Patents Examined by Barbara L. Gilliam
  • Patent number: 12381255
    Abstract: A member for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery containing a copolymer containing a tetrafluoroethylene unit and a fluoroalkyl vinyl ether unit, in which the number of functional groups per 106 carbon atoms of a main chain of the copolymer is 100 or less, and a melt flow rate of the copolymer is less than 20 g/10 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadaharu Isaka, Hayato Tsuda, Yumi Zenke, Yukari Yamamoto, Takahisa Aoyama
  • Patent number: 12374743
    Abstract: A packaging structure including an accommodating portion and a sealing portion is disclosed. The accommodating portion includes a first wall and a second wall facing each other, a first side wall connected to the first wall and the second wall, and, a second side wall connected to the first wall and the second wall. The second side wall intersects with the first side wall at a first side. The sealing portion includes a first sealing portion connected to the first side wall, a second sealing portion connected to the second side wall, and a third sealing portion connecting the first sealing portion and the second sealing portion. The first sealing portion is folded in a direction away from the second wall. The second sealing portion is folded toward the second wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignees: NINGDE AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, DONGGUAN NVT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yajing Shuang, Xin Jin, Xiaozhao Huang, Zhi Chen
  • Patent number: 12374752
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a battery module including a module housing and a plurality of battery cells accommodated in the module housing; a pack housing accommodating a plurality of battery modules therein and having at least one venting hole for discharging gas externally from the pack housing; a transverse member installed in the pack housing and disposed in a direction, intersecting an internal space of the pack housing; and a flow guide member disposed in an internal space of the transverse member in a longitudinal direction of the transverse member, and configured to guide gas introduced from a transverse portion connection hole in the transverse member, to form a first gas flow with directionality in the longitudinal direction of the transverse member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: SK ON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 12362417
    Abstract: The present application relates to a battery module, a battery pack, a device and an assembly method of the battery module, the battery module includes: a battery cell arrangement structure including a plurality of battery cells stacked upon one another; a cable tie, the cable tie surrounding outside the battery cell arrangement structure, and at least including a first cable tie and a second cable tie of different materials; and where at least part of the first cable tie is located on a side of the second cable tie close to the battery cell. The cable tie can have characteristics of the first cable tie and the second cable tie, which improves an applicability of the cable tie. In this case, it is helpful to improve a connection reliability of the cable tie to the battery cell arrangement structure, and to release an expansion force of the battery module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: Sien Chen, Shoujiang Xu, Xiaoshan Dai
  • Patent number: 12362403
    Abstract: Presented are electrochemical devices with in-stack pressure sensors, methods for making/using such devices, and battery cells with electrode stacks having an electrode separator assembly with a piezoelectric layer for in-stack pressure sensing and dendrite cleaning. An electrochemical device, such as a lithium-class secondary battery cell for example, includes a device housing with an ion-conducting electrolyte located inside the device housing. A stack of working electrodes is also located inside the device housing, in electrochemical contact with the electrolyte. At least one electrode separator assembly is located inside the device housing, interposed between a neighboring pair of the working electrodes. The electrode separator assembly includes a pair of separator layers that transmit therethrough the ions of the electrolyte, and a piezoelectric layer that is interposed between the two separator layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Jing Gao, Zhe Li, Xingcheng Xiao, Brian J. Koch, Michael A Lelli, Dave G. Rich
  • Patent number: 12362426
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of battery modules, each having a plurality of battery cells and a module housing for accommodating the plurality of battery cells; an insulator interposed between two battery modules facing each other among the plurality of battery modules; and an anti-compression member made of a rigid material and disposed such that both ends thereof are in contact with outer surfaces of the two battery modules facing each other through the insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Doo-Han Yoon, Chang-keun Son
  • Patent number: 12355083
    Abstract: Conducting coatings disposed on a metal member. The conducting coatings may have a desired texture and provide homoepitaxial or heteroepitaxial coating of an electrodeposited layer. A conducting coating may be formed by applying a shear force during deposition of the conducting coating. The conducting coatings may be used in anodes of various electrochemical devices. A conducting coating, which may be part of an electrochemical device, may have an electrochemically deposited layer disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the conducting coating. The electrochemically deposited layer may be reversibly electrochemically deposited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Cornell University
