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GRANTED UTILITY MODEL · CN215542414U · ACTIVE Coating Machine with Non-Stop Roll Changeover A lithium battery coating line whose feeding structure swaps in the next substrate web roll automatically - no stop, no splice, no operator at the unwind. Full specification and drawings: CN215542414U on Google Patents Reviewed by Dany Huang, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, TOB NEW ENERGY | Last updated: 10 October 2026 Electrode coating is the step that decides how much of a battery's designed capacity, safety and consistency ever reaches the finished cell - the specification calls good coating the basic premise of battery capacity, safety and consistency. But while the coating head itself improved, the machine around it had a blind spot: when a substrate web roll ran out, the line had to be stopped to load the next one. Continuous feeding was simply not possible. CN215542414U, filed on 1 September 2021, removes that stop. Its feeding structure queues fresh web rolls on a ramp, meters them one at a time into a storage trough with two hydraulically coupled gate plates, and detects the end of the running web with an infrared beam - so the spent core is pushed out and the next roll drops into place while the coater keeps coating. Patent Information Publication number CN215542414U Application number CN202122096805.9U Title (original) 一种带有连续上料装置的锂电池涂布机 (Coating Machine with Non-Stop Roll Changeover) Inventors Huang Zhengyao (Dany Huang); Chen Lucai (Tobey Chen) Current assignee XIAMEN TOB NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd. - the registered entity of TOB NEW ENERGY Filing date 1 September 2021 Grant date 18 January 2022 Document type Utility model (granted, kind code U) Legal status Active Anticipated expiration 1 September 2031 Drawings 4 figures Official record CN215542414U on Google Patents Ownership. TOB NEW ENERGY holds this granted utility model. It was filed under the company's registered Chinese entity (rendered in the page source and structured data) and is co-invented by Dany Huang (Zhengyao Huang) and Tobey Chen. About titles and terminology on this page. The English title above is a human-reviewed translation by TOB NEW ENERGY's engineering team, standardised to the terminology used across our equipment line; it is not a machine rendering. The original Chinese title and claims are the authoritative text - a reader comparing this page with Google Patents may notice wording differences precisely because the public record there is machine-translated. Figures and mechanism descriptions on this page are drawn from the Chinese specification and claims, not from any translation of them. A note on patent type. This is a Chinese utility model patent, which protects the mechanical structure of a device rather than a chemical formulation or process. Utility models carry a ten-year term and are examined for novelty and practical applicability. What follows is therefore a structural description - the claims define an apparatus, and the specification does not publish measured...

GRANTED UTILITY MODEL · CN215506637U · ACTIVE Vibrating-Screen Feeding Device for Large Mixers Screens caked lumps out of powder before it reaches the mixer, then conveys it in - so a large mixer can be fed safely while it keeps running. Full specification and drawings: CN215506637U on Google Patents Reviewed by Dany Huang, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, TOB NEW ENERGY | Last updated: 29 September 2026 Battery slurry starts as solid or powdered raw material - and powder left standing cakes. Lumps that reach the mixer degrade mixing quality, and the hardest lumps can damage the mixer itself. Yet the two feeding methods then in use had their own problems: manual feeding gave the operator little protection and was inefficient, and vacuum feeding was expensive with complex vibration equipment. Neither could add material while the mixer was running. CN215506637U, filed on 9 September 2021, solves both sides of the problem. It screens the raw material before it ever enters the mixer, and it drives the screen mechanically from the same motor that turns the screw conveyor - no separate vibrator, no extra actuator. Patent Information Publication number CN215506637U Application number CN202122171553.1U Title (original) 一种基于大型搅拌机用上料装置 (Vibrating-Screen Feeding Device for Large Mixers) Inventors Huang Zhengyao (Dany Huang); Chen Lucai (Tobey Chen) Current assignee XIAMEN TOB NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd. - the registered entity of TOB NEW ENERGY Filing date 9 September 2021 Grant date 14 January 2022 Document type Utility model (granted, kind code U) Legal status Active Anticipated expiration 9 September 2031 Forward citations Cited by 1 subsequent patent Drawings 5 figures Official record CN215506637U on Google Patents Ownership. TOB NEW ENERGY holds this granted utility model. It was filed under the company's registered Chinese entity (rendered in the page source and structured data) and is co-invented by Dany Huang (Zhengyao Huang) and Tobey Chen. About titles and terminology on this page. The English title above is a human-reviewed translation by TOB NEW ENERGY's engineering team, standardised to the terminology used across our equipment line; it is not a machine rendering. The original Chinese title and claims are the authoritative text - a reader comparing this page with Google Patents may notice wording differences precisely because the public record there is machine-translated. Figures and mechanism descriptions on this page are drawn from the Chinese specification and claims, not from any translation of them. A note on patent type. This is a Chinese utility model patent, which protects the mechanical structure of a device rather than a chemical formulation or process. Utility models carry a ten-year term and are examined for novelty and practical applicability. What follows is therefore a structural description - the claims define an apparatus, and the specification does not publish measured performance figures. Any throughput or tolerance numbers for TOB'...

