Patents Examined by Jayne L Mershon
  • Patent number: 11575128
    Abstract: A positive electrode includes a composite material including a positive active material and a coating layer on a surface of the positive active material, wherein the coating layer includes a copolymer including a first repeating unit represented by Formula 1 below and a second repeating unit represented by Formula 2 below: wherein Ar1, R1 to R6, A, A1, Y?, m, and n are the same as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SAMSUNG SDI CO., LD.
    Inventors: Hongsoo Choi, Hyeokjo Gwon, Soyeon Kim, Hyunseok Kim, Wonseok Chang
  • Patent number: 11575346
    Abstract: A photovoltaic module frame, a photovoltaic support assembly and a photovoltaic module are provided. The photovoltaic module frame includes an installation part. The top of the installation part is provided with at least one meshing structure for meshing with the bottom of a press block. By providing a meshing structure on the top of the installation part, the meshing structure is meshed with the bottom of the press block to increase the contact area between the installation part of the photovoltaic module frame and the bottom of the press block, thereby increasing the meshing force, and preventing the photovoltaic module frame from separating from the press block especially when the wind is strong.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventor: Xiaoxuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11575120
    Abstract: An electrode including micro-sized secondary particle (MSSP) with enhanced ionic conductivity for solid-state battery is provided. The MSSP comprises a cathode particle and a solid-state electrolyte. The cathode particle is at least partially coated by solid-state electrolyte. The lithium ion transport inside the micro-sized secondary particles is increased by the incorporation of solid-state electrolyte. The electrode can be prepared by casting the slurry comprising MSSP, another electrolyte, binders, and conductive additives on the current collector. The current collector is comprised of a conductive material. The current collector has a first side and a second side. The electrode active material layer is disposed on one of the first and second sides of the current collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Mengyan Hou, Zhe Li, Qili Su, Xiaochao Que, Meiyuan Wu
  • Patent number: 11575096
    Abstract: Visually undistorted thin film electronic devices are provided. In one embodiment, a method for producing a thin-film electronic device comprises: opening a scribe in a stack of thin film material layers deposited on a substrate to define an active region and an inactive region of the thin-film electronic device, the stack comprising at least one active semiconductor layer. The active region comprises a non-scribed area of the stack and the inactive region comprises a region of the stack where thin film material was removed by the scribe. The method further comprises depositing at least one scribe fill material into a gap opened by the scribe. The scribe fill material has embedded therein one or more coloring elements that alter an optical characteristics spectrum of the inactive region to obtain an optical characteristics spectrum of the active region within a minimum perceptible difference for an industry defined standard observer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignees: SolarWindow Technologies, Inc., Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Scott R. Hammond, Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest, John A. Conklin
  • Patent number: 11557766
    Abstract: Provided are a binder composition for an all-solid-state secondary battery with which it is possible to obtain an all-solid-state secondary battery that has good battery characteristics and for which processability during all-solid-state secondary battery production is excellent, a slurry composition for an all-solid-state secondary battery that contains this binder composition for an all-solid-state secondary battery, a functional layer for an all-solid-state secondary battery that is formed from this slurry composition for an all-solid-state secondary battery, and an all-solid-state secondary battery that includes this functional layer for an all-solid-state secondary battery. The binder composition for an all-solid-state secondary battery contains a polymer, an unsaturated acid metal salt monomer, and a solvent. The unsaturated acid metal salt monomer includes a divalent metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouichirou Maeda
  • Patent number: 11558009
    Abstract: Solar array (1) comprising solar modules (3) distributed in rows (10), each solar module comprising solar collector (5) carried by a single-axis solar tracker (4), a reference solar power plant (2) comprising a central reference solar module and at least one secondary reference solar module, and a piloting unit (7) adapted for: piloting the angular orientation of the central reference module according to a central reference orientation setpoint corresponding to an initial orientation setpoint, piloting the orientation of each secondary reference module according to a secondary reference orientation setpoint corresponding to the initial orientation setpoint shifted by a predefined offset angle; receiving an energy production value from each reference module; piloting the orientation of the modules, except for the reference modules, by applying the reference orientation setpoint associated to the reference module having the highest production value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: NEXTRACKER LLC
    Inventors: Madyan Michotte De Welle, Jérôme Arliaud
  • Patent number: 11545589
