Patents Examined by Muhammad S Siddiquee
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Patent number: 11978876Abstract: A battery module includes a battery cell stack constituted by a plurality of stacked pouch-shaped battery cells, a battery module housing configured to receive the battery cell stack, and a heat dissipation member coupled to a portion of the battery module housing, wherein the heat dissipation member has a through-hole formed in a heat dissipation plate disposed so as to face the battery cell stack and a sealing member is added to the through-hole, and a method of manufacturing the heat dissipation member. It is possible to effectively prevent thermal runaway of a battery cell that has caught fire while minimizing an increase in volume of the battery module.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Young Bum Cho, Eun Gyu Shin, Jae Min Yoo, Seung Joon Kim
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Patent number: 11949096Abstract: A bimodal lithium transition metal oxide based powder mixture comprising a first and a second lithium transition metal oxide based powder. The first powder comprises a material A having a layered crystal structure comprising the elements Li, a transition metal based composition M and oxygen and has a particle size distribution with a span <1.0. The second powder has a monolithic morphology and a general formula Li1+bN?1-bO2, wherein ?0.03?b?0.10, and N?=NixM?yCozEd, wherein 0.30?x?0.92, 0.05?y?0.40, 0.05?z?0.40 and 0?d?0.10, with M? being one or both of Mn or Al, and E being a dopant different from M?. The first powder has an average particle size D50 between 10 and 40 ?m. The second powder has an average particle size D50 between 2 and 4 ?m. The weight ratio of the second powder in the bimodal mixture is between 20 and 60 wt %.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: UMICORE, UMICORE KOREA LTD.Inventors: Dae-Hyun Kim, Jens Paulsen, Shinichi Kumakura, YuRi Lee, Liang Zhu, TaeHyeon Yang
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Patent number: 11949082Abstract: A battery system includes a housing configured to receive a battery cell, where the battery cell is configured to output thermal energy as a byproduct of electrical energy generation and/or consumption, a wall of the housing positioned proximate to the battery cell, and a plurality of fins extending from the wall, where the plurality of fins is configured to absorb thermal energy from the battery cell and dissipate the thermal energy to air, or a heat sink, or both, and where a fin of the plurality of fins comprises a channel configured to facilitate a flow of the air between the fin of the plurality of fins and an adjacent fin of the plurality of fins.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CPS Technology Holdings LLCInventors: Kem M. Obasih, Richard M. DeKeuster, Nicholas E. Elison, Jason D. Fuhr
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Patent number: 11936024Abstract: The present application provides a battery pack, a method for producing a battery pack and a vehicle. The vehicle includes a vehicle body and a battery pack, the battery pack being disposed in the vehicle body. The battery pack includes a battery module and a case. The case has a containing chamber, and the battery module is located in the containing chamber. The battery module includes a plurality of battery units arranged in a horizontal direction, and each battery unit at least includes one battery cell. A size of the battery module in the horizontal direction is larger than a size of the battery module in a vertical direction. The size of the battery module in the vertical direction is L1, and a size of the battery pack in the vertical direction is L2, where 70%?L1/L2?95%.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Peng Wang, Kaijie You, Mu Qian, Haizu Jin, Xingdi Chen, Jun Ma
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Patent number: 11929529Abstract: The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a first injection device associated with a supply of a fuel to the fuel cell, and a second injection device provided on an upstream side of the first injection device in a fuel flow passage from a fuel storage unit to the first injection device. The first and second injection devices switch a flow passage extending downstream from the fuel flow passage, between a first flow passage via the first injection device and second flow passage via the second injection device. The second injection device operates at a lower frequency than the first injection device during an operation of the fuel system.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Susumu Maeshima, Akinobu Moriyama, Tatsuya Yaguchi, Masashi Sato, Tadaki Mano, Hiroyuki Wada
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Patent number: 11929480Abstract: The disclosure relates to the technical field of batteries, and proposes a battery and a battery apparatus. The battery includes: a housing; a cell, the cell disposed in the housing. A pole element is disposed on the housing. A heat sink is disposed on the housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CALB Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chengkun Tang, Fangfang Pan
