Patents by Inventor Rainer Markolf

Rainer Markolf 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: 20120088028
    Abstract: In a process for producing a positive nickel hydroxide electrode for a nickel-metal hydride or nickel-cadmium storage battery a positive nickel hydroxide electrode produced in an earlier stage in the process is after-treated by introducing a saline solution into the active mass contained in an electrode carrier structure of the electrode in order to obtain a positive nickel hydroxide electrode with an improved current yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: HOPPECKE BATTERIE SYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Uwe Schaffrath, Detlef Ohms, Gabor Benczúr-Urmössy, Rainer Markolf, Katja Schmelter
  • Publication number: 20120077061
    Abstract: A nickel-metal hydride accumulator for industrial applications has positive nickel hydroxide electrodes and, separated therefrom, negative metal hydride electrodes as well as an alkaline electrolyte surrounding the electrodes. An improved nickel-metal hydride accumulator that is in particular insensitive to influences of temperature has a thermal arrangement which increases the specific thermal capacity of the accumulator and is formed by an additional electrolyte volume, wherein the accumulator comprises a plastics material housing which receives the electrodes and the electrolyte and is provided with a pressure relief valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: HOPPECKE BATTERIE SYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Detlef Ohms, Gunter Schädlich, Boris Kleinschnittger, Rainer Markolf, Katja Schmelter
  • Publication number: 20080007201
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an accumulator arrangement with accumulators that can be operated in parallel, and also to a method for operating the accumulator arrangement according to the invention. The present invention is based on the problem of improving the exploitation of the capacity of an accumulator and of accumulator arrangements. As a solution the present invention proposes that the accumulator arrangement is configured in such a way that at least one lead-acid accumulator with a large internal resistance and at least one accumulator with a basic electrolyte respectively a sealed lead accumulator with a small internal resistance are operable in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventors: Bernhard Riegel, Detlef Ohms, Rainer Markolf, Eduardo Cattaneo