    Inventors: Lynden A. Archer, Jingxu Zheng, Tian Tang, Qing Zhao
  • Patent number: 12300816
    Abstract: The present application discloses a positive electrode active material, a positive electrode plate, a lithium-ion secondary battery, and an apparatus. The positive electrode active material satisfies a chemical formula Li1+x(NiaCobMnc)1-dMdO2-yAy, wherein M is one or more selected from Zr, Sr, B, Ti, Mg, Sn and Al, A is one or more selected from S, N, F, Cl, Br and I, ?0.01?x?0.2, 0.12?b/c?0.9, 0.002?b×c/a2?0.23, a+b+c=1, 0?d?0.1, and 0?y<0.2; and an interval particle size distribution curve of the positive electrode active material has a full width at half maximum DFW of from 4 ?m to 8 ?m. The positive electrode active material provided in the present application has relatively low cobalt content and relatively high cycle life and capacity performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology (HONG KONG) Limited
    Inventors: Qifeng Li, Qilan Zhang, Na Liu
  • Patent number: 12288880
    Abstract: A positive active material is provided. In some embodiments, the positive material includes: a substrate and a coating layer coating the substrate, wherein the coating layer includes a fast ion conductor layer and a carbon coating layer, the substrate includes more than one compound of formula (I): LiFe1-aM1aPO4 formula (I), in formula (I), M1 is more than one selected from Cu, Mn, Cr, Zn, Pb, Ca, Co, Ni, Sr, Nb and Ti, and 0?a?0.01; the fast ion conductor layer includes a fast ion conductor of a NASICON structure shown in formula (II), Li3-bFe2-bM2b(PO4)3 formula (II), in formula (II), M2 is more than one selected from Ti, Zr, Hf, Ge and Sn with valence of +4, and 0?b?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology (Hong Kong) Limited
    Inventors: Xue Leng, Hongyu Liu, Changfeng Bie, Na Liu, Wanqing Cai
  • Patent number: 12278362
    Abstract: A positive electrode material and a method of producing thereof is provided. The positive electrode material having a bimodal particle diameter distribution and including large-diameter particles and small-diameter particles, wherein the small-diameter particle is a lithium composite transition metal oxide in the form of a single particle and containing a rock salt phase formed on a surface portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Min Han, Dong Hun Lee, Sung Bin Park, Hyung Man Cho, Jin Tae Hwang, Wang Mo Jung
  • Patent number: 12199285
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is an electrode for a lithium sulphur cell. The electrode comprises a matrix deposited on a current collector, wherein the matrix comprises an electrically conductive material, an electroactive sulphur material and a binder comprising a polymer that is crosslinked to form a crosslinked polymer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GELION TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD
    Inventors: Ashley Cooke, Lisset Urrutia, Stephen Rowlands, Philip J. Toy
  • Patent number: 12183906
    Abstract: A battery module assembly, a battery pack, and a device using a battery as a power source are provided. The battery module assembly includes: at least two battery modules arranged along a first direction, each of the battery modules including a plurality of battery cells, and a shell side wall of the battery cell including two oppositely arranged first side walls and two oppositely arranged second side walls, an area of the first side wall being larger than that of the second side wall, and the first side wall being perpendicular to the first direction; and a cooling plate arranged between two adjacent battery modules, and configured to perform heat exchange with the first side walls of the battery cells of the two adjacent battery modules. The battery pack includes the battery module assembly. The device using a battery as a power source includes the battery pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology (Hong Kong) Limited
    Inventors: Yongguang Wang, Mingdi Xie, Zhanyu Sun, Haizu Jin, Peng Wang, Kaijie You
  • Patent number: 12183912
    Abstract: A doped cathode material for lithium-ion batteries is disclosed. Methods and systems are further provided for doping a cathode material for use in a lithium-ion battery. In one example, the doping may be a dry surface doping process. In some examples, dopants may stabilize a crystal structure of the cathode material and may result in fewer side reactions with an electrolyte as compared to an undoped cathode material. As such, cycling performance and capacity retention may be improved relative to the undoped cathode material. Further, in some examples, the doped cathode material produced with the dry surface doping process may have improved cycling performance and capacity retention relative to a comparable doped cathode material produced with a wet surface doping process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: A123 SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Yang Shi, Kitae Kim, Lixin Wang, Yingjie Xing, Andrew Millonig, Bryan Kim, Derek C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 12176534
