Patents Examined by Carmen V Lyles-Irving
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Patent number: 11682811Abstract: Provided is a battery pack including a plurality of battery cells for generating electrical energy; a lead frame for electrically connecting the plurality of battery cells; a sensor for measuring a status of at least one of the plurality of battery cells; and a wiring member for connecting the sensor and at least one of the plurality of battery cells, wherein the wiring member includes a wiring portion; and a fuse portion having a width smaller than that of the wiring portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jiyoung Ahn, Dukho Ham, Seonghoon Han
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Patent number: 11664554Abstract: A method of producing a battery with a prismatic battery housing includes assembling a battery housing from two prefabricated housing parts, of which the first housing part includes at least a partial region of the element including the at least one through hole as well as at least a partial region of a second element, bordering on the element including the at least one through hole, and the second housing part includes all elements and/or partial regions of elements not part of the first housing part.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignees: VARTA Microbattery GmbH, VW Kraftwerk GmbHInventors: Andreas Gaugler, Andreas Huth, Werner Schreiber, Stefan Stock
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Patent number: 11652246Abstract: A battery module and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The battery module includes a case providing an internal space, a plurality of battery cells disposed in the internal space of the case, and at least one cooling unit interposed between the battery cells to be in surface contact with the battery cells and dissipating heat generated by the battery cells externally.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: SK ON CO., LTD.Inventors: Eun Jeong Choi, Seung Hoon Ju
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Patent number: 11626649Abstract: A battery terminal connector assembly includes a first post engagement portion and a second post engagement portion. The first post engagement portion has a first opening for receiving the battery terminal post therein. The second post engagement portion has a second opening for receiving the battery terminal post therein. The first post engagement portion is movable relative to the second post engagement portion and the first post engagement portion and the second post engagement portion are movable relative to the battery terminal post as the first post engagement portion and the second post engagement portion are moved between a first insertion position and a second termination position.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Brasil Industria De Eletronicos LTDAInventors: Luis Altero, Gustavo Bonucci, Agnelo Bartolomeu Cavallaro, Rafael Kazuo Sato T Leme
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Patent number: 11621462Abstract: Presented are finger-proof electrical terminals for battery assemblies, methods for making/using such electrical terminals, and vehicles with battery modules having finger-proof electrical terminals for bolted busbar connections. A battery assembly includes one or more electrochemical battery cells and one or more electrical terminals each electrically connected to the battery cell(s) and having a contact face to electrically connect the battery assembly to an electrical connector. A threaded nut attaches each electrical terminal to one of the electrical connectors. An electrically insulating nut cap is attached to each threaded nut. A battery housing, which stores therein the battery cell(s), includes an electrically insulating housing wall with one or more terminal jackets each mounting therein one of the electrical terminals.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Evan J. Dawley, Phillip D. Hamelin, Scott W. Vaubel, Andrew P. Oury, Neil A. Patel
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Patent number: 11616270Abstract: A battery includes a plurality of battery cells, each battery cell including a core, a source of thermal control fluid in fluid communication with the core, and a first pressure sensitive valve positioned between the core and the source of thermal control fluid, the first pressure sensitive valve adapted to open when pressure within the core exceeds a first pre-determined value.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Xiaofeng Yang
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Patent number: 11611127Abstract: A supporting base and a relief valve. Relief valve includes valve body, restoring component and plug. Valve body includes first cover plate and first side wall. First cover plate and first side wall together form opening. First side wall includes pressure releasing hole. Vent of casing is connected to opening. Pressure releasing hole is connected to opening. Plug includes second cover plate and second side wall. Second side wall and second cover plate together form recession. Recession is connected to accommodation space via vent. Second cover plate is movably disposed in opening via restoring component. When plug is in initial position, pressure releasing hole is disconnected from accommodation space. When plug is in releasing position, pressure releasing hole is connected to accommodation space via vent.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignees: INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, INVENTEC CORPORATIONInventor: Chi-Cheng Hsiao
