Patents by Inventor Cha Hun Ku

Cha Hun Ku has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10903479
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for manufacturing an electrode or a solid electrolyte for an all-solid-state battery. The apparatus for manufacturing an electrode or a solid electrolyte for an all-solid-state battery includes a first roller member configured to press an electrode or a solid electrolyte for an all-solid-state battery, and a second roller member located to be spaced apart from the first roller member to press the electrode or the solid electrolyte for an all-solid-state battery. The first roller member and the second roller member are disposed at opposite locations based on the electrode or the solid electrolyte for an all-solid-state battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventors: Sang-Kyun Lee, Min-Wook Kim, Baeck-Boem Choi, Cha-Hun Ku
  • Patent number: 10903468
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a plasma generating apparatus for a secondary battery. The plasma generating apparatus for the secondary battery comprises a transfer roller that transfers a separator, a metal member disposed within the transfer roller, a plasma generating member that interacts with the metal member to generate a plasma and irradiate the generated plasma onto a surface of the separator, and a protrusion member that causes a portion of the separator closely attached to the transfer roller to protrude and forms an adhesion area, which is adhesive, and a non-adhesion area, which is non-adhesive or less adhesive than the adhesion area, by allowing the plasma to be irradiated onto the adhesion area and no plasma or less plasma to be irradiated onto the non-adhesion area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Duck Hoe Kim, Min Wook Kim, Ju Hyeon Cho, Cha Hun Ku, Sang Kyun Lee
  • Publication number: 20200406528
    Abstract: To solve the above problem, a pouch forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a die in which a forming space is recessed inward from a top surface thereof; a partition wall partitioning the forming space into first and second forming spaces; a stripper disposed above the die and configured to descend to contact the die with the pouch film therebetween to fix the pouch film to be seated on a top surface of the die; and an electromagnetic force generation part disposed above the forming space and configured to generate electromagnetic force and configured to apply the electromagnetic force to the forming space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tai Jin Jung, Hang June Choi, Kun Ha Park, Cha Hun Ku, Jung Kwan Pyo
  • Patent number: 10854924
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrode assembly and a method for manufacturing the same, and more particularly, to an electrode assembly which is capable of improving an alignment of a secondary battery, realizing a high-capacity battery, and simplifying manufacturing processes of the secondary battery, and a method for manufacturing the same. The electrode assembly includes an electrode stack in which a plurality of first electrodes spaced apart from each other are disposed between two separators and second electrodes attached to both outer surfaces of the electrode stack at alternate positions of a plurality of positions on which the first electrodes are disposed, wherein, in the electrode stack, an area between the first electrode and the adjacent first electrode is folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Inventors: Jung Kwan Pyo, Sung Jong Kim, Sang Hyun Koo, Soo Ryoung Kim, Cha Hun Ku, Sung Min Hwang
  • Publication number: 20200370882
    Abstract: An alignment inspection apparatus for the electrode assembly including a laminate, in which a first separator, an internal electrode, a second separator, and an upper electrode are sequentially laminated, includes a camera disposed above a central portion of the electrode assembly to photograph and inspect the electrode assembly and side lights obliquely irradiating light onto each of both ends of the upper electrode. The side lights are symmetrical to each other with respect to the central portion of the electrode assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Tai Jin JUNG, Cha Hun KU, Su Taek JUNG, Jung Kwan PYO
  • Patent number: 10826039
    Abstract: An electrode assembly for a secondary battery having reduced internal resistance while adhesion between a separator and an electrode is maintained and having improved electrolyte impregnation the electrode assembly including a separator having a processed area having undergone a corona discharging process and a non-processed area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Kyun Lee, Ju Hyeon Cho, Cha-Hun Ku, Seok Jin Kim, Duck Hoe Kim
  • Patent number: 10804560
    Abstract: A unit cell for a secondary battery includes a central electrode having a first polarity, a pair of separators respectively laminated on both surfaces the central electrode, and an upper electrode and a lower electrode respectively laminated on the pair of separators and having a second polarity, wherein the separator has a patterned adhesive force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Kyun Lee, Ju-Hyeon Cho, Duck-Hoe Kim, Cha-Hun Ku
  • Patent number: 10749160
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrode assembly. The electrode assembly comprises: a first separator sheet; and a first electrode sheet and a second electrode sheet, which respectively adhere to both surfaces of the first separator sheet, wherein patterned masks having different adhesion force are respectivley disposed on both the surfaces of the first separator sheet, and the first electrode sheet adheres to the mask of a first surface of both the surfaces, which has relatively high adhesion force, and the second electrode sheet adheres to the mask of a second surface having relatively low adhesion force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Kyun Lee, Cha Hun Ku, Jung Kwan Pyo, Ju Hyeon Cho
