InterBattery 2015: Samsung unveils next gen of batteries with wearable batteries: Stripe and Band.

Samsung SDI unveiled Stripe battery that bends like fiber and Band battery for smartwatches.

Samsung is paving its way to the foldable smartphone/tablet launch maybe for 2016 with the stripe battery.

Press Release:

Samsung SDI’s Next-Gen Wearable Battery Unpack…Showing Next-Generation Battery at InterBattery 2015.

To showcase Stripe battery that bends like fiber and Band battery for smartwatches

Samsung SDI achieved higher flexibility and high performance energy density with independent technology       

Samsung SDI unveiled Stripe and Band batteries at InterBattery 2015. The batteries are an embodiment of the age of wearable batteries that is applicable to any curves of a human body.

-Samsung SDI (CEO Nam Seong Cho) (KRX:006400) unveiled Samsung’s Stripe and Band batteries at InterBattery 2015, which will be held at COEX, Seoul from October 20 for 3 days. The batteries are an embodiment of the age of wearable batteries that is applicable to any curves of a human body.

       The Stripe battery, which Samsung SDI revealed for the first time, is a next-generation product that can bend and conform freely as a fiber and is equipped with innovative energy density. Since it is adaptable to various forms - such as a necklace, hairband, t-shirt accessories, and more - it will in result fuel the growth of battery application market including wearables.

The Stripe battery contains multiple element technologies that were independently developed by Samsung SDI. Cutting-edge materials were used internally and externally to finalize an ultra-slim 0.3mm design. It also created higher energy density compared to other present batteries by minimizing the width of battery sealing. The Stripe battery took grasp of both design flexibility and high performance.

Samsung SDI also showcased its Band battery at the trade show. The Band battery is a next-generation product that was made to target smartwatches. When the battery is applied on the bands of any smartwatch, it will greatly enhance the battery capacity to over 50%.

The Band battery of Samsung SDI proved to have sufficient marketability by operating normally subsequent to being bended over 50 thousand times within the curvature of human wrist circumference. At InterBattery 2015, Samsung SDI also demonstrated wearable applications that were loaded with their Stripe and Band products. It is a step into the age of wearable batteries where a battery takes the reign in front of application.

Contacts

Samsung SDI

David Kim, +82-2-2255-2655

sangeun44.kim@samsung.com

or

Joanne Cho, +82-2-2255-2613

jungyoon.cho@samsung.com