Patents Examined by Niara Trant
  • Patent number: 11380964
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present application provides a wound electrode assembly formed by winding a first electrode sheet, a second electrode sheet, and an isolating membrane disposed therebetween. The wound electrode assembly includes: a first surface having a first protrusion in the thickness direction of the wound electrode assembly; a first wound electrode assembly; a second wound electrode assembly wrapping the first wound electrode assembly, the first wound electrode assembly and the second wound electrode assembly sharing the first electrode sheet and the second electrode sheet; an adhesive layer disposed between the first electrode sheet and the isolating membrane, and/or between the second electrode sheet and the isolating membrane. The purpose of the present application is at least to provide a wound electrode assembly capable of reducing the risk of misalignment of the internal structures of the electrode assembly during the falling, and retaining the shape of the electrode assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NINGDE AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Qiao Zeng, Kefei Wang, Liangzhen Xiao
  • Patent number: 11367876
    Abstract: Provided are a copper foil for a secondary battery, which has excellent oxidation resistance without having to use chromium and has excellent adhesion to an active material layer after being processed to an electrode current collector, a method of manufacturing the copper foil, and a secondary battery including the copper foil. In the copper foil for a secondary battery, a styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) layer is formed on a surface of an electro-deposited copper foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Inventors: Hyung-Seok Han, Jae-Won Moon, Hyung-Kyun Yu, Ki-Hoon Paeng
  • Patent number: 11362369
    Abstract: A lithium-ion battery non-aqueous electrolyte and a lithium-ion battery. The non-aqueous electrolyte comprises at least one selected from the compounds represented by structural formula I and II; in formula I, R1 and R2 are independently selected from alkenyl having 2-5 carbon atoms and alkynyl having 2-5 carbon atoms; in formula II, R3 is selected from alkenyl having 2-5 carbon atoms and alkynyl having 2-5 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CAPCHEM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiao Shi, Shiguang Hu, Qun Chen, Li Wang, Zhou He, Jiaojiao Yun
  • Patent number: 11342617
    Abstract: This disclosure details exemplary battery pack designs for use in electrified vehicles. An exemplary battery pack may include a multi-piece enclosure assembly and an urethane based adhesive. The urethane based adhesive may function as both a fastener for securing the enclosure assembly components together and as a seal for blocking the ingress of moisture into the interior of the battery pack. Associated battery pack assembly methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: James M. McManaman, Louis Paspal
  • Patent number: 11335971
    Abstract: A battery module comprising a battery cell having a battery cell housing, and a battery module housing, wherein a coolant fluid intake is configured between the battery module housing and the battery cell housing, such that a direct and thermal contact is provided between the coolant fluid and the battery cell housing, wherein the battery cell housing further comprises a gas venting opening, which is configured to discharge gas from the interior of the battery cell housing directly to a surrounding environment, wherein the gas venting opening of the battery cell housing is isolated from the coolant fluid intake in a fluid-tight manner, wherein one lateral surface of the battery cell housing of the at least one battery cell, on which the gas venting opening is arranged, other than in the region of the gas venting opening, is essentially entirely enclosed by the coolant fluid intake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Claus Gerald Pflueger, Markus Schmitt
  • Patent number: 11322784
    Abstract: A cooling member includes refrigerant, an absorbing member absorbing the refrigerant, an enclosing member including flexible sheet members, that are connected to each other and enclosing the refrigerant and the absorbing member in a sealed state, and a heat releasing section configured to receive heat from the enclosing member and release the heat to an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kuboki, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Akihisa Hosoe, Tomoharu Takeyama, Yoshiyuki Hirose
  • Patent number: 11283059
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries includes secondary particles of lithium transition metal oxide including aggregates of primary particles of the oxide. The primary particles have an average particle size of not less than 1 ?m, and the secondary particles have a void content of more than 30%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidekazu Hiratsuka
  • Patent number: 11264601
    Abstract: A method for making a vanadium pentoxide-based active material for a cathode of an alkali metal ion battery includes steps of: a) preparing an aqueous solution of a triazine derivative of Formula (I) wherein each R independently represents hydrogen or an amino group; and b) adding vanadium pentoxide to the aqueous solution of the triazine derivative under stirring, so as to permit condensation among hydrolyzed vanadium pentoxide along with self-assembly of the triazine derivatives to obtain a reaction solution containing the active material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: National Chi Nan University
    Inventors: Horng-Yi Tang, Maw-Kuen Wu, Yan-Ting Chen, Prem Chandan Devanga
  • Patent number: 11145877
    Abstract: A fuel cell includes: an electrolyte membrane; first and second catalyst layers respectively formed on first and second surface of the electrolyte membrane; and a separator disposed opposite to the electrolyte membrane with respect to the first catalyst layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nonoyama, Norishige Konno, Masayuki Ito
  • Patent number: 11081686
    Abstract: This application relates to a metal oxide and a method for preparing the same. Specifically, Co3O4 is selected as a precursor of lithium cobalt oxide, and one or more metal elements M are doped in the particles of Co3O4 to obtain a doped lithium cobalt oxide precursor Co3-xMxO4, where 0<x?0.3. The difference value, measured by a spectrometer of a scanning electron microscope, of the weight percentage of one of M in two identical area regions is E, wherein 0<E?1% (wt. %). A lithium ion battery with lithium cobalt oxide prepared from the precursor as a cathode material shows great cycle stability, high-temperature energy storage performance and safety performance in a high-voltage (equal to or greater than 4.45 V) charging and discharging environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: NINGDE AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Meng Wang, Leimin Xu, Liang Wang, Pengwei Chen