Patents Examined by Maria Laios
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Patent number: 11569540Abstract: A packaging film includes a packaging portion and a pulling portion, and the pulling portion and the packaging portion are demarcated by a tear line. When the pulling portion is pulled, the tear line is disconnected, and the pulling portion is separated from the packaging portion. In a packaging face of the packaging portion, an area packaging a side wall of the battery is a glue-free area, and other areas are provided with a first adhesive. An adhesive face in the packaging portion is provided with a second adhesive. A part of the packaging face in the pulling portion is provided with a third adhesive, and the adhesive face in the pulling portion is a glue-free area.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Zongyu Gao, Hongxing Wang
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Patent number: 11552344Abstract: A sensing system for a battery includes a flex foil substrate including a first cover layer. A conductive layer defines a trace pattern including traces. A second cover layer defines a first opening. The conductive layer is sandwiched between the first cover layer and the second cover layer. The first opening exposes a first trace and a second trace of the trace pattern. A busbar is attached to the first cover layer of the flex foil substrate. A temperature sensor is connected to the first trace and the second trace of the trace pattern in the first opening of the first cover layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: GENTHERM GMBHInventor: Timothy Hughes
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Patent number: 11545712Abstract: The present invention relates to: a shape correction device for a frame body; and a method for manufacturing an electrolyte film/electrode structure that is provided with a resin frame for a fuel cell. A shape correction device, which corrects the shape of a frame body that is provided with a rectangular opening, is equipped with a pressing mechanism that applies, to each side of the frame body, a pressing force directed from the inner side to the outer side of the opening. The pressing mechanism may have a first bar and a second bar, which apply the pressing force by being in contact with inner wall surfaces of each side of the frame body.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Harada, Satoshi Hasegawa, Sachio Suzuki, Kouya Shimada, Nobuyoshi Muromoto, Hiroshi Yoshioka
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Patent number: 11522193Abstract: Systems and methods utilizing water soluble (aqueous) PAA-based polymer binders for silicon-dominant anodes may include an electrode coating layer on a current collector, where the electrode coating layer is formed from silicon and a pyrolyzed water soluble PAA-based polymer blend, wherein the water soluble PAA-based polymer blend comprises PAA and one or more additional water-soluble polymer components. The electrode coating layer may include more than 70% silicon and the anode may be in a lithium ion battery.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Enevate CorporationInventors: Sanjaya D. Perera, Benjamin Park, Younes Ansari
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Patent number: 11489198Abstract: Disclosed herein are electrolyte compositions comprising a fluorinated solvent, at least one silyl oxalate represented by the formulas RR?Si(C2O4), wherein R and R? are each the same or different from each other and independently selected from C1-C8 alkyl, C2-C8 alkenyl, C2-C8 alkynyl, or C6-C10 aryl radical, optionally comprising at least one substituent selected from halogen, hydroxyl, alkoxy, carbonyl, and carboxyl groups; and LiPF6. Also disclosed herein are electrolyte compositions comprising a fluorinated solvent and a lithium oxalato phosphate salt represented by the formula LiPF(6-2q)(C2O4)q, wherein q is 1, 2 or 3; wherein the oxalato phosphate salt comprises at least a portion that is derived from at least one silyl oxalate as defined herein. The electrolyte compositions are useful in electrochemical cells, such as lithium ion batteries.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Solvay SAInventors: Kenneth Gene Moloy, Stephen E. Burkhardt, Kostantinos Kourtakis, Brian Levy-Polis
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Patent number: 11482747Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a pouch-type secondary battery. According to embodiment of the present invention, the pouch-type secondary battery includes: an case configured to house an electrode assembly from which electrode tab are drawn out; sealing parts formed by adhering the case along outer peripheries of the electrode assembly; and folding parts formed by folding the sealing parts of surfaces on which the electrode tab drawn to an outside of the case is not formed, wherein a length of the folding part has a relationship with a thickness of the electrode assembly as the following equation: H?T/2 (wherein, H is the height of the folded folding part, T is the thickness of the electrode assembly, based on a cross-section perpendicular to a direction in which the electrode tabs of the electrode assembly are drawn out).Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: SK INNOVATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Tae Il Kim, Jin Go Kim, Seung Noh Lee
