Company patents

JX Metals Corporation

JX Metals Corporation's patent strategy shows a surprising shift, with significant activity in 2024 across multiple materials categories like Alloys (up 75.0% YoY) and Powder Metallurgy (6 patents), alongside an emerging focus in Compounds Containing Metals (up 300.0% YoY to 4 patents in 2024). However, the complete absence of patent filings in 2025 across nearly all categories, including its largest in Coating & Surface Treatment (31.5% of portfolio) and Alloys (20.4% of portfolio), suggests a dramatic and unexpected change in its patenting approach or a significant delay in publication for that year.

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Yearly patent publications since 2023

Product themes

Product-level themes inferred from filings since 2023, with category chips showing where each theme appears. Select a theme to filter the patents below.

54 US filings (since 2023) · 12 categories · 15 themes

Metal Oxide Thin Film Deposition

Techniques for forming thin films of metal oxides or related metal compounds on substrates, often using solution-based methods, for applications in electronics, optics, or specialized coatings.

Compounds Containing Metals
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15since 2023
-88.9%YoY
Recording Media Materials

Development of novel material compositions, thin-film deposition techniques, and surface treatments for recording layers, lubricants, and protective coatings to improve data density, durability, and magnetic or optical properties.

Information Storage (Recording)
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13since 2023
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Semiconductor Device Manufacturing Processes

Techniques and methodologies for fabricating semiconductor devices, including etching, deposition, annealing, isolation, and doping steps, aimed at improving yield, performance, or enabling new structures.

Transistor & Device Structure
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9since 2023
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Battery Material Recovery

Processes and apparatus for disassembling spent batteries and recovering valuable materials (e.g., metals, electrolytes, plastics) through mechanical, chemical, or electrochemical methods for reuse or sustainable disposal.

Batteries & Fuel Cells
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6since 2023
-75.0%YoY
Alloy Coatings & Surface Treatment

Methods and compositions for applying metallic or alloy layers to a substrate, or modifying the surface of an alloy, to impart specific functional properties such as corrosion resistance, wear resistance, electrical insulation, or improved adhesion, without altering the bulk properties significantly.

Alloys
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6since 2023
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Advanced Magnetic Powder Materials

Development and processing of metal powders with specific magnetic properties, including soft magnetic alloys, permanent magnet materials, and insulated powders for electronic components, often involving precise control of particle size, morphology, and composition.

Powder MetallurgyAlloys
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5since 2023
-66.7%YoY
Industrial Metal Compound Production & Recycling

Large-scale processes for synthesizing, purifying, or recycling various industrial metal compounds, including sulphides, hydroxides, and sulfates, often involving chemical reactions, crystallization, or electromembrane processes.

Compounds Containing Metals
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5since 2023
-75.0%YoY
Lithium Battery Cathode Materials

Focuses on the composition, crystal structure, and synthesis methods of positive electrode active materials for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, often involving complex metal oxides of nickel, cobalt, manganese, and lithium.

Compounds Containing Metals
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4since 2023
-66.7%YoY
Battery Electrode Coating & Slurry

Slurry compositions and coating processes for battery electrodes, including binder/active-material slurries, surface coating layers, and electrode-to-foil adhesion for cathode and anode.

Batteries & Fuel Cells
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3since 2023
-50.0%YoY
Conformal & Selective Film Deposition

Methods for depositing thin films with controlled conformality, thickness, and material properties, including selective deposition on specific areas, often using atomic layer deposition (ALD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), or epitaxial growth.

Coating & Surface Treatment
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3since 2023
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Metal Additive Manufacturing Processes

Techniques for building three-dimensional metal objects layer-by-layer using metal powders, including powder bed fusion, binder jetting, and directed energy deposition. This theme encompasses process mechanics, equipment design, and operational control for AM systems.

Powder Metallurgy
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2since 2023
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Solid-State Battery Manufacturing

Process and equipment for producing solid-state battery cells, including solid electrolyte synthesis (sulfide/oxide/polymer), thin-film deposition, lamination, sintering, dry-electrode fabrication, and stacking under controlled atmosphere.

