Patents Assigned to Microvast Power Systems Co., Ltd.
-
Publication number: 20220376518Abstract: A management method for a battery system having parallel battery packs includes a charging control operation of sequentially closing battery packs having a low voltage value level and completing a charging of the battery packs. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a management method for a battery system having parallel battery packs which is applicable to multiple parallel battery packs being charged in parallel, to solve the technical problems that a safe and stable operation of the entire battery packs cannot be ensured caused by the failure of the battery packs, and excessive current impact may be generated due to an excessive voltage difference among the battery packs.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicants: Microvast GmbH, Microvast, Inc., Microvast Power Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rui XIAO, Ying HUANG, Donglei WU
-
Patent number: 11367873Abstract: A cathode active material and a Lithium-ion electrochemical system thereof are provided. The lithium-ion cathode material is described by xLiMO2*(1?x)(LiaM?1?a)Oy, M and M? independently comprises one or more metal ions that together have a combined average oxidation state between 3+ or 2+, 1>x?0.5, 0.75?a>0, 1?y?0.625.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Microvast Power Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bryan Yonemoto, Karima Lasri, Xiao Zhang
-
Patent number: 11322738Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing cathode particles under a co-precipitation reaction by feeding NaOH and metal sulfate solution into different vessels. The invention further provides a cathode active material having the cathode particles. By the method of the invention, the number density distribution of prepared particles is much smaller than feeding NaOH and metal sulfate together into same vessel.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Bryan Yonemoto, Xiao Zhang
-
Patent number: 11205821Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing an aromatic polyamide porous membrane and an aromatic polyamide porous membrane prepared by the above method. The method for preparing an aromatic polyamide porous membrane includes the following steps: mixing an ionic liquid with an aromatic polyamide into a solvent to form a mixed solution; the mixed solution forming a membrane in a coagulation bath; and extracting with an extractant to remove the solvent and the ionic liquid from the membrane to yield a porous membrane. In the method of the present invention, the application of the ionic liquid would greatly reduce the application of additives; further, the ionic liquid has a high stability and is easy to be separated from other solvents and be recycled, which assures the safety during the usage and recycle thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Qingjin Sun, Dawei Shen, Zuliang Shen, Hui Wu, Xiang Li
-
Patent number: 11185826Abstract: The present disclosure provides a liquid membrane conveying apparatus for preparing a porous membrane includes a transmission unit and a carrier unit. The carrier unit conveys a liquid membrane into a gelling solution by the entrainment of the transmission unit. The carrier unit includes a first carrier and a second carrier. The first carrier and the second carrier respectively contact with opposite edges of the liquid membrane along a conveying direction of the liquid membrane. The consistency of the pores on the two surfaces of the porous membrane is improved by using the liquid membrane conveying apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiang Li, Heji Huang, Wei Li, Binbin Wu
-
Patent number: 11145858Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cathode active material and a lithium ion electrochemical system including the same. A general formula of the cathode active material is as follows: z{xLi2MnO3*(1?x)LiRO2}*(1?z) LiaR?1-aOy, herein R and R? independently include one or more metal ions, an oxidation valence state of the R is 3+, and an oxidation valence state of the R? is 2+, herein, 0?x?0.25, 0<a?0.75, 0.625?y?1, 0.75?z<1.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Microvast Power Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bryan T. Yonemoto, Karima Lasri, Xiao Zhang
-
Patent number: 11038166Abstract: The present application provides a coated anode material and a method of preparing the same. The coated anode material has a core-shell structure, wherein the core-shell structure includes an inert core and a shell coated on the inert core, the shell comprises an anode active material, and the inert core comprises a non-active material. In the coated anode material, the anode active material of the shell is distributed over the non-active material of the inert core, and the coated anode material can overcome the volume change problem of silicon particles during lithium insertion/deinsertion to a certain extent and obtain a better cycle performance and rate performance.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenjuan Liu Mattis, Jianhai Luo
-
Patent number: 10921380Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for measuring an internal resistance of a battery, after discharging/charging the battery under a preset constant-current, acquiring voltages of the battery within a period from ending the discharging/charging to a time when the voltage reaches stable, and then calculating different corresponding internal resistances caused by ohmic polarization, electrochemical polarization and concentration polarization separately. Since it is different for the orders of the magnitude of the characteristic time which these different polarizations need to get back into new equilibrium state after ending the discharging/charging, the method of the present disclosure classifies the internal resistances caused by these polarizations and calculated different internal resistances corresponding to the polarizations.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Weifeng Fang, Xuezhong Dong, Qiru Li, Po Gao, Wenjuan Liu Mattis
