Patents Examined by Osei K Amponsah
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Patent number: 11641028Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode that includes a lithium-manganese oxide as a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode includes SiOx (0?X<2) in which at least a part of a surface is covered with carbon, or a Li-Al alloy as the negative electrode active material, a low-viscosity electrolytic solution that contains propylene carbonate (PC), ethylene carbonate (EC), and dimethoxy ethane (DME) as an organic solvent in a range of {PC:EC:DME}={0.5 to 1.5:0.5 to 1.5:1 to 31} in terms of a volume ratio, and lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI) as a supporting salt in an individual amount of 0.6 to 1.2 (mol/L), and the viscosity of the electrolytic solution is constant at higher than ?30° C. to room temperature.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.Inventor: Ken Miura
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Patent number: 11631886Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an ionic liquid-based quasi-solid-state electrolyte in a lithium battery and a preparation method thereof. The quasi-solid-state electrolyte is of a porous network structure, which is obtained by a condensation reaction of a lithium salt, ionic liquid, a silane coupling agent and a catalyst, and has a high ionic conductivity. The quasi-solid-state electrolyte can stabilize a stripping/deposition process of lithium metal and inhibit growth of lithium dendrites, and shows a low overpotential and long-term cycle stability in a constant current polarization process. The interface impedance of a lithium metal sheet and the quasi-solid-state electrolyte is low, and is hardly increased with the age of the battery.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Renjie Chen, Nan Chen, Feng Wu, Lili Wang, Yujuan Dai
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Patent number: 11631850Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide an all-solid-state battery with a high discharge capacity in which lithium vanadium phosphate is used as a positive electrode active material layer and a negative electrode active material layer. According to the present invention, the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer of the all-solid-state battery having an all-solid-state electrolyte between a pair of electrodes contain the lithium vanadium phosphate, the lithium vanadium phosphate contains a polyphosphate compound containing Li and V, and the lithium vanadium phosphate contains Li3V2(PO4)3 as a main phase and contains 1.0% by weight or more and 15.0% by weight or less of Li3PO4 relative to Li3V2(PO4)3, whereby a high discharge capacity can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventor: Takeo Tsukada
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Patent number: 11600862Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery, comprising an organic solvent, a lithium salt and a compound of Chemical Formula 1, wherein the compound of Chemical Formula 1 is contained in an amount of 0.001 wt % or more and less than 0.1 wt %. In Chemical Formula 1, n is one of the integers 3 to 10.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2017Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.Inventors: Yunhee Kim, Hoseok Yang, Minyoung Lee, Sejeong Park, Hyunwoo Kim, Sujeong Koh
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Patent number: 11581604Abstract: The present disclosure provides a side plate and a battery module. The side plate is applied to the battery module. The side plate includes: a first plate, a second plate and a connection portion. The first plate includes a first free end at one side in a height direction, the second plate includes a second free end at the same side in the height direction, the first free end and the second free end abut against each other. The connection portion is located at the other side opposite to the first free end and the second free end in the height direction, and is configured to connect the first plate and the second plate, and enclose a hollow cavity with the first plate and the second plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Kaiqin Yu, Jihua Yao, Yanhuo Xiang, Mu Qian, Guangliang Lin
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Patent number: 11581581Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a lithium ion secondary battery having improved battery characteristics. The lithium ion secondary battery according to the present invention comprises a negative electrode comprising a negative electrode active material comprising a silicon material and an electrolyte solution comprising an electrolyte solvent comprising an open chain sulfone compound, a fluorinated cyclic carbonate and an open chain carbonate and a supporting salt comprising LiN(FSO2)2.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Ikiko Shimanuki, Takehiro Noguchi, Daisuke Kawasaki, Takuya Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11575181Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery includes a container member, a separator, a first electrode, a first electrolyte, a second electrode and a second electrolyte. The container member has a housing space in the interior, and the separator is housed in the housing space of the container member. The separator includes a bag, and the first electrode is housed in an interior of the bag. The first electrolyte is retained on the first electrode in the interior of the bag. The second electrode is located outside the bag in the housing space. The second electrolyte is retained by the second electrode outside the bag in the housing space.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Hayato Seki, Yasuyuki Hotta, Shinsuke Matsuno
