Battery Separator Roll Stocking with Horizontal Support Bar

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional methods for stocking and carrying battery separator rolls do not adequately prevent deformation and roll misalignment, which can lead to inefficiencies and damage in battery production.

Innovation Solution

A method involving the use of a horizontal support bar inserted into the core of the battery separator roll to prevent deformation and misalignment during stocking and carrying, utilizing a movable carrier with a horizontal support bar to maintain the roll's integrity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional stocking methods are used for battery separator rolls, then the rolls can be stored and transported, but deformation and roll misalignment occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveroll integrityVSAvoidroll alignment
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

A support bar is introduced as an intermediary element between the separator roll and the stocking environment. The support bar inserts into the core of the separator roll, providing internal structural reinforcement that prevents deformation and maintains roll alignment during storage and transport, thereby resolving the contradiction between roll integrity and alignment stability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The separator roll structure is segmented into three distinct components: the separator material, the core, and the support bar. This segmentation allows the support bar to be independently positioned within the core, providing targeted structural support where needed without affecting the separator material, thus maintaining both roll integrity and alignment

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Device complexity

If no support structure is used, then the stocking method is simple, but deformation and misalignment of the separator roll occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestocking method complexityVSAvoidroll shape stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

The support bar serves as a simple intermediary component that inserts into the roll core, providing shape stability without requiring complex external fixtures or support structures. This maintains stocking method simplicity while effectively preventing roll deformation and misalignment

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The support bar is designed to be inserted into the existing core of the separator roll, utilizing the core's own structure as the receiving element. This self-service approach eliminates the need for additional external support mechanisms, keeping the stocking method simple while ensuring roll shape stability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10411235B2Method for stocking battery separator roll, method for producing same, method for carrying same, and carrier for same
Publication Date: 2019.09.10 SUMITOMO CHEM CO LTD
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AI summary

A wagon (90b) includes a plurality of horizontal support bars (91f). A separator roll (12b) is stocked while the horizontal support bar is inserted into a core of the separator roll (12b) around which core a separator is rolled. This can prevent deformation and roll misalignment of the stocked separator roll.