Patents Examined by Amanda C. Walke
  • Patent number: 10854877
    Abstract: An all-solid-state secondary battery including: a positive electrode layer; a negative electrode layer; and a solid electrolyte layer between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, wherein the positive electrode layer includes a sulfur-containing positive electrode active material, a halogen-containing sulfide solid electrolyte, and a conductive carbon material, and wherein the sulfur-containing positive electrode active material includes elemental sulfur and a transition metal disulfide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Seitaro Ito, Ulderico Ulissi, Yuichi Aihara, Alberto Varzi, Stefano Passerini
  • Patent number: 10847827
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ion conductor, a method for producing the same, and an ion exchange membrane, a polymer electrolyte membrane and a fuel cell including the same. The ion conductor includes a repeat unit represented by the following Formula 1, and a repeat unit represented by the following Formula 2 or a repeat unit represented by the following Formula 5. Formulae 1, 2 and 3 are described as in the Detailed Description of the Invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: KOLON INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Dong Hoon Lee, Na Young Kim, Seung Jib Yum, Eun Su Lee
  • Patent number: 10844145
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for polymerization, wherein the monomers are used in the form of solid particles in an aqueous phase. The polymers obtained thereby can be oxidized further to polymers which can be used as electrical charge storage means, especially secondary batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Meier, Christine Miess, Michael Korell, Malin Kummer, Günter Schmitt
  • Patent number: 10840501
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a positive electrode additive and a preparation method thereof, a positive electrode plate and a lithium-ion secondary battery. The positive electrode additive comprises a modified lithium carbonate. The modified lithium carbonate comprises a lithium carbonate particle and a polymer coating. The polymer coating coats a surface of the lithium carbonate particle and comprises a polymer. The positive electrode additive of the present disclosure has low cost and simple preparation method, when the positive electrode additive is applied in lithium-ion secondary battery, it can significantly improve lithium-ion secondary battery safety performance without affecting electrical performance of the lithium-ion secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiang Hong, Lingyan Jiang
  • Patent number: 10840517
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a photocurable resin composition which exhibits excellent surface curability and deep section curability when irradiated with active energy rays such as ultraviolet rays while maintaining sealability. Specifically, provided is a photocurable resin composition containing the following (A) to (C) ingredients: (A) ingredient: a polymer having a polyisobutylene backbone containing a —[CH2C(CH3)2]— unit, the polymer having one or more (meth)acryloyl groups; (B) ingredient: a photo-radical polymerization initiator; and (C) ingredient: a triarylphosphine derivative or a xanthone derivative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: THREEBOND CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsunori Soga, Mao Anai
  • Patent number: 10840497
    Abstract: A battery module (100) and a method for controlling charge and discharge are provided. The battery module (100) includes a battery body disposed in an outer housing, a heat conduction assembly (4) connected between the outer housing and the battery body in a heat conduction manner, a first heating member (5) for heating the battery body, a second heating member (6) for heating the heat conduction assembly (4), a temperature sensor (8) for detecting a temperature of the battery body and generating a temperature signal according to the detected temperature of the battery body, and a control assembly (7) for receiving the temperature signal and controlling the first heating member (5) and the second heating member (6) according to the temperature signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU XAIRCRAFT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dingfeng Xiao, Haijun Wen
  • Patent number: 10838302
    Abstract: A photosensitive composition is disclosed including a fluorinated photo cross-linkable polymer provided in a fluorinated solvent such as a hydrofluoroether. The photo cross-linkable polymer includes a first repeating unit having a fluorine-containing group but not a cinnamate group, and a second repeating unit having a fluorine-containing cinnamate group. The polymer has a total fluorine content in a range of 30 to 60% by weight. The composition can be used to form patterned barrier or dielectric structures over substrates and devices such as organic electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Orthogonal, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Warren Wright, Douglas Robert Robello, John Andrew Defranco, Diane Carol Freeman, Frank Xavier Byrne
  • Patent number: 10840543
    Abstract: Disclosed are electrochemical devices, such as lithium battery electrodes, lithium ion conducting solid-state electrolytes, and solid-state lithium metal batteries including these electrodes and solid-state electrolytes. In one disclosed method, a solid state electrolyte material including a precursor layer having a first electronic conductivity is provided; and the precursor layer on the solid state electrolyte material is reduced to an interfacial layer having a second electronic conductivity greater than the first electronic conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Jeffrey Sakamoto, Travis Thompson, Nathan Taylor
  • Patent number: 10833368
    Abstract: Thermotropic ionic liquid crystal molecules, comprising a so-called rigid part, a so-called flexible part bonded covalently, directly or via a spacer, to said rigid part, and one or more ionic groups bonded covalently to said rigid part. Said molecules can be used as electrolytes in an electrochemical device, in particular a lithium-ion battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Lionel Picard, Gerard Gebel, Melody Leclere, Hakima Mendil, Patrice Rannou
  • Patent number: 10826060
    Abstract: An alkaline electrochemical cell, preferably a zinc/air cell which includes a container; a negative electrode, a positive electrode, wherein said negative electrode and said positive electrode are disposed within the container, a separator located between the negative electrode and the positive electrode, and an alkaline electrolyte, wherein the negative electrode comprises zinc, and a branched chain fluorosurfactant. The fluorosurfactant is preferably a sulfotricarballylate surfactant with multiple fluorinated end groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Energizer Brands, LLC
    Inventor: Jack W. Marple
  • Patent number: 10818946
