US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on Aug. 12 for "Method for producing nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,121, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for producing nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Tetsuya Okado (Hyogo, Japan), Masashi Muraoka (Hyogo, Japan), Tomoharu Arai (Hyogo, Japan) and Atsushi Miyazaki (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for producing a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to the present invention, a wound electrode body and a flat wound electrode body are formed by pressing. The flat wound electrode body and a cover member are connected to each other; a battery case a...