Abstract: The storage module for an energy store of a motor vehicle includes multiple storage cells. The multiple storage cells are wired together according to a circuit topology and are electrically connected together for storing electric energy. Each storage cell has at least one electric heating element for heating the each storage cell. The heating elements are electrically connected to one another according to the same circuit topology.

Abstract: An energy storage module includes: a plurality of battery cells arranged in a length direction, each of the battery cells including a vent; a plurality of insulation spacers, at least one of the insulation spacers being located between long side surfaces of an adjacent pair of the battery cells; a cover member; a top plate coupled to a top portion of the cover member and including ducts respectively corresponding to the vents of the battery cells and including opening holes respectively corresponding to the insulation spacers; a top cover coupled to a top portion of the top plate and including discharge holes located in an exhaust area and respectively corresponding to the ducts; and an extinguisher sheet located between the top cover and the top plate, configured to emit a fire extinguishing agent at a temperature exceeding a certain temperature and including opening holes located to correspond to the ducts.

Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) lamp for a vehicle and a method of manufacturing the same use MID and magnetic induction technologies. The LED lamp includes a LED module, a housing accommodating the LED module, and a molded interconnect device (MID) electrode formed on a surface of the housing. The LED module may be mounted on the MID electrode by soldering using magnetic induction heating, the housing may be an injection molded product, and the MID electrode may be formed on the housing using a MID process.

Abstract: A low voltage electrochemical cell is provided that includes a metallic anode including an anode metal, a metallic cathode including a cathode metal, the metallic cathode further including a surface layer including an alloy of the anode metal and the cathode metal, an electrolyte disposed between the metallic anode and the metallic cathode, and a separator within the electrolyte or embedded with electrolyte. The electrochemical cell further includes a voltage stabilization electron current between said anode and said cathode, where the voltage stabilization electron current has an amperage capable of maintaining an open load circuit voltage of the electrochemical cell that varies by less than 10 percent over 10 hours or greater, optionally a month or greater, optionally over the cell lifetime, or a non-equilibrium anode metal/cathode metal ratio in the surface layer for 10 hours or greater, optionally a month or greater, optionally over the cell lifetime.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium secondary battery which includes a positive electrode including a first lithium cobalt oxide and a second lithium cobalt oxide which have different average particle diameters (D50) from each other, a negative electrode including first graphite and second graphite which have different average particle diameters (D50) from each other, and an electrolyte including a a first additive as a nitrile-based compound, wherein the first lithium cobalt oxide and the second lithium cobalt oxide each independently contain aluminum in a concentration of 2,500 ppm to 4,000 ppm.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a cassette stack comprising a plurality of battery cell cassettes, each of the cassettes including a plurality of support structures. Each support structure comprises an electrically and thermally conductive frame for receiving at least one battery cell having a first terminal and a second terminal, and a heat pipe. The first terminal is electrically coupled to the frame when the at least one battery cell is mounted in the frame. The heat pipe provides thermal conductivity between the frame and a cooling surface. A method of cooling an electric vehicle including a battery pack comprises aligning the battery pack and a cooling structure, moving the cooling structure into contact with the electric vehicle, and circulating coolant through the cooling structure.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for increasing efficiency of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system by recapturing water via a condensate extraction system that extracts water from a hot cathode exhaust flow of the SOFC stack. Further, the SOFC system can include a radiant heater which has a fuel inlet, an air intake, and an exhaust outlet independent and separate from the power generating components in the SOFC system. The radiant heater can bring the SOFC stack up to operating temperature quickly and/or maintain near operational mode temperatures of the SOFC stack during a hibernation mode.

Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery that can operate in a high-temperature environment of 85° C. The lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode active material that can store and release lithium ions Li?, a positive electrode binder that binds the positive electrode active material, a negative electrode active material that can store and release lithium ions Li+, a negative electrode binder that binds the negative electrode active material, and an electrolytic solution containing an organic solvent and an imide-based lithium salt. The negative electrode active material is previously doped with lithium ions. The positive electrode binder has a Hansen solubility parameter-based relative energy difference (RED) value of more than 1 with respect to the electrolytic solution.

Abstract: Battery monitoring systems and methods are provided. The battery monitoring system may include a battery module and battery management circuitry. The battery module comprises battery cells and a gas sensor configured to detect the presence of gas within the battery module. The battery management circuitry is configured to receive a sensor signal from the gas sensor, determine whether the sensor signal indicates the presence of gas within the battery module, and in response to determining that the sensor signal indicates the presence of gas, take an action. The action may include increasing cooling to the battery cells, limiting a maximum load that can be applied to the battery module, disconnecting the battery module, or providing a warning. The battery module may also include a component that was doped with a chemical that begins to off-gas above an activation temperature. The gas sensor may be configured to detect the chemical.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to the technical field of energy storage devices, and in particular, to a mounting bracket for a cell supervision circuit, a battery pack, and a vehicle. The mounting bracket includes: a management system mounting part, including a management system mounting surface, which is configured to mount a cell supervision circuit; and a thermally conductive part, configured to fit snugly to a container of the battery pack, which is connected to one end of the management system mounting part, and disposed on a side where the management system mounting surface is located.

