Patents by Inventor Bernd Schumann

Bernd Schumann has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210367261
    Abstract: A battery includes a stacked arrangement of electrochemical cells. Each electrochemical cell is free of a cell housing and includes a bipolar plate having a substrate, a first active material layer formed on a first surface of the substrate, and a second active material layer formed on a second surface of the substrate. Each cell includes a solid electrolyte layer that encapsulates at least one of the active material layers, and an edge insulating device that is disposed between the peripheral edges of the substrates of each pair of adjacent cells. A support frame surrounds the cell stack and is configured to receive and support the outer peripheral edge of the edge insulating device of each cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Ralf Angerbauer, Bernd Schumann, Florian Schmid, Joerg Thielen, Christian Diessner, Mark Kotik, David Naughton, Jerome Homann, Anne Serout, Laura Bauer, Steve Scott, Dan Schneider, Gary Mosley
  • Publication number: 20210313612
    Abstract: A battery includes a stacked arrangement of electrochemical cells. Each electrochemical cell is free of a cell housing and includes a bipolar plate having a substrate, a first active material layer formed on a first surface of the substrate, and a second active material layer formed on a second surface of the substrate. Each cell includes a solid electrolyte layer that encapsulates at least one of the active material layers, and electrically insulates a given cell of the cell stack from an adjacent cell of the cell stack including along a periphery of the cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Ralf Angerbauer, Bernd Schumann, Florian Schmid, Joerg Thielen, Christian Diessner, Mark Kotik, David Naughton, Jerome Homann, Anne Serout, Laura Bauer, Steve Scott, Dan Schneider, Gary Mosley
  • Publication number: 20210257651
    Abstract: A battery includes a stacked arrangement of electrochemical cells. Each electrochemical cell is free of a cell housing and includes a bipolar plate having a substrate, a first active material layer formed on a first surface of the substrate, and a second active material layer formed on a second surface of the substrate. Each cell includes a solid electrolyte layer that encapsulates at least one of the active material layers, and an edge insulating device that is disposed between the peripheral edges of the substrates of each pair of adjacent cells. Within each cell, an elastic seal is provided between the edge insulating device and the first surface of one cell or the solid electrolyte layer of an adjacent cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Ralf Angerbauer, Bernd Schumann, Florian Schmid, Joerg Thielen, Christian Diessner, Mark Kotik, David Naughton, Jerome Homann, Anne Serout, Laura Bauer, Steve Scott, Dan Schneider, Gary Mosley
  • Publication number: 20210218065
    Abstract: A battery includes a stacked arrangement of electrochemical cells. Each electrochemical cell is free of a cell housing and includes a bipolar plate having a substrate, a first active material layer formed on a first surface of the substrate, and a second active material layer formed on a second surface of the substrate. Each cell includes a solid electrolyte layer that encapsulates at least one of the active material layers, and an edge insulating device that is disposed between the peripheral edges of the substrates of each pair of adjacent cells. The edge insulating device physically contacts and is directly secured to one of the first surface of one cell and the solid electrolyte layer of an adjacent cell, and is movable relative to, the other of the first surface of the one cell and the solid electrolyte layer of the adjacent cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Ralf Angerbauer, Bernd Schumann, Florian Schmid, Joerg Thielen, Christian Diessner, Mark Kotik, David Naughton, Jerome Homann, Anne Serout, Laura Bauer, Steve Scott, Dan Schneider, Gary Mosley
  • Publication number: 20210210820
    Abstract: A battery includes a stacked arrangement of electrochemical cells. Each electrochemical cell is free of a cell housing and includes a bipolar plate having a substrate, a first active material layer formed on a first surface of the substrate, and a second active material layer formed on a second surface of the substrate. Each cell includes a solid electrolyte layer that encapsulates at least one of the active material layers, and an edge insulating device that is disposed between the peripheral edges of the substrates of each pair of adjacent cells. Within each cell, the substrate includes a surface feature that is engaged with a corresponding feature of the edge insulating device in such a way as to locate the edge insulating device relative to the bipolar plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Florian Schmid, Laura Bauer, Joerg Thielen, Jerome Homann, Steve Scott, Dan Schneider, Bernd Schumann, Christian Diessner, David Naughton, Gary Mosley, Ralf Angerbauer, Mark Kotik, Anne Serout
