US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Sept. 30 for "Hermetically sealed battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,566, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Hermetically sealed battery" was invented by Masao Ootsuka (Osaka, Japan), Tadayoshi Takahashi (Osaka, Japan), Futoshi Tanigawa (Osaka, Japan), Naoaki Nishimura (Osaka, Japan) and Kyosuke Okazaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hermetically sealed battery includes a battery can having a bottomed cylindrical shape and an opening, an electrode body accommodated in the battery can, a sealing plate covering the opening of the battery can, a rivet disposed on the sealing plate and serving as a terminal, an insulato...