Patents Examined by Mark Kopec
  • Patent number: 11770971
    Abstract: The present invention relates to formulations for the preparation of organic electronic devices (OLEDs) which comprise (A) at least one specific ester solvent containing an aromatic group and (B) at least one organic functional material selected from organic conductors, organic semiconductors, organic fluorescent compounds, organic phosphorescent compounds, organic light-absorbent compounds, organic light-sensitive compounds, organic photosensitisation agents and other organic photoactive compounds, selected from organometallic complexes of transition metals, rare earth metals, lanthanides and actinides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Gaëlle Béalle, Christoph Leonhard, Hsin-Rong Tseng, Irina Martynova, Aurélie Ludemann, Edgar Kluge, Anja Jatsch, Manuel Hamburger, Li Wei Tan, Pawel Miskiewicz, Philip Edward May, Daniel Walker
  • Patent number: 11769606
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a conductive metal paste having improved conductivity without increasing the amount of a conductive filler to be added. The conductive metal paste contains a metal filler and less than 1 mass % of an ionic liquid, and does not contain carbon nanotubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventor: Gen Masuda
  • Patent number: 11767230
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material precursor is provided, which includes a transition metal hydroxide particle represented by Formula 1 and a cobalt oxide particle and a manganese oxide particle attached to the surface of the transition metal hydroxide particle. A preparation method thereof, a positive electrode active material prepared using the same, a positive electrode including the positive electrode active material, and a secondary battery including the positive electrode are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventors: Dong Hwi Kim, Wang Mo Jung, Dong Hun Lee, Sung Bin Park, Ji Hye Kim, Hyung Man Cho, Jung Min Han
  • Patent number: 11769876
    Abstract: A class of compositions in the Li—Mn—O—F chemical space for Li-ion cathode materials. The compositions are cobalt-free, high-capacity Li-ion battery cathode materials synthesized with cation-disordered rocksalt (DRX) oxide or oxyfluorides, with the general formula LixMn2-xO2-yFy (1.1?x?1.3333; 0?y?0.6667). The compositions are characterized by: (i) high capacities (e.g., >240 mAh/g); (ii) high energy densities (e.g., >750 Wh/kg between 1.5-4.8V); (iii) favorable cyclability; and (iv) low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Gerbrand Ceder, Zhengyan Lun, Bin Ouyang
  • Patent number: 11760693
    Abstract: Process for producing coated mixed lithium oxide particles, in which mixed lithium oxide particles and a mixture comprising aluminium oxide and titanium dioxide are subjected to dry mixing by means of a mixing unit having a specific power of 0.1-1 kW per kg of mixed lithium oxide particles and mixture used, in total, under shearing conditions. Coated mixed lithium oxide particles comprising a mixture of aluminium oxide and titanium dioxide as coating material, wherein the aluminium oxide and the titanium dioxide are in the form of aggregated primary particles and the weight ratio of aluminium oxide to titanium dioxide is 10:90-90:10. Battery cell comprising the coated mixed lithium oxide particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Esken, Christian Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11753708
    Abstract: A high strength/highly conductive copper alloy plate material of the present invention contains silver in a range of 4% by mass or more and 13% by mass or less, and balancing copper and unavoidable impurities. In the high strength/highly conductive copper alloy plate material, a minimum value of a tensile strength (UTS) is 600 MPa or more and 1250 MPa or less, and a conductivity (% IACS) is 60% or more and 90% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.
