US Patent Issued to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS on Feb. 4 for "Battery and electrode body holder" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,381, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Battery and electrode body holder" was invented by Yukinobu Miyamura (Kobe, Japan) and Ryoichi Wakimoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery is provided in which an electrode tab group is hardly damaged. In the herein disclosed battery, an electrode body includes an electrode body main body part, a positive electrode tab group protruding from a first end part, and a negative electrode tab group protruding from a second end part. The positive electrode tab group and the negative electrode tab group are folded and bent to make tip ends...