: a blind rivet fixed to the sealing plate by inserting the blind rivet into an opening portion provided in the sealing plate via a gas permeable membrane. The gas permeable membra...