US Patent Issued to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS on March 4 for "Secondary battery and assembled battery" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,039, issued on March 4, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Secondary battery and assembled battery" was invented by Ryoichi Wakimoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary battery disclosed herein includes: an electrode body; a battery case; a terminal extracted from a terminal extracting hole to outside of the battery case; and an external conductive member joined to the terminal. The external conductive member has a through-hole into which a part of the terminal is inserted, and a joining portion between the external conductive member and the terminal is formed at a peripheral edge of th...