US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Feb. 24 for "Device for and method of determining whether or not electrode tab is bent" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,517, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device for and method of determining whether or not electrode tab is bent" was invented by Yeol Mae Yeo (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for determining whether or not positive and negative electrode tabs constituting an electrode assembly are bent includes: a stably nesting portion in which the electrode assembly is stably nested; an electrode tab contact portion arranged on a side surface of the stably nesting portion and configured to move downward so as to come into contact wit...