GRANTED UTILITY MODEL · CN215451488U · ACTIVE 3-Axis Electrolyte Filling & Sealing Machine A position sensor locates the battery and three motor-driven lead-screw axes move the injection pipe to fill and seal it in three directions - no manual feeding, no hand stamping. Full specification and drawings: CN215451488U on Google Patents Reviewed by Dany Huang, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, TOB NEW ENERGY | Last updated: 24 September 2026 Sealing is one of the last operations a lithium battery goes through, and in the prior art it was performed the slow way: an operator fed each cell into a press by hand and a stamping action closed it. The specification of CN215451488U calls the sealing step an important link in lithium battery production and identifies the manual feeding-and-stamping route as the bottleneck - sealing efficiency was low. The patent answers with a machine that does the positioning itself. A sensor detects the cell on a working plate, and three electric motors drive three lead screws to move an injection pipe over the cell and fill and seal it. The whole handling cycle - position, inject, seal - no longer depends on an operator's hands. Patent Information Publication number CN215451488U Application number CN202122096808.2U Title (original) 一种电池生产用封口装置 (3-Axis Electrolyte Filling & Sealing Machine) Inventors Huang Zhengyao (Dany Huang); Chen Lucai (Tobey Chen) Current assignee XIAMEN TOB NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd. - the registered entity of TOB NEW ENERGY Filing date 1 September 2021 Grant date 7 January 2022 Document type Utility model (kind code U) Legal status Active Anticipated expiration 1 September 2031 Drawings 7 figures Official record CN215451488U on Google Patents Ownership. TOB NEW ENERGY holds this granted utility model. It was filed under the company's registered Chinese entity (rendered in the page source and structured data) and is co-invented by Dany Huang (Zhengyao Huang) and Tobey Chen. About titles and terminology on this page. The English title above is a human-reviewed translation by TOB NEW ENERGY's engineering team, standardised to the terminology used across our equipment line; it is not a machine rendering. The original Chinese title and claims are the authoritative text - a reader comparing this page with Google Patents may notice wording differences precisely because the public record there is machine-translated. Figures and mechanism descriptions on this page are drawn from the Chinese specification and claims, not from any translation of them. A note on patent type. This is a Chinese utility model patent, which protects the mechanical structure of a device rather than a chemical formulation or process. Utility models carry a ten-year term and are examined for novelty and practical applicability. What follows is therefore a structural description - the claims define an apparatus, and the specification does not publish measured performance figures. Any throughput or tolerance numbers for TOB's production machines...

