US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Sept. 9 for "Negative electrode material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,889, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Negative electrode material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Taisuke Asano (Hyogo Ken, Japan), Yohei Uchiyama (Hyogo Ken, Japan) and Yosuke Sato (Osaka Fu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, including a silicate phase, silicon particles dispersed in the silicate phase, and a crystal phase dispersed in the silicate phase. The silicate phase contains at least one element E...