    Inventors: Yusuke Saito, Takaomi Kishimoto, Sigeyuki Nakano
  • Patent number: 11753553
    Abstract: Provided is a carbon nanotube water dispersion with which it is possible to form a conductive film that has excellent film strength and can cause a solar cell to display excellent conversion efficiency and reliability. The carbon nanotube water dispersion is for an electrode of a solar cell that includes an electrolyte solution containing a polar aprotic substance as a solvent and contains carbon nanotubes, a dispersant, a thickener, and water. The dispersant is soluble in the solvent and the thickener is insoluble in the solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryuji Oota
  • Patent number: 11757095
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for preparing a transition metal lithium oxide, comprising steps of: A) mixing a lithium salt and a transition metal compound, and performing a pretreatment to obtain a precursor; wherein the pretreatment temperature is 100-300° C.; and the pretreatment time is 1-10 h; B) precalcining the precursor to obtain an intermediate; and C) continuously feeding the intermediate into a feed port of a moving bed reactor, and calcining, to obtain a transition metal lithium oxide. In the present disclosure, a pretreatment process is performed before the precalcination, and the pretreatment temperature and time are further limited, thereby solving the problem of material hardening during the calcination process of battery materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SHANDONG ZSTONE NEW MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huibin Zhang, Ying Wang, Jinfu Wang, Hongdong Zhao, Longwei Niu
  • Patent number: 11757091
    Abstract: A method for preparing a sulfur-carbon composite including the steps of: (a) mixing a carbon-based material with sulfur or a sulfur compound; (b) placing the sulfur-carbon mixture mixed in step (a) and a liquid which is vaporizable into a sealable container; and (c) heating the sealed container to a temperature of 120 to 200° C.; a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery including the sulfur-carbon composite prepared by the above method, and a lithium secondary battery including the above positive electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Eunkyung Cho, Kwonnam Sohn
  • Patent number: 11746429
    Abstract: A CoVOx composite electrode and method of making is described. The composite electrode comprises a substrate with an average 0.5-5 ?m thick layer of CoVOx having pores with average diameters of 2-200 nm. The method of making the composite electrode involves contacting the substrate with an aerosol comprising a solvent, a cobalt complex, and a vanadium complex. The CoVOx composite electrode is capable of being used in an electrochemical cell for water oxidation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventors: Abdul Rehman, Abbas Hakeem Saeed, Muhammad Ali Ehsan
  • Patent number: 11739226
    Abstract: An environmentally friendly anti-corrosion coating material and a method for preparing the same are provided. The environmentally friendly anti-corrosion coating material includes 80 to 90 parts by weight of an epoxy resin, 3 to 7 parts by weight of at least one conductive polymer, 55 to 65 parts by weight of curing agent, and at least one functional additive. The at least one conductive polymer is selected from the group consisting of polyacetylene, polypyrrole, polyaniline, polythiophene and poly(p-phenylene).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NAN YA PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Te-Chao Liao, Chun-Che Tsao, Shih-Hsun Yen
  • Patent number: 11738508
    Abstract: In an example, a composition for three-dimensional (3D) printing includes a polymer build material and a non-conductive fusing agent dispensable onto the polymer build material to form a polymer-fusing agent composite portion when heated to a sintering temperature, a conductive agent dispensable onto on the polymer build material to form a polymer-conductive agent composite portion when heated at least to the sintering temperature, the conductive agent comprising: at least one conductive particulate present in an amount of from about 10% to about 60% of a total weight of the conductive agent; at least one co-solvent present in an amount of from about 10% to about 50% of a total weight of the conductive agent; and an additive present in an amount of from about 0% to about 10% of a total weight of the conductive agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Sterling Chaffins, Kevin P DeKam, Kristopher J Erickson, Cory J Ruud, Jami Ryan Barone, Ruhua Cai, Anthony J Galvan
  • Patent number: 11739173
    Abstract: Crosslinked polymers and related compositions and related compositions, electrochemical cells, batteries, methods and systems are described. The crosslinked polymers have at least one redox active monomeric moiety having a redox potential of 0.5 V to 3.0 V with reference to Li/Li+ electrode potential under standard conditions or ?2.54 V to ?0.04 V vs. SHE and has a carbocyclic structure and at least one carbonyl group or a carboxyl group on the carbocyclic structure. The crosslinked polymers also include at least one comonomeric moiety with at least one of the at least one redox active monomeric moiety and/or the at least one comonomeric moiety has a denticity of three to six corresponding to a three to six connected network polymer, and provide stable, high capacity organic electrode materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ALIONYX ENERGY SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Andrew Stewart, Zeiad Muntasser, Thay A. Ung, Simon C. Jones, Mohamed El-Kumbari, Demetrio Batac
