Patents by Inventor Joo-Sung Lee

Joo-Sung 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).

  • Patent number: 10541399
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a secondary battery separator, and a manufacturing method therefor. The secondary battery separator according to the present invention comprises an organic/inorganic composite porous layer for improving thermal resistance and physical strength, and since the organic/inorganic composite porous layer uses polymer particles as a binder, the secondary battery separator, compared with a separator using a solvent-type binder resin using organic solvents, exhibits excellent permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo-Sung Lee, Ji-Eun Kim, In-Gyoung Yu, Sun-Mi Jin, Da-Kyung Han
  • Publication number: 20200006737
    Abstract: A separator, a method of manufacturing the same, and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a separator includes a non-crosslinked polyolefin layer; and a crosslinked polyolefin layer disposed on one surface of the non-crosslinked polyolefin layer and having at least one crosslinking bond represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, wherein the separator is configured such that the non-crosslinked polyolefin layer of the separator faces a positive electrode. In some embodiments, a lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and the separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The lithium secondary battery has a high melt-down temperature and shows high oxidation stability under high-voltage/high-temperature environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventor: Joo-Sung Lee
  • Publication number: 20190393509
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a positive electrode slurry composition, and a positive electrode for a secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode slurry composition, and particularly, to a positive electrode slurry composition which includes a positive electrode active material, a fluorine-containing polymer, a conductive agent, a solvent, and a polymer or oligomer containing a unit represented by Formula 1, and a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode slurry composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Joo Sung Lee, Yun Feng Xue, Myung Soo Ko, In Seong Chang
  • Patent number: 10468663
    Abstract: An electrode with a porous binder coating layer may be manufactured in a method including (S10) a step of preparing the electrode including an active material layer formed on at least one surface of a current collector; (S20) a step of acquiring a binder emulsion by adding a binder to a dispersion medium; and (S30) a step of coating the binder emulsion acquired at the step (S20) on a surface of the active material layer of the electrode in a screen printing method using a mesh to form a binder coating layer of a porous structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Kyung Shin, Min-Hyung Kim, Dong-Wook Sung, In-Hyouk Sung, Ji-Eun Lee, Joo-Sung Lee
  • Patent number: 10468652
    Abstract: Provided are a separator for a lithium secondary battery and a manufacturing method therefor. In order to improve processability and cell stability by increasing the bonding force between a separator and a coating layer, the separator comprises: a porous polymer substrate having a plurality of pores; a porous coating layer formed on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate; and an emulsion binder layer formed between the porous polymer substrate and the porous coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Dae-Sung Jang, Dong-Wook Sung, Ji-Eun Kim, Joo-Sung Lee
  • Patent number: 10454090
    Abstract: An electrode tab coated with an electrical insulating layer according to one aspect of the present disclosure, and a secondary battery comprising the same can provide further enhanced electrical insulating effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sun-Mi Jin, In-Gyoung Yu, Joo-Sung Lee
  • Publication number: 20190278316
    Abstract: A CMOS temperature sensor is provided. The CMOS temperature sensor, comprises: a bandgap reference circuit outputting a constant bandgap reference voltage regardless of temperature using a first voltage inversely proportional to temperature and a second voltage proportional to temperature and generating a first current proportional to temperature using the second voltage; a reference voltage generator copying the first current and outputting a reference voltage generated using the first voltage and the copied first current; and a temperature information voltage generator copying the first current and outputting a temperature information voltage proportional to temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: JOO SUNG LEE, JOO SEONG KIM, KWANG HO KIM, SANG HO KIM
  • Patent number: 10411234
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of preparing a separator for a lithium secondary battery, comprising: forming a porous coating layer on at least one surface of a porous substrate, the porous coating layer comprising inorganic particles; bringing polymer particles into electric charging to obtain electrically charged polymer particles; transferring the electrically charged polymer particles on the top surface the porous coating layer to form a functional coating layer; and fixing the functional coating layer with heat and pressure, a separator prepared by the method, and a lithium secondary battery comprising the separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignees: LG Chem, Ltd., TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Joo-Sung Lee, Jong-Hun Kim
  • Patent number: 10374203
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heat-diffusible separator including a separator, and a porous heat transfer film formed on at least one surface of the separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Kyung Shin, Min-Hyung Kim, Dong-Wook Sung, In-Hyouk Sung, Ji-Eun Lee, Joo-Sung Lee
  • Publication number: 20190237975
    Abstract: A method of charging a secondary battery, including first, second and third charging sections in which a CC-charging performed as first, second, and third C-rate (C1, C2, C3), respectively, is supplied until the voltage of the secondary battery reaches a respective first, second and third charging cutoff voltage (V1), (V2), (V3) and a CV-charging is performed as the respective charging C-rate gradually decreases in response to reaching the respective charging cutoff voltage (V1), (V2), (V3), wherein the charging cutoff voltage satisfies the V1=n?(0.25˜0.15), V2=n?(0.2˜0.1), and V3=n (here, ‘n’ is an electric potential at the full charge of the secondary battery), and V1<V2<V3, and the ratio of the first C-rate (C1):the second C-rate (C2):the third C-rate (C3) satisfies following condition (1): C1:C2:C3=3.8˜4.2:2.8˜3.2:0.8˜1.2 (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Hyuk SONG, Joo Sung LEE
  • Patent number: 10305079
