US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 3 for "Method of producing electrode and electrode production apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,807, issued on June 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method of producing electrode and electrode production apparatus" was invented by Tomoyuki Uezono (Okazaki, Japan) and Momoka Oda (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "(a) An aerosol including an active material, a binder, and a gas is made. (b) A film-like flow of the aerosol is formed. (c) An electrically-charged region is formed by corona discharge. (d) The film-like flow passes through the electrically-charged region. (e) The film-like flow is introduced into an electric field after passing through the electrically-charged region. In the electric ...