US Patent Issued to Ningde Amperex Technology on June 30 for "Separator and lithium-ion battery" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,145, issued on June 30, was assigned to Ningde Amperex Technology Ltd. (Ningde, China).

"Separator and lithium-ion battery" was invented by Dongyang Guo (Ningde, China), Gengjin Kong (Ningde, China), Kebing Guo (Ningde, China) and Xinghua Tao (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator and a lithium-ion battery. The separator includes a porous substrate, and a first coating layer arranged on at least one surface of the porous substrate, wherein the first coating layer includes an aromatic polyamide. An aramid coating layer is used; the aromatic polyamide in the aramid coating layer swells or plasticizes under the action...