  • Patent number: 10749152
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sealing apparatus for a secondary battery, which seals a sealing part of a case in which an electrode assembly and an electrolyte are accommodated, and the sealing apparatus comprises a sealing member comprising a first sealing piece and a second sealing piece, which thermally fuse a surface of the sealing part to seal the sealing part, wherein the first sealing piece and the second sealing piece comprise a plurality of thermal fusion parts, which are disposed from an outer end of a surface of the sealing part toward an inner end that is opposite to the outer end to thermally fuse the surface of the sealing part, and non-thermal fusion parts, which are disposed between the plurality of thermal fusion parts and do not seal the surface of the sealing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Kyun Lee, Cha Hun Ku
  • Publication number: 20200235433
    Abstract: A lamination apparatus for a secondary battery comprises a roller part comprising a separator supply roller that supplies a separator sheet and an electrode supply roller that supplies an electrode sheet, a cutting part that cuts the electrode sheet supplied by the electrode supply roller to manufacture a plurality of electrode plates, a first transfer part that transfers the electrode plates cut by the cutting part at a same interval, an inspection part that inspects whether the electrode plates transferred by the first transfer part are defective, a second transfer part that transfers a normal electrode plate, which is determined as the normal electrode plate by the inspection part, among the electrode plates, and a lamination part that thermally bonds the normal electrode plate transferred by the second transfer part to the separator sheet supplied by the separator supply roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Won Nyeon Kim, Jung Kwan Pyo, Cha Hun Ku, Tae Kyu Kim
  • Patent number: 10714716
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sealing apparatus for a secondary battery, which seals a sealing part of a case in which an electrode assembly and an electrolyte are accommodated, and the sealing apparatus comprises a sealing member comprising a first sealing piece and a second sealing piece, which thermally fuse a surface of the sealing part to seal the sealing part, wherein the first sealing piece and the second sealing piece comprise a plurality of thermal fusion parts, which are disposed from an outer end of a surface of the sealing part toward an inner end that is opposite to the outer end to thermally fuse the surface of the sealing part, and non-thermal fusion parts, which are disposed between the plurality of thermal fusion parts and do not seal the surface of the sealing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Kyun Lee, Cha Hun Ku
  • Publication number: 20200212494
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing the secondary battery includes a first measurement part photographing unit cells, which are continuously transferred, to measure a position of a first electrode having a relatively large size of the first electrode and a second electrode, which are provided in the unit cells and have polarities opposite to each other, from an image of each of the photographed unit cells; and a first arrangement part disposing the unit cell passing through the first measurement part at a preset position of the separation sheet to adjust an interval between the unit cells disposed on the separation sheet on the basis of the position of the first electrode, which is measured by the first measurement part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Nyeon KIM, Jung Kwan PYO, Cha Hun KU, Byeong Kyu LEE, Tai Jin JUNG
  • Publication number: 20200203754
    Abstract: An electrode transferring apparatus of a battery cell includes: a transferring body configured to transfer at least one electrode of the battery cell; and an electrode gripper mounted to the transferring body to be vertically movable, the electrode gripper being configured to grip at least one electrode of the battery cell and having a rounded end in contact with the at least one electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Kyun LEE, Baeck-Boem CHOI, Cha-Hun KU, Min-Wook KIM, Jin-Gon KIM
  • Publication number: 20200185680
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a plasma generating apparatus for a secondary battery. The plasma generating apparatus for the secondary battery comprises a transfer roller that transfers a separator, a metal member disposed within the transfer roller, a plasma generating member that interacts with the metal member to generate a plasma and irradiate the generated plasma onto a surface of the separator, and a protrusion member that causes a portion of the separator closely attached to the transfer roller to protrude and forms an adhesion area, which is adhesive, and a non-adhesion area, which is non-adhesive or less adhesive than the adhesion area, by allowing the plasma to be irradiated onto the adhesion area and no plasma or less plasma to be irradiated onto the non-adhesion area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Duck Hoe KIM, Min Wook KIM, Ju Hyeon CHO, Cha Hun KU, Sang Kyun LEE
  • Publication number: 20200185675
