ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,904, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Electrical storage device" was invented by Daisuke Ito (Hyogo, Japan), Yukihiro Mizonobe (Hyogo, Japan) and Kensuke Watanabe (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This electrical storage device comprises: an electrode body; a bottomed cylindrical outer can; a sealing plate to which a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal are attached; and a functional part placed near the positive electrode terminal or the negative electrode terminal on the inner surface of the sealing plate. The electrode body has a positive electrode tab ...