Roll Map Controller for Battery Electrode Process Data Integrity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing secondary battery manufacturing processes lack reliable methods for generating and managing roll maps that integrate time-series data with real-world coordinates, leading to inefficiencies in process feedback and feedforward control.

Innovation Solution

A roll map generating system and method that utilizes a controller with memory regions and a central processing unit to collect and copy start and completion data of the roll-to-roll process, generating a roll map that integrates time-series data with real-world coordinates, enabling efficient process feedback and feedforward control.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If data is collected in a single memory region for roll map generation, then the system structure is simple, but data reliability is compromised due to potential data loss

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata reliabilityVSAvoidmemory structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The memory device is divided into multiple memory regions (first memory region for collecting data, second memory region for storing copied data). This segmentation ensures that critical process data is preserved even if one region fails or gets overwritten, thereby improving data reliability without requiring a completely redundant system

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The controller copies collected data from the first memory region to the second memory region. This creates a backup mechanism where critical data such as start and completion information is preserved in a separate location, ensuring data reliability while maintaining a relatively simple overall system architecture

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Manufacturing precision

If roll map generation integrates time-series data with real-world coordinates, then process control precision is improved, but data processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocess control precisionVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The controller acts as an intermediary device that collects data from various sources, integrates time-series information with real-world coordinates, and generates roll maps. This intermediary approach enables precise process control by systematically organizing complex data relationships without requiring direct complex interactions between all system components

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary data collection and organization in memory regions before generating the final roll map. By pre-processing and structuring data (collecting start/completion data, copying to backup regions) before final integration, the system achieves high precision while managing complexity through staged processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If critical process data is preserved through multiple memory regions, then productivity is improved through better process feedback, but data management complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing efficiencyVSAvoiddata management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements process feedback by collecting data about process events (start and completion), storing it in multiple memory regions, and using this information to generate roll maps that inform future process adjustments. This feedback mechanism improves productivity by enabling continuous process optimization while the multi-region memory structure manages the complexity of handling and preserving critical data

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP4712147A1Process controller, roll map generation system including same, and method for generating roll map by using same
Publication Date: 2026.03.18 LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD
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AI summary

Example embodiments of the present technology provide a roll map generating method. The roll map generating method includes collecting first data, which represents a first event of an electrode sheet where a roll-to-roll process is performed, in a first memory region, and copying the first data to a second memory region.