ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,172, issued on March 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Roll press device, and control device" was invented by Fumihiro Terasawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a roll press device, rolling is performed by sandwiching an electrode plate of a secondary battery to be continuously conveyed by a first pressure roller and a second pressure roller. A controller controls loads of a first compression mechanism, a second compression mechanism, a first bend mechanism, and a second bend mechanism on the basis of setting values calculated by a calculator. The calculator previ...