US Patent Issued to SANYO Electric on Sept. 30 for "Battery" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,564, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Battery" was invented by Ryoichi Wakimoto (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery includes: an electrode body obtained by stacking a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate with a separator interposed therebetween, the positive electrode plate including a first positive electrode tab group; an exterior body having an opening and housing the electrode body; a sealing plate sealing the opening: a positive electrode terminal attached to the sealing plate; and a substantially plate-shaped positive electrode current collector ...