US Patent Issued to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS on Aug. 12 for "Method of producing electrode, method of producing battery, electrode, and battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,069, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Method of producing electrode, method of producing battery, electrode, and battery" was invented by Hikaru Yoshida (Ibaraki, Japan) and Shigeki Matsuta (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slurry is prepared by mixing active material particles, capsule-shaped particles, a binder, and an organic solvent. The slurry is applied to a surface of a substrate to form a coating film. The coating film is heated to dry to form an active material layer. The active material layer is compressed to produce an electrode. Each of the capsule-shaped partic...