ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,934, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Cleaning device" was invented by Yasushi Taniguchi (Osaka, Japan), Kazutaka Nishikawa (Nara, Japan) and Takayuki Ashida (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning device includes: a base that supports a liquid injection member that injects an electrolyte to a battery case; a cleaning unit that sprays a cleaning liquid onto the liquid injection member supported by the base; and an inspection unit that inspects the spraying condition of the cleaning liquid by receiving a spray of the cleaning liquid from the cleanin...