Patent ID: 9466825
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: B29C,B29L,B32B,H01M,Y02E,Y02P,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus comprising: a first bonding unit that at least partially bonds a first separator strip and a second separator strip directly without sandwiching an electrode sheet in a width direction at a first position; a first feeding unit that supplies the first separator strip to the first position; a second feeding unit that supplies the second separator strip to the first position so as to make an angle to the first separator strip; and a third feeding unit that supplies, in synchronization with timing of bonding of the first separator strip and the second separator strip in the width direction at the first position, an electrode sheet to the first position so as to be between the first separator strip and the second separator strip and make an angle to the first separator strip and the second separator strip, and wherein the third feeding unit includes a feeder that intermittently supplies the electrode sheet to the first position at a higher speed than a feeding speed of the first separator strip and the second separator strip by the first feeding unit and the second feeding unit, and the apparatus further includes a control unit that carries out control so that the feeder supplies the electrode sheet so that a front end of the electrode sheet reaches the first position immediately after the first separator strip and the second separator strip have been bonded at the first position.