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Patent number: 11923521Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of batteries, and provide a water cooling assembly, a battery pack, and a device in order to solve the technical problem of low cooling efficiency of a cooling assembly of a battery pack. The water cooling assembly is configured to cool a cell, and includes: a body portion having a cooling channel for receiving a coolant; a first connecting portion connected to the body portion and having a communication cavity for introducing or draining the coolant; and a second connecting portion arranged between the body portion and the first connecting portion and having an inner cavity for communicating the cooling channel with the communication cavity. An end face of the inner cavity close to the cooling channel has a cross-sectional area greater than that of an end face of the communication cavity close to the inner cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., LimitedInventors: Weida Ye, Xiang Li, Yanlong Gu, Xiaoteng Huang, Peng Yan, Wenli Wang
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Patent number: 11923527Abstract: An electrochemical device includes an anode containing a phosphorus-carbon composite including a conductive carbon matrix and nano-sized phosphorus particles, wherein the nano-sized phosphorus particles are uniformly dispersed on the surface and/or pores of the carbon matrix.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLCInventors: Guiliang Xu, Zonghai Chen, Khalil Amine
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Patent number: 11916224Abstract: A bimodal lithium transition metal oxide based powder mixture comprises a first and a second lithium transition metal oxide based powder. The first powder comprises particles of a material A comprising the elements Li, a transition metal based composition M and oxygen. The first powder has a particle size distribution characterized by a (D90?D10)/D50<1.0. The second powder comprises a material B having single crystal particles, said particles having a general formula Li+bN??bO2, wherein ?0.03?b?0.10, and N?=NixM?yCozEd, wherein 0.30?x?0.92, 0.05?y?0.40, 0.05?z?0.40 and 0?d?0.10, wherein M? is one or both of Mn or Al, and E is a dopant different from M?. The first powder has an average particle size D50 between 10 and 40 ?m. The second powder has a D50 between 2 and 4 ?m. The weight ratio of the second powder in the mixture is between 15 and 60 wt %.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: Umicore, Umicore Korea Ltd.Inventors: Dae-Hyun Kim, Jens Paulsen, Shinichi Kumakura, YuRi Lee, Liang Zhu, TaeHyeon Yang
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Patent number: 11916272Abstract: Provided are flow batteries that include a fluidic train within a dynamic fluidic network system which fluidic train is convertible between a first state and a second state, the first state the first state placing a main electrolyte source and a dynamic fluidic network, outside the fluidic train and an electrode region, into fluid communication with the electrode region and the second state placing the main electrolyte source and the dynamic fluidic network, outside the fluidic train and the electrode region, into fluid isolation from the electrode region and placing the electrode region into fluid communication with a sampling segment. Also provided are methods of operating flow batteries.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Lockheed Martin Energy, LLCInventors: Michael Bufano, Jeremy S. Loretz, Jonathan Hamel, Kean L Duffey, Adam Morris-Cohen
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Patent number: 11909053Abstract: The present application relates to a resin composition, a battery module comprising a cured product of the resin composition, a manufacturing method thereof and a battery pack. According to one example of the present application, injection processability of the resin composition can be improved, overloading of injection equipment can be prevented, and the battery module having excellent insulation properties can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Yoon Gyung Cho, Se Woo Yang, Yang Gu Kang, Eun Suk Park, Hyun Suk Kim, Hyoung Sook Park, Sang Min Park, Young Jo Yang
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Patent number: 11909022Abstract: An apparatus can include one or more valves to couple with a thermal line of a battery pack. The apparatus can include one or more coolant channels to couple with one or more thermal components of the battery pack. The one or more valves can modify coolant flow from the thermal line to the one or more coolant channels.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLCInventor: Amilkar Abraham Soto Infante
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Patent number: 11904728Abstract: This application discloses a thermal management system for a battery pack and a thermal management system for an electric vehicle. the thermal management system for the battery pack includes: a thermal management device for the battery pack, a processor, and a solenoid valve network connected to the thermal management device for the battery pack. An external port of the solenoid valve network is connected to an external cooling system. The processor is configured to control operating status of a solenoid valve in the solenoid valve network, so that the thermal management device for the battery pack heats the battery pack by using heat generated by the external cooling system.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., LimitedInventors: Yanru Li, Xingyuan Wu, Guowei Li, Wei Zhang, Zhimin Dan, Xiyang Zuo
