ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,957, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Electrode manufacturing and drying apparatus and method" was invented by Ji Hwan Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Oh Cheol Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Soon Sik Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jeongwon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode manufacturing apparatus includes a supply part to supply an electrode precursor, a drying part to dry the electrode slurry, an air supply part to supply high-temperature vapor, an air introducing part to introduce the supplied high-temperature vapor, a flow path connected from the air int...