US Patent Issued to LG Energy Solution on March 31 for "Apparatus and method for shaping pouch film for secondary batteries" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,434, issued on March 31, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for shaping pouch film for secondary batteries" was invented by Jeong Woo Hong (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Wook Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chul Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Dong Hyeuk Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a pouch film shaping apparatus including a preheating lamp configured to preheat a metal barrier layer of a pouch film in order to increase stretching force of the pouch film and a pouch film shaping method."

The patent was filed on Oct. 16, 2020, under Applicatio...