Patents by Inventor Byeong-Kyu Lee
Byeong-Kyu Lee 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).
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Patent number: 12368181Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrode assembly according to the present invention comprises: a step (a) of transferring an electrode, in which a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of separators are alternately stacked, to a first position; a step (b) of forming an adhesive layer on both side portions of the separators, which are provided in the electrode assembly disposed at the first position, in a full width direction; a step of (c) of allowing the pair of pressing blocks provided at a second position to move in a direction corresponding to each other, wherein an interval between the pair of pressing blocks is less than a length of each of the separators in a full width direction and is greater than a length of each of the electrodes in a full width direction; a step (d) of allowing both the side portions of the separator to be bent upward while being in contact with the pressing blocks when the electrode assembly disposed at the first position descends to be inserted between the pair of pressing bloType: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.Inventors: Won Nyeon Kim, Hyun Kyung Shin, Su Taek Jung, Soon Kwan Kwon, Byeong Kyu Lee
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Patent number: 12368186Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an electrode assembly includes a separator supply unit, a table, a separator guide, and first and second upper adhesive supply units. The separator supply unit is configured for supplying a separator sheet from which a separator is formed. The table is configured for supporting a plurality of electrodes and sections of the separator sheet. The separator guide is configured for guiding the separator sheet to fold in a particular folding direction. The first and the second upper adhesive supply units are configured for applying an adhesive to respective sections of the separator sheet. The table is configured for rotating in a first rotational direction such that a first table side of the table moves closer to the second upper adhesive supply unit and in a second rotational direction such that a second table side of the table moves closer to the first adhesive supply unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.Inventors: Jin Gon Kim, Byeong Kyu Lee, Su Taek Jung
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Patent number: 12355056Abstract: Discussed are an apparatus for manufacturing an electrode assembly, an electrode manufactured therethrough, and a secondary battery. The apparatus includes an upper and lower roll to press upper and lower portions of the stack, respectively; an upper support part to support the upper roll; a mover to allow the upper support part to move; a lower support to support both sides of the lower roll; a pressure detector provided on the lower support to measure a pressure applied to the lower roll, thereby detecting a pressure applied to the stack; and a controller to adjust the pressure applied to the stack by reflecting a pressure detection value detected in the pressure detector, the pressure detector comprising a first pressure detector to detect pressure applied to one side of the lower roll; and a second pressure detector to detect pressure applied to the other side of the lower roll.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Byeong Kyu Lee, Su Taek Jung, Soon Kwan Kwon, Hyun Kyung Shin, Won Nyeon Kim
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Patent number: 12337567Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressing apparatus capable of uniformly pressing an object to be pressed using a pressure adjustment portion having a fluid contained therein irrespective of the shape of the object and a pressing method using the same.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.Inventors: Byeong Kyu Lee, Soon Kwan Kwon, Ju Hyeon Cho, Su Taek Jung
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Patent number: 12272812Abstract: Discussed is an electrode assembly manufacturing method including an operation of stacking an electrode and separator to form an electrode stack and an operation of laminating the electrode stack while heating the electrode stack in order to manufacture an electrode assembly having increased force of coupling between the electrode and the separator while preventing damage to the electrode assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Byeong Kyu Lee, Su Taek Jung, Soon Kwan Kwon, Hyun Kyung Shin
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Patent number: 12266753Abstract: A method of manufacturing a unit cell having a negative electrode, a separator, and a positive electrode are stacked and placed between guide rollers. One of the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator is coated with a binder, and the separator is dipped in a solvent to soften a cured binder before the separator is put between the guide rollers. An apparatus for manufacturing a unit cell includes a reservoir in which at least two or more transfer rollers that rotate while the separator passes therethrough are mounted, and a solvent is stored at a predetermined level; and a chamber into which the separator passing through a reservoir is put together with the positive electrode and the negative electrode. Guide rollers are disposed so that the negative electrode and the positive electrode move to both surfaces of the separator, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Byeong Kyu Lee, Su Taek Jung, Soon Kwan Kwon, Hyun Kyung Shin, Won Nyeon Kim, Seong Won Choi