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Patent number: 11611134Abstract: The disclosure relates to a technical field of batteries, and a battery and a battery apparatus are provided. The battery includes a cell, and the cell includes a cell body and tab portions. Each of the tab portions extends from one side of the cell body. The battery further includes a housing. The housing is a hollow structure, and the hollow structure is formed inside the housing. The cell is disposed in the housing, and the housing includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The first surface is provided with liquid injecting holes, and the liquid injecting holes penetrate the first surface and do not penetrate the second surface. An orthographic projection of the cell body on the first surface does not overlap the liquid injecting holes.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: CALB CO., LTD.Inventors: Fangfang Pan, Jiuling Xu, Binwei Qi, Yongjie Zhang
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Patent number: 11600893Abstract: A battery system according to the present invention includes: a plurality of battery cells electrically connected to each other; cell voltage sensing lines connected to ends of the battery cells, respectively; a battery management system sensing voltages of the battery cells through the respective cell voltage sensing lines; fuses connected to the cell voltage sensing lines, respectively, to cut off a flow of an excessive current exceeding a rated current when the excessive current flows through the cell voltage sensing lines; and emergency preventing switches connected to the cell voltage sensing lines, respectively, so as to be turned on at the time of sensing the voltage of the battery cell, and turned off in a case when a short circuit between the cell voltage sensing lines occurs.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: SK ON CO., LTD.Inventors: Byoung Kyu Park, Seok Min Kim, Seon Yong Kim, Ha Chul Jeong
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Patent number: 11600882Abstract: Battery systems according to embodiments of the present technology may include a battery characterized by a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface. A recessed ledge may be defined by the third surface about a midpoint of the battery. The first surface and the third surface may define a first terrace formed proximate a first lateral edge of the first surface of the battery adjacent the third surface of the battery, and a second terrace formed proximate a second lateral edge of the first surface of the battery adjacent the third surface of the battery and opposite the first lateral edge. The recessed ledge may extend along the first surface of the battery between the first terrace and the second terrace. The battery systems may also include a module seated on the first surface of the battery between the first terrace and the second terrace.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Dominic Pitera, Nathan J. Bohney, Andrew S. Meyers
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Patent number: 11594763Abstract: A method for manufacturing an all-solid lithium battery includes: providing a substrate; and forming M rows×N columns of lithium battery cells on the substrate, wherein each of the lithium battery cells includes a positive electrode current collector layer, a positive electrode layer, an electrolyte layer, a negative electrode layer, and a negative electrode current collector layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Quanguo Zhou, Lijia Zhou, Zhidong Wang, Rongjian Yan, Jiuyang Cheng, Ronghua Lan, Yungchiang Lee, Yancheng Lu, Qingguo Yang
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Patent number: 11591236Abstract: A solid electrolyte material contains Li, M, and X. M contains Y, and X is at least one selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, and I. A first converted pattern, which is obtained by converting the X-ray diffraction pattern of the solid electrolyte material to change its horizontal axis from the diffraction angle to q, includes its base peak within the range in which q is 2.109 ??1 or more and 2.315 ??1 or less. A second converted pattern, which is obtained by converting the X-ray diffraction pattern to change its horizontal axis from the diffraction angle to q/q0, where q0 is the q corresponding to the base peak in the first converted pattern, includes a peak within each of the range in which q/q0 is 1.28 or more and 1.30 or less and the range in which q/q0 is 1.51 or more and 1.54 or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya Asano, Akihiro Sakai, Masashi Sakaida, Yusuke Nishio
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Patent number: 11594775Abstract: A power supply device disposes an end plate at each end of a battery stack in a stacked direction of the battery stack, and couples a binding bar to the end plate, so as to fix battery cells. The binding bar includes a plate-shaped bar that extends in the stacked direction, and an engagement block that is provided on a plate-shaped bar and protrudes toward an outer peripheral face of the end plate. The engagement block is inserted into a fixing hole provided in the plate-shaped bar and fixed to an inner peripheral face of the fixing hole. The end plate includes a fitting part, to which the engagement block is guided, on the outer peripheral face of the end plate, and includes a stopper that is disposed closer to the battery stack with respect to the fitting part and abuts the engagement block.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignees: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinobu Terauchi, Tetsuji Omura
