US Patent Issued to LG ENERGY SOLUTION on Dec. 9 for "Charging and discharging apparatus comprising spacers for supporting gas pockets of battery cells" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,518, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Charging and discharging apparatus comprising spacers for supporting gas pockets of battery cells" was invented by Sae Young Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Deok Hwan Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Go Eun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging and discharging device including a plurality of pressing plates and at least one spacer for supporting a gas pocket of a battery cell to prevent gas pocket interference between battery cells and increase the space utilization rate of the gas pocket during the formation process of the bat...