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Patent number: 11575140Abstract: To provide a liquid composition with which a catalyst layer and a polymer electrolyte membrane will hardly be broken at the time of their formation and a method for producing the liquid composition; and a method for producing a membrane/electrode assembly by which a catalyst layer and a polymer electrolyte membrane will hardly be broken at the time of their formation. A liquid composition comprising a polymer having ion exchange groups, water and an organic solvent, wherein the average secondary particle size of the polymer having ion exchange groups is from 100 to 3,000 nm, and the primary particle size parameter represented by the product of the average primary particle size (nm) and the ion exchange capacity (meq/g dry resin) of the polymer having ion exchange groups, is from 12 to 20.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Watabe, Satoru Hommura, Jun Kato, Tatsuya Miyajima
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Patent number: 11575178Abstract: An aspect of the present application provides a separator comprising a porous substrate, and a first coating layer disposed on at least one surface of the porous substrate and comprising an inorganic particle and a binder. The first coating layer comprises a first region and a second region, the first coating layer in the first region comprises a first thickness, and the first coating layer in the second region comprises a second thickness; the first thickness is greater than the second thickness, and the area in the second region is greater than the area in the first region. Another aspect of the present application provides a lithium ion battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode and the above separator. The purpose of the present application is to provide a separator having an increased thickness in a partial coating layer and a lithium ion battery comprising the above separator.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Ningde Amperex Technology LimitedInventors: Yunyun Fu, Tao Tao, Zhongxu Wang
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Patent number: 11557789Abstract: A solid electrolyte (10) of the present disclosure includes porous silica (11) having a plurality of pores (12) interconnected mutually and an electrolyte (13) coating inner surfaces of the plurality of pores (12). The electrolyte (13) includes 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide represented by EMI-FSI and a lithium salt dissolved in the EMI-FSI. A molar ratio of the EMI-FSI to the porous silica (11) is larger than 1.0 and less than 3.5.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: IMEC VZWInventors: Xubin Chen, Philippe Vereecken, Maarten Mees, Knut Bjarne Gandrud, Mitsuhiro Murata, Akihiko Sagara, Yukihiro Kaneko, Morio Tomiyama, Mikinari Shimada
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Patent number: 11552291Abstract: Provided is an anode configured to increase the ion conductivity of an anode layer and suppress a decrease in the energy density of the anode layer. Disclosed is an anode, wherein the anode is an anode comprising an anode layer for all-solid-state batteries; wherein the anode layer comprises an anode active material, a solid electrolyte and an ionic liquid; wherein the anode layer comprises at least one Si-based material selected from the group consisting of elemental Si and Si alloy as the anode active material; and wherein the ionic liquid is a solvated ionic liquid containing, in molar ratio, 1.5 mol or more of lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide with respect to 1 mol of tetraglyme, or the ionic liquid is a solvated ionic liquid containing, in molar ratio, 2.0 mol or more of lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide with respect to 1 mol of tetraglyme.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazushige Nomoto
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Patent number: 11545694Abstract: A Li or Li-ion or Na or Na-ion battery cell is provided that comprises anode and cathode electrodes, a separator, and a solid electrolyte. The separator electrically separates the anode and the cathode. The solid electrolyte ionically couples the anode and the cathode. The solid electrolyte also comprises a melt-infiltration solid electrolyte composition that is disposed at least partially in at least one of the electrodes or in the separator.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.Inventors: Gleb Yushin, Adam Kajdos, Eugene Berdichevsky, Bogdan Zdyrko
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Patent number: 11539079Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte includes a lithium salt and a nonaqueous solvent in which the lithium salt is dissolved. The nonaqueous solvent includes a fluorinated chain carboxylate ester and a dicarbonyl compound having two carbonyl groups in the molecule. The dicarbonyl compound is at least one selected from the group consisting of esters and acid anhydrides and has not more than three atoms between the two carbonyl groups.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Iida, Takanobu Chiga, Naoya Morisawa, Atsushi Fukui
