MUMBAI, India, June 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517048673 A) filed by Sacmi Cooperativa Meccanici Imola Societa' Cooperativa, Imola, Italy, on May 20, for 'an apparatus and a method for manufacturing slabs from cathode active material for rechargeable batteries.'
Inventor(s) include Foschi, Davide; and Casalini, Giovanni.
The application for the patent was published on June 6, under issue no. 23/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Described is an apparatus (1) for manufacturing slabs (2) from powdery raw material. The powdery raw material is cathode active material for rechargeable batteries. The apparatus (1) comprises: a lower die (3), defining a moulding cavity (4); an upper die (6) provided with an upper punch (601). The upper die (6) and the lower die (3) are movable relative to one another along a vertical direction (V) between an open position and a pressing position. The upper die (6) and the lower die (3) are also displaceable to a pre-pressing position where the moulding cavity (4) is closed by the upper punch (601) but is in air communication with a surrounding air volume. The apparatus (1) also comprises a vacuum system for sucking air from the moulding cavity (4) when in the pre-pressing position and to keep a negative pressure inside the moulding cavity when in the pressing position."
The patent application was internationally filed on Oct. 23, 2023, under International application No.PCT/IB2023/060668.
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