ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,047, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Battery and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Hiroyuki Nakayama (Okazaki, Japan), Takeyuki Ozaki (Seto, Japan) and Kohji Umemura (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery case includes a case-penetrating hole. An external terminal includes a member-engaging hole and is stacked on an outside of the battery case so that the member-engaging hole and the case-penetrating hole align with each other. An internal terminal includes a shaft portion and a fastening portion. The shaft portion is inserted through the case-penetrating hole and...