    Abstract: A photovoltaic module includes a first transparent electrode layer characterized by a first sheet resistance, a second transparent electrode layer, and a photovoltaic material layer. The photovoltaic material layer is located between the first transparent electrode layer and the second transparent electrode layer. The photovoltaic module also includes a first busbar having a second sheet resistance lower than the first sheet resistance. The first transparent electrode layer, the second transparent electrode layer, and the photovoltaic material layer have an aligned region that forms a central transparent area of the photovoltaic module. The central transparent area including a plurality of sides. The first busbar is in contact with the first transparent electrode layer adjacent to at least a portion of each of the plurality of sides of the central transparent area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: UBIQUITOUS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Miles Barr, Ian Millard, Rachel Molaro, Richa Pandey
  • Patent number: 11545930
    Abstract: Disclosed are a photovoltaic frame and a photovoltaic module. The photovoltaic frame includes a top support portion, a bottom support portion, a transverse edge portion, a first side edge portion and a second side edge portion. The top support portion, the transverse edge portion and the second side edge portion enclose a holding slot. The photovoltaic frame further includes a first weather-resistant protective layer configured to cover a part of outer surfaces of the top support portion, the bottom support portion, the first side edge portion, the second side edge portion and the transverse edge portion, and a second weather-resistant protective layer configured to cover at least part of the outer surfaces that are not covered by the first weather-resistant protective layer. A thickness of the second weather-resistant protective layer is less than a thickness of the first weather-resistant protective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: JINKO SOLAR CO., LTD., ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinxin Gong, Zhiqiu Guo, Junhui Liu, Zehui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11532807
    Abstract: A spinel-structured lithium manganese-based positive electrode active material includes a lithium manganese oxide represented by Formula 1, and a coating layer which is disposed on a surface of the lithium manganese oxide and includes at least one coating element selected from the group consisting of aluminum, titanium, tungsten, boron, fluorine, phosphorus, magnesium, nickel, cobalt, iron, chromium, vanadium, copper, calcium, zinc, zirconium, niobium, molybdenum, strontium, antimony, bismuth, silicon, and sulfur, and a positive electrode and a lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode active material, Li1+aMn2?bM1bO4?cAc??[Formula 1] wherein, in Formula 1, M1 is at least one metallic element including lithium (Li), A is at least one element selected from the group consisting of fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, astatine, and sulfur, 0?a?0.2, 0<b?0.5, and 0?c?0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventors: So Ra Baek, Wang Mo Jung, Min Suk Kang, Sang Wook Lee, Eun Sol Lho, Wen Xiu Wang
  • Patent number: 11532834
    Abstract: Disclosed are an all-solid battery and a method of manufacturing the same. The all-solid battery as disclosed herein may include current collectors having the same size for a cathode and an anode, the elongation areas of the cathode and the anode may be controlled due to the ductility of the current collectors during a pressing process. Thus, areas of the anode and the cathode may become different from each other upon the pressing, thus preventing a short-circuit fault from being formed at the edge portion thereof in the pressing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Pil Gun Oh, Yong Sub Yoon
  • Patent number: 11522227
    Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery and a comb-type electrode. A negative electrode layer sheet formed by stacking a negative electrode active material layer on two surfaces of a negative electrode current collector and a positive electrode layer sheet formed by stacking a positive electrode active material layer on two surfaces of a positive electrode current collector are alternately stacked, and an electrolyte body is interposed between the negative electrode layer sheet and the positive electrode layer sheet adjacent in a stacking direction. Each of the negative electrode current collector and the positive electrode current collector includes a bent connecting part sandwiching a notch part and formed by bending two sides in directions opposite to each other. The bent connecting parts of the negative electrode current collectors adjacent in the stacking direction and the bent connecting parts of the positive electrode current collectors adjacent in the stacking direction are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru Shimizu, Masahiro Ohta, Toru Sukigara
  • Patent number: 11522184
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that includes a lithium transition metal composite oxide having a spinel structure and containing nickel and manganese is provided. The positive electrode active material includes a first surface region having a chemical composition with a molar ratio of nickel to manganese of 0.1 or less on the surface of the lithium transition metal composite oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomooki Kawasaki, Ken-ichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11508989
