Patents Assigned to Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KGaA
  • Patent number: 11005129
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for recycling lead-acid batteries, and more specifically, relates to purifying and recycling the lead content from lead-acid batteries. A system includes a reactor that receives and mixes a lead-beating material waste, a carboxylate source, and a recycled liquid component to form a leaching mixture yielding a lead carboxylate precipitate. The system also includes a phase separation device coupled to the reactor, wherein the phase separation device isolates the lead carboxylate precipitate from a liquid component of the leaching mixture. The system further includes a closed-loop liquid recycling system coupled to the phase separation device and to the reactor, wherein the closed-loop liquid recycling, system receives the liquid component isolated by the phase separation device and recycles a substantial portion of the received liquid component back to the reactor as the recycled liquid component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignees: Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KGAA, CPS Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Eberhard Meissner, Jr., Jurgen Bauer, Matthew A. Spence
  • Patent number: 10978685
    Abstract: A sealing plug arrangement for sealing a combined filling and degassing opening of an accumulator. The sealing plug arrangement includes at least one valve part, one valve holder, and one sealing plug. The valve part is arranged on the valve holder and forms an openable valve mechanism with the valve holder for sealing at least one interior space of the accumulator from the surrounding area upon pressurization. The sealing plug includes at least one fastening means for fixing to the filling and degassing opening and at the same time subjecting the valve part to a pretensioning force toward the valve holder. The valve holder includes at least one extension axially projecting toward the valve part which is formed as a circumferential sealing edge on a surface facing the valve part on which the valve part rests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KGAA
    Inventors: Ingo Koch, Armin Staffeldt
  • Patent number: 10886571
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mixing element designed to be installed into a housing of a liquid electrolyte-operated electrochemical accumulator in order to mix the electrolyte as a result of forces and/or motion exerted on the accumulator during operation, wherein the mixing element is designed as a hollow body provided with at least one respective opening at opposite end regions such that a channel is formed in the hollow body which leads into the at least one respective opening in the opposite end regions and is circumferentially delimited there by the material of the mixing element, wherein the mixing element comprises one or more securing and/or spacer ribs protruding from the external side of the mixing element and designed to contact parts of the accumulator housing in order to fix the mixing element in the accumulator and/or set a specific position of the mixing element relative to the housing parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KGAA
    Inventors: Julius M. Schwab, Ingo Koch, Nadine Dehnert, Thorsten Werle
  • Patent number: 10840515
    Abstract: The invention relates to a grid arrangement for a plate-shaped battery electrode of an electrochemical accumulator having a frame and a grid arranged thereon, wherein the frame comprises at least one upper frame element having a connecting lug of the battery electrode disposed on its side facing away from the grid, and wherein the grid is at least formed by horizontal bars, which are bars extending substantially horizontally, and vertical bars, which are bars extending substantially vertically, wherein at least some of the vertical bars are arranged at different angles to one another in the shape of a fan. The invention further relates to an accumulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KGAA
    Inventors: Armin Staffeldt, Ingo Koch, Bernd Ide, Ornwasa Traisigkhachol
  • Patent number: 10818930
    Abstract: An electrical storage device includes high surface area fibers (e.g., shaped fibers and/or microfibers) coated with carbon (graphite, expanded graphite, activated carbon, carbon black, carbon nanofibers, CNT, or graphite coated CNT), electrolyte, and/or electrode active material (e.g., lead oxide) in electrodes. The electrodes are used to form electrical storage devices such as electrochemical batteries, electrochemical double layer capacitors, and asymmetrical capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: CPS Technology Holdings LLC, Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KGAA
    Inventors: Richard M. Sturgeon, Dennis A. Wetzel, Robert G. Gruenstern, William J. Wruck, Ramachadran Subbaraman, James Symanski, Eberhard Meissner
  • Patent number: 10811667
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery having a conductive terminal extending beyond a surface of a battery cover, the conductive terminal having an internal portion and an external surface, wherein the internal portion comprises lead and external surface comprises a non-lead conductive material. Further disclosed is a method for producing such a battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KGAA, CPS Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Koop, Donald J. Caldwell, Jason D. Fuhr, Jeffrey L. Troxel
  • Publication number: 20200212504
    Abstract: A compact AGM lead acid battery is disclosed. The battery has a container and one or more electrically connected cells in the container. The electrically connected cells are formed by a plurality of positive plates and plurality of negative plates, wherein an absorbent glass mat is interleaved between positive and negative plates. Electrolyte is provided within the container. The lead acid battery has an improved battery performance per volume and less lead weight than a conventional AGM lead acid battery or EFB lead acid battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Roderique DUELL, Ruediger JAEPPELT, Christian Stefan MENZEL, Nadine DEHNERT, Dirk GOEBBELS
  • Patent number: 10581067
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for producing an electrode plate of a rechargeable electrochemical battery that includes producing a substantially flat lead grid having a plurality of grid bars and a plurality of window-like cutouts formed between the grid bars, introducing an active material into the cutouts and/or onto the grid bars of the lead grid, creating a pattern of slot-shaped depressions in the active material by mechanically impacting the lead grid provided with the active material, where the depressions extend to a depth from the outer surface of the active material. The present disclosure further relates to installation of an electrode plate in a rechargeable electrochemical battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Tatjana Reich
  • Patent number: 10581046
    Abstract: The invention relates to a laminar textile material for covering a pasty active mass on a battery electrode. The invention further relates to a battery electrode having such a material, to a battery, and to a method for producing battery electrodes. Potential improvements of lead batteries are disclosed that are more practical than previously known solutions, and that stabilize the pasty active mass on the battery electrodes. A laminar textile material is disclosed to this end, comprising glass fibers and fibers made of a thermoplastic, e.g. polyester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Frank-Thomas Johns