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Patent number: 11539071Abstract: A sulfide-impregnated solid-state battery is provided. The battery comprises a cell core constructed by basic cell units. Each unit comprises a positive electrode comprising a cathode layer and a positive meshed current collector comprising a conductive material which is further coated by oxide-based solid-state electrolyte. The cell unit further comprises a negative electrode comprising an anode layer and a negative meshed current collector comprising a conductive material which is further coated by oxide-based solid-state electrolyte. The positive and negative electrodes are stacked together to form the cell unit. The two coated oxide-based solid electrolyte layers are disposed between the positive and negative electrode as dual separators. Such a cell unit may be repeated or connected in parallel or bipolar stacking to form the cell core to achieve a desired battery voltage, power and energy. The cell core comprises a sulfide-based solid-state electrolyte dispersed in the pore structures of cell core.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Zhe Li, Xiaochao Que, Haijing Liu, Yong Lu, Mark W. Verbrugge, Meiyuan Wu
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Patent number: 11532836Abstract: A composite electrolyte including a lithium salt; a solid electrolyte wherein the solid electrolyte is a sulfide solid electrolyte, an oxide solid electrolyte, or a combination thereof; and an ionic liquid, wherein a mixture of the ionic liquid and the lithium salt has a dielectric constant of from about 4 to about 12, and an amount of halogen ions eluted from the composite electrolyte after immersion of the solid electrolyte in the ionic liquid for 24 hours is less than about 25 parts per million by weight, based on the total weight of the composite electrolyte, as measured by ion chromatography.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.Inventors: Wonseok Chang, Victor Roev, Myungjin Lee, Hongsoo Choi, Seoksoo Lee, Dongmin Im
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Patent number: 11522209Abstract: A battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a plurality of tanks (2) storing electrolyte containing ions of which valence is changed; a cell (1) configured to cause oxidation-reduction of the electrolyte so as to be charged or discharged; a pipe (3) connecting the plurality of tanks and the cell; and a pump (4) configured to circulate the electrolyte between the plurality of tanks and the cell through the pipe. The battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a container (5) housing the plurality of tanks (2), the cell (1), the pipe (3), and the pump (4). The container has a bottom (51), a side (52), and a top (53). Accordingly, the battery in an embodiment of the present invention can be installed easily and its installation area can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2016Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Atsuo Ikeuchi, Takeshi Yamana, Kenji Motoi
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Patent number: 11508950Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrode sheet by using an electrode sheet manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing the electrode sheet includes a feeding step of feeding out a sheet body from a roll on which the sheet body is wound, the sheet body including an active layer containing a catalyst laminated on a support layer, and a cutting step of forming the electrode sheet by punching the sheet body by pressing a cutting blade from a side of the support layer against the sheet body that was fed out in the feeding step.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignees: TORAY ENGINEERING CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Keisuke Katayama, Takuto Hayakawa, Yusuke Wada, Masami Kurimoto
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Patent number: 11502331Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte, wherein lithium sulfide and a compound represented by the following formula (1) are used as raw materials: PSX3 (1) (wherein, X is an element selected from F, CI, Br and I.).Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventor: Junpei Maruyama
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Patent number: 11495806Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell having a cathode and an anode configured to receive a portion of a hhydrocarbon feed and to output an anode exhaust stream comprising carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and water; and an electrolyzer cell having a cathode and an anode. The anode of the electrolyzer cell is configured to receive a first portion of the anode exhaust stream and another portion of the hydrocarbon feed, and to generate a hydrogen stream.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: FuelCell Energy, Inc.Inventor: Fred C. Jahnke
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Patent number: 11476465Abstract: Provided is an anode active material, including: an amorphous carbon material in which the ratio of moieties having a distance d002 of 3.77 ? or more between crystal planes is 4% to 15% based on the entire crystal plane distance distribution. When the anode active material is used, the lifespan characteristics of a lithium battery may be improved while exhibiting high capacity.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Soojeong Lee, Changsu Shin