IP Library Granted Patent US 9,876,218
Granted Patent B2
US 9,876,218 · App. 15/181,789 · Granted Jan 23, 2018

Intermittent coating of moving surfaces

Inventors: Andreas Huth (Ellwangen, DE); Robert Sekler (Ellwangen-Rattstadt, DE)
Assignee: VW-VM Forschungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
H01M4/0416B05B11/3097B05C5/025B05C5/0258H01M4/0404H01M4/139B05B1/1636B05B1/1645B05B1/1672B05B1/1681B05C5/0254B05D1/26B05D1/265F16K11/074F16K11/083
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Patent No.
US 9,876,218
App. No.
15/181,789
Granted
Jan 23, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A device that intermittently coats a moving surface with a paste containing electrochemically active particles including a nozzle having a slot-shaped delivery opening, a paste reservoir from which paste being supplied to the delivery opening via a transport channel, a rotary valve having a rotatably mounted control axle that enables the paste supply to the delivery opening in a first switching position and, in a second switching position, blocks the transport channel and disconnects a section of the transport channel extending as far as the delivery opening from the paste supply, and a reduced pressure source in communicating connection with the rotatably mounted control axle via a reduced pressure channel, wherein the rotatably mounted control axle comprises a passage via which the paste reservoir is in communicating connection with the delivery opening in the first switching position and via which the delivery opening is in communicating connection with the reduced pressure source in the second switching position.

Claims (7)

1. A device that intermittently coats a moving surface with a paste containing electrochemically active particles comprising:

a nozzle having a slot-shaped delivery opening,

a paste reservoir from which paste being supplied to the delivery opening via a transport channel and a slot-shaped passage within a rotary valve, the rotary valve having a rotatably mounted control axle that enables the paste supply to the delivery opening in a first switching position and, in a second switching position, disconnects the slot-shaped passage within the rotary valve from the paste supply, wherein intermittent coating of the moving surface with paste is provided via rotation of the control axle to cause flow or blockage of flow of paste from the paste reservoir as far as the delivery opening at predetermined time intervals,

wherein the slot-shaped passage has different exit openings, one exit opening closer in proximity to the nozzle delivery opening, the one exit opening configured to maintain fluid communication with the delivery opening in both the first and second positions, the one exit opening having an opening angle greater than an opening angle of a second oppositely disposed exit opening in the slot-shaped passage, wherein the slot-shaped passage via which the paste reservoir is in communicating connection with the delivery opening in the first switching position is moved via rotation of the control axle wherein the delivery opening is in communicating connection with a reduced pressure channel in fluid communication with a cylindrical bore of the rotary valve in the second switching position, wherein the reduced pressure channel is connected to a reduced pressure source.

2. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the transport channel is a slot.

3. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the control axle is cylindrical and rotatably mounted in a cylindrical bore.

4. The device according to claim 3 , wherein the bore comprises a slot-shaped outlet in a direction of the slot-shaped delivery opening.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 3, 2019
From: VW-VM FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH & CO. KG (100%)
To: VARTA MICROBATTERY GMBH (50%); VW KRAFTWERK GMBH (50%)
Reel/Frame 048780/0557 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 30, 2016
From: HUTH, ANDREAS; SEKLER, ROBERT
To: VW-VM FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 039054/0080 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2011 082 631 · Sep 13, 2011 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 14342471
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