US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, TOYOTA BATTERY on Nov. 25 for "Method for manufacturing cell" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,847, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan), PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo) and TOYOTA BATTERY Co. LTD. (Kosai, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing cell" was invented by Kentaro Suzuki (Kariya, Japan), Koichi Tanimoto (Takarazuka, Japan) and Yuki Mizuno (Kosai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a cell includes the steps of: preparing a housing portion having an opening; preparing a lid portion that includes a plate portion, a first external terminal located on the plate portion, and a second external terminal located on the plate portion at a position away from...