GRANTED UTILITY MODEL · CN215451487U · ACTIVE Lab Battery Sealing Machine with Quick-Change Die A compact, glove-box-friendly sealing press for R&D battery samples: the upper die swaps through a threaded tenon and pin, and the lower-die holder slides out for cleaning. Full specification and drawings: CN215451487U on Google Patents Reviewed by Dany Huang, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, TOB NEW ENERGY | Last updated: 22 September 2026 Making a research sample is not the same job as making a production cell. A laboratory battery sealing machine works on small batches of experimental materials - often inside a glove box - and it has to adapt every time the sample changes. The specification describes the prior art candidly: the sealing devices on laboratory sealers were many and varied, and sealing a different kind of battery meant detaching and re-installing the matching die sealing groove, an operation it calls inconvenient and troublesome. CN215451487U removes that chore. The upper sealing die is held by a threaded tenon locked with a pin, so it can be unscrewed and swapped in moments; the lower-die holder rides on a sliding plate and pulls out along rails for installation and cleaning; and a support device protects the sliding plate when the press works at high force. Patent Information Publication number CN215451487U Application number CN202122023872.8U Title (original) 一种可自由更换封口装置的电池封口机 (Lab Battery Sealing Machine with Quick-Change Die) Inventors Huang Zhengyao (Dany Huang); Chen Lucai (Tobey Chen) Current assignee XIAMEN TOB NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd. - the registered entity of TOB NEW ENERGY Filing date 26 August 2021 Grant date 7 January 2022 Document type Utility model (kind code U) Legal status Active Anticipated expiration 26 August 2031 Drawings 5 figures Official record CN215451487U on Google Patents Ownership. TOB NEW ENERGY holds this granted utility model. It was filed under the company's registered Chinese entity (rendered in the page source and structured data) and is co-invented by Dany Huang (Zhengyao Huang) and Tobey Chen. About titles and terminology on this page. The English title above is a human-reviewed translation by TOB NEW ENERGY's engineering team, standardised to the terminology used across our equipment line; it is not a machine rendering. The original Chinese title and claims are the authoritative text - a reader comparing this page with Google Patents may notice wording differences precisely because the public record there is machine-translated. Figures and mechanism descriptions on this page are drawn from the Chinese specification and claims, not from any translation of them. A note on patent type. This is a Chinese utility model patent, which protects the mechanical structure of a device rather than a chemical formulation or process. Utility models carry a ten-year term and are examined for novelty and practical applicability. What follows is therefore a structural description - the claims define an apparatus, and th...

GRANTED UTILITY MODEL · CN215432708U · ACTIVE Lithium Battery Electrode Cutting Machine with Integrated Cleaning Structure A vacuum-fed battery sheet cutting machine whose slices drop straight into an ultrasonic cleaning cavity and leave the machine already clean - cutting and cleaning in one continuous flow. Full specification and drawings: CN215432708U on Google Patents Reviewed by Dany Huang, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, TOB NEW ENERGY | Last updated: 11 September 2026 Cutting battery sheets into slices is only half the job - the freshly cut pieces then have to be cleaned. The specification of CN215432708U describes what that meant on the production floor before this patent: the cutting machines in use could not clean the cut pieces themselves, so a separate cleaning machine had to stand next to each cutting machine. Machines piled together, the work area stayed dirty, and the footprint grew. CN215432708U, filed on 26 August 2021 and granted on 7 January 2022, closes that gap inside a single machine. Stacked sheets are picked up one by one by a vacuum carriage, conveyed to a set of tungsten-carbide vertical cutters, and the slices then fall directly into an ultrasonic cleaning cavity built into the same body - clean slices come out of one continuous flow. Patent Information Publication number CN215432708U Title (original) 一种带有清洁结构的锂电池的切片机 (Lithium Battery Electrode Cutting Machine with Integrated Cleaning Structure) Inventors Huang Zhengyao (Dany Huang); Chen Lucai (Tobey Chen) Current assignee XIAMEN TOB NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd. - the registered entity of TOB NEW ENERGY Filing date 26 August 2021 Grant date 7 January 2022 Document type Utility model (kind code U) Legal status Active Anticipated expiration 26 August 2031 Forward citations Cited by 1 subsequent patent Drawings 6 figures Official record Google Patents - CN215432708U About titles and terminology on this page. The English title above is a human-reviewed translation by TOB NEW ENERGY's engineering team, standardised to the terminology used across our equipment line; it is not a machine rendering. The original Chinese title and claims are the authoritative text - a reader comparing this page with Google Patents may notice wording differences precisely because the public record there is machine-translated. Figures and mechanism descriptions on this page are drawn from the Chinese specification and claims, not from any translation of them. A note on patent type. This is a Chinese utility model patent, which protects the mechanical structure of a device rather than a chemical formulation or process. Utility models carry a ten-year term and are examined for novelty and practical applicability. What follows is therefore a structural description - the claims define an apparatus, and the specification does not publish measured performance figures. Any throughput or tolerance numbers for TOB's production machines come from our equipment datasheets, not from this patent document. Who holds t...

