Patents Examined by Adam A Arciero
  • Patent number: 12218331
    Abstract: A battery module cooled by insulating oil, and a battery pack including the same include a battery cell stack, in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked; electrode leads formed so as to protrude from the battery cells; a frame covering the upper, lower, left, and right surfaces of the battery cell stack; and end plates covering front and rear surfaces of the battery cell stack. Each of the battery cells have edge surfaces and flat surfaces. Space parts are defined between the edge surfaces and the frame and between the edge surfaces and the end plates; Insulating oil for cooling the plurality of battery cells is filled and flows in the space parts, and the insulating oil makes contact with the battery cells and the electrode leads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae Young Kang
  • Patent number: 12212008
    Abstract: A battery includes a battery can which includes a cylindrical portion having an opening edge portion at one end portion and a bottom portion closing the other end portion of the cylindrical portion, an electrode assembly which is housed in the cylindrical portion, and an opening sealing body which seals an opening formed in the opening edge portion. The opening sealing body includes a terminal portion and a gasket interposed in a compressed state between the terminal portion and the opening edge portion. The opening edge portion includes at least a base portion extending in an axial direction of the cylindrical portion and a tongue portion protruding from the base portion, and the tongue portion extends inward in a radial direction of the cylindrical portion so as to cover an upper surface of the gasket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hirano, Kazutoshi Kohira
  • Patent number: 12199256
    Abstract: A battery pack according to this application includes a lower support; a lower fastening member that is fastened onto the lower support and extending upwards along a height direction; an upper support plate provided above the lower fastening member; and a heat exchange plate directly fastened onto the upper support plate. In the battery pack according to this application, the heat exchange plate is directly fastened onto the upper support plate, which eliminates use of a position locking piece to position the heat exchange plate and ensures that flatness and positioning tolerance of the heat exchange plate are not affected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: Xueyu Bai, Yanlong Gu
  • Patent number: 12191690
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and articles for a portable power case are disclosed. The portable power case is comprised of at least one battery and at least one PCB. The portable power case has at least two access ports, at least two leads, or at least one access port and at least one lead and at least one USB port. The portable power case is operable to supply power to an amplifier, a radio, a wearable battery, a mobile phone, and a tablet. The portable power case is operable to be charged using solar panels, vehicle batteries, AC adapters, non-rechargeable batteries, and generators. The portable power case provides for modularity that allows the user to disassemble and selectively remove the batteries installed within the portable power case housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: LAT Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Laura Thiel, Giancarlo Urzi, Carlos Cid
  • Patent number: 12183953
    Abstract: An inter-bus bar including a first bus bar including a first body region having a fastening hole formed at one end and a first length adjusting region configured to extend by a predetermined length from the other end, and a second bus bar including a second body region having a fastening hole formed at one end and a second length adjusting region configured to extend by a predetermined length from the other end, the second bus bar being configured to be coupled to or released from the first bus bar, the first length adjusting region and the second length adjusting region forming a connection portion where they are at least partially overlapped, and the first length adjusting region and the second length adjusting region being removably coupled to each other at different relative positions to change the length of the connection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hyuk Cha, Sung-Tack Hwang
  • Patent number: 12176562
    Abstract: The application provides a battery pack and a vehicle. The battery pack includes a battery box, reinforcing members being arranged on a bottom surface of the battery box; and at least one battery unit, located in the battery box. The battery unit includes: end plates; side plates, the side plates and the end plates being connected end to end in sequence to define an accommodating cavity, and the side plates being stacked on the reinforcing members in a height direction of the battery box; and a plurality of battery cores, located in the accommodating cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HOLN KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: Haihua Huang, Xingyuan Wu, Weigang Shi
  • Patent number: 12176535
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery includes a lithium composite transition metal oxide including nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), and manganese (Mn), and a glassy coating layer formed on surfaces of particles of the lithium composite transition metal oxide, wherein, in the lithium composite transition metal oxide, an amount of the nickel (Ni) in a total amount of transition metals is 60 mol % or more, and an amount of the manganese (Mn) is greater than an amount of the cobalt (Co), and the glassy coating layer includes a glassy compound represented by Formula 1. LiaM1bOc??[Formula 1] wherein, M1 is at least one selected from the group consisting of boron (B), aluminum (Al), silicon (Si), titanium (Ti), and phosphorus (P), and 1?a?4, 1?b?8, and 1?c?20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: So Ra Baek, Min Suk Kang, Sang Wook Lee, Wang Mo Jung, Dong Hun Lee, Hye Lim Jeon, Eun Sol Lho
  • Patent number: 12142767
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lead acid battery having a negative electrode plate and a positive electrode plate, each plate formed of a lead-antimony grid coated with an active material. A separator is disposed between the first and second electrode plate faces and an electrolyte solution immersing the negative electrode plate, the positive electrode plate the separator. At least one of the lead-antimony electrode grids, the separator or the electrolyte solution contains TiO2, an amount sufficient to suppress the migration of antimony from the positive electrode plate to the negative electrode plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Trojan Battery Company, LLC
    Inventors: Cormac O'Keeffe, Anita Hamilton, Marvin Ho
  • Patent number: 12119456
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to compositions and methods for improving the performance of batteries, such as lead-acid batteries, including reviving or rejuvenating a partially or totally dead battery, by adding an amount of nonionic, ground state metal nanoparticles to the electrolyte of the battery, and optionally recharging the battery by applying a voltage. The metal nanoparticles may be gold and coral-shaped and are added to provide a concentration within the electrolyte of 100 ppb to 2 ppm or more (e.g., up to 5 ppm, 10 ppm, 25 ppm, 50 ppm, or 100 ppm). The metal nanoparticles may be added to battery electrode paste applied to the electrodes to enhance newly manufactured or remanufactured batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: EVOQ NANO, INC.
