ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,020, issued on July 21, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Electrode sheet manufacturing device" was invented by Tetsumasa Maruo (Ibaraki, Japan), Shun Yamazaki (Himeji, Japan) and Shota Hirohata (Kasai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode sheet manufacturing device includes a pair of rolls that press an electrode active material layer formed on an electrode sheet, a press pressure adjusting mechanism that adjusts a press pressure of the pair of rolls, a temperature sensor that detects a surface temperature of at least one of the pair of rolls, and a controller. The controller is configured t...