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Patent number: 11581599Abstract: An ambient water condenser system is described having a condensation chamber which at least partially contains or surrounds a fluid reservoir which contains a volume or mass of an aqueous hygroscopic solution for condensing water from ambient air and a distillation process for extracting the water from the solution. The fluid reservoir has a heat source, a lower porous hydrophobic membrane, and an upper porous hydrophobic membrane. The heat source causes the hygroscopic solution near the top of reservoir to have a higher temperature which causes it to have a higher water vapor pressure, whereby the water vapor passing through the upper porous hydrophobic membrane and into the condensation chamber condenses into liquid water.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Johnson IP Holding, LLCInventor: Lonnie G. Johnson
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Patent number: 11581568Abstract: A secondary battery includes a battery element including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution, a housing member configured to accommodate the battery element, and a safety valve mechanism attached to the housing member. The safety valve mechanism includes a valve member including an opening valve portion configured to be opened; and an opening member including a plurality of opening portions radially arranged in a region opposed to the opening valve portion from a center of the region as a base point, and a plurality of protrusion portions radially arranged in a region outside the plurality of opening portions from the center and the plurality of protrusion portions protrude toward the plurality of opening portions. A number of the opening portions and a number of the protrusion portions are equal to each other, and each of the plurality of opening portions and each of the plurality of protrusion portions are opposed to each other in a direction toward the center.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kunio Sodeyama
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Patent number: 11581554Abstract: A cooling control method of a fuel cell is provided. The method includes estimating a temperature of a separator based on heat exchange between the separator formed between unit cells of a fuel cell stack and coolant flowing through a cooling line between the separators. A ratio of coolant passing through a heat exchange device to coolant bypassing the heat exchange device is adjusted based on the estimated temperature of the separator. Additionally, a rotation speed of a pump for circulating coolant for cooling the fuel cell stack is adjusted based on the estimated temperature of the separator.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jung Hwan Ryu, Dong Hun Lee
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Patent number: 11571659Abstract: A method for producing electrical energy. An electrolyte solution having a first concentration CA of a solute is placed in a first vessel having an electrode arranged so the electrode is contacted with the electrolyte solution of concentration CA. An electrolyte solution having a concentration CB of the same solute is placed in a second vessel having an electrode arranged so the electrode comes in contact with the electrolyte solution of concentration CB, the concentration CB being lower than the concentration CA. The first and the second vessels are separated by a membrane, the membrane having at least one nanochannel arranged to allow diffusion of the electrolyte solution from the first vessel to the second vessel through the at least one nanochannel. An inner surface of the at least one nanochannel is formed of at least one titanium oxide. Electrical energy generated by a potential difference existing between the electrodes is captured using a device having the first and second vessels.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Sweetch EnergyInventors: Bruno Mottet, Lyderic Bocquet, Alessandro Siria, Mikhael Bechelany
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Patent number: 11563240Abstract: The present disclosure discloses to a sampling circuit board for a battery module and a battery module. The sampling circuit board for a battery module comprises a main board comprising a plurality of electrical connection areas; and a plurality of sampling terminals respectively electrically connected to the plurality of the electrical connection areas, and an end of each of the sampling terminals extends away from the main board, and each of the sampling terminals connected to one of the electrical connection areas of the main board via a connection member, wherein the connection member comprises a main body and at least one hook assembly provided on the main body, and the hook assembly laminates and attaches one of the sampling terminals and one of the electrical connection areas of the main board.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., LimitedInventors: Sien Chen, Shoujiang Xu, Chunyan Feng
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Patent number: 11552340Abstract: A battery pack may be configured to power any of a plurality of different outdoor power equipment device types. The battery pack may include one or more rechargeable battery cells configured to power a device to which the battery pack is operably coupled, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry may include at least a processor and memory. The processing circuitry may be configured to enable configuration of the device or another device of a same device type as the device based on a set of configuration settings stored in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: HUSQVARNA ABInventors: Jon Funk, Eric Tse, Matthew Albinger, Duncan K. Burns, Jr.
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Patent number: 11545662Abstract: Disclosed is a positive active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery containing a lithium transition metal composite oxide, in which the lithium transition metal composite oxide has an ?-NaFeO2 structure, a molar ratio Li/Me of Li and a transition metal (Me) of 1.05?Li/Me?1.4, and a porosity of 5 to 15%.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke Endo, Hiromasa Muramatsu