    Inventor: William H. Niedermeyer
  • Patent number: 12113200
    Abstract: Systems and methods for water soluble weak acidic resins as carbon precursors for silicon-dominant anodes may include an electrode coating layer on a current collector, where the electrode coating layer is formed from silicon and a primary resin carbon precursor; wherein the primary resin carbon precursor comprises a water-soluble acidic polyamide imide functionalized with acidic groups and one or more polymeric stabilizing additives. The electrode coating layer may also include a base and/or a surfactant. The electrode coating layer may be more than 70% silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Enevate Corporation
    Inventors: Younes Ansari, Liwen Ji, Benjamin Park
  • Patent number: 12107247
    Abstract: A battery pack including a battery pack housing, and a battery module disposed in the battery pack housing, Tire pack housing is sealed and flooded with a dielectric fluid. The battery module includes a module housing that is fluid permeable and includes a fluid passageway, and electrochemical cells disposed in the module housing in such a way that terminals of the cells are exposed to fluid disposed in the fluid passageway. The battery pack includes a thermal management system having an inlet plenum assembly disposed at a first end of the battery module, an outlet plenum assembly disposed at a second end of the battery module, and a fluid pump that directs fluid to the inlet plenum assembly via a fluid delivery line and receives fluid from the outlet plenum assembly via a fluid return line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: Robert Bosch GmbH, Nikola Corporation
    Inventors: Mehul Botadra, David Sarazin, Kevin Mitchell Lynk, Anthony Albert Heaton
  • Patent number: 12107283
    Abstract: Battery systems according to embodiments of the present technology may include a battery cell having an electrode tab extending from an edge of the battery cell. The systems may also include a module electrically coupled with the battery cell. The module may be characterized by a first surface, a height, and a second surface opposite the first surface. A conductive tab coupled along the first surface of the module may extend from a first end parallel to a plane of the first surface. The conductive tab may be characterized by a curvature proximate a midpoint of the conductive tab. A distal region of the conductive tab may return back across the first surface of the module substantially parallel to the first surface. A distal portion of the electrode tab may be fixedly coupled with the distal region of the conductive tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Angelo V. Marasco, Nathan J. Bohney, John M. McCambridge, Antonio Manenti, Laura E. Mayer, Scott L. Gooch, Jonathan C. Wilson, Flynn P. Carson
  • Patent number: 12090889
    Abstract: In one aspect, computer-implemented method may include receiving, at a cloud-based computing system, a set of measurements over a certain period of time. The set of measurements are received from a set of vehicles and pertain to voltages and temperatures of a set of battery packs associated with the set of vehicles. The method may include training, using the set of measurements, one or more machine learning models to predict a battery pack fault condition. The one or more machine learning models include a set of parameters that are modified during the training. The method may include transmitting the set of parameters to the set of vehicles to enable the set of vehicles to update, based on the set of parameters, one or more respective in-vehicle machine learning models configured to predict the battery pack fault condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Eatron Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Can Kurtulus, Muharrem Ugur Yavas, Resul Dagdanov
  • Patent number: 12087919
    Abstract: A battery balancing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first selection unit to selectively connect each of a plurality of batteries included in a first battery group between a first node and a second node, a resistance adjustment unit to connect a first resistor, a second resistor, a series circuit of the first and second resistors or a parallel circuit of the first and second resistors between the first node and the second node, and a control unit. The control unit determines at least one of the batteries as a first balancing target based on a first voltage signal indicating voltage of each battery. The first selection unit connects the first balancing target between the first node and the second node. The control unit controls the resistance adjustment unit based on a voltage difference between voltage of the first balancing target and a reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventor: Ho-Byung Yoon
  • Patent number: 12080864
