Matsushita Battery devises paper-thin coin battery

OSAKA, Japan - Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. has developed what it claims to be the world's thinnest coin-shaped lithium storage battery for use as a power source for thin card devices with integrated circuits (ICs) inside. The ''Paper Coin'' battery has a thickness of 0.4 millimeter (0.016 inch), thin enough to be mounted in IC cards with a thickness of 0.76 millimeter, designated as an international standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the company said in Osaka on Nov. 30.

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• ILEA000003375

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• 1999/11/30 00:00:00

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• Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

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