Abstract: Battery systems according to embodiments of the present technology may include a battery including a first electrode terminal and a second electrode terminal accessible along a first surface of the battery. The battery systems may also include a module electrically coupled with the battery. The module may include a first mold extending toward the battery. The first mold may define a recess along a first surface of the first mold proximate the first electrode terminal and the second electrode terminal. The module may include a first conductive tab electrically coupling the module with the first electrode terminal. The first electrode terminal may be at least partially positioned within a space defined by the recess defined by the first mold. The module may also include a second conductive tab electrically coupling the module with the second electrode terminal.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling a vehicle thermal management apparatus, may include a component state unit of collecting a state of a vehicle component, a disturbance collection unit of collecting a state of a disturbance affecting thermal management of the vehicle component, a determination unit of calculating an amount of heat exchange between the vehicle component and a thermal management apparatus, which is required in the future, based on a past state value of the vehicle component collected through the component state unit and a past state value of the disturbance collected through the disturbance collection unit, and an operation unit of controlling operation of the thermal management apparatus based on the amount of heat exchange determined by the calculation unit.

Abstract: Methods, microbial fuel cells and microbial consortia for generating electrical current are provided according to the present invention which include providing a microbial consortium to an anode chamber of a microbial fuel cell, wherein the microbial consortium includes: 1) an engineered methanogen that contains a heterologous nucleic acid sequence encoding methyl-coenzyme M reductase derived from an anaerobic methane oxidizer, 2) an exoelectrogen microbe that produces electrically-conductive appendages and/or one or more types of electron carrier, and 3) a sludge, methane-acclimated sludge, a sludge isolate component, a methane-acclimated sludge isolate component chosen from Paracoccus spp., Geotoga spp., Geobacter spp., Methanosarcina spp., Garciella spp., humic acids; or a combination of any two or more thereof.

Abstract: A housing for receiving a rechargeable battery pack having a plurality of rechargeable battery cells, in particular prismatic rechargeable battery cells or rechargeable pouch battery cells, having an encircling, preferably injection-molded, housing wall of plastics material which laterally surrounds a receptacle space for the rechargeable battery pack and in which at least one wound package wound from a strand of continuous fibers is integrated as a reinforcement structure, and to a method for producing such a housing.

Abstract: Disclosed is a nonaqueous electrolyte solution containing a lithium electrolyte, methyl 3,3,3-trifluoropropionate, and a phosphazene compound. Preferably, the phosphazene compound is a cyclic phosphazene compound represented by the disclosed general formula (I).

Abstract: According to one embodiment, provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes lithium manganese composite oxide particles having a spinel crystal structure and lithium cobalt composite oxide particles. The negative electrode includes a titanium-containing oxide. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains a propionate ester. The battery satisfies 0.8?p/n?1.2 and 1?w/s?60. p denotes a capacity per unit area of the positive electrode. n denotes a capacity per unit area of the negative electrode. w denotes a content of the propionate ester in the nonaqueous electrolyte and is in a range of 10% by weight to 60% by weight. s denotes an average particle size of the lithium manganese composite oxide particles.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to an electrified vehicle configured to power limit a battery based on a thermal exchange capacity, and a corresponding method. In particular, an example electrified vehicle includes a battery, a thermal management system configured to circulate thermal exchange fluid relative to the battery, and a controller configured to power limit the battery based on a thermal exchange capacity of the thermal exchange fluid.

Abstract: A battery module includes a secondary battery, a cooler, and a heat conducting member disposed between the secondary battery and the cooler. The secondary battery has at least one electrode body and a case. The case has an opposite wall facing the cooler. The opposite wall has a recessed groove shaped so as to be depressed toward the inside of the case. The heat conducting member fills a space between the opposite wall and the cooler including the inside of the recessed groove.

Abstract: A temperature equalization and heat dissipation container structure of a lithium battery and a combination module thereof are disclosed. The temperature equalization and heat dissipation container structure of lithium battery includes a base and a housing frame erected on the base. The housing frame includes a pair of first heat conducting walls spaced apart from each other and a pair of second heat conducting walls spaced apart from each other. The base, the first heat conducting walls and the second heat conducting walls are enclosed to form a hollow accommodating area, and the pair of first heat conducting walls are erected with a pitch gradually widening from bottom to top.

Abstract: An electrode comprises a current collector; and an active material-containing layer having active materials on the current collector. The active material-containing layer has a first surface contacting the current collector and a second surface which is opposite side of the first surface. At least one part of the second surface is covered by a compound containing Zn. When an image of the second surface is taken by Scanning Electron Microscope, the image is divided into 100 blocks, a ratio of existence of blocks having hexagonal platelet shaped compound containing Zn to the 100 blocks is calculated, and the ratio of existence of blocks is calculated with respect to 10 images, an average of the ratio of existence of blocks with respect to the 10 images is 20% or less (including 0).

