US Patent Issued to TOAGOSEI on May 20 for "Binder for a secondary battery electrode and use thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,435, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOAGOSEI Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Binder for a secondary battery electrode and use thereof" was invented by Michihiro Kaai (Nagoya, Japan), Naohiko Saito (Nagoya, Japan) and Toshifumi Kondo (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A binder for secondary battery electrodes, which enables the achievement of a secondary battery electrode that has higher binding properties than ever before contains a block polymer that has a polymer block (A) and a polymer block (B), and it is configured such that: the polymer block (A) includes less than 30% by mass of a structural unit derived from (meth)acrylic ac...