-
Patent number: 10879512Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aromatic polyamide porous membrane having a uniform internal structure. The internal structure of the membrane is a three-dimensional network porous structure with micron-sized pores. The aromatic polyamide porous membrane of the present disclosure has good thermal stability and is especially suitable for a high energy density lithium-ion power battery, and greatly improves the thermal runaway temperature of the battery. The present disclosure further provides a method for preparing the membrane and a lithium secondary battery having the membrane.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Qingjin Sun, Heji Huang, Wei Li, Xiang Li
-
Patent number: 10797282Abstract: A battery module includes multiple cell laminations and a conductive plate. The cell laminations are laminated along vertical direction and includes at least a first cell lamination and a second cell lamination. Each cell lamination includes several cells laminated together and a busbar, the busbar includes a connection portion and a current-flow portion, the connection portion electrically connects with lugs of the cells, and further connects with the current-flow portion. The conductive plate is located beside the cell laminations. A first end of the conductive plate at least electrically connects with the current-flow portion of the busbar in the first cell lamination, and a second end thereof at least electrically connects with the current-flow portion of the busbar in the second cell lamination. The present disclosure provides a battery module which can solve the problem of impossible to consider current-flow ability, energy density and welding effect simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventor: Shaosong Liu
-
Patent number: 10797363Abstract: Provided is a method for recycling and refreshing a cathode material, a refreshed cathode material and a lithium ion battery. The method for recycling and refreshing the cathode material includes: 1) a cathode material recycled from a waste battery is mixed with a manganiferous salt solution; 2) an alkali aqueous solution is added to the mixture to react to obtain a manganese hydroxide coating cathode material; and 3) the manganese hydroxide coating cathode material is sintered with a lithium resource to obtain a refreshed cathode material. The refreshed cathode material has no obvious impurity phase and has good crystallinity, high initial charge-discharge efficiency and good cycling performance.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Microvast Power Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wenjuan Liu Mattis, Bryan T. Yonemoto, Yuehui Yin, Xiangchao Kong, Xuelei Sun
-
Patent number: 10790559Abstract: A battery pack relating to the field of batteries includes a battery module, a coolant and a battery box. The battery module and the coolant are disposed in the battery box. The battery module is at least partially immersed in the coolant. A sealing layer containing a barrier liquid is covered on the coolant. The heat generated by the battery cell which occurs thermal runaway is taken away rapidly by using the vaporization latent heat of the coolant, to thereby avoid heat accumulation and prevent propagation of thermal runaway among battery cells, thereby protecting the safety of the battery pack.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2015Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhiming Tong, Hui Li, Lingyan Fu
-
Patent number: 10782272Abstract: An analytical method for precipitated particles using a co-precipitation reaction in includes feeding streams and a tracking metal into a reaction vessel; collecting a precipitated product containing the tracking metal from the reaction vessel in increments of time to obtain product samples; filtering each collected product sample to separate precipitated particles from filtrate; and performing elemental analysis for the tracking metal in the precipitated particles of each collected product sample and measuring a concentration of the tracking metal in the precipitated particles, to obtain a residence time distribution of the precipitated particles in the reaction vessel according to the concentration of the tracking metal in the precipitated particles. Therefore the preferred residence time of the precipitated particles in the reaction vessel can be ascertained, so that it is clear when the precipitated particles should be collected from the reaction vessel.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Bryan Yonemoto, Xiao Zhang, Wenjuan Liu Mattis, Zhifeng Zhang
-
Patent number: 10763539Abstract: A method for preparing an inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry includes: mixing an inorganic solid electrolyte powder with a first solvent and wet grinding an obtained mixture to form a preparatory slurry A; mixing a binder with a second solvent to form a preparatory slurry B; mixing the preparatory slurry A with the preparatory slurry B to obtain the inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry. The inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry prepared by the present disclosure effectively solves the problem that it is difficult to reduce the inorganic solid electrolyte powder particle size in the preparation process, or it is difficult to fully dry the inorganic solid electrolyte powder after sand milling. The present disclosure further provides an inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry prepared by the method, an application of the inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry, and a lithium-ion battery having the inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhangbo Liu, Xingzhi Mei, Jinjie Chen, Yi Fang, Zhuoqun Zheng, Yuehui Yin, Wenjuan Liu Mattis
