Patents Assigned to ROCKWOOD LITHIUM GMBH
  • Patent number: 10340515
    Abstract: Process for producing an active material for batteries from lithium sulfide and ionic liquids, corresponding active materials, cathode materials, batteries and corresponding uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignees: ROCKWOOD LITHIUM GMBH, VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Henrik De Vries, Sangsik Jeong, Stefano Passerini
  • Patent number: 9702024
    Abstract: A method for the hydrometallurgical recovery of lithium from a lithium transition metal oxide containing fraction of used galvanic cells is disclosed. According to the method, the lithium transition metal oxide containing fraction is introduced into sulphuric acid or hydrochloric acid, and hydrogen peroxide is added in an amount that is at least stoichiometric relative to the transition metal content to be reduced of the lithium transition metal oxide-containing fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Rockwood Lithium GmbH
    Inventors: David Wohlgemuth, Mark Andre Schneider, Rebecca Spielau, Johannes Willems, Martin Steinbild
  • Patent number: 9677153
    Abstract: A method for the hydrometallurgical recovery of lithium from the fraction of used galvanic cells containing lithium, iron and phosphate is disclosed. According to the method, lithium-iron-phosphate-containing fraction is introduced into sulfuric acid and/or hydrochloric acid, and hydrogen peroxide is added in an amount that is at least stoichiometric relative to the iron content to be oxidized of the lithium-iron-phosphate-containing fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Rockwood Lithium GmbH
    Inventors: David Wohlgemuth, Mark Andre Schneider, Rebecca Spielau, Johannes Willems, Martin Steinbild
  • Patent number: 9649688
    Abstract: A lithium anode containing spherical lithium metal particles with an average diameter of between 5 and 200 ?m, which are bonded with a fluorine-free rubber-like binding agent from the groups saturated polyolefins and polyolefin copolymers, such as EPM (ethylene-propylene copolymers), EPDM (ethylene-propylene terpolymers) and polybutenes unsaturated polymers (diene polymers and diene copolymers), such as natural rubbers (NR), butadiene rubbers (BR), styrene-butadiene rubbers (SBR), polyisoprene rubbers and butyl rubbers (IIR, such as polyisobutylene isoprene rubber, PIBI) as well as heteroelement-containing copolymers, for example saturated copolymer rubbers, such as ethylene vinyl acetate (EVM), hydrogenated nitrile-butadiene rubber (HNBR), epichlorhydrin rubber (ECO), acrylate rubbers (ACM) and silicon rubbers (SI), as well as unsaturated copolymers, such as nitrile rubbers (NBR), for example, as well as galvanic cells containing the bonded lithium anode according to the invention and method for producin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Rockwood Lithium GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Wietelmann, Ute Emmel, Christoph Hartnig
  • Patent number: 9601762
    Abstract: A particulate lithium metal composite materials having a layer containing phosphorous and a method for producing said phosphorous-coated lithium metal products, characterized in that melted, droplet-shaped lithium metal is reacted in a hydrocarbon solvent with a phosphorous source that contains the phosphorous in the oxidation stage 3, and use thereof for the pre-lithiation of electrode materials and the production of battery anodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Rockwood Lithium GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Wietelmann, Christoph Hartnig, Ute Emmel, Sven Schröter
  • Patent number: 9496545
    Abstract: A particulate lithium metal/lithium sulfide composite material, to a method for producing a Li2S@C-coated lithium metal product, and to the use of said lithium metal product. The particulate lithium metal/lithium sulfide composite material has a core-shell morphology, the shell of which is made of a lithium sulfide containing C and the core of which is made of metal lithium. According to the method, the particulate lithium metal/lithium sulfide composite material is produced by reacting melted, drop-shaped lithium metal in a hydrocarbon solvent with a sulfur source selected from the group CS2, S8, H2S, COS, SO, SO2 or mixtures thereof. The method products according to the invention are used to produce lithium battery electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Rockwood Lithium GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Wietelmann, Ute Emmel, Christoph Hartnig, Sebastian Lang
  • Patent number: 9260456
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing metal difluorochelatoborates, in which a metal bis(chelato)borate of the formula M[BL2] is reacted with boron trifluoride and a metal fluoride (MF) and/or a metal salt of the chelating ligand (M2L) where M+ is a monovalent cation selected from the group consisting of lithium, sodium, potassium and ammonium NR4+, where R?H, alkyl (C1 to C8) and L is a chelating agent having two terminal oxygen atoms and having the general formula (II), where: when m=1 and Y1 and Y2 together with C1 form a carbonyl group, n=0 or 1 and o=0 or 1 and R1 and R2 are each, independently of one another, H or alkyl having from one to eight carbon atoms (C1-C8) and Y3, Y4 are each, independently of one another, OR3 (R3?C1-C8-alkyl), then n or o?1: p=0 or 1 and when n and o=0, p=1; or Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4 are each, independently of one another, OR3 (R3?C1-C8-alkyl), m=1, n=0 or 1, o=1 and p=0; or C2 and C3 are members of a 5- or 6-membered aromatic or heteroaromatic ring (with N, O or S as heter
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Rockwood Lithium GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Wietelmann, Peter Rittmeyer, Ute Emmel
  • Patent number: 9227987
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing amido-zinc halides as adducts with alkali-metal halides (R1R2N—ZnY*LiY) in aprotic organic solvents, in which a) a primary or secondary amine dissolved in an aprotic organic solvent is provided, b) a lithium base (RxLi) is added in a metered manner, and c) a ZnY2 is subsequently added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Rockwood Lithium GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Wietelmann, Peter Rittmeyer, Uwe Lischka, Alexander Murso, Florian Kiefer