  • Patent number: 11735737
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a binder which exhibits excellent dispersibility of a conductive assistant; a slurry composition and an electrode, each of which uses this binder; and an electricity storage device which is provided with this electrode. The present invention relates to a binder for an electricity storage device, in which a loss tangent tan ? in a linear region of an aqueous dispersion liquid of 0.5% by mass of the binder and 4.6% by mass of a conductive assistant satisfies tan ?>1 in a strain dispersion measurement under measurement conditions of a measurement temperature of 25° C. and a frequency of 1 Hz, and the conductive assistant is an acetylene black having an average particle diameter of 30 nm or more and 40 nm or less and a specific surface area of 65 m2/g or more and 70 m2/g or less; a slurry composition and an electrode, each of which uses this binder; an electricity storage device which is provided with this electrode; and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM WAKO PURE CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaho Mori, Tomoyuki Mori, Kazuki Takimoto, Masahiro Takano, Kei Kawano
  • Patent number: 11735735
    Abstract: A method that allows prediction of phase stability of an electrode slurry through a simple method of determining a change in viscosity of the electrode slurry. Therefore, only the electrode slurry having high phase stability is selected before electrode slurry is introduced to a process for manufacturing an electrode. Then, the selected electrode slurry is introduced to the process to provide an improved effect of process efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Hwi-Soo Yang, Hyung-Suk Cho, Jong-Heon Seol, Sang-Hoon Choy
  • Patent number: 11735729
    Abstract: A nickel-based active material precursor includes a particulate structure including a core portion, an intermediate layer portion on the core portion, and a shell portion on the intermediate layer portion, wherein the intermediate layer portion and the shell portion include primary particles radially arranged on the core portion, and each of the core portion and the intermediate layer portion includes a cation or anion different from that of the shell portion. The cation includes at least one selected from boron (B), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), titanium (Ti), vanadium (V), tungsten (W), chromium (Cr), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), zirconium (Zr), and aluminium (Al), and the anion includes at least one selected from phosphate (PO4), BO2, B4O7, B3O5, and F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pilsang Yun, Wooyoung Yang, Jangsuk Hyun
  • Patent number: 11737346
    Abstract: Provided are a polymer semiconductor including a first structural unit represented by Chemical Formula 1 and a second structural unit represented by Chemical Formula 2, a stretchable polymer thin film including the same, and an electronic device. Definitions of Chemical Formulas 1 and 2 are as described in the detailed description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangah Gam, Jong Won Chung, Hyun Bum Kang, Youngjun Yun, Yeongjun Lee
  • Patent number: 11733192
    Abstract: A sensor for carbon dioxide can include an amidine functional group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Timothy Swager, Bora Yoon, Gary Walsh
  • Patent number: 11728476
    Abstract: Silicon particles for active materials and electro-chemical cells are provided. The active materials comprising silicon particles described herein can be utilized as an electrode material for a battery. In certain embodiments, the composite material includes greater than 0% and less than about 90% by weight silicon particles, the silicon particles having an average particle size between about 10 nm and about 40 ?m, wherein the silicon particles have surface coatings comprising silicon carbide or a mixture of carbon and silicon carbide, and greater than 0% and less than about 90% by weight of one or more types of carbon phases, wherein at least one of the one or more types of carbon phases is a substantially continuous phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Enevate Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Benjamin Yong Park, Ian Browne
  • Patent number: 11728066
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a lithium-tellurium silicon-lead bismuth multi-component glass-oxide-complex system and conductive paste containing same, belonging to the technical field of solar cells. According to the present disclosure, a “functional modularization” strategy is adopted in a formula design of the glass-oxide-complex system, and glass oxide systems with selective reactivity for different passivation layers are compounded based on the structures, compositions and thicknesses of the passivation layers, so that a paste formula is developed, which is composed of lithium-containing, tellurium-silicon-containing and lead-containing glass oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: JIANGSU RIYU PHOTOVOLTAIC NEW MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD
    Inventor: Yongli Jiao