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a separator, comprising the steps of (S1) preparing a porous planar substrate having multiple pores; (S2) coating a coating solution obtained by dissolving a binder polymer in a solvent and dispersing inorganic particles therein on the porous substrate to form a porous coating layer and drying the porous coating layer; and (S3) applying a binder solution on the surface of the dried porous coating layer to form an adhesive layer, wherein the binder solution has a surface energy of at least 10 mN/m higher than that of the porous coating layer and a contact angle of the binder solution to the surface of the porous coating layer maintained at 80° or more for 30 seconds. In accordance with the present invention, a separator capable of obtaining sufficient adhesion force with minimizing the amount of an adhesive used for the adhesion with an electrode, and minimizing the deterioration of battery performances can be easily manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignees: LG Chem, Ltd., TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jeong-Min Ha, Joo-Sung Lee, Jin-Woo Kim, Jong-Hun Kim, Sun-Mi Jin, Bo-Kyung Ryu
  • Publication number: 20190081306
    Abstract: A preparation method of a separator according to the present disclosure includes preparing an aqueous slurry including inorganic particles, a binder polymer, and an aqueous medium, and coating the aqueous slurry on at least one surface of a porous polymer substrate to form an organic-inorganic composite porous coating layer, wherein capillary number of the aqueous slurry has a range between 0.3 and 65.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicants: LG CHEM, LTD., TORAY BATTERY SEPARATOR FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joo-Sung LEE, Sun-Mi JIN
  • Patent number: 10224523
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a secondary battery pouch with an enhanced insulation property, and a method for manufacturing the same, and more specifically, to a secondary battery pouch for preventing occurrence of cracks in a sealing portion of a periphery of a pouch in a completed pouch-type secondary battery, particularly at a folded portion of the sealing portion, and a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung-Kyun Yu, Sang-Hun Kim, Joo-Sung Lee, Soo-Ji Hwang, Won-Pill Hwang
  • Patent number: 10193120
    Abstract: The present disclosure improves a quality of the secondary battery by minimizing a size of the adhesion layer between the electrode and the separator to improve the transfer of lithium ions of which movement was obstructed by the adhesion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Hyung-Kyun Yu, Sun-Mi Jin, Joo-Sung Lee
  • Patent number: 10177359
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a separator for an electrochemical device with pores having predetermined diameter, permeation time, and tortuosity, to allow for smooth movement of lithium ions and a method for manufacturing the same, and smooth movement of lithium ions may be optimized by the separator for an electrochemical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo-Sung Lee, Su-Jin Yoon, Dong-Wook Sung, Da-Kyung Han, Kyung-Ryun Ka, Jong-Hun Kim
  • Patent number: 10158111
    Abstract: A preparation method of a separator according to the present disclosure includes preparing an aqueous slurry including inorganic particles, a binder polymer, and an aqueous medium, and coating the aqueous slurry on at least one surface of a porous polymer substrate to form an organic-inorganic composite porous coating layer, wherein capillary number of the aqueous slurry has a range between 0.3 and 65.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignees: LG CHEM, LTD., TORAY BATTERY SEPARATOR FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joo-Sung Lee, Sun-Mi Jin
  • Patent number: 10135053
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a porous separator including an elastic material, and a separator manufactured by the method. The separator includes an elastic material being uniformly dispersed in a polymer at a weight ratio of 40:60 to 5:95, and a value of elongation at break in a low tensile strength direction at room temperature is greater than or equal to 250%. In addition, the method of manufacturing a porous separator includes forming an extruded sheet by extruding a mixture of a polymer and an elastic material at a weight ratio of 95:5 to 60:40, forming a film by annealing and stretching the extruded sheet, and forming a porous separator by heat setting the stretched film. Accordingly, a thermal shrinkage ratio of the film is reduced and an elongation at break is greatly increased, to provide a porous separator with improved stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo-Sung Lee, Byoung-Jin Shin, Dong-Wook Sung, Jong-Hun Kim
  • Publication number: 20180315971
    Abstract: Disclosed are a separator having an electrode adhesive layer and an electrochemical device including the same. The electrode adhesive layer includes organic particles and an acrylic resin binder. Preferably, the acrylic resin binder is present in an amount of 30 wt % or more, so that a film-shaped electrode adhesive layer can be formed even when the organic particles have a particle diameter smaller than that of the pores of the underlying substrate or voids of the underlying porous coating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Hye-Jin KWON, So-Mi JEONG, Ji-Eun KIM, Joo-Sung LEE, Sun-Mi JIN
  • Patent number: 10115950
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of preparing a separator for a lithium secondary battery, comprising: (S1) bringing polymer particles into electric charging to obtain electrically charged polymer particles; (S2) transferring the electrically charged polymer particles on at least one surface of a porous polymer substrate to form an electrode-adhesion layer whose area ranges from 1 to 30% based on the total area of the porous polymer substrate; and (S3) fixing the electrode-adhesion layer with heat and pressure. In accordance with the present disclosure, an electrode-adhesion layer is applied by using electrostatic charging, more specifically coating polymer particles by way of laser printing, without the addition of a slurry in a solvent, thereby allowing easy handling and storage and needs no drying step of the solvent to provide cost savings effect as well as rapid and efficient preparation of the separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo-Sung Lee, Sun-Mi Jin, Da-Kyung Han, Ji-Eun Kim, Kyung-Ryun Ka
  • Publication number: 20180277815
    Abstract: Disclosed are a separator and an electrochemical device comprising the same, the separator comprising: a porous substrate having a plurality of pores; and a porous coating layer formed on at least one surface of the porous substrate or at least one surface of the porous substrate and a portion of the pore, the porous coating layer containing a plurality of inorganic particles and a binder polymer disposed on a part or the entirety of a surface of the inorganic particle to connect and fix the inorganic particles, wherein the inorganic particle comprises an alumina particle and an aluminum hydroxide particle having a smaller average particle diameter than the alumina particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Wook Sung, Min-Hyung Kim, In-Hyouk Sung, Hyun-Kyung Shin, Ji-Eun Lee, Joo-Sung Lee