US 12,170,378 B2
Manufacture of pasted current collectors for bipolar batteries
Michael R. Romeo, St. Clair, MI (US); Jason P. Miller, Cottrellville, MI (US); and Edward F. Wood, Metamora, MI (US)
Assigned to Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc., Port Huron, MI (US)
Filed by Wirtz Manufacturing Company, Inc., Port Huron, MI (US)
Filed on Mar. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/698,219.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/162,657, filed on Mar. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0302464 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 4/82 (2006.01); H01M 4/02 (2006.01); H01M 10/18 (2006.01)
CPC H01M 4/82 (2013.01) [H01M 10/18 (2013.01); H01M 2004/029 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of making pasted substrates for use in bipolar batteries, the method comprising:
applying paste material to an elongate strip of substrate material;
cutting said elongate strip of substrate material into multiple individual substrates; and
placing current collector bodies on said pasted substrates downstream of said applying paste material to said elongate strip of substrate material and while said paste material is in a wet state.