GRANTED UTILITY MODEL · CN215430810U · ACTIVE Lithium Battery Electrode Roller Press with Independent Two-Stage Compaction Two separately controlled pressing stages, inline heating before the final nip, and continuous magnetic debris capture - the calendering patent behind TOB roller presses. Full specification and drawings: CN215430810U on Google Patents Reviewed by Dr. Dany Huang, Chief Technologist, TOB NEW ENERGY | Last updated: 10 September 2026 Calendering is the step where electrode quality is either locked in or lost. Press too lightly and the coating stays porous, with poor particle-to-particle contact. Press too hard and you destroy the capacity you just finished coating on - the patent states the mechanism plainly: excessive compaction density forces active material particles into contact too tightly, polarisation rises, working voltage drops, and the cell delivers less capacity than the coating weight promised. Between those two failure modes there is a narrow window, and a press that applies one fixed pressure through one fixed nip cannot reliably stay inside it. CN215430810U, filed on 1 September 2021, splits compaction into two independently controlled stages, adds heat before the final nip, and - unusually - cleans itself while running. Patent Information Publication number CN215430810U Title (original) 一种锂电池极片辊压机 (Lithium Battery Electrode Roller Press) Inventors Huang Zhengyao (Dany Huang); Tobey Chen Current assignee XIAMEN TOB NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd. - the registered entity of TOB NEW ENERGY Filing date 1 September 2021 Document type Utility model (kind code U) Legal status Active Anticipated expiration 1 September 2031 Forward citations Cited by 2 subsequent patents Drawings 5 figures About titles and terminology on this page. The English title above is a human-reviewed translation by TOB NEW ENERGY's engineering team, standardised to the terminology used across our equipment line; it is not a machine rendering. The original Chinese title and claims are the authoritative text - a reader comparing this page with Google Patents may notice wording differences precisely because the public record there is machine-translated. Figures and mechanism descriptions on this page are drawn from the Chinese specification and claims, not from any translation of them. A note on patent type. This is a Chinese utility model patent, which protects the mechanical structure of a device rather than a chemical formulation or process. Utility models carry a ten-year term and are examined for novelty and practical applicability. What follows is therefore a structural description - the claims define an apparatus, and the specification does not publish measured performance figures. Any throughput or tolerance numbers for TOB's production machines come from our equipment datasheets, not from this patent document. The Production Problem This Patent Solves The specification identifies three distinct failures in roller presses then in use. Over-com...

