US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 22 for "Secondary battery including a wound electrode body with specified foil bundling" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,187, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Secondary battery including a wound electrode body with specified foil bundling" was invented by Koshiro Yoneda (Ichinomiya, Japan) and Fumihiko Ishiguro (Oobu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary battery has a flat-shaped wound electrode body and a rectangular battery case housing the wound electrode body. In the wound electrode body, in at least any one of a positive electrode current collection foil laminated part and a negative electrode current collection foil laminated part, a positive electrode current collection foil exposed portion or ...