US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric, PANASONIC HOLDINGS on June 24 for "Secondary battery and method of manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,222, issued on June 24, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) and PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Secondary battery and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Ryoichi Wakimoto (Hyogo, Japan), Hiroaki Imanishi (Hyogo, Japan) and Yukinobu Miyamura (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this secondary battery in which an electrode body having a positive electrode tab group at one end thereof is accommodated in a battery case, a positive electrode terminal and the positive electrode tab group are electrically connected via a second positive electrode current collector, the positive electrode tab...