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Patent number: 11482761Abstract: The present disclosure provides a secondary battery and a battery module. The secondary battery includes: a shell having an opening; an electrode assembly including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator; a cap assembly including a cap plate and a first electrode terminal; a lower insulator located at a side of the cap plate away from the terminal board; and a wiring board including a main body portion and an extension portion, wherein the main body portion is located at a side of the lower insulator away from the cap plate and connected to the first electrode plate, the extension portion extends into the electrode lead-out hole and connected to the first electrode terminal, the first electrode plate is electrically connected to the first electrode terminal through the wiring board, and the first electrode terminal does not extend beyond a lower surface of the lower insulator.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., LimitedInventors: Quankun Li, Peng Wang, Taosheng Zhu, Baisong Chen
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Patent number: 11476593Abstract: An electrical connection comprises a first conductor and a second conductor electrically connected to the first conductor. The first conductor has a first contact section with a first contact face laterally delimited by a first side face. The second conductor has a second contact section with a second contact face surrounded by a rim having a second side face. The second side face limits a contact space above the second contact face and the first contact face is arranged on the second contact face. A reservoir space is arranged between the first side face of the first contact face and the second side face of the rim, the reservoir space surrounds the first contact face and a sealing material is arranged in the reservoir space. The sealing material forms a sealing ring that seals an interface between the first contact face and the second contact face.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Tyco Electronics Belgium EC BVBAInventors: Peter Devos, Henk Maes
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Patent number: 11469409Abstract: The present invention provides a negative electrode plate and a battery. The negative electrode plate comprises a negative current collector and a negative film that is provided on at least one surface of the negative current collector and comprises a negative active material. The negative film meets the follow relations: 6.0?PD×Dv50?32.0 and 0.2?PD/Dn10?12.0. The negative electrode plate of the present invention has excellent dynamic performance, and the battery of the present invention has both excellent dynamic performance and long cycle life.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., LimitedInventors: Jiazheng Wang, Yuliang Shen, Meng Kang, Libing He, Baojian Zhu, Lei Chen
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Patent number: 11469437Abstract: An electrode stack manufacturing apparatus comprising a plate conveyance device (A) provided with a plurality of conveyor plates (20) made to move along a conveyance route while spaced apart from each other. The conveyor plates (20) are successively loaded with sheet-shaped electrodes (1). The conveyor plates (20) are provided with clamps (21, 22, 23, 24) clamping the sheet-shaped electrodes (1) carried on the conveyor plates (20) on the conveyor plates (20) and holding the sheet-shaped electrodes (1) at the placement positions on the conveyor plates (20) during conveyance.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nobuhira Abe
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Patent number: 11462790Abstract: A power supply device having a battery block with a terminal surface on which terminals of a plurality of battery cells are arranged side by side, and a side plate with an elastic part, a holding part and a body part that extends along the side surfaces of the battery block. The elastic part faces the terminal surface and the holding part faces the bottom surface of the battery block. An insulation part is disposed between the elastic part and the battery block and has a positioning region and a pressing region that are disposed on one surface of the insulation part so as to face the elastic part. The positioning region is provided at an end of the insulation part located at the body part side, and extends to a position that is separated farther away from the elastic part than the pressing region.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuji Omura, Mitsutoshi Tajima
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Patent number: 11462799Abstract: A battery module includes a plurality of cylindrical battery cells, each having at least two electrode terminals of different polarities at one end portion; an upper case and an lower case including an accommodating portion where a space in which the cylindrical battery cells are inserted and accommodated is formed, a gas discharge path extending in front, back, left, and right directions to externally discharge a gas discharged from the cylindrical battery cells and where an open portion externally exposed is formed, and a gas discharge hole opened such that the gas discharge path is connected to the outside; a cover sheet between the upper case and the lower case to cover the open portion of the gas discharge path; and a plurality of wire type bus bars to electrically contact and connect the electrode terminals of the cylindrical battery cells to each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Soo-Jun Ahn, Bum Choi, Jun-Ho Lee, Tae-Gyu Lee
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Patent number: 11453948Abstract: Articles and methods related to passivation layers on alkali metals are generally described.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Betar Gallant, Mingfu He, Rui Guo
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Patent number: 11456484Abstract: Electrolytes and electrolyte additives for energy storage devices comprising linear carbonate compounds.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Enevate CorporationInventors: Liwen Ji, Benjamin Yong Park, Sung Won Choi, Heidi Anderson
