Battery Equipment

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Li-Ion Automatic Winder

  • Designed for effective Li handling
  • Includes tab cutting and staking
  • Three-station winding stage minimizes cycle time (shown with cover removed)
  • Dual conveyor outfeed
  • Precise edge alignment for optimal quality and savings
  • Programmable tensioning
  • Easy spool change
  • Weld and cutoff of material while maintaining tension
  • Can be built with pinch spindles or core-based winding with tailstock
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Custom Winders

  • Accommodates a range of material widths
  • Precise edge alignment for optimal quality and savings
  • Programmable tensioning
  • Easy spool change
  • Supports two unwind spools and two take-up spools
  • Weld and cutoff of material while maintaining tension
  • Can be built with pinch spindles or core-based winding with tailstock

Cap Welding Machine

  • Designed for 18650 and JR123 cells, other sizes possible.
  • Integrates easily with existing conveyors.
  • Caps are ultrasonically welded to cathode tab.
  • Weld controller monitors process variables.
  • Vision system detects weld quality and cap placement.
  • Cam driven for most actuations, high reliability and consistent timing.
  • 30-60 ppm depending on cell configuration.

Canning Machine

  • Designed for 18650 and JR123 cells, other sizes possible.
  • Integrates easily with existing conveyors.
  • Places top and bottom insulators in one machine (most are separate machines).
  • 2 cameras detect insulator quality and placement.
  • Cam driven for most actuations; high reliability and consistent timing.
  • 30-60 ppm depending on cell configuration.

Hundreds More..

We have been involved in the battery industry since 1983, and have built many pieces of equipment and/or processes for numerous chemistries for consumer, medical and military cells.

We have built:

  • manual winders,
  • automatic testers,
  • inspection equipment,
  • laser welders,
  • resistance welders,
  • fixturing and tooling of all sorts including progressive dies,
  • cap crimping machines,
  • electrolyte wetting machines,
  • conveyors,
  • material and product handling machinery,
  • pick and place machines,
  • cell testers,
  • pack testers,
  • laminators,
  • slitters/rewinders,
  • coating machines,
  • data collections systems, and
  • all sorts of equipment for every facet of cell production.

Please feel free to contact us to discuss your needs.