US Patent Issued to TOSOH on Oct. 21 for "Electrolytic manganese dioxide, method for manufacturing same, and use thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,300, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOSOH Corp. (Yamaguchi, Japan).

"Electrolytic manganese dioxide, method for manufacturing same, and use thereof" was invented by Naoto Suzuki (Yamaguchi, Japan), Akinori Eshita (Yamaguchi, Japan) and Takayuki Shoji (Miyazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide electrolytic manganese dioxide excellent in cell performance in high rate discharge and middle rate discharge when used as a cathode material for alkaline manganese dry cells, and a method for its production.Electrolytic manganese dioxide, characterized in that the average size of mesopores is at least 6.5 nm and at most 10 n...