-
Patent number: 10756399Abstract: The disclosure provides a battery module. The battery module includes a battery stacked body, which includes stacked batteries; cooling plates that are installed at the tail ends in a battery stacking direction of the battery stacked body, and the cooling plates and the battery stacked body are installed in a thermal insulation mode; and heat transfer device that are in thermal contact with the cooling plates, and heat of the batteries is transferred to the cooling plates through the heat transfer device; wherein in a normal charging-discharging state, the battery with the highest temperature in the battery stacked body is a battery A; and between a single cooling plate and the battery A, a thermal resistance between each battery and the heat transfer device is reduced along with the increase of a distance between the each battery and the cooling plate in the battery stacking direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Microvast Power Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shaosong Liu, Wenjuan Liu Mattis, Shengxian Wu
-
Patent number: 10633552Abstract: The present invention provides a method of supplementing lithium for an anode used for lithium secondary battery. Particularly, the present invention relates to lithium-supplementing slurry and a method for preparing the same, as well as an anode prepared with the slurry and a lithium secondary battery including the same. In the present invention, the prepolymer is used as a binder for supplementing lithium, the process for preparing the prepolymer is easy to operate and has low cost; the lithium-supplementing method using said prepolymer is easy to operate and has low cost, and it is easy to control the amount of lithium supplemented.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenjuan Liu Mattis, Xufeng Zang, Jiawei Yin
-
Patent number: 10431819Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing an anode slurry used in a lithium ion battery. The method includes the following steps: providing at least one anode active material, at least one conductive agent, at least one monomer or a prepolymer and at least one solvent. Mixing the anode active material, the conductive agent and the monomer or the prepolymer with the solvent; dispersing uniformly to form a mixture. Adding an initiator into the mixture; polymerizing the monomer or the prepolymer at a certain temperature; and yielding the anode slurry. Besides, the present invention also provides an anode slurry prepared by the above method, and an anode plate prepared by the anode slurry, and a lithium ion battery including the anode plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignees: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD., OCHEM CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenjuan Liu Mattis, Tianshu Deng, Ruanbing Hu, Chaofeng Ning
-
Patent number: 10411301Abstract: The present disclosure provides an ionic liquid and a preparation method thereof, in particular, the present disclosure provides an ionic liquid whose halogen anions content and moisture content are low, and a method for preparing the same. The total content of halogen anions in the ionic liquid is less than 10 ppm, and moisture content in the ionic liquid is less than 50 ppm. The ionic liquid prepared by the method of the present disclosure is suitable for electrochemical systems which have high requirements for moisture content, such as lithium ion secondary batteries and electrochemical supercapacitors.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhuoqun Zheng, Dawei Shen, Zhenyu Fei
-
Patent number: 10319996Abstract: The present invention discloses a cathode material for lithium ion secondary battery. The cathode material is in the form of powder particles. The powder particle includes a bulk portion and a coating portion coated on the outer surface of the bulk portion. The bulk portion is formed of at least one first cathode material which is a lithium-nickel based composite oxide. The first cathode material has electrochemical activity and has high charging-discharging specific capacity at a charged voltage of 4.2V versus Li/Li+. The coating portion is formed of at least one second cathode material. The second cathode material has no electrochemical activity or has low charging-discharging specific capacity at a charged voltage of 4.2V versus Li/Li+. Lithium ion secondary battery using the cathode material has high energy density, cycling stability, security, and output power.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhuoqun Zheng, Jian Qiu, Xiaozhen Zhao, Yunhua Nie
-
Patent number: 10319997Abstract: The present application provides a coated anode material and a method of preparing the same. The coated anode material has a core-shell structure, wherein the core-shell structure includes an inert core and a shell coated on the inert core, the shell comprises an anode active material, and the inert core comprises a non-active material. In the coated anode material, the anode active material of the shell is distributed over the non-active material of the inert core, and the coated anode material can overcome the volume change problem of silicon particles during lithium insertion/deinsertion to a certain extent and obtain a better cycle performance and rate performance.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenjuan Liu Mattis, Jianhai Luo