Abstract: An anode for a lithium rechargeable battery and a lithium rechargeable battery including the same are provided. Specifically, a plurality of anode active material layers are sequentially stacked on an anode current collector, and in the innermost layer directly contacting the anode current collector, polyolefin-based polymer is applied as a binder, and in the other layers, heterogeneous polymers are applied as binders.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolytic solution including an electrolyte, a nonaqueous solvent, and a compound represented by Formula (1) below. (in Formula (1), X1 and X2 each independently represent C, S, or P; n1 and n2 each independently represent 1 when X1 and X2 represent C or P and 2 when X1 and X2 represent S; n1 represents 1 or 2; n2 represents 1 or 2; Y1 and Y2 each independently represent a hydrocarbon group that may have a substituent or an —OW group (where W represents a hydrocarbon group that may have a substituent); m1 represents 1 or 2, and m2 represents 1 or 2; and Z represents a hydrocarbon group that may have a substituent, an —SiV3 group (where V represents a hydrocarbon group that may have a substituent), an organic onium, or a metal).

Abstract: Flexible air-breathing microscale fuel cells are produced using ion exchange polymer membranes without silicon substrates or other rigid components. The microscale fuel cells provide long-life energy supply sources in portable electronics due to reduced volume, high energy density, and low cost. More particularly, the microscale fuel cell has a direct hydrogen flow-through porous anode electrode with a pair of air-breathing cathodes.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes: a plurality of temperature sensing units that is in close contact with an exterior and senses a temperature of respective areas of the exterior; and an insulating film defining an outer surface of the exterior and having electrical insulation, wherein one or more of the plurality of temperature sensing units include: a positive temperature coefficient element; and a negative temperature coefficient element, and the plurality of temperature sensing units are covered by the insulating film. A method for manufacturing the secondary battery, and a battery module are also provided.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a secondary Zn—MnO2 battery comprises a battery housing, a MnO2 cathode, a Zn anode, and an electrolyte solution. The MnO2 cathode, the Zn anode, and the electrolyte solution are disposed within the battery housing, and the MnO2 cathode comprises a MnO2 cathode mixture and a current collector. The MnO2 cathode mixture is in electrical contact with at least a portion of an outer surface of the current collector, and the MnO2 cathode has a porosity of from about 5 vol. % to about 90 vol. %, based on the total volume of the MnO2 cathode mixture of the MnO2 cathode.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a plurality of energy storage devices arranged in a first direction, an adjacent member sandwiched between the energy storage devices, a holding member that holds the energy storage devices and the adjacent member, an insulating member sandwiched between the energy storage devices and the holding member, a bus bar, and a bus bar holding member that holds the bus bar and is arranged along the plurality of energy storage devices are provided, in which the bus bar holding member has an elastic deformation portion, and the elastic deformation portion abuts on one of the adjacent member and the insulating member, and presses the bus bar holding member against the other of the adjacent member and the insulating member.

Abstract: A device triggers thermal runaway of an electrochemical accumulator, including a flexible package that contains at least once electrochemical cell. A part of the current collectors that form the output terminals of the accumulator pass through the flexible package. The device includes two electrical current conducting elements, each respectively in electrical contact with the exterior of a part of a metal layer of the flexible package or of the metal housing, and an electrical power supply independent from the accumulator. The electrical power supply is designed to drive a current, referred to as a heating current, between the two elements so as to heat up the flexible package or the housing of the accumulator by Joule effect.

Abstract: An electrochemical module including: a stack obtained by stacking, in a predetermined stacking direction, a plurality of electrochemical elements having a configuration in which an electrode layer, an electrolyte layer, and a counter electrode layer are formed along a substrate, via an annular sealing portion through which first gas that is one of reducing component gas and oxidative component gas flows; a container that includes an upper cover for pressing a first flat face in the stacking direction of the stack and a lower cover for pressing a second flat face on a side opposite to the first flat face, the stack being sandwiched between the upper cover and the lower cover; and a pressing mechanism that presses a portion to which the annular sealing portion is attached against the container in the stacking direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrolyte membrane for an all-solid-state battery, an all-solid-state battery comprising the electrolyte membrane and a method for manufacturing the solid electrolyte membrane. The solid electrolyte membrane may be obtained by stacking a first protective layer, a first film-type solid electrolyte material, a porous substrate, a second film-type solid electrolyte material and a second protective layer successively to prepare a laminate structure; and carrying out pressurization of the laminate structure so that the first and the second solid electrolyte materials may be pressed into the porous substrate and the pores of the porous substrate may be filled with the solid electrolyte materials.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery according to the present technology includes: a lithium salt; an organic solvent; and a first additive, and the first additive includes a compound represented by following Chemical formula 1: Herein, R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted unsaturated hydrocarbon group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, and R2 is one selected from the group consisting of a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms and a substituted or unsubstituted cyclic alkyl group having 3 to 8 carbon atoms.