    Abstract: The present application discloses a positive electrode active material, a positive electrode plate, a lithium-ion secondary battery, and an apparatus. The positive electrode active material satisfies a chemical formula Li1+x(NiaCobMnc)1?dMdO2?yAy, wherein M is one or more selected from Zr, Sr, B, Ti, Mg, Sn and Al, A is one or more selected from S, N, F, Cl, Br and I, ?0.01?x?0.2, 0.12?b/c?0.9, 0.002?b×c/a2?0.23, a+b+c=1, 0?d?0.1, and 0?y?0.2; and an interval particle size distribution curve of the positive electrode active material has a full width at half maximum DFW of from 4 ?m to 8 ?m. The positive electrode active material provided in the present application has relatively low cobalt content and relatively high cycle life and capacity performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: Qifeng Li, Qilan Zhang, Na Liu
  • Patent number: 12166225
    Abstract: A cell holder for at least two battery cells includes at least two battery-cell receivers, each battery-cell receiver configured to receive a single battery cell. The battery-cell receivers each including a rigid region and a flexible region. The flexible region is arranged partially or entirely in the rigid region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Kneer, Josef Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 12166224
    Abstract: A method for assembling a battery including: providing an end plate having at least one through cell for an accumulator and at least one adhesive injection orifice distant from the cell, the adhesive injection orifice being in fluidic communication via a supply channel with a recess of an inner wall of the cell, placing the accumulator in the cell, injecting adhesive through the injection orifice, the adhesive flowing in the channel up to the recess, the accumulator being bonded to the end plate by the adhesive contained in the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Olivier Masson, Michel Bel, Dimitri Gevet
  • Patent number: 12159986
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an energy storage system, a battery cooling system, and a thermal event management system. The energy storage system includes a battery arranged within a battery housing. The battery cooling system includes a first conduit positioned internal to the battery housing and adjacent the battery. The first conduit is configured to facilitate circulating a first fluid through the battery housing to thermally regulate the battery. The thermal event management system includes a second conduit with a fluid diverter positioned therealong. The second conduit is positioned adjacent to at least one of the battery or the battery housing. The second conduit is configured to receive a second fluid. The fluid diverter is configured to facilitate selectively providing fluid communication between the second conduit and the battery housing so that the second fluid flows out of the second conduit and at least one of into or around the battery housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Oshkosh Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Linsmeier, David Archer, David Fieber, John Schultz, Jason Shively, Bob Schulz, Neil DeKarske
  • Patent number: 12155088
    Abstract: A separator and an electrochemical device including the same. The separator includes an adhesive layer including first adhesive resin particles having an average particle diameter corresponding to 0.8-3 times of an average particle diameter of the inorganic particles and second adhesive resin particles having an average particle diameter corresponding to 0.2-0.6 times of the average particle diameter of the inorganic particles, wherein the first adhesive resin particles are present in an amount of 30-90 wt % based on a total weight of the first adhesive resin particles and the second adhesive resin particles. The separator shows improved adhesion to an electrode and provides an electrochemical device with decreased increment in resistance after lamination with an electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Hye-Jin Kwon, Myeong-Soo Kim, In-Hyouk Sung, Su-Jin Yoon, Je-An Lee
  • Patent number: 12155060
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is an energy storage device including a positive electrode containing: first positive active material particles containing a metal element capable of forming a conductive metal oxide; and second positive active material particles not containing the metal element, in which the first positive active material particles include a nickel-cobalt-manganese-containing lithium-transition metal composite oxide containing lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese as constituent elements, and the first positive active material particles are larger in median diameter than the second positive active material particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomonori Kako, Kazuki Kawaguchi, Shota Ito, Jun Oyama, Taisei Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 12148884
    Abstract: An additive for battery electrolyte, the additive at least including a structure represented by formula I or formula II as shown below, in formula I, R1 and R2 are independently selected from silicon-containing groups, and X is selected from organic groups with carbon atoms of 2 to 20; and in formula II, R1 and R2 are independently selected from silicon-containing groups, and X1 and X2 are independently selected from organic groups with carbon atoms of 2 to 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN BAK POWER BATTERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Lin, Xiaoyun Zhan, Weifeng An, Lu Miao