Abstract: Provided are an electrolyte for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery using a positive electrode including nickel, where the battery generates a small amount of gas during a durability test even if the cell potential reaches 4.1 V or more, as well as a non-aqueous electrolyte battery using the electrolyte. In the electrolyte for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery including a positive electrode including at least one selected from the group consisting of oxides containing nickel and phosphates containing nickel as a positive electrode active material, the electrolyte comprises (I) a non-aqueous organic solvent, (II) a fluorine-containing solute being an ionic salt, (III) at least one additive selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulae (1) and (2), and (IV) hydrogen fluoride in an amount of 5 mass ppm or more and less than 200 mass ppm based on the total amount of the components (I), (II), and (III).

Abstract: A pouch battery module is provided. The pouch battery module includes a metal housing, wherein a plurality of pouch battery cells arranged along a first direction is disposed inside the metal housing; and a rigid insulation plate being provided between an outermost pouch battery cell and the metal housing along the first direction.

Abstract: Described herein is a multilayer microporous film or membrane that may exhibit improved properties, including improved dielectric break down and strength, compared to prior monolayer or tri-layer microporous membranes of the same thickness. The preferred multilayer microporous membrane comprises microlayers and one or more lamination barriers. Also disclosed is a battery separator or battery comprising one or more of the multilayer microporous films or membranes. The inventive battery and battery separator is preferably safer and more robust than batteries and battery separators using prior monolayer and tri-layer microporous membranes. Also, described herein is a method for making the multilayer microporous separators, membranes or films described herein.

Abstract: A cell includes a support substrate that is of a flat plate shape that includes a first principal surface and a second principal surface on an opposite side of the first principal surface and a columnar shape that includes a longitudinal direction and includes a gas flow path in an inside thereof, and a plurality of element parts that are arranged away from one another on the first principal surface and the second principal surface where at least a fuel electrode, a solid electrolyte film, and an air electrode are laminated thereon. The cell includes a first portion that is located on a side of the first principal surface with respect to the gas flow path and a second portion that is located on a side of the second principal surface with respect to the gas flow path. Structures of the first portion and the second portion are asymmetric.

Abstract: An electrolyte including a mixture of hydroxynaphtoquinone and a precursor material thereof is provided. The electrolyte may achieve higher capacities.

Abstract: A cathode of a metal-air battery includes an electrically conductive metal oxide in a three-dimensional (3D) network structure, wherein the electrically conductive metal oxide of the three-dimensional network structure is in a form of a plurality of strands, wherein a strand of the plurality of strands has an aspect ratio in a range of about 10 to about 107, and wherein the three-dimensional network structure has a porosity of about 70 volume percent to about 95 volume percent, based on a total volume of the three-dimensional network structure.

Abstract: A busbar for a battery pack, intended to electrically connect at least one electrochemical accumulator battery of the pack, preferably to electrically connect several electrochemical accumulator batteries of the pack to one another, including an electrically conductive and sealtight envelope itself intended to channel the current of the accumulator batteries and designed to contain a heat transfer liquid whose vaporization temperature is chosen so as to be between a value close to 90% of the self-heating temperature and a value close to 110% of the thermal runaway temperature of the accumulator batteries of the pack, the sealtight envelope being designed to guarantee an injection of heat transfer liquid as close as possible to each accumulator battery to which it is intended to be connected, preferably close to at least one of its output terminals.

Abstract: A charge/discharge control apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention is an apparatus that controls charge or discharge of a secondary battery to be charged or discharged on the basis of at least one condition of use calculated from a deterioration model or a deterioration map of a secondary battery and at least one inner state parameter of the secondary battery to be charged or discharged. The charge/discharge control apparatus updates the condition of use on the basis of change of the inner state parameter.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a first aqueous electrolyte held on the positive electrode, a negative electrode, a second aqueous electrolyte held on the negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. A difference between an osmotic pressure (N/m2) of the first aqueous electrolyte and an osmotic pressure (N/m2) of the second aqueous electrolyte is 90% or less (including 0%) of the higher one of the osmotic pressure of the first aqueous electrolyte and the osmotic pressure of the second aqueous electrolyte.

Abstract: A controller of a battery pack air cooling system is configured to calculate a degradation amount of each target battery based on integrated temperature information of each target battery that makes up a battery pack, calculate degradation variations in the battery pack based on the degradation amount of each target battery, when it is determined that a detected battery temperature of any one of the target batteries is higher than an outside air temperature, cause an air sending device to send outside air to the battery pack, and, when it is determined that the detected battery temperature is lower than or equal to the detected outside air temperature and it is determined that the degradation variations in the battery pack are greater than or equal to a threshold, cause an air sending device to send outside air to the battery pack.