    Abstract: Provided are an inorganic solid electrolyte material including a sulfide-based inorganic solid electrolyte and an electron-insulating inorganic material that coats a surface of the sulfide-based inorganic solid electrolyte, is solid at 100° C., and fuses at a specific temperature, a slurry using the same, a solid electrolyte film for an all-solid state secondary battery, a solid electrolyte sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, a positive electrode active material film for an all-solid state secondary battery, a negative electrode active material film for an all-solid state secondary battery, an electrode sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, an all-solid state secondary battery, and a method for manufacturing an all-solid state secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Imai
  • Patent number: 11502354
    Abstract: Energy storage systems, battery cells, and batteries of the present technology may include a heat exchanger or fluid delivery structure that may transfer heat from a battery cell or cell block to a heat exchange fluid. The heat exchanger or fluid delivery structure may substantially maintain an interfacial temperature during a temperature increase from the battery cell or cell block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventors: Ghyrn E. Loveness, Abraham B. Caulk, Edward P. Yankoski, Zhongying Shi, Kenneth S. Smith, Mujeeb I. Ijaz, Luke A. Wilhelm, Jonathan L. Hall
  • Patent number: 11495808
    Abstract: Various designs and configurations of and methods of operating fuel cell units, fuel cell systems and combined heat and power systems are provided that permit efficient thermal management of such units and systems to improve their operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: WATT Fuel Cell Corp.
    Inventors: Caine Finnerty, Paul DeWald
  • Patent number: 11485646
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte material includes a first crystal phase. The first crystal phase has a composition that is deficient in Li as compared with a composition represented by the following composition formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Asano, Akihiro Sakai, Masashi Sakaida, Yusuke Nishio, Akinobu Miyazaki, Shinya Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11489485
    Abstract: Foldable solar power systems are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a solar power system includes a support structure mounted to an intermediate bulk container (IBC) or other tank structure. A plurality of solar panels are mounted to the support structure. The support structure is movable between (a) a first configuration for storage and transport and (b) a second configuration for energy generation. In the first configuration, the solar panels are folded adjacent to a sidewall of the IBC. In the second configuration, the solar panels are opened/expanded and generally coplanar with one another. The solar panels can be aligned with a solar energy source in the second configuration to generate electrical energy. The IBC can be filled with a ballast material to anchor the solar panels in the second configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: CubeX Solar, LLC
    Inventors: Takia Roberts, William Taylor
  • Patent number: 11482672
    Abstract: A solid junction-type photoelectric conversion element (10) including a first conductive layer (2), an electric power generation layer (4), and a second conductive layer (6), which are laminated in this order, wherein the electric power generation layer (4) comprises: a perovskite compound represented by a composition formula ABX3, formed of an organic cation A, a metal cation B and a halide anion X, and a compound Z having no perovskite structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naohiro Fujinuma, Junichiro Anzai, Sachiko Satou
  • Patent number: 11476432
    Abstract: Provided are an inverted thick 2D hybrid perovskite solar cell insensitive to film thickness and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the field of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite materials. The solar cell adopts a 2D hybrid perovskite thick-film material as a light absorption layer having thickness in a range of 500-800 nm, which is conducive to the full absorption of sunlight. The thick-film film material can be deposited from a precursor solution added with guanidine hydroiodide, and is composed of large grains growing along the thickness direction. The solar cell with an inverted structure prepared by using the thick-film material as a light absorption layer has an efficiency fluctuation less than 5% in a film thickness range of 500-800 nm. This is of great value for the preparation of high-performance hybrid perovskite solar cells by a large-area solution method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Gang Wu, Xiaomei Lian, Jiehuan Chen, Hongzheng Chen
  • Patent number: 11456486
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery which is provided with a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode contains: a positive electrode active material and a compound having a cobalt content of 30% by weight or more. The weight A of the compound and the total weight B of the positive electrode active material satisfy 0.01?A/(A+B)?0.15. The negative electrode contains a negative electrode active material. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains propylene carbonate and diethyl carbonate as nonaqueous solvents; the total amount of the propylene carbonate and the diethyl carbonate is 70% by volume or more relative to 100% by volume of the nonaqueous solvents; and the volume ratio of the propylene carbonate to the diethyl carbonate is within the range of from 1:1 to 1:19.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato Kuratsu