    Abstract: A fuel cell system that has a fuel cell stack is provided. The system includes an electrolyte membrane, and a cathode and an anode that are a pair of electrodes disposed on opposite sides of the electrolyte membrane. A controller applies voltages to the cathode and the anode of the fuel cell stack before hydrogen that operates the fuel cell stack is supplied to the anode. When the voltages are applied to the cathode and the anode, hydrogen that resides in the cathode flows to the anode through the electrolyte membrane to decrease the concentration of the hydrogen in the cathode. The fuel cell system reduces the concentration of hydrogen discharged to the outside of the vehicle by reducing the concentration of hydrogen in the cathode before driving of the fuel cell is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sae Kwon Chang, Hyuck Roul Kwon, Hyun Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 10818932
    Abstract: A gas diffusion layer for a metal-air battery may include a plurality of carbon nanotube thin films that are arranged to be stacked, and the carbon nanotube thin films may include a plurality of first carbon nanotubes arranged in a predetermined direction. The gas diffusion layer for the metal-air battery may include a plurality of carbon nanotube thin films in which a plurality of carbon nanotubes are arranged such that they cross each other by a floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition (“FCCVD”) method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Dongjoon Lee, Chong rae Park, Yeonsu Jung, Young shik Cho, Minhoo Byeon, Hyukjae Kwon, Mokwon Kim, Joonhee Kim, Hyunjin Kim, Hyunpyo Lee, Heungchan Lee, Dongmin Im
  • Patent number: 10811705
    Abstract: There is provided a fuel cell module that can surely suppress oscillation of a compressor, even when externally induced vibration becomes large in travelling on a rough road, for example, and that can thus provide high NV performance and reliability. In the fuel cell module, the compressor and an intercooler are coupled to a stack frame and are also rigidly coupled to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Takeyama
  • Patent number: 10804556
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel cell stack, a fuel cell system, and a vehicle having such a fuel cell system. The fuel cell stack comprises a stack of membrane electrode assemblies and bipolar plates arranged in alternation between two end plates and comprises main supply channels for supplying and discharging operating media for the fuel cell stack which main supply channels extend through the stack in the stacking direction of the stack. It is provided that means for retaining particles be provided in at least one of the main supply channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AG, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Peter Bach, Ingo Drescher
  • Patent number: 10804565
    Abstract: Solid electrolytes have a favorable combination of properties such as high conductivity, high transference number, optimum processability, and low brittleness. A composite electrolyte includes some amount of a class of network polymer electrolytes with high transference number and high room temperature conductivity, and an additional polymeric component to contribute mechanical integrity and/or processability. The solid electrolytes can include a network polymer having linked nodes composed of a tetrahedral arylborate composition and a linear polymer combined with the network polymer as a composite. The solid electrolytes can be used in thin films and in solid-state batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Sondra Hellstrom, David Abram, Michael Aubrey, Jeffrey Long, Katherine Harry, John F. Christensen, Hany Eitouni, Jordan Axelson
  • Patent number: 10790537
    Abstract: A secondary battery and its preparation method, the secondary battery having a negative electrode containing a negative current collector and no negative active material; an electrolyte having an electrolyte salt and an organic solvent; a separator; a positive electrode having a positive active material layer containing a positive active material, wherein the positive active material comprises a material having a layered crystal structure; and a battery case used for packaging. Main active component of the secondary battery is the positive active material having a layered crystal structure, which is environmentally-friendly and low in cost; meanwhile, negative active material is not needed by the second battery system, thereby remarkably reducing the weight and cost of the battery and improving the battery energy density. The reaction mechanism adopted by the secondary battery significantly increases the working voltage of the battery and further improves the energy density of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Yongbing Tang, Xiaolong Zhang, Fan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10788751
    Abstract: Organic coating compositions, particularly antireflective coating compositions for use with an overcoated photoresist, are provided that comprise that comprise a crosslinker component that comprises a structure of the following Formula (I):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC, Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Korea Ltd.
    Inventors: Matthew Grandbois, Myung Yeol Kim, Eui Hyun Ryu, Jae Hwan Sim, Min Kyung Jang, Jung-June Lee
  • Patent number: 10790526
    Abstract: An electrode catalyst layer of an electrochemical device is an electrode catalyst layer of an electrochemical device, the electrode catalyst layer including a mesoporous carbon; a catalyst metal supported at least in the mesoporous carbon; and an ionomer. Before supporting the catalyst metal, the mesoporous carbon has mesopores with a mode radius of 1 nm to 25 nm and a pore volume of 1.0 cm3/g to 3.0 cm3/g and has an average particle diameter of 200 nm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhiko Shintani, Yusuke Fujita
  • Patent number: 10790477
    Abstract: A secondary battery according to the present invention comprises an electrode assembly in which an electrode and a separator are alternately stacked and a battery case accommodating the electrode assembly therein, wherein the battery case comprises a stepped part that is disposed to be stepped, an outer surface of the battery case is sealed to allow a folded part to be seated on the outer surface of the stepped part, and the electrode assembly comprises a stepped protrusion that is stepped in a shape corresponding to an inner surface of the stepped part disposed on the battery case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sei Woon Oh, Jung Ah Shim, Hyun Min Kim, Seong Yoon Lim
  • Patent number: 10784642
    Abstract: A flexible printed wiring board includes a flexible insulating layer, a conductor layer formed on a surface of the flexible insulating layer, and a metal body having a columnar shape and fitted in a hole penetrating through the flexible insulating layer and the conductor layer such that the metal body is formed of a welding base material and has an end portion formed to be joined to an electrode of a battery by welding. The welding base material of the metal body of the flexible printed wiring board includes the same material as the electrode of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahisa Hirasawa, Takayuki Furuno