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Publication number: 20250079530Abstract: An electrode assembly, a manufacturing method, an ultrasonic cutting device, a cylindrical battery including the electrode assembly, a battery pack and a vehicle including the same are provided. In the electrode assembly, two electrodes and a separator interposed therebetween are wound about an axis, at least one of the electrodes includes an uncoated portion provided at a long side end, a winding turn region of the uncoated portion is provided at one end of the electrode assembly, the winding turn region includes a cut portion and a bent portion alternately disposed along a circumferential direction of the electrode assembly, an axial height of the cut portion is smaller than an axial height of the bent portion, the bent portion includes a plurality of uncoated portion flags, and the plurality of uncoated portion flags overlap along and axial direction to define a bending surface region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2022Publication date: March 6, 2025Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Joo-Young CHUNG, Jin-Gon KIM, Su-Taek JUNG, Tae-Jong KIM, Byeong-Kyu LEE
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Publication number: 20250046854Abstract: An electrode assembly includes electrodes and a first separator sheet in which the electrodes and first separator sheet portions of the first separator sheet are alternately stacked. The electrode comprises a first electrode and a second electrode. The first separator sheet has a zigzag shape formed by being folded at least twice. A length of the second electrode is shorter than a length of the first electrode. the electrode assembly includes a molding member located between a first section of the first separator sheet wrapping the second electrode and a first outer side surface of the electrode assembly and between the second electrode and a second outer side surface of the electrode assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.Inventors: Byeong Kyu Lee, Su Taek Jung, Joo Young Chung, Jin Gon Kim, Woo Jung Jung, Seung II Kim
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Publication number: 20240413484Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a separator for an electrochemical device, which includes (S1) preparing a coating slurry including a polymer binder, inorganic particles, and a dispersion medium; (S2) heating at least one surface of a porous substrate; and (S3) applying the coating slurry prepared in the step (S1) to the at least one surface of the porous substrate heated in the step (S2) to form a porous coating layer, wherein the porous coating layer includes an area, where the polymer binder is filmed, in at least a portion of the surface in contact with the porous substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2023Publication date: December 12, 2024Inventors: So Yeong LEE, Won Sik BAE, So Mi JEONG, Byeong Kyu LEE
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Publication number: 20240372152Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an electrode assembly includes a separator supply unit, a table, a separator guide, and a pair of upper adhesive supply units. The separator supply unit is configured for supplying a separator sheet from which a separator is formed. The table is configured for supporting an electrode and a portion of the separator sheet. The separator guide is configured for guiding the separator sheet to fold in a particular folding direction. The pair of upper adhesive supply units are configured for applying an adhesive to at least a part of an uppermost electrode supported by the table. The separator guide and the pair of upper adhesive supply units are configured for translation over and relative to the table. The electrode assembly is manufactured by a process using the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.Inventors: Jin Gon Kim, Byeong Kyu Lee, Su Taek Jung
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Patent number: 12074291Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an electrode assembly includes a separator supply unit, a table, a separator guide, and a pair of upper adhesive supply units. The separator supply unit is configured for supplying a separator sheet from which a separator is formed. The table is configured for supporting an electrode and a portion of the separator sheet. The separator guide is configured for guiding the separator sheet to fold in a particular folding direction. The pair of upper adhesive supply units are configured for applying an adhesive to at least a part of an uppermost electrode supported by the table. The separator guide and the pair of upper adhesive supply units are configured for translation over and relative to the table. The electrode assembly is manufactured by a process using the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.Inventors: Jin Gon Kim, Byeong Kyu Lee, Su Taek Jung
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Publication number: 20240283003Abstract: An electrode assembly according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes an electrode assembly in which electrodes and separator sheets are alternately stacked in a Z-folding type, wherein the electrode includes a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the separator sheet has a zigzag shape formed by being folded at least twice, wherein a length of the second electrode is smaller than a length of the first electrode, and wherein an adhesive member is located between either one of both side surfaces of the electrode assembly and the second electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.Inventors: Seokhoon Jang, Hyeok Jeong, Su Taek Jung, Soon Kwan Kwon, Byeong Kyu Lee
