ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,242, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Daito, Japan).
"Secondary battery" was invented by Kazuaki Tamura (Hyogo, Japan), Yoshifumi Magari (Hyogo, Japan), Atsutoshi Ako (Hyogo, Japan), Akira Nishida (Hyogo, Japan), Kentaro Tsukamoto (Hyogo, Japan) and Tomoyuki Yamada (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary battery provided with: a belt-like positive electrode plate having a plurality of positive electrode tabs; and a positive electrode current collector which is connected so that the plurality of positive electrode tabs are stacked, wherein the positive electrode plate has a positive electrode ...