US Patent Issued to LG ENERGY SOLUTION on Feb. 24 for "Button-type secondary battery with notched cap/terminal bond interface" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,418, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Button-type secondary battery with notched cap/terminal bond interface" was invented by Kwang Su Hwangbo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Geon Woo Min (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A button-type secondary battery having a cup which has an opened upper side and in which an electrode assembly and an electrolyte are mounted; a top plate which is coupled to an upper end of the cup to close the opened upper side of the cup and in which a through-hole is formed; a positive electrode terminal including a protrusion having a diameter capab...