  • Patent number: 9200092
    Abstract: The invention relates to ?5:?1-cyclopentadienylidene-phosphorane constrained geometry complexes of rare earth metals, abbreviated to ?5:?1-CpPC-CGC, method for production and use of same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Rockwood Lithium GmbH
    Inventors: Nina Hillesheim, Jörg Sundermeyer
  • Patent number: 9187505
    Abstract: The invention relates to chelate-stabilized homleptic triaryl compounds based on phenylphosphoranes, to methods for preparing same and to the use thereof as catalysts. According to the invention, the object is achieved by homleptic rare earth triaryl complexes of the general formula (I), where SE=Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb or Lu; X?O, CRR?; R1, R2=phenyl; R, R?=mutually independently H, alkyl with n=10 C atoms, phenyl or trimethylsilyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Rockwood Lithium GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Thomas, Jörg Sundermeyer
  • Publication number: 20150291708
    Abstract: A solution of a mixed alkaline earth alkoxide compound with an aluminum compound in an aprotic solvent, and methods of making and using them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: ROCKWOOD LITHIUM GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Wietelmann, Armin Stoll, Florian Kiefer, Ute Emmel
  • Patent number: 9147883
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel method for producing a carbon-doped lithium sulfide powder, according to which elementary lithium is reacted with elementary sulfur and/or a sulfur-containing compound selected from the group containing CS2, COS, SO2 and SO, in a liquid state, in a hydrocarbon solvent except naphthalene. The products of the method according to the invention are used to produce lithium battery electrodes or a lithium-ion-conducting solid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Rockwood Lithium GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Wietelmann
  • Patent number: 9023252
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel method for producing a carbon-doped lithium sulfide powder, according to which elementary lithium is reacted with elementary sulfur and/or a sulfur-containing compound selected from the group containing CS2, COS, SO2 and SO, in a liquid state, in an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon solvent. The products of the method according to the invention are used to produce lithium battery electrodes or a lithium-ion-conducting solid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Rockwood Lithium GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Peter Wietelmann, I
  • Publication number: 20140255787
    Abstract: A method of producing an active material for batteries comprising providing electrochemically active particles, optionally comminuting the electrochemically active particles, adding an organic carbon compound, optionally in a suitable organic solvent, and mixing, heating the mixture under protective gas to a temperature above the decomposition limit of the organic compound and below the decomposition temperature of the electrochemically active particles, active materials thus obtained and also corresponding applications and uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: ROCKWOOD LITHIUM GMBH
    Inventors: Stefano Passerini, Sangsik Jeong, Dominic Bresser, Martin Winter
  • Publication number: 20140194626
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing amido-zinc halides as adducts with alkali-metal halides (R1R2N—ZnY*LiY) in aprotic organic solvents, in which a) a primary or secondary amine dissolved in an aprotic organic solvent is provided, b) a lithium base (RxLi) is added in a metered manner, and c) a ZnY2 is subsequently added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: ROCKWOOD LITHIUM GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Wietelmann, Peter Rittmeyer, Uwe Lischka, Alexander Murso, Florian Kiefer
  • Publication number: 20140163187
    Abstract: The invention relates to ?5:?1-cyclopentadienylidene-phosphorane constrained geometry complexes of rare earth metals, abbreviated to ?5:?1-CpPC-CGC, method for production and use of same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: ROCKWOOD LITHIUM GMBH
    Inventors: Nina Hillesheim, Jörg Sundermeyer
  • Publication number: 20140155562
    Abstract: The invention relates to chelate-stabilized homleptic triaryl compounds based on phenylphosphoranes, to methods for preparing same and to the use thereof as catalysts. According to the invention, the object is achieved by homleptic rare earth triaryl complexes of the general formula (I), where SE=Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb or Lu; X=O, CRR?; R1, R2=phenyl; R, R?=mutually independently H, alkyl with n=10 C atoms, phenyl or trimethylsilyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: ROCKWOOD LITHIUM GMBH
    Inventors: Oliver Thomas, Jörg Sundermeyer
  • Publication number: 20130327249
    Abstract: Cathode or anode, wherein the cathode binder or the anode binder comprises or consists of cellulose and/or cellulose derivatives which are soluble only in ionic liquids, a process for the production thereof and the use of cellulose and/or cellulose derivatives which are soluble only in ionic liquids as binder for producing cathodes and anodes, in particular battery electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicants: ROCKWOOD LITHIUM GMBH, EVONIK LITARION GMBH, VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Martin Winter, Sangsik Jeong, Stefano Passerini
  • Publication number: 20130296161
    Abstract: This invention relates to low-viscosity, concentrated complex solutions containing magnesium, which are produced by reacting a magnesium alkoside with a carboxylic acid halogenide in a hydrocarbon-based solvent, and to a method for producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: ROCKWOOD LITHIUM GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Wietelmann, Jens Röder, Ute Emmel