US Patent Issued to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS on Dec. 2 for "Terminal component, secondary battery, and battery pack" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,179, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Terminal component, secondary battery, and battery pack" was invented by Kosuke Suzuki (Toyota, Japan) and Takahiro Sakurai (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal component includes a first metal and a second metal overlapped on the first metal. At a boundary between the first metal and the second metal, there is a joint portion in which the first metal and the second metal are joined by metal joining. The second metal has a groove on the outside of the joint portion on the surface opposite to the surface overlapped on the first met...