US Patent Issued to LG ENERGY SOLUTION on June 23 for "Separator for lithium secondary batteries with improved heat resistance" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,260, issued on June 23, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Separator for lithium secondary batteries with improved heat resistance" was invented by Jin Young Shin (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyung Ryun Ka (Daejeon, South Korea), So Mi Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Je An Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for a lithium secondary battery, the separator including a separator substrate including a porous polymer resin and a heat resistance layer on at least one side of the separator substrate. The heat resistance layer includes a phenolic resin configured to be hardened when he...