US Patent Issued to LG Energy Solution on Dec. 30 for "Crack-prevention sealing block for pouch-shaped secondary batteries, pouch-shaped battery case manufactured using the same, and method of sealing pouch-shaped battery case" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,534, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Crack-prevention sealing block for pouch-shaped secondary batteries, pouch-shaped battery case manufactured using the same, and method of sealing pouch-shaped battery case" was invented by Tae Kyu Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Byeong Kyu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Cha Hun Ku (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing block for sealing a pouch-shaped secondary battery includes a main body unit for sealing at least a part of an outer edge of a battery case from which an electrode terminal protrudes by applying heat and/or pressu...