US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, TOYOTA BATTERY on June 24 for "Ultrasonic welding method using biasing members" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,411, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan), PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo) and TOYOTA BATTERY Co. LTD. (Kosai, Japan).

"Ultrasonic welding method using biasing members" was invented by Kota Ohata (Toyota, Japan) and Koshiro Yoneda (Ichinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic welding method includes welding workpieces by applying ultrasonic vibration to the workpieces, wherein in the welding, the workpieces are vibrated at an amplitude smaller than an amplitude of the ultrasonic vibration."

The patent was filed on Jan. 30, 2023, under Application No. 18/103,076.

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