ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,026, issued on March 4, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Lid body and sealed battery" was invented by Yuki Sato (Toyota, Japan), Yozo Uchida (Toyota, Japan), Hideki Asadachi (Toyota, Japan), Tsuyoshi Ehara (Toyota, Japan), Syoichi Tsuchiya (Toyota, Japan), Masataka Asai (Toyota, Japan), Tsuyoshi Asano (Toyota, Japan), Masahiro Uchimura (Toyota, Japan) and Nozomi Tateyama (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a lid body including: a terminal member being mainly made up of a first metal; a sealing plate mainly made up of a second metal; and a ...