US Patent Issued to LG Energy Solution on Oct. 14 for "Slitter" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,906, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Slitter" was invented by Duck Joong Yun (Daejeon, South Korea), Wonjun Song (Daejeon, South Korea) and Minsu Pak (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slitter according to an embodiment of the present art includes: an upper knife disposed above the electrode plate to rotate, thereby cutting the electrode plate; and a lower knife disposed below the electrode plate to partially overlap the upper knife and rotate, thereby cutting the electrode plate together with the upper knife, wherein the upper knife includes: a first inner surface...