Patents by Inventor Jung Kwan PYO

Jung Kwan PYO 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).

  • 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
  • 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: 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20200067050
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for manufacturing an electrode assembly. The method for manufacturing the electrode assembly comprises a melting induction process of inducing melting on an outer surface of a separator by a melting induction solvent to increase an adhesion force of an interface between an electrode and the separator and a lamination process of alternately combining and laminating the electrode and the separator, wherein the melting induction process comprises a vaporization process of vaporizing the melting induction solvent to form a space that is humidified by vapor, and the electrode and the separator are disposed in the space that is humidified by the vapor to induce the uniform melting on the outer surface of the separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Tae Kyu Kim, Cha Hun Ku, Jung Kwan Pyo
  • Publication number: 20190386289
    Abstract: Provided are an electrode unit and a method for manufacturing the electrode unit. According to the present invention, after the electrode unit is manufactured by using heat, bending of the electrode unit occurring by cooling the electrode unit may be eliminated or minimized. To achieve the aforementioned object, in the method for manufacturing the electrode unit according to an embodiment of the present invention, stress applied to the inside of each of the positive electrode collector and the negative electrode collector is calculated to reflect the calculated results, thereby selecting the positive electrode collector and the negative electrode collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Kwan Pyo, Sung Jong Kim, Cha Hun Ku, Tae Kyu Kim, Won Nyeon Kim, Gyung Soo Kang
  • Publication number: 20190044177
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrode assembly and a method for manufacturing the same, and more particularly, to an electrode assembly in which a degree of alignment of cells is improved and a method for manufacturing the same. An electrode assembly according to the present invention comprises a separator sheet folded in a zigzag shape and a unit cell having a structure in which an electrode and a separator are alternately stacked, wherein the unit cell is repeatedly disposed between the separator sheet that is folded in a zigzag shape, and at least a portion of the unit cell and at least a portion of the separator sheet are bonded to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Kyun LEE, Jung Kwan PYO, Cha Hun KU
  • Publication number: 20180323415
    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: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Kyun LEE, Cha Hun KU, Jung Kwan PYO, Ju Hyeon CHO