GRANTED UTILITY MODEL · CN215429971U · ACTIVE Laboratory-Scale Battery Electrode Coating Machine A complete coating line - unwinder, coating station, dryer, rewinder and an inline slurry mixer - integrated in one compact, portable housing for laboratory battery work. Full specification and drawings: CN215429971U on Google Patents Electrode coating sets the capacity, consistency and safety of a lithium cell: slurry must be spread evenly over the current collector and its solvent dried out, and coating quality flows directly into capacity, internal resistance, cycle life and safety. Production coaters do this well at scale - but they are large, built for batch production, and poorly suited to the coating work a laboratory actually needs. CN215429971U, filed on 9 September 2021, answers that gap with a different geometry: instead of shrinking a production line, it packs the whole coating function - unwinder, coating station, dryer, rewinder and slurry mixer - into a single small housing that sits on a bench and can be carried. Patent Information Publication number CN215429971U Title (original) 一种基于实验室的小型电池涂布机 (Laboratory-Scale Battery Electrode Coating Machine) Inventors Huang Zhengyao (Dany Huang); Tobey Chen Current assignee XIAMEN TOB NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd. - the registered entity of TOB NEW ENERGY Filing date 9 September 2021 Document type Utility model (kind code U) Legal status Active Anticipated expiration 9 September 2031 Drawings 6 figures About titles and terminology on this page. The English title above is a human-reviewed translation by TOB NEW ENERGY's engineering team, standardised to the terminology used across our equipment line; it is not a machine rendering. The original Chinese title and claims are the authoritative text - a reader comparing this page with Google Patents may notice wording differences precisely because the public record there is machine-translated. Figures and mechanism descriptions on this page are drawn from the Chinese specification and claims, not from any translation of them. A note on patent type. This is a Chinese utility model patent, which protects the mechanical structure of a device rather than a chemical formulation or process. Utility models carry a ten-year term and are examined for novelty and practical applicability. What follows is therefore a structural description - the claims define an apparatus, and the specification does not publish measured performance figures. Any throughput or coating-speed numbers for TOB's production machines come from our equipment datasheets, not from this patent document. The Production Problem This Patent Solves The specification identifies the mismatch plainly: battery coating machines on the market are mostly used for batch production. They are large machines, and they are not suited to the coating work of a laboratory cell. A lab researcher who needs coated electrode rolls faces an awkward choice - commit small development batches to a full-size productio...

INVENTION · PUBLISHED APPLICATION · CN1819321A CN1819321A - Lithium Ion Battery With High Multiplying Factor A 2006 electrode-chemistry route to 12-15C sustained discharge - by dry-powder premixing of active material and conductive agent before the slurry is ever made. Co-invented by TOB NEW ENERGY's chief technologist. In 2006, a commercial lithium-ion cell could typically sustain 1-3C continuous discharge. Power tools needed 5C. Flying models needed 7C. RC model aircraft needed 12C and above. That gap is why nickel-cadmium and nickel-metal-hydride packs - heavier, bulkier, burdened by memory effect - still dominated the high-drain market. Patent application CN1819321A, filed on 6 March 2006, addressed that gap without exotic materials. It reached 12-15C using conventional LiCoO₂ and carbon chemistry, changing instead how the conductive agent is distributed before the slurry is ever mixed. Twenty years later, that same principle - dry-powder premixing under inert gas - underpins the dry electrode processing equipment TOB NEW ENERGY builds today. Ⅰ. Patent Information Publication number CN1819321A Application number CNA2006100340526 Title (original) 一种高倍率锂离子电池 (A high-rate lithium-ion battery) Inventors Lei Yuanbing and Huang Zhengyao, known internationally as Dany Huang Original applicant Shenzhen Liduowei Batteries Co., Ltd. Filing date 6 March 2006 Publication date 16 August 2006 Document type Invention - published application (kind code A) Legal status Published application. No granted B-publication appears on the public record. The 20-year maximum term measured from the 2006 filing date lapsed in March 2026. Forward citations Cited by 11 subsequent patents CPC classification Y02E60/10 - Energy storage using batteries Official record Google Patents - CN1819321A · Espacenet About titles and terminology on this page. The English title above is a human-reviewed translation by TOB NEW ENERGY's engineering team, standardised to the terminology used across our equipment line; it is not a machine rendering. The original Chinese title and claims are the authoritative text - a reader comparing this page with Google Patents may notice wording differences precisely because the public record there is machine-translated. Figures and mechanism descriptions on this page are drawn from the Chinese specification and claims, not from any translation of them. This patent is not held by TOB NEW ENERGY. It was filed in 2006 by Shenzhen Liduowei Batteries Co., Ltd., with Lei Yuanbing and Huang Zhengyao as co-inventors. TOB NEW ENERGY was founded in 2012. It is published here as part of the documented invention record of Dr. Dany Huang (Huang Zhengyao), who now leads TOB NEW ENERGY's core technical team. We present it as evidence of two decades of hands-on electrode engineering experience - not as intellectual property currently owned by our company. Ⅱ. Why This Mattered in 2006 Lithium-ion had won the portable electronics market by 1990s volume production, displac...