    Abstract: An electric vehicle battery cold plate assembly comprising a top plate having a lower major surface with at least one patterned open-faced cooling channel formed therein and intermediate land area, a bottom plate or battery tray, and one or a combination of (a) a continuous or mostly continuous layer or sheet of organic bonding agent/adhesive disposed so as to cover and bond together at least most or all of an upper major surface of the bottom plate and at least most or all of the intermediate land area of the top plate, (b) strips or a pattern of organic bonding agent/adhesive disposed so as to cover and bond together at least most or all of the intermediate land area of the top plate and corresponding area on an upper major surface of the bottom plate, and (c) strips or a pattern of organic bonding agent/adhesive disposed so as to cover and bond together at least most or all of the intermediate land area of the top plate and corresponding area on the upper major surface of the battery tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Bhaskara Boddakayala
  • Patent number: 12068489
    Abstract: A battery includes a battery can including a cylindrical portion and a bottom portion, the cylindrical portion including an opening edge portion at one end portion of the cylindrical portion, the bottom portion closing the other end portion of the cylindrical portion; an electrode body housed in the cylindrical portion; a sealing member sealing an opening of the opening edge portion; and a fixing member fixing the sealing member to the battery can. The sealing member includes a terminal portion, an outer ring, and a first gasket, the outer ring being disposed along a peripheral edge of the terminal portion, and the first gasket being interposed between the opening edge portion and an external peripheral edge portion of the outer ring. The fixing member compresses the first gasket in a direction in which the external peripheral edge portion and the opening edge portion face each other, the fixing member compressing the first gasket via the external peripheral edge portion and the opening edge portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Kohira, Tatsuya Hirano
  • Patent number: 12043138
    Abstract: A vehicle comprises a battery management system (2) including an electronical control unit (3), a battery system (6) and an electronic battery controller (4). The battery controller (4) includes an acquisition device (43) for acquiring values of at least one electrical parameter of the battery system (6) and a memory (42) storing a battery profile (44) representative of properties of the battery system (6). The electronical control unit (3) includes: —a storage space (34) including a plurality of additional battery profiles (35), —a selection interface (33) for selecting a replacement battery profile among the plurality of additional battery profiles (35). and is programmed to replace the battery profile (44) stored in the memory (42) with the replacement battery profile selected by the selection interface (33).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: David De Brito, Grégoire Artur Du Plessis, Romain Rimboud, Jean Daniel Bonnet
  • Patent number: 12040520
    Abstract: A modular electrolyzer system including a power module and a generator module wherein the power module and the generator module are integrated with a hydrogen collection component and a steam delivery component, the hydrogen collection component and the steam delivery component being disposed on a structural base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jessica Mahler, Chad Pearson, Rueben M. Kempton
  • Patent number: 12040471
    Abstract: A hybrid energy storage system with chemical/electrochemical dual technology for mobile, propulsion and stationary applications of electric power units, used to supply energy to a user, including a battery pack having a plurality of batteries and a tank containing metal hydrides arranged in thermal contact with the batteries that form said battery pack. The hydride tank includes a plurality of tanks integrated in the battery pack. The system includes a containment body in which several housings are formed for the tanks and the batteries, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: STAEL-LAB S.R.L., ATENA S.C.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Paolo Di Giorgio, Elio Jannelli, Fiorentino Valerio Conte
  • Patent number: 12034191
    Abstract: Proposed is a fuel cell power control system. A fuel cell generates electric power. A load unit is electrically connected to the fuel cell. A DC/DC converter is disposed between the fuel cell and the load unit to convert the electric power between a low side of the DC/DC converter electrically connected to the fuel cell and a high side of the DC/DC converter electrically connected to the load unit. A battery is electrically connected to the high side of the DC/DC converter to be parallel to the load unit. A controller monitors a voltage of the load unit, the battery, or the high side of the DC/DC converter, and controls the electric power input to the load unit or output from the load unit in accordance with the monitored voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Byung Jun Sung, Sang Pil Jang