    Abstract: Disclosed are a pouch-shaped battery case including an upper case and a lower case sealed to one another, the upper case and the lower case made of a laminate sheet comprising a metal layer and a resin layer, at least one of the upper case and the lower case having a concave unit for receiving an electrode assembly, the upper case and the lower case being sealed at all corners thereof located along the outer edge of the concave unit, a middle of a first side surface of each of the upper case and the lower case having a non-sealed portion for gas discharge, the first side surface being adjacent to a second side surface of each of the upper case and the lower case through which an electrode terminal extends, a method of manufacturing the pouch-shaped battery case, and a sealing block for manufacturing the pouch-shaped battery case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Byeong Kyu Lee, Cha Hun Ku, Tae Kyu Kim
  • Publication number: 20200168941
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing an electrode assembly, comprising: interposing a plurality of first electrodes one by one, which are spaced apart from each other, between two separators; stacking a second electrode on each of outer surfaces of the separators on each of both sides of the first electrode at positions that are skipped by one of the plurality of positions on which the first electrodes are disposed to alternately continuously form a bi-cell, in which the second electrode/the separator/the first electrode/the separator/the second electrode are sequentially stacked, and a half-cell, in which the separator/the first electrode/the separator are sequentially stacked; cutting the stack into a unit cell in which one bi-cell and one half-cell are connected to each other; folding the unit cell so that the bi-cell and the half-cell are stacked; and stacking a plurality of folded unit cells to manufacture the electrode assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Kwan Pyo, Cha Hun Ku, Su Taek Jung, Seok Jin Kim, Tai Jin Jung
  • Publication number: 20200161647
    Abstract: A method for producing a lithium metal negative electrode structure including the steps of: (a) forming a lithium metal layer on a portion of one side or both sides of a current collector, wherein a non-coated portion of the current collector, on which a tab will be formed, is included on one side of the current collector, and wherein a stepped part is present between the non-coated portion of the current collector and the coated portion of the lithium metal layer; (b) coating and curing a photocurable material, or attaching an insulating tape, onto the stepped part between the non-coated portion of the current collector and the coated portion of the lithium metal layer; and (c) punching the result of step (b) into a unit electrode to produce the lithium metal negative electrode structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sangkyun LEE, Baeck Boem CHOI, Cha Hun KU, Minwook KIM
  • Publication number: 20200144089
    Abstract: A unit cell alignment apparatus that includes a base member, on the upper surface of which unit cells constituting an electrode assembly are stacked parallel thereto, a first guide member located at one side of the base member, the first guide member being disposed so as to be perpendicular to the upper surface of the base member, a second guide member located at the base member, the second guide member being disposed so as to be perpendicular to the upper surface of the base member while being at right angles to the first guide member, and an inclination adjustment member configured to adjust the inclination of the base member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Tai Jin JUNG, Cha Hun KU, Jung Kwan PYO, Byeong Kyu LEE
  • Publication number: 20200127334
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrode assembly and a method for manufacturing the same, and more particularly, to an electrode assembly which is capable of improving an alignment of a secondary battery, realizing a high-capacity battery, and simplifying manufacturing processes of the secondary battery, and a method for manufacturing the same. The electrode assembly includes an electrode stack in which a plurality of first electrodes spaced apart from each other are disposed between two separators and second electrodes attached to both outer surfaces of the electrode stack at alternate positions of a plurality of positions on which the first electrodes are disposed, wherein, in the electrode stack, an area between the first electrode and the adjacent first electrode is folded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Kwan Pyo, Sung Jong Kim, Sang Hyun Koo, Soo Ryoung Kim, Cha Hun Ku, Sung Min Hwang
  • Patent number: 10629945
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a secondary battery. The method comprises: a first process (S10) of manufacturing an incomplete electrode assembly; a second process (S20) of preparing a pattern member on which a patterned pressing protrusion is formed; a third process (S30) of stacking the pattern member on an outer surface of the incomplete electrode assembly; a fourth process (S40) of partially pressing the incomplete electrode assembly to pattern-bond an interface between the electrode and the separator and thereby to manufacture a complete electrode assembly; a fifth process (S50) of accommodating the complete electrode assembly into a case; a sixth process (S60) of injecting an electrolyte to impregnate the electrolyte into the electrode assembly; a seventh process (S70) of sealing an unsealed surface to manufacture a secondary battery; and an eighth process (S80) of heating and pressing an entire surface of the secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Jong Kim, Cha Hun Ku, Tae Kyu Kim, Kyung Taek Kim, Dong Hyun Kim