  • Patent number: 10923710
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrode material for an electrochemical energy accumulator, in particular for a lithium-ion cell, comprising particles (10, 10?, 10?) of an active material (12) which can be lithiated, wherein the particles (10, 10?, 10?) are partially coated with a lithium-ion-conducting solid electrolyte (14), the solid electrolyte layer (14) having recesses (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Schumann, Christine Engel, Ingo Kerkamm, Olga Heckel
  • Patent number: 10700332
    Abstract: A separator having a first polymer diaphragm and a second polymer diaphragm and a layer between the first polymer diaphragm and the second polymer diaphragm including particles featuring low elasticity, the first polymer diaphragm and the second polymer diaphragm being interconnected, which may be periodically, by first support elements. In addition, a galvanic cell and a battery having such a separator are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Schumann, Jean Fanous
  • Publication number: 20200185702
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrode material for an electrochemical energy accumulator, in particular for a lithium-ion cell, comprising particles (10, 10?, 10?) of an active material (12) which can be lithiated, wherein the particles (10, 10?, 10?) are partially coated with a lithium-ion-conducting solid electrolyte (14), the solid electrolyte layer (14) having recesses (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Bernd Schumann, Christine Engel, Ingo Kerkamm, Olga Heckel
  • Patent number: 10629894
    Abstract: A cathode material for an electrochemical cell, in particular a lithium-sulfur cell, including at least one cathode active material and at least one in particular lithium ion-conducting or lithium ion-conductive polymer electrolyte and/or at least one inorganic ion conductor, in particular a lithium ion conductor. The at least one cathode active material includes a polymer containing in particular covalently bound sulfur. Moreover, also described is a cell and a battery equipped with same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jean Fanous, Bernd Schumann, Joerg Thielen
  • Patent number: 10601031
    Abstract: A polymer or a polymer electrolyte and cathode material for an alkali metal cell, in particular for a lithium-sulfur cell. To improve the performance and reliability of alkali metal cells, for example lithium-sulfur cells, a polymer based on the general chemical formula (I) is provided, where -[A]- stands for a unit which forms a polymer backbone, X stands for a spacer, x stands for the number of spacers X and is 1 or 0, Q stands for a positively charged group Q+ and a counterion Z?, or Q stands for a negatively charged group Q? and a counterion Z+, or Q stands for an uncharged group. Moreover, the invention relates to the use thereof, and a cathode, a separator, a protective layer, and a cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jean Fanous, Bernd Schumann, Joerg Thielen
  • Patent number: 10559857
    Abstract: A separator for an electrochemical cell, in particular a lithium cell, and a corresponding manufacturing method. In order to provide a separator having an elevated dendrite resistance, in particular ion-conducting, particles are introduced into pores of a polymer layer and frictionally retained between polymer walls delimiting pores. An electrochemical cell equipped therewith is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Schumann, Ulrich Eisele
  • Patent number: 10476103
    Abstract: An electrode for a battery cell, including an active material which contains silicon and which contains a first polymer which is ionically conductive. The active material contains in this case a copolymer, which includes the first polymer and a second polymer, the second polymer being electrically conductive. A battery cell which includes at least one electrode is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Schumann, Pallavi Verma
  • Patent number: 10449826
    Abstract: A temperature control device for a battery and for a vehicle interior, having a first heat exchanger and having a second heat exchanger that are thermally coupled, the second heat exchanger being thermally coupled to the battery, and the first heat exchanger to a temperature control chamber that has a downstream segment that is thermally coupled to the vehicle interior and has a first upstream segment and a second upstream segment, the first upstream segment being thermally coupled to the vehicle interior and the second upstream segment to a surrounding environment of the vehicle, the first heat exchanger being capable of being thermally coupled alternately to the first upstream segment or to the second upstream segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Schumann, Andreas Letsch
  • Patent number: 10431797
