US Patent Issued to LG Energy Solution on July 7 for "Method and device for sealing electrode assembly" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,331, issued on July 7, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for sealing electrode assembly" was invented by Jeong Yeon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Ji Hun Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yoon Bong Wi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for sealing an electrode assembly, which includes a plurality of electrodes stacked alternately with a separator therebetween, include a nest that supports the electrode assembly and a hot air blower that blows hot air toward a corner portion of the electrode assembly to seal the corner portion in a non-contact manner. The ...