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Patent number: 11456496Abstract: A battery pack for a vehicle is provided. The battery pack includes: a plurality of battery modules and a liquid cooling circuit. At least one of the battery modules is arranged in two different levels from among a plurality of levels of the battery pack, the levels of the battery pack being adjacent each other in a vertical direction. The liquid cooling circuit is in thermal contact with the battery modules in the two different levels of the battery pack, and the liquid cooling circuit includes a bypass tube having an inlet opening at a highest point of the liquid cooling circuit in the vertical direction and an outlet opening within the liquid cooling circuit at a lower point of the liquid cooling circuit than the highest point of the liquid cooling circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.Inventors: Carl-Michael Masaryk, Matthias Pucher, Thomas Hoermann
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Patent number: 11450864Abstract: The fuel cell of the present disclosure includes: a fuel single cell comprising a fuel electrode, an air electrode, and an electrolyte disposed between the electrodes; a separator for separating a fuel gas flowing through the fuel electrode and air flowing through the air electrode; and a sealing portion for hermetically bonding between the separator and the electrolyte, wherein the sealing portion is constituted of a glass composition containing at least two of metallic or metalloid elements contained in the electrolyte and at least two of metallic or metalloid elements contained in the separator; the electrolyte includes a proton conductor; and the proton conductor is represented by a compositional formula: BaZr1-xMxO3, where 0.05?x?0.5; and M is at least one selected from the group consisting of Sc, In, Lu, Yb, Tm, Er, Y, Ho, Dy, and/or Gd.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigenori Onuma, Tomohiro Kuroha, Takehito Goto
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Patent number: 11450905Abstract: Provided is a battery pack including a rectangular parallelepiped first battery module having a first air intake surface, and a rectangular parallelepiped second battery module having a second air intake surface. A cooling air flow passage chamber is formed between the first air intake surface and the second air intake surface. The battery pack includes a one-side wall and an other-side wall that are interposed between the first air intake surface and the second air intake surface and seal the cooling air flow passage chamber from a third direction. The one-side wall and the other-side wall are formed so as to be able to expand and contract in a first direction while maintaining the cooling air flow passage chamber in a sealed state.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kengo Yasueda, Motoki Miyazaki
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Patent number: 11444357Abstract: A process for joining a battery element (49) by at least one polymer thread (28, 30), comprises the method steps: a) applying a web-shaped or sheet-shaped electrode material (16) to a first separator web (12), b) heating the at least one polymer thread (28, 30) above the softening temperature of the polymer material, c) introducing at least one polymer thread (28, 30) between the first separator web (12) and a further second separator web (40) to be applied to the first separator web (12), and d) cooling the at least one polymer thread (28, 30) between the separator webs (12, 40) and forming at least one material-bond compound (46, 48) therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignees: Robert Bosch GmbH, GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Johannes Proell, Andreas Ringk
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Patent number: 11437676Abstract: A battery pack includes: a plurality of battery modules disposed adjacent to each other in a first direction inside a pack case, each of the plurality of battery modules including a plurality of battery cells disposed side by side in a second direction, the second direction being orthogonal to the first direction; and a side-frame disposed between the battery modules disposed adjacent to each other in the first direction inside the pack case. The side-frame includes two side-walls and a joint. The two side-walls elastically press side-surfaces, in the first direction, of the battery modules disposed adjacent to each other. The side-frame has a long-length shape with a U-shaped cross section. In a state where the side-frame is removed from the battery modules disposed adjacent to each other, a distance between the two side-walls of the side-frame becomes larger as the two side-walls go away toward opposite the joint.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2018Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Akihiro Yoneyama
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Patent number: 11431064Abstract: The invention relates to a battery, in particular to a hybrid battery. The invention provides a hybrid battery that is easy to replace a terminal block and has low maintenance cost, comprising a casing and at least two different sets of battery cells arranged in the casing, wherein the casing is detachably provided with a terminal block, the terminal block is electrically connected with the electrode of the battery cells. When in use, the terminal block in the invention can be detached from the hybrid battery in time if the terminal block is oxidized and blackened for long time use, and only the terminal block is replaced instead of the entire hybrid battery, therefore, the maintenance cost of the hybrid battery is low.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignees: Guangzhou Kage Power Industry Co. Ltd., Guangzhou Mintong Trading Co. Ltd.Inventors: Dexi Wang, Ronghua Chen