    Abstract: A vehicle traction battery includes a battery cell, the battery cell including a cathode, and anode, and a separator the anode and cathode. The separator includes at least one protective layer that is impermeable to polysulfides and at least one ion-conducting conductive layer whose composition is different than that of the protective layer and that is designed as a copolymer which includes a stabilizing phase and an ionically conductive phase, the protective layer including an inorganic substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Schumann, Jean Fanous
  • Patent number: 10411248
    Abstract: An electrode, in particular, a cathode, for an electrochemical energy store, in particular, for a lithium cell, including particles having one first lithiatable active material, which is based on a transition metal oxide, wherein the particles or a base body including the particles is/are provided with at least one functional layer, which is lithium ion-conductive and includes at least one redox-active element. An energy store including such an electrode, and a method for manufacturing such an electrode, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Anika Marusczyk, Bernd Schumann, Ingo Kerkamm, Malte Rolff, Thomas Eckl
  • Patent number: 10347873
    Abstract: An arrangement includes a housing and multiple galvanic elements stacked in the housing, the galvanic elements having a layer sequence which includes a current collector associated with the anode, an anode, a separator, a cathode, and a current collector associated with the cathode. In each case a seal covers the edge of the layer sequence of a galvanic element in order to electrically insulate and seal same in a gas-tight manner, and the outer surface of the current collector associated with the anode and the outer surface of the current collector associated with the cathode remain at least partly free, so that the current collector, associated with the cathode, of a galvanic element electrically contacts the current collector, associated with the anode, of a galvanic element adjacently situated in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Bernd Schumann, Ingo Kerkamm
  • Patent number: 10312562
    Abstract: A metal-oxygen battery system, in particular a lithium-oxygen battery system, includes at least one battery cell, in particular a lithium-oxygen cell, including an oxygen cathode, a metal anode, and a metal ion-conducting separator situated between the cathode and the anode. To increase the current carrying capacity, the battery system also includes a turbomachine system which is connected to the oxygen cathode in a gas-conducting manner and which may be switched over between a suction function and a blowing function, and/or an exhaust gas supply line for supplying a gas low in oxygen to the oxygen cathode. Also described is a corresponding operating method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Woehrle, Felix Eberle, Bernd Schumann, Calin Iulius Wurm, Vikram Anil Godbole
  • Patent number: 10177381
    Abstract: A cathode material for an alkali metal/sulfur cell, which encompasses at least one sulfur-containing cathode active material and at least one transition metal sulfide and/or at least one metal sulfide of at least one metal of the third, fourth, and/or fifth main group. Also described is a cell and a battery equipped therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jean Fanous, Joerg Thielen, Bernd Schumann
  • Patent number: 10090566
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a solid state battery includes a first cell stack including a first solid-electrolyte separator positioned between a first cathode and a first anode, a first base layer including a first base portion positioned directly beneath the first anode, and including a first lateral extension extending laterally beyond the first anode, a second cell stack beneath the first base layer and including a second solid-electrolyte separator positioned between a second cathode and a second anode, a second base layer including a second base portion positioned directly beneath the second anode, and including a second lateral extension extending laterally beyond the second anode, wherein the second base portion extends laterally beyond the first lateral extension, and a multiplexor (i) in electrical communication with the first base portion through the first lateral extension, and (ii) in electrical communication with the second base portion through the second lateral extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: John F. Christensen, Bernd Schumann, Timm Lohmann
  • Publication number: 20180175367
    Abstract: An electrode, in particular, a cathode, for an electrochemical energy store, in particular, for a lithium cell, including particles having one first lithiatable active material, which is based on a transition metal oxide, wherein the particles or a base body including the particles is/are provided with at least one functional layer, which is lithium ion-conductive and includes at least one redox-active element. An energy store including such an electrode, and a method for manufacturing such an electrode, are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Anika MARUSCZYK, Bernd SCHUMANN, Ingo KERKAMM, Malte ROLFF, Thomas ECKL