Abstract: A replacement battery system design incorporating a pivoting battery holster and other features enabling one-handed battery removal for devices requiring a power source.

Abstract: A thin film battery comprises a substrate, anode and cathode current collector layers formed over the substrate, anode and cathode layers formed over and in electrical contact with respective ones of the current collector layers, and an electrolyte layer formed between the anode and cathode layers. The thin film battery further comprises a barrier layer formed from a material such as tin oxide, tin phosphate, tin fluorophosphate, chalcogenide glass, tellurite glass or borate glass. The barrier layer is configured to encapsulate the thin film battery layers and substantially inhibit or prevent exposure of the thin film battery layers to air or moisture.

Abstract: A feed-through, for example a battery feed-through for a lithium-ion battery or a lithium ion accumulator, has at least one base body which has at least one opening through which at least one conductor, for example a pin-shaped conductor, embedded in a glass material is guided. The base body contains a low melting material, for example a light metal, such as aluminum, magnesium, AlSiC, an aluminum alloy, a magnesium alloy, titanium, titanium alloy or steel, in particular special steel, stainless steel or tool steel. The glass material consists of the following in mole percent: 35-50% P2O5; 0-14% Al2O3; 2-10% B2O3; 0-30% Na2O; 0-20% M2O, with M being K, Cs or Rb; 0-35% Li2O; 0-20% BaO; and 0-10% Bi2O3, the glass material being free of lead except for contaminants.

Abstract: The present application relates to the filed of energy storage devices, and in particular, relates to a cathode sheet and a lithium ion electric roll using the cathode sheet. The cathode sheet comprises a cathode current collector, an active substance layer, a cathode tab, a head protective adhesive, a tail protective adhesive, an ending adhesive, and an anti-puncture cushion. The cathode current collector comprises a head exposed zone, a head adhesive application zone, a coating zone, a tail adhesive application zone, and a tail exposed zone. The active substance layer covers the coating zone, the head protective adhesive covers the head adhesive application zone, the tail protective adhesive covers the tail adhesive application zone, the ending adhesive is bonded to a tail of the tail exposed zone, and the anti-puncture cushion is connected to the tail exposed zone.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rechargeable battery unit, in particular for a watercraft, having a plurality of rechargeable batteries which are connected to one another by means of a holding arrangement to form a rechargeable battery cell, wherein the holding arrangement has at least one holder which forms receptacles by means of which the rechargeable batteries are held in the region of a pole end, and that at least some of the rechargeable batteries are electrically coupled to one another in the region of their poles by means of a pole connector. A design of this kind allows a powerful rechargeable battery unit to be constructed with a compact installation space, it also being possible for the rechargeable battery cells to be cascaded for the purpose of varying the energy density and/or voltage in said rechargeable battery unit. A rechargeable battery unit of this kind is suitable, in particular, for use in motor-operated watercraft.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a gel-type solid electrolyte having flexibility while maintaining the advantages of an ionic liquid by effectively internalizing the ionic liquid into a porous metal oxide. To this end, the present invention provides the gel-type solid electrolyte which includes an ionic liquid in a porous metal oxide prepared from a silane compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1: Si(R1)x(OR2)y(CR3?CR4R5)(4-x-y)??[Chemical Formula 1] in the Formula, R1 and R2 are alkyl groups with carbon numbers in the range of 1 to 3, which are independent from each other; R3, R4 and R5 are each independently hydrogen, a halogen element or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms; and x is an integer in the range of 0?x?3, y is an integer in the range of 1?y?4 and x+y is an integer in the range of 2?x+y?4.

Abstract: A non-woven fabric base material for a lithium ion secondary battery separator composed mainly of a polyethylene terephthalate fiber, characterized in that the non-woven fabric base material comprises a polyethylene terephthalate binder fiber and a crystallized polyethylene terephthalate fiber, and the content of a polyethylene terephthalate binder fiber having a fiber length of 2.5 mm or less is 10 to 60 mass %.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery includes an electrode assembly having a first electrode and a second electrode of different polarities, a case with an opening that houses the electrode assembly, the case having a pair of opposing first side walls, each first side wall of the pair of first side walls including at least one groove extending from the opening of the case to an opposite side of the case, a cap assembly coupled to the opening of the case to seal the case, a first current collecting member and a second current collecting member inside the case, the first and second current collecting members being connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, respectively, and a first terminal and a second terminal on the cap assembly, the first and second terminals being connected to the first current collecting member and the second current collecting member, respectively.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a cell stack device, the power generation efficiency of which is improved, and a fuel cell module and a fuel cell device that include the cell stack device. [Solution] A cell stack device 1 includes a cell stack 2 that includes a plurality of fuel cells 3 electrically connected to one another and arranged, the fuel cells 3 that each includes a gas channel through which a reactant gas flows. In the cell stack device 1, the fuel cells 3 of the cell stack 2 are provided in the form of fuel cell groups that each include an arbitrary number of the fuel cells 3. In the cell stack device 1, the fuel cell groups are arranged such that average pressure loss values of the fuel cells 3 of the fuel cell groups increase sequentially from a central portion to an end portion side in a fuel cell 3 arrangement direction. Thus, the power generation efficiency of the cell stack device 1 can be improved.

Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte material with favorable reduction-resistance has a second structural part formed to cover a plurality of first structural parts, a first ion conductor composing the first structural part has a specific crystal phase with favorable ion conductivity, and a weight ratio ? of an Me element to a P element in the second structural part is less than 0.72.

Abstract: High capacity energy storage devices and energy storage device components, and more specifically, to a system and method for fabricating such high capacity energy storage devices and storage device components using processes that form three-dimensional porous structures are provided. In one embodiment, an anode structure for use in a high capacity energy storage device, comprising a conductive collector substrate, a three-dimensional copper-tin-iron porous conductive matrix formed on one or more surfaces of the conductive collector substrate, comprising a plurality of meso-porous structures formed over the conductive current collector, and an anodically active material deposited over the three-dimensional copper-tin-iron porous conductive matrix is provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to an accumulator arrangement which has a plurality of series-connected individual accumulators, each individual accumulator having at least one plus pole and a minus pole as externally accessible connection poles, busbar elements being secured on the connection poles in order to form the series connection, which each connect a minus pole of an individual accumulator to a plus pole of another individual accumulator, characterized in that a specific assembly sequence of said busbar elements is determined by the structural design of the busbar elements. The invention further relates to a busbar element and a to method for producing an accumulator arrangement.

Abstract: A fuel cell comprises: a membrane electrode assembly configured to have an electrolyte membrane joined between an anode electrode and a cathode electrode; a flow path-forming member configured to form a flow path that is adjacent to one electrode out of the anode electrode and the cathode electrode and makes a flow of a reactive gas to the one electrode; and a plate-like member made of a material of blocking the reactive gas and stacked on a portion of a flow path-side surface of the one electrode to be adjacent to the flow path. The plate-like member has a gas permeation structure allowing for permeation of the reactive gas in a part where the anode electrode and the cathode electrode are placed in a stacking direction of the plate-like member on the one electrode.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a battery cell configured to have a structure in which an electrode assembly, including positive electrodes, negative electrodes, and separators disposed respectively between the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes, is mounted in a battery case made of a laminate sheet including a resin layer and a metal layer, wherein the battery case is made of a one-unit member, which is bent to form an upper case and a lower case, at least one of the upper and lower cases is provided with a receiving part, in which the electrode assembly is mounted, the receiving part having a round corner formed at at least one side edge thereof, and sealed portions, which are formed at the upper case and the lower case by thermal welding, are located at an upper side of the battery case at which at least one electrode terminal is located, a first lateral side of the battery case adjacent to the upper side, and a lower side of the battery case opposite to the upper side, and a second lateral side of the ba

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a separator including a base material and a heat resistance layer formed on at least one main surface of the base material and containing inorganic particles and a resin binder. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery further includes an electrode composite material layer stacked on the heat resistance layer and containing electrode active material particles and an interposed layer interposed between the heat resistance layer and the electrode composite material layer. In the interposed layer, the inorganic particles, the resin binder, and the electrode active material particles are present as being mixed. A ratio of a thickness of the interposed layer to a thickness of the base material is not lower than 1% and not higher than 5%.

Abstract: Provided is a current collecting assembly for use in an electrochemical cell. In some embodiments, the current collecting assembly comprises a current collecting substrate having a first side defining a first surface, and a second side defining a second surface. Each of the first and second surfaces defines a surface area. The current collecting assembly further comprises a first assembly of reinforcing structures disposed on and attached to the first side of the current collecting substrate. The current collecting substrate comprises a conductive material. The first assembly of reinforcing structures comprises a first set of reinforcing structures. The first set of reinforcing structures comprises a first polymer material. The first assembly of reinforcing structures mechanically reinforces the current collecting substrate.

Abstract: A power storage apparatus, electric device, electric vehicle, and power system are disclosed. In an example embodiment, a power storage apparatus includes a battery block comprising a plurality of battery cells and an isolating unit that enables wireless information transfer regarding battery information of the battery block.

Abstract: Disclosed is a battery separator, comprising two fiber regions comprising glass fibers, and a middle fiber region disposed between them comprising larger average diameter fibers and specified amounts of silica, or fine fibers, or both; and processes for making the separator. Also disclosed is a battery separator, comprising a fiber region and either one or two silica-containing region(s) adjacent thereto, each of the regions containing a specified amount of silica; and processes for making the separator. Such separators are useful, e.g., in lead-acid batteries.

Abstract: A battery system (BS), containing at least one battery device (BV) and at least one operating device (BTV) for operation of the battery system (BS) and/or of the at least one battery device (BV), and at least one further device (V), wherein the at least one further device (V) is intended to create a physical distance between two component parts of the battery system (BS) and in particular between the at least one battery device (BV) and a further component (K) of the battery system (BS), or between at least two component parts of the at least one battery device (BV), wherein the at least one operating device (BTV) is arranged at least partially within the at least one further device (V).

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a battery and a method for its manufacture. The method of manufacture may include forming a cathode layer proximate to a cathode current collector. The method further includes forming an electrolyte layer proximate to the cathode layer and an anode layer proximate to the electrolyte layer. The method additionally includes forming an anode current collector layer proximate to the anode layer. At least one of the cathode current collector layer or the anode current collector layer includes a plurality of graphene monolayers. The method yet further includes determining a stepped arrangement of the graphene monolayers; and patterning at least a portion of the plurality of graphene monolayers according to the stepped arrangement.