US Patent Issued to PANASONIC HOLDINGS, PANASONIC ENERGY on May 6 for "Transport drum for electrode assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,046, issued on May 6, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan) and PANASONIC ENERGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transport drum for electrode assembly" was invented by Kenji Inagaki (Hyogo, Japan), Tatsuya Masada (Hyogo, Japan) and Masahide Maruyama (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminated electrode body manufacturing device is provided with: a negative electrode cutting drum for cutting a negative electrode veneer to a first width to create a negative electrode plate, a negative electrode heating drum; a positive electrode cutting drum for cutting a positive electrode veneer to a second width to create a p...