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Patent number: 11904911Abstract: A rail-bound vehicle includes an energy storage device having a traction battery and a cooling device for cooling the traction battery using a coolant circulating in at least one coolant circuit. The energy storage device supplies a traction device of the vehicle with electrical energy. At least one air-conditioning device air conditions a passenger compartment of a car of the vehicle using a refrigerant circulating in a refrigerant circuit, and a control device controls the air-conditioning device. The air-conditioning device has a heat exchanger coupling the refrigerant circuit of the air-conditioning device to the coolant circuit of the cooling device of the energy storage device. The control device controls a flow of the refrigerant through the heat exchanger. An energy storage device, an air-conditioning device, an arrangement for cooling a traction battery and a method for controlling the arrangement are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbHInventor: Martin Glinka
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Patent number: 11888177Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a battery, a power consumption device, and a method and device for producing a battery. The battery includes: a battery cell, the battery cell including a pressure relief mechanism configured to be actuated when an internal pressure or temperature of the battery cell reaches a threshold, to relieve the internal pressure; a fire-fighting pipeline configured to accommodate a fire-fighting medium and discharge the fire-fighting medium toward the battery cell when the pressure relief mechanism is actuated; and an accommodating part configured to accommodate the fire-fighting medium discharged from the fire-fighting pipeline to lower a temperature of the battery cell. According to technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the safety of the battery could be enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: JIANGSU CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Chengdu Liang, Langchao Hu, Xiaoteng Huang, Jiarong Hong, Haiqi Yang, Wenli Wang
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Patent number: 11888200Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for treating wastewater and generating electricity. The system includes layers of sediment containing microorganisms for treating the wastewater. The system includes layers of granular activated carbon or granular activated carbon with graphene oxide or sand with graphene oxide disposed on top of the sediment layers for enhancing electron transfer, current generation rate, and wastewater treatment. The system also includes one or more anodes and one or more cathodes located on top of the layers of granular activated carbon or granular activated carbon with graphene oxide or sand with graphene oxide. The one or more anodes and the one or more cathodes are configured to generate electrical voltage. The system also includes a battery connected to the one or more anodes and the one or more cathodes and configured to store the electrical voltage generated by the one or more anodes and the one or more cathodes.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAInventors: Massoud Pirbazari, Varadarajan Ravindran
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Patent number: 11881571Abstract: Grounding a component, such as a thermal management system, of a battery pack via a coolant is provided. An apparatus can include a body forming a channel to convey coolant within a battery pack. The apparatus can include a conductor electrically coupled to a ground. The conductor can include a lead into the channel to ground the coolant.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Casey Taylor Dunn, Brandon Thayer, Fwutsai Kuo, Michael Ryan Tillapaugh, Alfredo Gutierrez Estrada
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Patent number: 11876242Abstract: A module layer and to a battery system made therefrom, which, as a device for supplying and storing electrical energy between two final end components, comprises a number of battery modules that are electrically connected to one another in series. Each module here consists of a number of elementary cells, which are generally lithium-ion batteries. The module layer is embodied as a structural unit, wherein the cells in the module layer are positioned next to one another in a tray, in an upright position on a base element of the tray, and are enclosed by an outer frame that is embodied as a heat sink and constitutes the rim of the tray, the outer frame has a seal, and the module layer has a section of a central shaft into which bus bars protrude, which produce a conductive connection with the cells of the respective module layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: ElringKlinger AGInventors: Jochen Hantschel, Tobias Schmidt
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Patent number: 11876198Abstract: A secondary battery according to the present invention, in which an electrode assembly is built in a cylindrical can, a top cap connected to a positive electrode of the electrode assembly is coupled to an upper end of the can, and the can is connected to a negative electrode. The secondary battery includes a cooling member which receives heat generated in the electrode assembly to release the heat and is coupled to a lower portion of the can, wherein the cooling member has a plurality of cooling pins disposed parallel to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Inventors: U Jin Yoon, Ha Young Heo
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Patent number: 11870097Abstract: Provided are methods of preparing a separator/anode assembly for use in an electric current producing cell, wherein the assembly comprises an anode current collector layer interposed between a first anode layer and a second anode layer and a porous separator layer on the side of the first anode layer opposite to the anode current collector layer, wherein the first anode layer is coated directly on the separator layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Meta Materials Inc.Inventor: Steven A. Carlson