US Patent Issued to Panasonic Holdings on March 31 for "Separator cutting device and separator cutting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,452, issued on March 31, was assigned to Panasonic Holdings Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Separator cutting device and separator cutting method" was invented by Ryuta Abe (Osaka, Japan) and Tatsuya Masada (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator cutting device includes: a conveyance unit for conveying a continuous body of separators for batteries; a tension applying mechanism for applying tension to at least a portion of the continuous body in the conveyance direction of the continuous body; and a laser irradiation unit for irradiating the portion of the continuous body onto which the tension has been applied by the tension...