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Publication number: 20240258649Abstract: An electrode assembly includes alternately stacked electrodes and separator sheet portions of a separator sheet. The electrodes include a first and second electrodes. The separator sheet has a zigzag shape. The second electrode is shorter than the first electrode. A side surface wrapped by the separator sheet between opposing side surfaces of the first electrode and a side surface wrapped by the separator sheet between opposing side surfaces of the second electrode are respectively spaced apart from the separator sheet. An opposite side surface between the opposing side surfaces of the first electrode protrudes further than the separator sheet from the side surface of the second electrode. A separation distance between the separator sheet and the side surface of the second electrode is equal to or shorter than a distance by which the first electrode protrudes further than the second electrode from the side surface of the second electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.Inventors: Byeong Kyu Lee, Su Taek Jung, Joo Young Chung, Jin Gon Kim, Woo Jung Jung, Seung Kim, II
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Pouch-shaped battery case comprising crack prevention structure and method of manufacturing the same
Patent number: 12051823Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.Inventors: Byeong Kyu Lee, Cha Hun Ku, Tae Kyu Kim -
Patent number: 11978861Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Won Nyeon Kim, Jung Kwan Pyo, Cha Hun Ku, Byeong Kyu Lee, Tai Jin Jung
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Publication number: 20240123431Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel supramolecular self-assembly, a carbon nitride and a photocatalyst using same, and a manufacturing method therefor. The present invention can provide, by using a supramolecular self-assembly, a carbon nitride having a high N—C?N bonding ratio, a photocatalyst having excellent photocatalytic activity under visible light, and a manufacturing method therefor, the supramolecular self-assembly comprising: a plurality of complex units formed by hydrogen bonding two or more nitrogen-containing compounds to each other; and linker units connecting the plurality of complex units by hydrogen bonds, wherein the nitrogen-containing compounds and the linker units are each independently a —NH group and capable of hydrogen bonding with the —NH group, and the supramolecular self-assembly contains one or more heteroatoms selected from the group consisting of N, S, and O.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: University of Ulsan Foundation for Industry CooperationInventors: Byeong Kyu LEE, Milad JOURSHABANI
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Publication number: 20240120616Abstract: A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly having a positive electrode provided with a positive electrode tab, a separator, and a negative electrode provided with a negative electrode tab, the positive electrode, the separator, and the negative electrode being wound, the electrode assembly having a core part at a center thereof; a can configured to receive the electrode assembly therein, the negative electrode tab being connected to the can; a cap assembly coupled to an opening of the can, the positive electrode tab being connected to the cap assembly; and a reinforcing member provided on an end of the separator exposed beyond the positive electrode or the negative electrode to prevent heat of the positive electrode tab or the negative electrode tab from being transferred to the separator.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Soon Kwan KWON, Su Taek JUNG, Seok Hoon JANG, Hyeok JEONG, Sang Ho BAE, Byeong Kyu LEE, Seong Won CHOI, Min Wook KIM, Yong Jun LEE
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Publication number: 20240039027Abstract: A method of manufacturing a unit cell having a negative electrode, a separator, and a positive electrode are stacked and placed between guide rollers. One of the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator is coated with a binder, and the separator is dipped in a solvent to soften a cured binder before the separator is put between the guide rollers. An apparatus for manufacturing a unit cell includes a reservoir in which at least two or more transfer rollers that rotate while the separator passes therethrough are mounted, and a solvent is stored at a predetermined level; and a chamber into which the separator passing through a reservoir is put together with the positive electrode and the negative electrode. Guide rollers are disposed so that the negative electrode and the positive electrode move to both surfaces of the separator, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2020Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Byeong Kyu LEE, Su Taek JUNG, Soon Kwan KWON, Hyun Kyung SHIN, Won Nyeon KIM, Seong Won CHOI
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Publication number: 20230398758Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressing apparatus capable of uniformly pressing an object to be pressed using a pressure adjustment portion having a fluid contained therein irrespective of the shape of the object and a pressing method using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.Inventors: Byeong Kyu Lee, Soon Kwan Kwon, Ju Hyeon Cho, Su Taek Jung
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Publication number: 20230378611Abstract: A separator includes a polyolefin-based separator substrate and a coating portion formed on at least a part of an outer surface of the separator substrate. An uneven portion is formed along an outer periphery of at least one side of the separator, whereby it is possible to prevent deviation of a separator sheet from a movement direction during transfer of the separator sheet and stacking of an electrode assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Seok Hoon JANG, Byeong Kyu LEE, Hyeok JEONG, Soon Kwan KWON, Su Taek JUNG