Batteries & Fuel Cells
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1since 2023
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In-situ Coating Process Diagnostics

Methods and systems for real-time monitoring and control of coating processes or chamber cleaning, utilizing sensor data (e.g., thermal, pressure, optical) and predictive models to ensure quality and optimize efficiency.

Coating & Surface Treatment
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1since 2023
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Functionally Graded Materials & Coatings

Production of materials where properties vary continuously or discontinuously through the volume, often achieved by combining different powders or applying specialized coatings like thermal sprays to enhance surface hardness, wear resistance, or thermal properties.

Powder Metallurgy
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1since 2023
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Lithium Battery Anode Materials

Active anode materials and manufacturing techniques for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, including silicon-carbon composites, graphite, lithium-metal anodes, and electrode coating processes that improve capacity, cycle life, and rate capability.

Batteries & Fuel Cells
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1since 2023
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Patents

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US 11993464 B2GRANTED
B65G47/19

Raw material discharge device, method of processing of electronic/electrical device component scrap, and method of raw material discharge for electronic/electrical device component scrap

Filed:2020-06-02Pub:2024-05-28
Applicant:JX METALS CORPORATION

Provided are a raw material discharge device, a method of processing an electronic and electrical device component scrap, and a raw material discharging method of an electronic and electrical device component scrap, which are capable of efficiently discharging the raw material having various shapes, specific gravities and shapes in each fixed amount. A raw material discharge device including: a storage unit 1 which stores a raw material and comprising a discharge port 11 at one end; a discharge unit 2 arranged at a bottom surface 15 of the storage unit 1 , which conveys the raw material toward the discharge port 11 and discharges the raw material to an outside of the storage unit 1 ; an adjustment unit 3 including a plurality of struts 31 extending from above to below the discharge unit 2 and adjusting an amount of the raw material to be discharged by holding a part of the raw material with the struts 31 ; wherein a ratio (d 1 /d 2 ) of a distance (d 1 ) between a strut 31 closest to a side surface 13, 14 of the storage unit 1 and the side surface 13, 14 of the storage unit 1 to a narrowest distance (d 2 ) between the struts 31 in a center portion of the storage unit 1 , and a ratio (H 1 /H 2 ) of a height of the strut 31 closest to the side surface 13, 14 of the storage unit 1 from a floor to a minimum height (H 2 ) of a strut 31 which is other than the strut 31 closest to the side surface of the storage unit 1 from the floor are respectively adjustable so as to prevent clogging of the raw material being discharged to the outside of the storage unit 1.

US 11961980 B2GRANTED
H01M10/54

Lithium ion battery scrap treatment method

Filed:2018-03-29Pub:2024-04-16
Applicant:JX METALS CORPORATION

The present invention relates to a method for treating lithium ion battery scrap containing Li, Ni, Co, Mn, Al, Cu and Fe, the method comprising carrying out a calcination step, a crushing step and a sieving step in this order, and after the steps, the method comprising: a leaching step of leaching the lithium ion battery scrap by adding it to an acidic solution to leave at least a part of Cu as a solid; a Fe/Al removal step comprising allowing a leached solution obtained in the leaching step to pass through a Fe removal process for separating and removing Fe by addition of an oxidizing agent and an Al removal process for separating and removing a part of Al by neutralization in any order; an Al/Mn extraction step of extracting and removing a residue of Al and Mn from a separated solution obtained in the Fe/Al removal step by solvent extraction; a Co recovery step of extracting and back-extracting Co from a first extracted solution obtained in the Al/Mn extraction step by solvent extraction and recovering the Co by electrolytic winning; a Ni recovery step of extracting and back-extracting, by solvent extraction, a part of Ni from a second extracted solution obtained by the solvent extraction in the Co recovery step and recovering the Ni by electrolytic winning; a Li concentration step of extracting and back-extracting, by solvent extraction, a residue of Ni and Li from a third extracted solution obtained by the solvent extraction in the Ni recovery step and repeating the operations of the extracting and the back-extracting to concentrate Li; and a Li recovery step of carbonating Li in a Li concentrated solution obtained in the Li concentration step to recover the Li as lithium carbonate.